Campbell Gray is on the official roster! That is a fantastic recovery from her ACL injury. And we need her defense and help in bringing the ball down the court. Great news!

Great news. HR is a tough gamer. Hope he clears medical.

So, I gather no concussion? If there was, isn’t he required to sit out a game? Totally a medical decision by the team doctor.

This was a great game to watch. HR was off. LL wasn’t on his game that much. But the team won. i was very impressed with MH at QB coming in cold. That is a very hard thing for an athlete to do. He won the game. You give the ball to TT inside the 5 and its a TD!. It’s a. Very good time to be an Aggie now. I think this team has a bit of a destiny about it.

I agree. Dropped probably twenty? Can I do that? Or should I say I can do that? Wife laughed and left the room. No confidence whatsoever. Go Chubba. Send us your secret menus.

Can we take Pint to this game at Weber? He would work for both sides with equal pay. It would be the ultimate “Good JuJu” to have this sentient being (dog) apply his spirit to the game. He will not play favorites, but just have the game a fair one. Spoiler Alert: I think the Aggies should travel with the dog food.

There is a fascinating (and perversely funny) article in todays NYTs about the growing problem of “Cheer Moms.” Remember the “Soccer Moms” of the ‘90s? Well according to this article the Cheer Moms have taken up their place in a very big way. This is not what you think about cheer leading. There is no Rah-rah. No go team go. In fact, no team at all. It is mostly very pushy moms pushing their daughters into cheer camps and competitions that are mostly about full face make up, lipstick and glitter. Lots of glitter and jumping around starting at the early ages of something 5-6 years old. According to the article this brand of cheer is second only to football in concussions. And no, its not a NCAA sport. It is not covered by T9. Interesting that one of the leading experts in this area is Dr. Laura Grindstaff, professor of sociology at U.C. Davis and she is quoted at some length in the article. She is not a fan. Sorry I can’t link it. Maybe someone else can.

72 are college rankings kinda like sports polling? Look long enough and you’ll find one you like. USNews has UCSB ranked number 5 and we at 10. Then WSJ comes out and we are at 3 just behind UCB and UCLA. How can this be so? Far different criteria for sure. USNews is very big on alumni giving, endowments size, faculty reputation, all the flashy stuff that few public’s can compete with. I guess UCSB can. But, as I see it the WSJ is much more based on outcomes for the students, not how many Nobels on a campus. How many undergrads did Oppenheimer or Lawrence teach while they were discovering new elements at Berkeley? I would say none, yet Berkeley still benefits from all this stuff. In no way do I mean to demean Berkeley (wife) for this, but still the USNews model does not sufficiently reflect student outcomes which I feel are much more important.

Maybe Bob Dunning is right. We are just not “BIG TIME” enough to be able to sell or design a lot of this stuff. Who cares? We serve a great purpose at the FCS giving a lot of players the ability to play top level football. Our Olympic sports are incredible. We have a very good PR image as a university. People love UC Davis. Just not our STUFF that much. Again: who cares! IMHO.

Sorry old band alumni. I loved your service and talents. But I might suggest that the Aggie Band-Hh’s problems just may lay with the alumni of the band, not the current or former student AggieBand-UH. I have cousins and close friend who were members of the band. At a game maybe 8-10 years ago we were with my wife’s best friend who was a flute player with the old BandUh. And the Alumni Band was here as well. Their leader walked up her stands (Toomey) and saw my wife’s friend and said “there she is, she was so easy. . . “ she said Hi, but my wife was infuriated at this guy and said so. He backed off big time. Never came up again. BandUh had some big problems. Someone had to deal with it.

I appreciate Dimus’s post. He seems to be the only one who actually has first hand knowledge of the new band. Look, we all know many college bands have big problems with ridiculous traditions that “must be kept” and all that nonsense. Didn’t a southern college band have a homicide due to hazing? Wasn’t Stanfords band banned from games due to its raunchy behaviors? I think we should just move on from this stuff. For me, I don’t really care about having a crummy band, i care about the football team and we have a very good one.

Way too many awful Pizza Hut commercials. Thats about the only bad thing I can say about the TV game. I cannot over stress the performances of Larison and Tompkins and the great effect they bring to this team. Explosive players!

No excuses here but going against a 0-2 very weak team versus next week against a very strong Weber State I can very easily see an Aggie team looking ahead and over looking Dixie. A very messy win but I will take it.

Punt returner. One of the hardest positions to play next to DB. Why not let IT concentrate on DB and let TT take over as the No. 1 PR? I know, hard to sit a captain. I have to think after last game Hawk has to be giving it some serious thought. Frankly, I admit I did not know TT could even return punts before last game.

72 and Blue. Ditto. Movie has partaken of the Trump KoolAide. No use trying to talk him out of it. Kinda feel a bit sorry for him. He has no political friends on this site. Lonely guy. . . . I suppose. His sports comment are OK however.

Maybe it has all been mostly said now. I know IT has been our punt returner for the past few seasons, but has he really ever done what TT did yesterday? No. Will he? Who knows. Get the ball into TT hands every time we can. Hawk knows this. Hope that he will figure out how to do it. I think he will.

TT is special. TV guys said it again and again. Probably he and Larison are the best athletes that were on the field today in SD. I hope the Niners saw Hawks new two point conversion system in action. It will work with Lance as it did with TT. The position players on the left are all deception. It requires an agile and versatile QB to work. TT is all that and does it for us. Trey can do it for the Niners. Great win!

No the Ivys do not offer “scholarships,” but they do offer very generous financial aid packages and charge no tuition at all if the students family makes under $65,000 annually. If its $180,000 annually, the student may have to pay only 10% tuition. Many of the aid packages far exceed what a normal D1 scholarship would amount to. I would doubt usd is that generous, but there are definitely ways to give financial aid to athletes without calling them “scholarships.”

Yep. If its like the Ivy League, they call them “leadership scholarships” and I believe usd does give them. Or something similar.

How do we watch this game? Or do we wait until tomorrow to find out?