I know JT is working in the front office for the Kings. Not sure what Lawrence is doing. Brynton Lemar is playing pro ball in France and I saw where he was doing very well. I think Darius Graham is back in Sacramento working with young people. What a great group those 4 were.

Yes, we'll be at the Causeway too! I think that will be a very tough game also but, as we all know, it is never acceptable to lose to Sac!

Thanks, Oldbanduhalum, nice recaps! We lost a lot from last year's groundbreaking team. I know it's way early but how would you say these two teams compare in terms of talent? From your recaps it sounds like this team is work in progress at this point. It also sounds like Coach Les was pleased overall with the team's overall effort.

I expected TJ Shorts and Delvion Jackson to be the two knew players that might have the most chance at jumping right in and getting significant playing time. I hope that one of our new bigs John, Underwood or Russell, will come along nicely and be able to contribute in the paint.

The Aggie Athletics website does not have any stats for the game. Do you have any about the stats for individual scoring etc? Did anyone have a hot hand shooting?

We'll know a bit more when the Ags take on UNC on the road next Monday.

Keep it coming Oldbanduhalum. How did the new players do?

I'd like to know too. There is no coverage at all...not even live stats so we'll have to wait until Oldbanduhalum gives us his thoughts. The UC Davis Basketball twitter page posted a pic saying the Ags were up 36 at the half.

https://twitter.com/ucdavismbb?lang=en

Coach Les is pretty good at finding diamonds in the rough...

Damion Squire is a 6'0 PG from Montreal, Canada, who has most recently played at the Wasatch Academy in Mt Pleasant, Utah. Wasatch Academy was one of the top prep basketball programs in the country last year.

I think Coach Les saw Chima at combine of JC players in the midwest and saw how much raw athletic talent he had. He seems to be just one of those players that flew under the radar and has really come into his own under Les and his staff. Some players show lots of potential in practice but struggle when the real games start. Chima just exploded onto the Big West scene once he got an opportunity to play.

I've heard good things about PG TJ Shorts who is a JC transfer out of Saddleback College. Another JC transfer from San Jose City College, F Jonah Underwood, had a great year last year at SJCC but how that will translate to the pace of D1 competition is yet to be seen. F AJ John, a D1 transfer from Pepperdine is eligible this year and true freshmen Delvion Jackson from Boise, Gio Nelson from Corona, and Logan Strom from Norfolk, Nebraska are pretty much unknowns at this point. Jackson was heralded as one the the best preps in Idaho and Strom had a lot of D1 offers in the midwest.

It's going to be very interesting to watch this team develop.

Well, as it turns out, my wife and I will be home for the SUU after our misadventure in southern Utah between our car and a poor deer. The repair shop has now told us that they expect the car to be fixed by the 22nd. We want to be home for Thanksgiving and it would be too expensive to stay here for that long so we booked a flight from St George to Sacramento on Friday. Then we will return to St George on the 29th to pick up the car and drive back home. So that means we'll be in the stands on Saturday rooting for the Ags to upset SUU!!

I had forgotten about that. It's going to be important that some of the other Aggies step up and take some pressure off Chima this year. Teams began to double and triple team Chima late last season. He's pretty much the emotional and physical leader of this team and teams are going to be designing there defenses around stopping him. That should create some space for some of the other players and they will need to produce if we are going to make another title run.

I'm still laughing. I think that's the wackiest rant about sports officials I've ever read in my life. It's hard to believe he really believes that stuff...UCD...DUCT....!!! Haha...I think what we really have here is a "drugged up ISU fan" or DUISUF!

Thanks 6th!

My wife and I are in Kanab, Utah, and it looks like we'll be here for a while while our car gets repaired after hitting a deer or we'd be there too. Please post up your thoughts after watching the game.

And more from the poison pen of Ronald Long:

Ronald Long · Idaho State University
"ISU lost defensive lineman JonRyheem Peoples to a targeting penalty after six plays. For all but 1 minute, 36 seconds of the game, the Bengals were without their clogger up the middle."

'We all sat there and wondered what happened. Nobody saw anything but this little crap head ref in the white hat. The whole game went that way. These crap head refs the Big Sky Conference curses us with. Jerks who want to make themselves look important and worthy of their job and really nothing but creepy stinking lice that crawl out from the Big Sky wood pile. The refs in this game were the worst I have ever seen. I was totally disgusted with the miss calls and total chicken shit penalities that crippled ISU."

https://idahostatejournal.com/members/isu-football-bengals-struggle-in-ugly---loss-to/article_50574a4f-d7b4-5a05-bdcc-89219e859f3d.html

Also from the his Facebook page:

Studies at Idaho State University
Studied Creative writing at New Mexico Highlands University
Studied Teacher Education at Idaho State University
Studied English literature at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Maybe he just had a few beers and was just practicing his creative writing!

https://www.facebook.com/ronald.long.984

Oh my God...that's freakin' hilarious...what the hell is in the water in Pocatello??...my side aches from laughing!!!

Sac routs UNC 50-21.

Poly gets their first win of the season 35-28 over PSU in a nail biter.

SUU 47 North Dakota 21 Final

Who knows what the final score really was...59-17 or 56-17 or 59-14 or...???

The final score was 56-17 not 59-17.