NAU like most of our Big Sky rivals seems to rely heavily on FBS transfers. They have a running back who was at Boise and had a qb who is no injured who was from Washington.
Meanwhile we have players who start with us now with UCLA who is their leading rusher and a DL at Arizona.
With the new more transfer friendly rules are we going to gain or continue to lose players?
Are there any self inflicted obstacles to us getting transfers from the other UC campuses?

DixieState and NMSU need a home. Not our problem

The wierd thing is that a photo of the back of a helmeted player was identified as being Logan Montgomery in the San Diego game
https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/aggies-overcome-third-period-hiccup-win-54-21/?amp=1

who wouldn’t want to play Dixie state and New Mexico St. ?
Really pointless.

we have other receivers from 2018 class and also this year.
Biggest commit so far is a WR/tight end.
Have no clue about what’s the story with Montgomery or whether Moore is still asociated with the team.
But I think next year’s team will be better than this year’s. We have some other true frosh offensive linemen that will play, we’ve got our heavyweight
Suani, Trimble is really impactful etc. Lots of guys from Hawkins first two classes will step up and this year class will be better yet.

Go Titans
One year in the late 70s Fullerton was the only team to beat San Diego State in a year where SDSU tied USC and annihilated 13th ranked Florida State yet didn’t get a bowl invite at 9-1-1

It wasn’t just the ankle incident of course. immediately before that they were slapping and clawing at Modise for ten seconds after he was down. Following a rough tackle well after he was stopped and the play should have been blown dead. That’s when things started to get heated in that possession.

They got quiet early in the fourth quarter.
What makes this win sweeter is they really gave us their best shot, we certainly didn’t sneak up on them. Fans were sky high, team was sky high, and now deflated. Sweet.

Some of those teams are really weak this year. Lehigh may be the weakest team we’ve played in recent years, and both Montana schools will be coming off bad years, and Sac, Poly, Portland St,. and Southrn Utah are having horrible years.

Barring key injury, It looks like two games in which we’ll be heavy underdogs, Cal and NDSU, two where it will be near even,Weber and ND, and then we’ll be favored over the rest. Not to hard to see us with eight wins.

I heard the announcers claim UCD representatives in interviews claimed Stanford experience would prepare the team for the noise.
Plough on the otherhand specifically talked about how the noise had messed up his teams game plan when he was OC at NAU. I’m sure that voice was heard by Hawkins
So it was probably just some players saying they had experience in adverse environments taken out of context.

I watched most the game again and the homerism didn’t seem so bad. It was however frustrating because the story was all from the Montana perspective in the sense of not giving names of Aggies who made plays. Take Gillian’s catch near out of bounds around the 10 for example, give the guys name.

They wanted to credit us with being good right up until the part of the game in which we were. They wanted the big upset script.

There is no rhyme or reason to the polls. Not consistently weighing the same factors. Where we have the tougher schedule then we’re behind a team that scores more, on the other hand we’re behind teams because they have a tougher schedule. Or sometimes we’re behind teams because of last year.
I prefer computer rankings.

The only 2nd string guys who aren’t getting playing time seem to be QBs.

our own schedule is ranked 160th in the country compared to Kennesaw’s 225th. Both teams are 7-1, their loss to FBS Georgia Southern. Their best win is probably over Samford

When we beat a team it just means they weren’t any good
Just kidding
But it is noteworthy that our schedule is much tougher than Kennesaw, whoever that is.

spencer caught our touchdown at Stanford

He played QB his senior year and wide receiver prior.

Crawford is quite an addition. Big game from him even aside from the WR pass which was nicely thrown. Five catches 61 yards and a touchdown. Not bad for the fourth or fifth receiver.
I was hoping they were going to keep having him throw the ball even though in previous games it didn’t work.

Hawkins is the perfect coach for us. He is always touting the school and our history. That’s going to help with recruiting and support. He has credibility with that as an alum who’s been around.