In the YouTube video, Wood says that Sac "will be playing an FBS schedule in 2026" and the reporter says another that apparently another big announcement about football is coming soon.

I like Stokes a lot as well for all the reasons you mentioned and, as a true freshman, he's going to get better and better for a long time ahead. I hated seeing him get a T after he made a tough shot in the paint with 2:30 to go that put us up by 6. Les gave him an earful but left him in the game and he continued to play well all the way to the end of the game.

At this point, I'll take it!

The Ags finally beat Bake 80-72 after 4 straight loses to them. Man, did we ever need this one!

We seem to play to the level of or opponents no matter how good or bad they are. We just don't pull away from teams when we have a chance and a 8 or more point lead often evaporates quickly.

I’m ready for a coaching change. — Jdur

I don't know if that's the answer. It is frustrating, however, how the program seems to be stuck in neutral and, with the move to the Mountain West next year, we could be in for a rough go.

We shot 55% overall in the first half including 56% from 3 but couldn't stop the Matadors and build a lead. Then we went cold and only shot 29% overall including just 10% from 3 in the second half. We faded big time in the second half just like we did against UCSD.

We struggle to defend in the paint since Niko is our only big who is a consistently strong defender down low. Cooper is a good defender but he's undersized going up against bigger players in the paint. Chapelle and Suljanovic are both more comfortable on the perimeter and Noudjihidi appears to be red-shirting so defending in the paint is pretty much entirely on Niko.

Like DrMike noted, we got outscored 52-26 in the paint and 26 of those points were off of fast breaks. The Matadors had 30 assists!

Post-game comments from Les:

“You score 78 points on the road, that ought to be enough to win,” said Aggie head coach Jim Les.

“I didn’t think our resistance or our competitiveness was very good in the second half. The hungrier, more aggressive team won that game. We should have had a 10 or 15 point lead in the first half, but we let them back into the game.”

We've lost 4 straight to Bake and, if we play the way we did at CSUN, it will be 5 straight.

CSUN simply beat the pants of us tonight. This team is going to have to battle very hard in order to even finish in the middle of the pack in the Big West.

Poor defense most of the game. CSUN simply outplaying us.

I sure hope a lot of happens sooner than 10 years since there's a good chance that I could be on the wrong side of the grass by then!

The Hero Sports article about Rocko DeLuca and his carefully planned approach to growing Aggie Athletics was excellent. His experiences working at Colorado, UMass and JMU are invaluable in guiding Aggie Athletics. He's a great AD and, with all the great coaches we have and support from Chancellor May, the future of Aggie Athletics is bright.

I was curious about how the Weill's made their fortune. The family has a long history of philanthropy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_I._Weill

The SF Chronicle article is behind a pay wall so here is an official announcement from UCD:

https://leadership.ucdavis.edu/news/milestone-gift-support-veterinary-medicine

I didn't see Wilson do anything particularly egregious either. I think Les yanked him just after he got double teamed at half court and they stole the ball for a layup.

I was talking with a friend of mine who was sitting behind the Aggie bench at the UCR game. He commented that "Les is a really tough coach and he's pretty hard on the players during the game." He specifically said that Les really got into Wilson.

We all know Les is super competitive and he expects his team to play with 100% effort 100% of the time and that he is especially critical about what he sees as a lack of defensive effort and aggression. My wife said she noticed that our players generally just keep walking on by him if he's barking at them as they come to the bench. I think he could get his message across without such a high level of intensity.

I'm all Apple: Macbook, iPad, iPhone, iMac. I finally got it to play after messing around with the app but I'm not sure what I finally did...but it worked. :lol:

I'm a paid subscriber also and I can't get this episode to play even when I change browsers. The episode isn't up yet on YouTube either. Kind of frustrating...

36-25 Ags at the half.

1140 getting blocked is strange...not sure why that would happen. I usually have good luck asking my question on Google whenever I get stuck with some tech issue and, when that doesn't work, I call my son...

I stream 1140 AM from my phone by connecting to the live feed on the Aggie website. I began doing that because I could never figure out what station the Aggies use when there is a conflict with 1140 AM airing the Kings or the NFL.

Current standings as of January 23rd: