Have I made my money back in discounts and perks? No, probably not. It was maybe more of a pride purchase for me when they offered half off a lifetime membership. I live on the east coast, but the events might be more relevant if you live in CA. Some of the local chapters have regional events.

One thing to be aware of, you are likely to start getting fundraising calls every couple of months. Personal as to if you are in a position to donate. If you are, consider if there is a particular cause you have passion about.

Maybe off topic from the transfer portal but if you’re thinking across Hutchison Dr from the stadium, next to all the greenhouses, you are probably seeing the Resnick Center for Agricultural Innovation under construction. Part of the $50m gift from the POM juice fortune for the building and a perpetual research fund. Current research includes using pomegranate peels to enhance honeybee disease resistance and using walnut shells to clean winery wastewater.

from what I recall, Gould was a Terry Tumey hire and Tumey was a Katehi hire. Incompetence begot incompetence squared. I don’t know whether Katehi or Ralph Hexter fundamentally found Kevin Blue, but what a refreshing corner turn that was. Sure seemed like alumni and donors appeared out of nowhere after that. Wood would be wise to get out of his own way here and allow Orr to make a hire with some level of buy in from the Hornet community, but I don’t think that’s his style.

very much correct that there is a market for upgrades short of going business or first class. Just look at the number of “premium coach” seats on airlines. Chairs are more comfortable but they take more space, like 18-24” per seat versus bleachers are often in the 14” range so you’d trade capacity.

As for TV, sure you have more high angle shots that catch the west side when going to commercial but otherwise you don’t want to switch sides too much on the viewer. Sac does this. They put the main cameras on the east side to catch the home grandstand, maybe so you don’t notice the east side is empty with the upper level tarped. It was disorienting because the broadcasters were on the west side and they’d cut to a west side camera to show the refs. So it was a lot of wait, who’s going which direction?

the first guy moved to Davis HS, the next one to Oregon State. Both were problems. The next one was good, but he took the fall for what the OSU guy left. Don’t know the current director, but he’s been there 5 years and I have my thoughts as to the lack of growth and improvement.

I bet the Mondavi Center doesn’t actually pencil just on ticket sales either. There is a cost to build. Also a cost when you don’t build the right environment for the right people to do their deals. Fiduciary caution always wise but this looks like an indirect value play.

I haven’t been in person in a long time but the band cheers had started to disappear several years before the rebrand. I believe there was a staff director who didn’t like them a string of student directors who didn’t really understand the game.

redwoods require fire to reproduce. And this case, the fire has to be the special teams leadership. Gotta set aside the friendships there and fix it.

Also, I get school’s out and all that, but at least on TV wow that rendition of Hail to California was not good.

I think there’s a fairly good chance the Nashville game is Montana State vs Illinois State. The Illinois coach seems like a nice guy. I’ll root for anyone but Bobby Houck in the final. But I think it’s Montana State’s year.

Just as well this wasn’t the game on ABC.

It’s a funny thing because it looks like a blowout and is no doubt. But could have just easily been going the other way minus some key fudge ups, largely on special teams.

I think we are done scoring. The question is by how much we will lose.

Unable to tackle Dawson, especially once he gets into gear.

be even better if it was talking about something other than Montana.

I don’t expect any kicker to hit a 50 yarder every time but our kicking game has been bad all around.

In fairness, neither team has had good answers on defense.

Don’t tell me this is going to be one of THOSE officiating crews. Unless they have cameras we don’t.

If we are going to be this bad on special teams we need to boom it out of the end zone until further notice. Not the first time this year for this kind of runback.

Yotes having a tough day at Montana but hey at halftime they cut to a clip of our pregame and highlighted Caden’s play and Plough’s mustache lol.