I like what he's doing with student outreach and getting the players involved. The Friday night rally is essential.

By mid-season they could be a totally different team.

Welcome to AST!

"all speculation here..." is right. Marion? lol

21-18 Sac at halftime.

Mercyhurst burned on some big plays.
I've seen a good chunk of 3 Sac games. The coaching is the issue. Its pretty rough. Lots of lack of discipline and focus, as well as some puzzling in-game decisions.

In this game, speed at WR is bailing them out bigtime.

Marion coaching in a white t-shirt and cowboy hat.

18-7 Mercyhurst. Boo birds out.....

Go Lakers

Mercyhurst looks pretty good.....but can they keep up in the second half?
Looks like their center just got hurt too....

Mercyhurst QB is a 5'9" lefty but he can fling it pretty good.

Tough loss for UND. That last 4th down play looked like 2 Montana defenders were offside....plus maybe defensive PI.

#5 Rhode Island having trouble with Holy Cross in the 4th quarter. Down 7-6 12:28 left.
Holy Cross just missed a FG.

Why did he ditch the cowboy hat?

UND looks like #5 and Montana looks like #16.

Montana is always overrated....by at least 5 spots. Its a fun problem to have if you are a Griz fan, because the Griz have earned it.

UND looks really strong. Kaminski is a helluva player.

AST suite!

...For FCS its not increased attendance, but a different kind of attendance.

Schools (like EWU, Poly, Davis) deciding to not expand seating capacity, but raise revenue by encouraging a small group of donors to attend by adding "luxury" suites.

It would be great if Davis could do both - suites and seats....but I completely understand the reasoning. Programs like SLO, Davis, Cheney currently don't have the interest to increase capacity by a substantial amount.

FCS is becoming "small" college football....and its getting smaller. Schools are having to get creative to compete (and survive)...with body-bag games, luxury suites, and gimmick hires / publicity stunts.

Stony Brook....sheesh....College football on Long Island, NY ain't cheap.

Budget similarities between NY and CA schools on that list......
Stony Brook attendance record set in 2017 is 12,311. They average around 6,400 over the past couple seasons.

I'm curious about U. of San Diego. It looks like the Athletics total budget was $15 million in 2024 (seems low....student aid not included?).
https://www.sandiego.edu/finance/documents/Budgets_Publication.pdf
If I had to guess I'd bet football is a little under Cal Poly's level?

Think about the size of the Montana economy (#47 GDP in 2024). UM and MSU football are pretty big money in that state.

According to the AI fever dream overview I pulled up....UM alone contributes $94 million a year to the local economy. MSU probably less, but a substantial amount to Bozeman's local economy.
Bottom line is their football budgets are justified, for both the schools and their communities. I'm sure those programs are money makers across the board

For Davis, Poly and Sac...its literally just super expensive to have anything in this state.

Ai hallucinations!

Minnesota vs. Rhode Island
66-0 — Riveraggie

Minnesota beat Northwestern State this season 66-0. Last season they beat Rhode Island 48-0. Looks like Minnesota needs these game too!

More Dixon! Dude got me out of my chair a couple times @ UW.

BYU 69 PSU 0
Oregon 59 Montana State 13
Boise St. 51 Eastern 14
Utah 63 Cal Poly 9
Washington 70 Davis 10
Arizona 48 Weber 3 — SochorField

This is a 60-8 average beatdown for the Big Sky. I'm not sure it warranted a drop in the polls....but it is what it is. More motivation to get better.

I'm never going to understand polls.
I would guess if we played #5 Rhode Island this weekend, we'd take it to 'em though.

Sac staying in the top-25 is a stretch.