Looks like ESPN is having technical problems. Other games are scrambled too.

my TV ran out of memory to support onboard apps so in the offseason I got an Apple TV box. It’s overpriced but also works without any fuss. I also fired Spectrum when another provider laid gigabit fiber to my house for half the price. I didn’t realize how much crappy cable company internet was causing things to just not work right.

apparently didn’t read the Ron Gould book “Upright: Nothing But Field Goals”

Fisher 66 yds for TD, like a hot knife thru butter.

Anyone else getting seasick from the shaky out-of-focus camera-work? It’s also weird watching a game with zero crowd noise coming through.

try exiting and reloading. The video is live.

SDSU has had a lot of self-inflicted pain. If they were firing on all cylinders it would easily be 35-0 right now. Sac defense is getting in there but the go-go offense is flat and Rashada looks lost. Florida should pay him out his settlement for *not* going there.

test it with a different game that is live like Sac State. If that doesn’t load you might not be signed in after the app updated. It might look different on different devices, but on a smart TV look on the left side of the screen go to Settings to confirm you are signed in with “My Disney Account” and then confirm under subscriptions that you have “ESPN Select” included either by itself or in a bundle. It is OK for TV Provider line to be blank in this case.

The conversation at the buzz board is sober - best comment “I drank the kool-aid enough to watch this sh** in person”

an interesting rules question, I’m not sure if we would be allowed to start the game over on another date or if the option would have only been to play out the last 7 minutes.

exactly. The blue bloods of the Big 10 and SEC are trying to consolidate power and TV rights to push the ACC and Big 12 to the side, let alone leave any crumbs for the G5 conferences. They don’t want more mouths to feed and they don’t want anyone outside their club to be more competitive than planned. My guess is that eventually there may be a secondary playoff tournament akin to the NIT if there isn’t a more dramatic split in divisions.

yes, but it’s complicated. In general, the new direction was that there shouldn’t be any interaction between alumni and students, and that alumni events needed to be primarily educational, career-development or fundraising in nature and that you couldn’t have events for the purpose of socializing. While there were certainly some at CAAA trying to be helpful, It was peak “me too” era and that glass of kool-aid was going around, so this was a suggested topic for a covid era zoom. In a nutshell, there is no HR-type structure to handle “I’m offended” incidents between alumni or students and alumni so the easy answer was cancel anything where somebody might get offended. And it was unclear liability not just if an alumni band member got injured but also what if a spectator claimed injury. So back to the original topic, if risk management felt a bunch of middle age folks in jeans playing Aggie Fight was too dangerous, I could certainly see their sphincters clench at the idea of an overnight camp.

I am not sure who. I just know that CAAA had some sort of leadership crisis around 2019. I got the sense that the books weren’t straight but idk in what way. And the new leadership had new priorities. For example, their pitch to the alumni band was we don’t want you to play at homecoming because that’s too social and too much injury liability but do you think the members would come to a speaker series about the intersectionality of race and pronouns in musicianship? Uh yeah, no thanks.

for sure. I believe the property was on Crystal Lake in Emigrant Gap. I think Scott Judson was on the board of directors at the time. I guess you could call to get the scoop… and save $500 on your estate plan!

we almost had something like that. The Cal Aggie Alumni Association purchased a 200 acre property in Tahoe in 2013 with the intent of building an Aggie family lodge, campground, conference facility. They spent a couple million on design but the bond market went south and there was a dispute with the neighbor regarding the access road easement so it was never built, sold at a big loss in 2019. Things were kind of hush-hush, but the senior leadership of CAAA was removed around that time and I think this had something to do with it. Around that time the strategic direction of the alumni association changed that the new leadership wanted to move away from social events just for fun to focus on continuing education, career development, and DEI.

there was that weather game and another one where the stadium lights were accidentally turned off and there was a lengthy delay before they could turn back on. But both games did complete 4 quarters. The only no contests I could find in recent history were 2021 Southern vs Florida Memorial, 2016 Bethune-Cookman vs North Texas, 2005 FIU vs South Florida. Could be others because they disappear from records faster than a congressman’s mistress but still seems pretty rare. Sometimes games are cancelled, rescheduled, or moved to alternate locations for hurricanes but those aren’t no contest.

@Zander in theory that sounds good. But the reality of the hotel business is Hilton/Marriott don’t own any property so it would be corporate reimbursing a franchisee below market and even if a property had 75 rooms available, there would be a challenge the next day that housekeeping would not be staffed or provisioned in most markets, except maybe Vegas and Orlando. Probably what you need is something closer to travel/trip interruption insurance like you might get for a cruise in hurricane season.

I don’t think there is a plan because it isn’t real. But I would think economics would be difficult to renovate the existing grandstand plus duplicate it on the other side at a better value than a new build on campus. Live Nation (Ticketmaster) owns the 20,000 seat amphitheater north of Sac. They would be unlikely to promote outdoor shows that size at Cal Expo and split revenue. And big time shows are still going to Levi’s. There’s limited promoter interest in facilities between those sizes.

I would assume the City of Montgomery, ESPN, and NCAA have some financial arrangement, kind of like why is the championship outdoors in Frisco.

In my part of Florida it is not unusual to get evening storms producing 400 strikes per hour with 0 second flash-bang, 3” per hour rain, and 60 mph wind that appear out of nowhere on radar. And it’s usually gone as fast as it appears. And then we finish outdoor football games and the parade at Disney World steps off. This was an unusual outcome even for the southeast. Anywhere you go there is risk. California could have unexpected wildfire smoke. During the Portland State game they discussed that heat on the field wasn’t far off from the 105 degree guideline to suspend the game.

Keep in mind that there are schools throughout the south and Midwest that have weather like this. No contest is an unusual outcome. But in this case, the city of Montgomery is incentivized to wrap it up and get all the security and ushers off the clock because they aren’t invested in the outcome. Incentives may be different when one of the teams operates the venue.

In reading the NCAA rules, there are 4 options when the game cannot be completed - 1. reschedule the remaining minutes at a later date, 2. Accept the current score as final if both teams agree, 3. Forfeit, 4. Declare no contest. Defers to conference policy to decide which option. In the appendix, this exact scenario is described, for a neutral site out of conference game, choosing an option should be by joint agreement of the ADs, and if they don’t agree, will default to conference policy of whichever team is designated as “home”, in this case would have been governed by SoCon policy.