When you draw 26K to every home game, you don't have to play an FBS game (or two, like some FCS teams do) and instead can make your money scheduling an extra home game in the non-conference.

I was curious who had the No. 1 SOS and it's Portland St. Easy to see why. They played BYU (currently 6-0, No. 15 in FBS) and Hawaii (5-2) as well as No. 3 Tarleton St, No. 11 North Dakota and No. 21 Northern Arizona.

I'll preface this by saying I've never been offered mid-6 or 7 figures to do a job and very likely never will.

That being said, money isn't everything. Yes, $1.2-$2M (the reported range of the OSU coach's salary) is a lot more than the $300-400K that Plough is making. But you can still live quite comfortably on $300K per year. And if it's a job you really like, it's easier to pass up that extra money. It's not like a situation where you're living paycheck to paycheck and get the chance to quadruple your salary.

Most of these coaches are going to jump at the chance to challenge themselves at a bigger program, especially the younger guys like Plough is. But there are always exceptions to the rule and I'm sure there are other guys who could go to bigger programs but choose to stay where they are because they like the lifestyle. And maybe the stress of being the head coach of even a school like Oregon St, which itself is a much different animal from the top programs in the nation, isn't worth the extra money.

And even in that game it was 0 in the 1st quarter and 17 in the 2nd quarter.

Are there stats that the team puts out (besides just manually going through box scores) that shows our 1st half vs 2nd half output? Because it really seems like each game we start a little slow but then once the offense gets going, they just roll. Seems like it takes a quarter and then maybe Plough or someone else figures out what the defense is doing and adjusts how they attack it.

Did Poly not have a timeout at the end? I was following the Gamecast and it said Poly had a timeout but then it said Pinnick was kneeling which he’d only do if they didn’t have one.

I'm not sure we either want or need him to expand on it.

It's fair to question Plough. I've done it just in this game. He's not perfect and nobody (including Plough himself) would ever claim he is. But to say he's in over his head is just stupid.

Poly beats Sac 32-24.

I mean, I'll take the FG and a 17-3 lead, but we ended the half with 1 unused timeout. Sure would have been nice to use that and have an extra 40 seconds to maybe get a TD instead of a FG. Or maybe an easier FG than a 45 yarder.

So it's 2nd and goal, you hold them, you have 3 timeouts and you let the clock run? Why? We should have 1 timeout left with 1:45 or so on the clock.

Welcome to the game, offense! Glad you woke up.

Good defense by Weber, bad offense by us or combo of both?

Back to back stops! Now let's get some sort of scoring drive, ideally that would take off like 5 or 6 minutes off the clock.

Shows 26:11 for them to 10:54 for us.

Ask and I shall receive I guess!

Need to get 7 out of this.

Hope they have enough beer, unlike the Montana St game last year.

I think we're going to have to get a couple more TDs (at least) to win this thing.

That's a good start to the second half!