I was invited to my company suite at an NBA game a few years ago. It was a bigger suite, probably held 15. It had big comfy box seats in front and behind the glass door had a couch area and then a couple high tops in the back and a serving counter. For my event, the company had a taco bar and beer buckets but I think they had catering options. The furniture and decor was standard hotel lobby fare. It was nice having private restrooms and an express entrance. I think only 2 of us watched the game. The rest had no interest in the game and were just there to be seen and schmooze the vice president. So motives can vary.

theres a thread on the Sac board with speculation/wishes based on who might have open dates. @Kadeezy suggested closing the season at Alabama.

years ago I hosted an event at Putah Creek Lodge and there was a whole calculation of how much alcohol the bartender was allowed to have on site. Basically the formula predicted how many drinkers I would have and tried to ensure I would run out of drinks if the rate exceed 1/drink per person per hour, but it missed the reality that you need extra on hand because you don’t know how many red vs white wines you are going to serve, even with responsible serving. They sternly assured me that a manager from Campus Unions or Student Affairs was going to come count bottles, which didn’t ultimately happen. But the campus event manager had suggested I fudge my attendance numbers up and the caterer was well acquainted with where to hide the backup hooch, so it was like a double secret that everyone was in on to satisfy some party pooper at Mrak.

In that era, things were pretty sterile - security taking Werthers candies away from little old ladies, cowbells away from old timers, field access forbidden, even the band was told they were too loud. So rushing the field was out of the ordinary then. It was more common at Toomey for the north end zone to empty out, or for the players to jump into the stands. But back then everyone was invited on the field anyway after the game. In the late Warzecka, Tumey, and Gould era I’m not sure why athletics, police, and fire department were in a circlejerk on making game day suck. Kevin Blue looked like a genius for deleting the dumb rules, so fans are now back to being invited onto the field.

Orr should be in the middle of his term as the Big Sky representative on the playoff committee. When Sac announced their departure, did he resign that post immediately or does he remain at least until their membership officially ends?

I’m curious what market really is - percent of high-roller fans (or fan groups) vs business interests. My guess in Montana and Dakotas it is business expectation to be seen there. There are for sure big companies that have lucrative ties to our academic output, but is it a business expectation for Monsanto and Diamond Walnut to have suites? I don’t know. The other thing interesting about USD, is they pulled some of their suites down front field level. Florida State’s new stadium did the same thing, greater variety of types of premium seating and some of it lower than before.

Sac State is in less demand than the vegetarian platter at Texas Roadhouse.

We dropped one position to #9 in Stats and Coaches polls, puts us right with Idaho. Sac dropped to #21. SDSU and Montana St are very competitive, went to 2 OT. I don’t know much about Illinois St or Rhode Island but the polls are hot on them. Not sure why Montana went up. D2 Central Washington gave them all they could handle until running out of depth in the trenches in the 3rd quarter.

a table skirt and a pop-up backdrop would have fit in one suitcase so this didn’t look like a deposition.

They mentioned that a couple of star players could already be playing on Sunday but elected to play an extra year of CFB to pad their stats and secure a potentially better contact. Which is exactly what we saw. The talent imbalance between the FBS top 25 and everyone else is insane. Based on what I saw earlier, I don’t think Nevada would have done much better than us.

Technically we played a closer game than Oklahoma State did with Oregon or Akron with Nebraska.

I think I read ACC is going to start putting the refs on a hot mic during reviews. I haven’t listened to any ACC games but in theory would be interesting to listen in on deliberation on plays like this.

he took a hard hit. He initiated a slide and Murvin Kenion (a transfer from Sac State interesting enough) did not sufficiently apply the brakes to the freight train and flattened him on what turned into a targeting penalty. In typical Sac State fashion, was offset by unsportsmanlike conduct after the play. Kenion was bounced and Rashada was slow to get up.

I’m pretty sure Big 10 and free don’t often appear in the same sentence. If you have Hulu live tv or YouTube live tv you could DVR it. Or I think Fox Sports app has B10 replays. None are inherently free but have free trial offers if you haven’t previously tried them.

back in the 90s they used to have a merch tent at Toomey Field. They also had the “Aggie Fanatics” program where you earned Aggie Bucks for going to games, redeemable for certain shirts and promo items. It was a simpler time for merch for sure, but idk why they killed that off.

I haven’t been in several years so I can’t say what it’s like now. When it first opened they had an in-house screen printing machine of some sort that they could do basic Aggie pride shirts for like $12. They stopped promoting that after a couple years and it started to homogenize with the campus store. But idk now.

The sideline store is run through BSN, which as I understand is basically a print on demand operation that can print hundreds of university logos on a catalog of base items. So I think it’s going to be the same couple logo designs superimposed on a wide variety of apparel items with a printable block and not so much specialty designs that need setup per item. But perhaps better pricing due to no minimum stock or physical storefront.

I haven’t been to the bookstore in a few years, but after it changed to UC Davis Stores, it sure seemed like the quality and selection went down and prices went up as they oddly pivoted to selling more general merchandise and tech at the expense of less apparel and imprint merch. No idea why people apparently go there to buy skincare products and headphones at inflated prices.

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the north and south bleachers were temporary each football season. Might have even been rented. They didn’t come back after the final season. The east and west bleachers were torn down in 2017 with almost no notice due structural issues. At the time people called athletics to inquire about getting a piece but it was too late to organize a plan. An uncharacteristic misstep that Kevin Blue underestimated the nostalgia and interest. There are a couple park benches at Aggie Stadium made from Toomey bleachers but otherwise everything was hauled off. I don’t know in this case exactly, but pretty typical for demo companies is to bid with the assumption that they can retain the scrap value, in this case a good amount of aluminum that probably helped offset disposal of the treated lumber.

A game like this, although early in the season, helps establish a baseline of where Valley and Big Sky stand in relation to each other that year.