I want to hope so but....

Oops...wrong thread...

I posted this earlier in the Idaho game topic but maybe it's more appropriate here in this discussion.

The attendance was a big disappointment. Seriously...nearly 6,000 less than last week in a game against the #4 team in the country...WTF!

I swear, most of our fans who do attend our games just don't know how to be great, supportive fans either. This game was a nail biter and the majority of them sit there quietly for 98% of the game and many leave early even when the game is on the line. It's disheartening to see the players turning around and waving their towels and imploring the fans to stand up and get loud on critical third and 4th down plays. The 100 or so Idaho fans were actually louder than the Aggie Pack except when pizzas or something was being given away. Whenever I jump up and cheer I can almost feel the eyeballs on my back from the fans around me who just want me to sit down, be quiet and not block their view.

Over 13,000 Aggie fans packed into The Toom for the game against #1 Nevada back in 1977 and the place was electric. I've never seen a game atmosphere anywhere close to that in our new stadium even though the population of the community and the university have increased immensely and we're playing at a high talent level in a higher division in a great facility in the toughest football conference in the FCS.

I know there's been a lot of scuttlebutt and excitement here lately about the remote possibility of us moving to the FBS level at some point but the low attendance in a game like this makes me wonder if Davis community and the students would ever come together and participate in a great collegiate, game day atmosphere. The students as a whole simply don't seem to care much about athletics and the community at large seems to be more comfortable at the Mondavi Center listening to a lecture or a chamber orchestra. Going to a football game and really getting behind the team vocally is just too boorish for many of them and most of those who do come to the games are too inhibited to actually loosen up a bit, get on their feet, cheer and have a lot of fun.

The attendance was a big disappointment. Seriously...nearly 6,000 less than last week in a game against the #4 team in the country...WTF!

I swear, most of our fans who do attend our games just don't know how to be great, supportive fans either. This game was a nail biter and the majority of them sit there quietly for 98% of the game and many leave early even when the game is on the line. It's disheartening to see the players turning around and waving their towels and imploring the fans to stand up and get loud on critical third and 4th down plays. The 100 or so Idaho fans were actually louder than the Aggie Pack except when pizzas or something was being given away. Whenever I jump up and cheer I can almost feel the eyeballs on my back from the fans around me who just want me to sit down, be quiet and not block their view.

Over 13,000 Aggie fans packed into The Toom for the game against #1 Nevada back in 1977 and the place was electric. I've never seen a game atmosphere anywhere close to that in our new stadium even though the population of the community and the university have increased immensely and we're playing at a high talent level in a higher division in a great facility in the toughest football conference in the FCS.

I know there's been a lot of scuttlebutt and excitement here lately about the remote possibility of us moving to the FBS level at some point but the low attendance in a game like this makes me wonder if Davis community and the students would ever come together and participate in a great collegiate, game day atmosphere. The students as a whole simply don't seem to care much about athletics and the community at large seems to be more comfortable at the Mondavi Center listening to a lecture or a chamber orchestra. Going to a football game and really getting behind the team vocally is just too boorish for many of them and most of those who do come to the games are too inhibited to actually loosen up a bit, get on their feet, cheer and have a fun.

Did it look like targeting on tv?

Connor’s is back in.

We need a drive that eats time off the clock.

Rex is injured and out.

Can’t believe how fast our offense plays…fast and faster…not sure how they know what play is being called it’s so fast!

This game has started out just like I feared it would but hoped it wouldn’t…

Even with the Freshmen Run it looks like a smaller crowd than last week and quiet too…

Ooof…like a hot knife through butter…

NAU 34 Sac 16 - Final.

NAU could have won this game by an even bigger margin. Their defense was smothering with a furious pass rush. They also have a powerful RB.

Poly 29 Northern Colorado 7 - Final
NAU 27 Sac 9 at the end of the 3rd.

NAU 10 Sac 9 at the half
Poly 21 Northern Colorado 7 at the end of the 3rd

We've been pretty good between the 20's but only 7-20 for scoring TD's in the red zone. We have booted 10 FG's in the red zone so we have scored 17-20 in the red zone. We aren't going to beat the top Big Sky teams by kicking FG's 50% of the time when we get into the red zone though. TD's in the red zone are where we really have to improve...hopefully, that will happen today...

Poly 14 Northern Colorado 0 at the half.

I also saw that the oddsmakers give Idaho a 57.2% chance of winning and the Aggies 42.8%. We're definitely the underdog going into this one.

Huge game and my wife and I will be there.

The FCS Coaches Poll has the Ags ranked #11 and the Vandals at #4 with 1 first place vote also. The STATS Perform Poll has the Aggies at #14 and the Vandals at #4. The game has also be chosen to be the FCS Game of the Week over on the AGS forum.

The Vandals have already established that they are an FCS power to be contended with this year but there is still a lot of uncertainty as to just how good the Aggies are. If we win, we'll move up into the Top 10 but if we get blown out, we'll probably drop out of the Top 25.

This is a great opportunity for the Aggies to build on the excitement that we had with the big crowd last week and to firmly establish themselves as a strong Top 10 FCS team in the eyes of the ranking committees. We should have a really good crowd for this one...maybe even another record crowd and we need the crowd to get into it and be LOUD! Go Ags!

Great effort by the Ags to get a draw after playing most of the second half down a man.