on the Sac board, it has been discussed that Orr is in a weird spot because Marion fundamentally reports directly to Wood. I think Orr is a qualified AD, so I’d imagine he is looking for jobs at places with regular leadership. When the ship starts to really take on water, Wood isn’t going to let his own feet get wet; he’s going to find someone to blame and right now Orr has to know he’s sitting in the fall guy seat.

Agreed the hotels in Woodland are quick and functional, though not fancy in my memory. Maybe they are looking for a specific brand? Imagine if someone in the travel office is banking a whole team’s worth of Bonvoy points lol.

I’m not sure I understand the comment about needing to stay 45 minutes away and California traffic? I think visiting teams used to often stay at the Hallmark Inn or the Best Western in Dixon but maybe times change.

IMO, Orr was doing a good job and his biggest problem is Wood interjecting. I think history will ultimately remember Wood as Sac’s version of Katehi - an incompetent leader hired for the wrong reasons, who has demonstrated poor performance and judgement in a short period of time. Should the CSU trustees want any advice, my observation has been that providing a bad executive hire more time and a longer leash has a poor track record of achieving vindication.

Stetson is a small private college located in DeLand, FL, a kind of artsy town out in the swamps between Orlando and Daytona. Locally, they are better known for their law school in Tampa and graduate business school in Celebration (the wealthy Disney community). It’s easy to forget they have an undergraduate campus and athletics. They dropped football in the 1950s and rebooted in the 2010s.

my speculation is it could have something to do with the Lil Yachty fiasco across the causeway. Crowds are easier to manage when slotted in numbered seats and sections than a festival lawn. While there is a very very low likelihood among our clientele of a mosh pit being declared on the south berm, it may well be a reaction from risk managers. Probably no elevated risk for Idaho State game and historically Sac fans don’t travel well. But I could see elevated security measures needed for the Sac game since Wood has lowered the bar on classless degenerate behavior.

I think most people agree “covfefe” was probably a typo for “coverage” but it demonstrated how quickly a nonsense uttering could grow a life of its own with conspiracy, meme, and viral status. While that was accidental nonsense, brainrot is based on intentional nonsense going viral. So I guess you could say they are kind of related but not the same.

The words 6-7 appear repeatedly in the song “Doot Doot” by Skrilla (“song” is being generous, it’s more like the sound of brain cells degenerating). The song gained popularity on TikTok with edits of LaMelo Ball, who is 6’7”, doing tall people things. The phrase “6-7” doesn’t actually mean anything, BUT GenZ and now Gen Alpha types have discovered that yelling the phrase out irritates adults (particularly teachers) partly because it’s disruptive but also because us adults get hung up trying to make sense of it. It falls under “brainrot” - a type of humor among the age group that is intentionally meaningless but sounds catchy enough to become a viral meme. Part of what makes it funny to them is that adults try and fail to understand it when in fact there is just nothing to understand.

I bet they’ve been waiting for a score of 6-7 also.

I suppose the fundamental question is if polls are a reward of past performance or a prediction of future performance. In the first paradigm maybe it helps us. In the second, the poll rating might be influenced by a prediction of when QB1 returns healthy.

I am tired of marginal targeting calls. I am all about safety where it’s malicious but I think this “targeting focus” causes ref squad to err on the side of calling it rather than not when the evidence is shaky.

The broadcasters are fine but I think I will need to take some seasickness pills for this camerawork.

No hat. Also not much smiling.

In Fantasyland, who cares about the turf because they will be playing in front of 40,000 at Cal Expo momentarily. If they get any games scheduled that is.

Probably a serious question all taxpayers should be asking, all Californians are contributing to his salary. This is unusual for a chief executive to get this involved in any one line item. It kind of makes the athletic director appear irrelevant or incompetent. Wood is in the any publicity is good publicity phase. But eventually he will become a bad publicity albatross. Imagine if the governor decides to seek higher office and this clown makes himself a national distraction, he’ll get a one way ticket on that high speed railroad to nowhere.

what Sagarin may not consider is that Big Sky officiating squads have long offered some sort of extra courtesy to Montana, and consciously or not, are probably less inclined to do any homecooking for Sac. Historically, playing clean is not the Hornet way, and key penalties or spots can have an outsized impact on an otherwise close game.

I’m not invested really because I am not going to go see it. Using music, food, fireworks, etc. to draw out the community- great. The choices here would just not be my approach. It’s kind of like Disneyland and Magic Mountain both draw a crowd, but not the same crowd, and there’s one I’d pick over the other every time.

I had to research a little bit about the 6 artists Sac State booked. None of them are family appropriate and all are basically variations of hip hop, Latin rap, or trap. These acts belong at a spring break nightclub in Ft Lauderdale. Mercer does a game day concert series to drive attendance and it’s mostly country music (fits the broad market in Georgia). These artists won’t draw people to care about Sac State football and don’t seem like “broad appeal” artists to get families out.

certainly unto each their own in their personal life, but probably unwise to mix religion into the locker room at a public university.

The touchdown tower lighting looked good on tv. Looks like they installed a catwalk on top of the tower. Somebody ought to get the OSHA safety guy buttered up with a Cattlemen’s dinner because if they could get Gunrock up there it would make a sick cinematic flyover shot for promotional materials.