my wife notifies me of this while looking at her news feed this morning. I checked a couple of the associated articles (I then the California Aggie). First, I will say that I don’t now what has occurred in recent years, and I don’t defend improper behavior. I was a band-uh member in the late 70s. There was always a “study bus” if you didn’t want to sing from the “hymnal” and nobody forced anybody to go to an off campus party. It was very amusing to me that one of “the victims” telling about the “hazing” associated with baptizing maverick hats in Putah Creek. Really - are kids nowadays this sensitive? We did the same back in the day and nobody got bent out of shape - in fact it was the only way to get your hat floppy. Seems like some “victims” can’t simply choose to make some reasonable decisions on there own but would rather take down an organization.

I had to dig out my old Aggie band uh manual that went over a few logistics and expectations. In it was a song sheet. Traditional fight songs and - ok boys and girls - close your eyes and cover your ears - there was a DRINKING SONG included. And to think that somehow today that I am not an alcoholic and my life isn’t totally screwed up. I guess I should have claimed victimhood and sued the university.

And I saw that the solution was to force a new name on a reconfigured band and change uniforms. Really? Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water. Toss out the band and you’ll have no cheering section.

Watched NDSU vs Butler (youtube) mostly to check out new bizzzzon QB. Lance can run - faster than Stick I think due to long legs. He reminds me of Christien of SDSU. He has a bit unorthodox over the top windmill-like passing delivery. Looked good passing but it was Butler and most of time receivers wide open. I would say that his release is not all that quick due to his overhead slinging delivery. East to see why he prevailed over Iowa State transfer. Iowa State guy does have a quicker release and maybe a bit stronger arm but is way slower than Lance.

NDSU has 30-35K fans at target field in Minneapolis where the game was held. They easily have the best fans in FCS and better than most FBS. O yah NDSU won 57-10. Butler was near bottom of Pioneer last year so really no test.

...anybody know where to get an “athletic logo” CA shirt (lemon style), or the band-uh/water tower style ca shirt? I only see baseball hats with that and I already have a “very old” baseball cap with the block CA.

That synthetic horse logo they introduced 10 or so years ago has always just looked creepy-awful to me and lacks the tradition of the old logo. Glad Hawk brought the old one back.

Listening to the Cal feed yesterday, Joe Starkey said “I’ve seen him play - are you kidding me?” when referencing the Doss release (meant in the positive sense of the phrase).

I think Perryman went back in. No. 18 right? I saw 18 back in later in the game.

My bad. Perryman is no. 23.

Weber tough on D is not out of character as of late. Bit they even appear to have less of an offense than last year. Looking at the stats, 5, yes that’s right Virginia, first downs and 154 total yards of offense.

Do you mean a pass more than 10 yards? A ufo for poly.

Whelan looked he hit some real bomb punts. Joe Starkey (can you believe this guy is still announcing) said it was farther than his golf drives. I can believe that.

Portland State only lost to SEC Arkansas 17-10. But Arkansas was terrible last year. PSU QB went down with injury.

I watched some of Montana and South Dakota. South Dakota pass defense was awful. Guys open by 10 yards half the time. I don’t think the score necessarily means Montana is a much improved team this year.

Not a lot of open throws today. Needed just a few more plays and it might have been different. I thought defense played pretty well. Their running back was the difference. Gravers looked bad.

Wow, what an ugly pass and lucky TD

Great return.

Good looking first drive of second half. Good defensive play by Cal to force the FG.

Hope Hawk and Company make some halftime adjustments.

I think they have abandoned the run.

Washington toying with EWU. 21-0 but doesn’t seem that close. Near halftime. Part of me wants the Huskies to pound EWU. Best struts around like a cocky S _ _

I have one of those big-ass Dodge RAMs. Even a diesel although only 3.0 L. Unfortunately will take a puny rental from Minneapolis to Fargo. Somehow I think Fargo is a much different demogrAphic than Berkeley. Rock ‘em with your farm vehicle.

13-10 uni end of 3rd pending review

All I have to say is that if the Aggies upset the Bears, I hope coach Hawk doesn’t do what the UNC Charlotte coach did in the locker room after their win over Gardner-Webb. Of course a win over UC Berzerkly might not be as exciting as a win over Gardner-Webb......

https://youtu.be/mG2IZ6XQWW0

Utah looks to have a stout defense again this year. Really rattled and shut down BYU. Probably consistently the best defense in PAC-12 the past several years. Kind of glad Ags are not playing the Utes.