they all go back to the tailgate areas for more drinking. That was a key in 2018 - we got the second half KO and scored to get some momentum.

They shot off fireworks with two minutes before the end of the halftime - kind of a last call!

they didn’t really say anything, did they? Other than sac wants to move up obviously….else no meat

I’m 1-0 in Missoula; expecting to make it 2-0
Saturday.

No Borra, no Mani?

I did a little googling to find what the top NILs were. These are estimates, but a see similar numbers from various articles. Top schools like Texas paid out something like $20M, do the Sac12 would be able to jump to big boy table!

Of course, no one knows what NIL collectives will look like when the revenue sharing kicks in. Power 5 conferences can pay up to $22M - presumably most of that domes from donors redirecting their NIL ‘pledges’. Group of 5 limit is much lower.

i thought i had read somewhere that seats in the berm would actually decrease capacity.

according to Wikipedia (source of all knowledge) it cost $30M way back when which is $41M in today money. Not sure what LIGHTS (that was phase 1.1), and the additional 10-20k seating would add to today’s cost.

My last non-football mini-rant from the game : the new PA guy was terrible. Sounded like an old school FM disc jockey.

Did the Sac12 put out any numbers for what a new stadium and arena would cost? I’ve been googling for costs of new stadium/arenas and it seems like $300M for a stadium (San Diego St was something like $350M for 35k stadium) and $50M for an arena wouldn’t be crazy numbers. Edwards Center is a $60M project.

Here’s an article with some recent examples:

http://www.arenafanatic.com/ncaa.html

I think you have answered a big part of that!

I’m not saying they cheat BUT..at the 2018, I was on the field and noticed mikes placed every 5-10 yards along the wall separating fans from field. Pretty sure amplified fan noise is not supposedly to be allowed. Of course, there might be some other reason for the mikes.

cash-poor program/department. That’s why they usually play two FBS money games

I liked having the high school bands there - they actually let the bands play a little and make noise between downs a few times! So much better than the ambient ‘music’ they play throughout the rest of the game.

I’m probably in the minority here….but we’re never gonna be taken seriously if we bring out the Bossy, Cow,Cow anymore. Nothing says rinky-dink cow school like a ‘cheer’ based on diary products.

we really had no choice. The NCAA declared if you were playing D1 in other sports, you were playing D1 in football. The idea of playing Cal State East Bay or Sonoma in basketball, and playing…….college of idaho(?) in football is not very appealing!

Was kinda cool to see Teddye Buchanan spending his bye week on the sideline, whooping it up with his former teammates.

if we joined the current Pac12 we’d have the worst basketball arena in the conference. It’s in the upper half of the Big West, but seriously lacking compared to most MWC schools. Be nice to have more than 1 snack stand and hand rails in the upper section!

Hutton tore his MCL on the first drive vs EWU but apparently practiced during the week - sounds crazy to me! Hope we see him before the season is over

Plough said their defense is good (Montana only put up 24), especially their 3rd down defense. I didn't ask if that's because their man-to-man makes it really hard to pick up short passes, or if their 1st/2nd down defense puts teams in 3rd and longs. should be interesting.

no special team errors, no turnovers, take care of THIS game.

when you are forced to compete against full scholarship programs with 30-35 scholarships, it’s a struggle! Amazing he had the level of success he did at D1. And never complained