Maybe should inscribe THE University of California Davis on the field ala THE Ohio State University

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ohio-state-university-trademark-football-11655987195

Don’t know if the above link will work for y’all without a subscription but Jason Gay is very funny/entertaining.

NIL collectives seem to me as just a pay to play contract funded by alums and boosters. Seems to me that there may not be a real “market” for many recruits (e.g., name or image on a legitimate product as advertising for that product to boost sales) but simply the value a player might bring towards the goal of a national championship or league championship - which the alums and boosters will gladly fund. Seems to me NIL will tempt many forms of money laundering and schemes (see Luckin coffee of China for example).

Only good thing I have seen about it so far is the entertaining feud between Sabin and Jimbo Fisher. The Fisher video is a must see.

Nail meet hammer - on the head.

Those games are going to be routes. Don’t really j is that it will be good for anyone except for a paycheck for the HBCUs. Heck if ND and UCLA go that route, schedule Florida A&M or another HBCU with a top notch marching band and a alumni draw.

My one and only attended NFL game was at Kezar when I was a kid. Zeke Bratkowski was filling in for an injured Bart Starr. Maybe 1964. Don’t even remember who won the game. We were on the giant end zone. I do remember a bunch of seat cushions being thrown down to the field after the game. Must have been rentals.

And yes, have seen the Dirty Harry movie with the scene in Kezar with fog. Classic.

hah, we have friends who live about a half mile from there (South Doyle) We lived in Knoxville when I was in grad school and it is a very nice “town”. Bought a 50 year old house with cash on the barrel head (wife sold condo in CA) for about 82k but mind you in 1990. Yes no income tax but sales tax was 10% then. Nothing like going to a football game there. Saw UOP (yes), UCLA, Notre Dame, and Alabama among others. I opened my PhD defense with (imagine chopping motion) what is this in Atlanta (go braves)….in Tallahassee (go Noles), in Knoxville (first and 10 Alabama). Fortunately committee members laughed.

great news!

Campbell is kind of out in the boom docks. They had football many years ago then dropped it. I have been on campus once for a wind ensemble concert I am in (Aggie band-uh alum). The buildings are all very new and quite nice. They have started a law school and a PA school. It is private and nominally Baptist (of some sort). Evidently they have some big donors and big ambitions. I pretty sure academic qualifications are very secondary for athletics (especially football). From what I have watched, they have some flash from some individuals but as a team were only 2-5 in Big South conference, not one of the stronger ones. I see them maybe having a flash in the pan year at some point but nothing sustainable.

those stats are far from stellar (assume JC). Not sure who would pick someone up with those numbers.

Totally agree. He started here at NC State for a while and when replaced went to the portal, so this is his second abdication. Seems like a guy who when meeting any resistance chooses to abandon ship.

Mallot is especially fresh

Hard to count SHSU out with all of their comebacks. But Montana State is looking good and physically beating them.

I think a lot of these transfer portal guys have an inflated perception of themselves and may get some people whispering in their ear. Transferring down may make some sense if you want more playing time. Transferring up will likely lead to less playlng time and will not enhance any prop ability of making pros.

If you have a degree in hand it is one thing, but I think the transfer portal does nothing for academics and probably just shows that academics are very secondary at best for those who enter.

Well Barriere finally graduates or runs out of eligibility, Montana QB situation not looking stellar, Montana State QB enters portal, and Davis Alexander done at Portland State. Change of guard and uncertainty at QB next year in Big Sky.

Hauck got burned on the JMU TD. Receiver lest him and everyone in the dust.

That “trick play” has been used before and I believe by SDSU. The QB was overly melodramatic in his acting and I am sure Sac wasn’t fooled. Just very difficult to stop Davis and that O-line with only a half yard to go.

Sac is reminding me of a couple of years ago. League champs and rolling, then getting rolled in first playoff game. The game is far from over but SDSU must think California FCS football is sub-par. Not hard to see why MVFC believes they are superior to Big Sky.

Hauck always plays dirty. Kind of a jerk like his dad. EWU lost this game primarily on horrible special teams play (an issue with them all year). The INTs were in part due to desperation mode having arrived at that point due to poor special teams.

Saw a Notre Dame - USC game in South Bend in 2011 - niece was in USC band. Great atmosphere. ND band played entire halftime on steps of architecture building for those folks not attending game. Both bands there. Brother and family wearing usc swag - me not so much and ND fans very hospitable. USC won.

I think Sac and EWU are the 2 best Big Sky playoff teams. EWU has seemed to pick up their defense and both Sac and EWU have superior offenses to the Montana schools. I think Eastern beats Montana and the SDSU - Sac game should be very interesting.