EWU guy. I think a bit of an inferiority complex.

Movie - I have been there. Good food. I tend to forget about it even though it’s only 2 miles or so from our house. Golf course was a dump, but I could zip over there for a quick nine holes and not be missed at work!

I tend not to comment on Facebook with solid information like this -> I think it might be forbidden!! Easier to just scroll on by. A week ago someone was wondering why our COVID numbers in Livermore were so much higher than the rest of the Tri-Valley. Usual non-fact finger pointing. I mentioned our Hispanic population is at least twice our neighbors and they are being infected at SEVEN times the rate as whites and Asians. Boy, I got some heated replies implying racism. I was just stating data.

I was being sarcastic. There are a couple guys on this FCS Facebook page always harping on our Huge amount of cash and how we can EASILY move up. Bring up our endowment constantly as if it’s all going into football.

is this question inspired by the FCS Facebook page? There’s a moderator there constantly harping on our Ivy-like endowment and, hence, our huge cash buck for football. How we can just write a check to move to FBS. You know, just like the Ivy schools!

When I talked to them , they just said ‘credit’ but no specifics about spring or next fall. I chose credit. Hope to use it sooner (basketball?) rather than later.

BTW, I think he said season tickets were at about 50% of previous year, not surprising since the big push normally comes in February and March.

he’s a pretty bright kid when it comes to social media and developing related online courses. Seems like the transfer here worked out well for his future.

https://magazine.ucdavis.edu/setting-the-rhythm/

last spring they waived 5 to play 4 when they didn’t count the truncated seasons as a year of play. For spring sport seniors it can be tricky. You have to be making academic progress for eligibility, but you add three quarters that you didn’t plan for. So you’ll see some double majors or kids trying to get into a grad program. Football in spring wouldn’t face that. But, you’re right - if some play, and some don’t it will be a mess. And if the P5 play fall, that will really disrupt things. You might see more FCS to FBS transfers like Sac’s Thomson coming.

I’m implying that spring would count as a year of play. Otherwise I think they’d have to grant another year like they did with spring sports. Spring sports are mostly partial scholarships so they have a little more wiggle room. Football, especially at FBS, would be a nightmare

I wonder what ‘spring’ means? Seems like they would need to play March-April to give players time to recover for a ‘normal’ camp in August. Fun times practicing in Cheney or Missoula in February!

I think rolling over a year of eligibility for everyone would have really effected programs for the next several years. People tend to focus on the seniors getting another year, but it’s everyone. How can you recruit next season’s freshman class, when you have a full freshman class in house? There are only so many slots available.

I’m pretty sure there would be no visiting fans. 26 days from kickoff and no practice start date yet? That’s not happening

Looks like Idaho players aren’t excited about fall football

https://watchstadium.com/sources-idaho-football-players-dont-want-to-play-this-fall-08-04-2020/amp/?__twitter_impression=true


I figured the Montana and Idaho schools would be pushing. Supposedly BSC might make an announcement today after yet another meeting

I can’t see us playing the Reno game in August 29. They have started modified practices and I think we’re still at the small group stage. USD is out. SJSU?

Nevada started ‘practicing’ last Friday. I believe we were originally slated to start Saturday but I believe that’s on hold.

https://www.rgj.com/story/sports/2020/07/31/nevada-football-wolf-pack-2020-schedule-tickets-mountain-west/5557534002/

Sounds like we’ll know (maybe) more tomorrow. The BSC already pushed other fall sports back, waiting in football

https://www.montanasports.com/big-sky-conference/big-sky-conference-delays-fall-sports-decision-new-meeting-next-week

This probably concerns them more:

https://news.yahoo.com/these-are-the-13-states-that-need-to-lock-down-now-according-to-harvard-coronavirus-experts-162201179.html

Two states, Arizona and Idaho, on the shut down list, California and Utah on the next level.

Seems to me IF our Aug 29 game were to be played, we’d need to start practice right about now. I don’t think we’ve progressed past small group ‘walk-throughs’. Big Sky nor Mountain West have announced anything but...,

At least neither conference has players threatening to boycott like the Pac12.

If they let us in, there’s no telling what the seating will look like. I have 4 seats in our box, AgAlum has 2 and my buddy opted out. They would have to spread us out over a couple boxes to get some type of distancing. If a majority of boxes renewed, we’d be spread out over the whole west side. I’d hate to lose our current seats (40 yard line at the top, great view AND shade) but seems inevitable.

if there are fans, it will season ticket and limited family. I could see the box seats being every other row, staggered from section to section for distancing. No concessions. Masks. Much of our big donor base is way up in the high-risk area , so it would be interesting to see who would opt in.

It’s not clear to me all schools in our conference have the resources to meet protocols required, especially after losing payoff games.

Did a search on UCLA transfer protocol and they have a bunch of guys leaving. This article from January shows 12, and with this extended period this year, there are probably more

https://www.dailynews.com/ucla-linebacker-jayce-smalley-becomes-12th-bruin-in-transfer-portal