Special teams - particularly kickoff returns have made a huge difference.

How valuable is Gilliam?

This is true. But secondary has been suspect in any case.

it has been a decided goal to run this game. That has generally worked. The weak part has been defense- especially pass coverage. It’s not a lack of offensive points.

Budget has had a couple holds. Looks like Devon king re-injured himself. Too bad, they could really use him. Coverage has not been good in secondary.

That was easy. No passes and great blocking. Good opening statement.

JMU scores 24-3 now early third.

The Weber state announcers on espn3 (KSL I think) are quite funny.

95 yard Scoop and score for JMU after JMU sets up Weber at 5 yard line after 2 personal fouls after they had stopped Weber on third down. QB trips over lineman fumbles ball and JMU scoops. Major turn of events 17-3 JMU

JMU up 10-3. Weber offense looks out of sync with Johnson at qb and evidently a injury shuffled offensive line ( some bad snaps).

….wet tissue paper at that.

Both Weber and JMU making mistakes early. 3-3. Shaheed is Weber’s best weapon. Will need to kick into/out of end zone and have good punts to neutralize him. Nice to have Whelan.

poly just scored, but unless they they stiffen on d they will be in trouble. They are using a new qb.

South Dakota up 14-0 on cal poly with about 12:00 left in first quarter. Poly secondary torched on second drive. Not looking good for poly.

Classic Eastern Washington - has to outscore opponents to win. If they make the playoffs, they will never advance far because of their porous defense.

poor Valpo. My mother-in-law graduated from there. At least they have a chance this week instead of the task of taking on NDSU in Fargo as last week.

MSU boat racing USD 21-0 first quarter. MSU quarterback Mckay running a lot in rpo.

Troy Anderson playing middle linebacker. Surprised he is still around but he is a load. MSU looks pretty tough.

Montana State blitzing on almost every down and owning USD so far 14-0 MSU late first quarter.

Referee called USD UC San Diego over PA.

UTC up 16-14 on Kentucky 4th quarter

OK I’ll offer another. Over the past 5-10 years Universities have gone full force into “diversity and inclusion” creating associate deans to oversee such efforts. Having worked at a research 1 university I have seen what is a good intention (getting rid of the good -ol boy system, turn into a self-perpetuating “goal” via these new offices and a silencing of opinions other than what is “politically correct”. We took (and I scheduled) implicit bias training which is a accepted reality. The only issue is that implicit bias seems to work in one direction only. There were times during “trainings” that faculty I knew that had differing opinions were at best patronized if opinion/beliefs were out of the acceptable norm. Regarding hiring, we would normally get maybe a 5-10 percent application rate of females (engineering department). There was at least a perceived pressure to hire females. The goal was not bad but the reality oftentimes differs from realisticallyachievable results. Our dean of engineering who was very pro shaking things up showed statistics that essentially showed thAt over the past 20 years, despite the push and programs to get more women in engineering, that the needle has not moved across the country. The problem with some of the diversity and inclusion goals is that it assumes everyone (or every “sector”) has the same interests and desires. That is not reality so there is resultant frustration. With all of these developments plus the recent gender confusion issues and focus (with encouragement to add “preferred” gender pronouns to e-mail signatures) I am glad to be retired from the university. Unfortunately it seems we cannot just treat people as human beings but need to divide by all sorts of categories real or contrived. I just think there have to be better ways for realizing fairness and treating people with respect. I will also add that these added diversity and inclusion deanships and programs seem, ironically, to be a requirement that many administrators and others treat as marketing, and a requirement of a university to be viewed positively, rather than be taken very seriously.