One of the best TV viewing experiences I've had for basketball in a while. Quality and pace of play, college-length halves, few commercials, few stoppages, etc.

I'm not sure free throws themselves were the differential but I think if France had just been hitting a few more then it could have been a different ballgame in terms of momentum and what was on the table for France to run the last few possessions.

something like that. Bundled with Disney+ and Hulu it's $14 which is a pretty good deal for that amount of content.

I personally like ESPN+ to catch a lot of FCS and mid-major games, but yeah for just Aggie ball it's a net sideways move for more money, most likely

Amazing and well-deserved.

Gonna be interesting to see who makes overtures to her in 2031 when she has a streak of 15 conference championships though

FCS facebook group seems to think EWU @ NDSU was more due to Fargo being selected as a site for several games than due to any particular seeding considerations

Not that you can really play the "what if" game, but it's interesting to note that Hawk would almost for sure be at .571 overall, .567 league had Cal Poly not cancelled the last game -- twice as many wins as Gould in the same timespan

His BEST year had the same record as Hawk's worst (2019) where the Ags still got to 5-7 when basically our whole schedule was FBS or playoff-bound teams

It might be a coach-by-coach basis how seriously they take aggregate stats; I remember a broadcaster saying that the Army coach has/had a glorified spreadsheet that determined what to do and when in terms of going for it, punting, etc. Then again, Army is built to perform exactly the same vs every team, unlike most squads.

I think it's a good point that we *shouldn't* be rebuilding from losing Doss by now, but honestly to my untrained eye we still are trying to find a way without the Maier->Doss connection.

Those two seemed exceptionally suited to hide the recurring weaknesses of this team: Predictable runs on first and second down that got nowhere? Doesn't matter, easy 9-yarder to Doss for 1st down anyway. Defense figures out exactly where the ball is going? No problem, Keelan makes the catch in triple coverage. Bad clock management? Less of an issue when the team can score in 40 seconds on 4 plays. Stupid penalty makes it first and 20? At least one of the next few plays is a completed pass to #3 to get half or more of that back.

2019 was an opportunity for basically the entire offense minus Doss (and TT) to demonstrate that it could execute the same system without him, and I'd call the result inconsistent at best. 2021 had some more new faces in the mix but pretty much exactly the same inconsistency, except defense and special teams made up for some of it IMO.

I wonder, is there a particular reason why it has to be unadorned chain link? Could they not put up even some simple coverings with the UC Davis wordmark or something that people could use as selfie backgrounds or whatever?

(I assume there's some cost to replace them if they get tattered in a storm, but we're talking some very small costs by university standards. Even just having something adorning it for basketball season and commencement week would be better)

I've seen some articles (since been lost on the web) that Japanese collegiate teams would call the three-QB formation the "Golden Dragonfly". American coaches scoffed at it during exhibition games, because the thinking was that replacing two skill players with QBs reduces the overall size and athleticism on the field. Ironically the Ags don't have much of that problem with Tompkins, Crawford, and HR on the field.

I've been curious whether Hawk knows about this piece of gridiron trivia or not -- he seems like the type that might especially since he has coaching experience in international competition.

I believe that is the actual board, some pre-game broadcast for a Women's game mentioned a board was already installed on that side but the camera angle didn't allow me to see it at all.

Honestly I think it's fine from that side. It's the side with the least amount of seating and no upper tier stands. Having it on one side will also have some advantages for commencement, concerts, and other events with stages that are held in the U Center (seems that's the nickname they're shooting for).

A center board would be ideal but if it was prohibitively expensive to mount it / install multiple screens instead of one, then I'm fine letting the funds flow to other programs instead.

Essentially confirms that tomorrow is a play in game.

Only 5 at large spots now so I think being #4 is about the best to be hoped for with 1 loss

They only announced student tickets yesterday (or Monday, I forget) so there might be some reserved student seating. But wow, the season ticket holders must have all jumped on the presale

I think the Sagarain algorithm just doesn't "know" how to handle only half the teams playing. It also seems to favor the Big Sky (and particularly UCD and Weber), which may be something to do with factoring in preseason variables and the BSC having fewer games than some other conferences' schools

Tell your kids about Top 30 Davis

Didn't notice anything weird about the channel 31 broadcast like that. Like DrMike said we're getting the same feed.

HOWEVER, it could be there is some setting on your Pluto App where it's trying to send too big of a picture and cutting off part of the picture on your screen; I've seen it before and can maybe be fixed in TV "Overscan" settings. All that means is there's some sloppy camera work by the TV crew since it's generally best practice to be conservative with the edges of the screen, since some TVs or monitors will cut them off and others won't.

Here, I scrolled down the list on the right until I found it

https://bigskyconf.com/sports/2015/11/19/WatchBigSky.aspx

It really looked to me that the staff thought we could establish the ground game -- with our admittedly very good #2 back and OL and mobile QB -- and keep ISU's decent-ish offense off the field. Their record doesn't really indicate they can play particularly strong defense, but no UG and a shaky day for HR today allowed the Bengals to play their best D of the season.

That failed, but our defense rose to the occasion anyway

I DON'T KNOW IF I AGREE WITH THAT BUT WHAT A BONKERS SET OF DOWNS

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