I get what you are saying. Slightly off topic, I had to lookup Olympic softball to see if it's even a thing. It was introduced in 1996, then cancelled after 2008. The conversation seemed to be that USA was too dominant, followed by Japan and Australia leading to medal count politics in Europe. It is back for 2020 (2021) in Tokyo, but I guess is on the "optional sport" list and Paris 2024 has voted not to include it. Will be back in 2028 in Los Angeles.

HA, if this was real it makes it sound like we should dispatch Tulsa in the fall.

, The way things are phrased, it does not sound like students will be getting any of the 1800 seats for football unless they buy remaining seats after Team Aggie sales, if any (someone please correct me if this is not accurate). Students will have access to baseball, tennis, and lacrosse games with the balance of sports being parents only.

As to waning student spectator interest, I don’t think Gen Z is as into sports and spirit as previous generations, but also changing demographics on campus, gotta find a way to generate interest across race/culture/gender among groups not historically as interested. For “first time sport fans,” basketball and soccer are probably most visually intuitive. Football is complex, but with a critical mass of people and Aggie Pack leaders narrating, you can have a good time cheering on command without really knowing what’s going on. Not throwing shade at baseball, but it is a harder watch if you don’t understand it, not to mention with all day games you start to feel like a hotdog on a roller.

ISU was better than expected. We were real sloppy with some bad decisions, mistakes, and failure to capitalize on gifts. We got away with one today. Sloppy will not get it done against Eastern. They dunked on Poly 62-10. Their defense may be suspect, but we will need a better offense than what we saw today. Weber almost upset the standings in the west today - barely beat Northern Arizona on a Hail Mary as the clock hit zero.

University reopens to fans April 1! ... *checks date* :roll: lol

Your daughter probably can provide more nuanced information but I do know some people involved are under HIPAA and some are under FERPA, so the information ends up protected by both sometimes. Best way to not get sued might just be to say very little. And competitively, why tell your opponent who not to worry about preparing for this week? The student could release info, and I mean, it’s not like a sprained ankle is as embarrassing as hemorrhoids, but for future employment they may not want a laundry list of old injuries as their top Google result.

did he give you directions to the nearest railroad bridge or something? It stinks that it wasn’t well run, but at least you got your shot. Around here the pharmacy staff have had pretty short tempers with everyone. I think the dumpster fire that is the distribution effort is wearing on them, but no excuse to be rude or unprofessional.

haha back when I went to the state fair every year, the Cal Expo Police didn’t mess around. Billyclubs first, questions second. They gotta be bored with no events, just chasing bums along the American River fenceline.

Indeed. I would also guess that for the foreseeable future, 5 years will be the typical lifecycle of ADs. The good ones will get picked off by higher-paying entities, so keeping an heir apparent in a good administration is decent strategy to avoid damaging leadership vacuums. For the not-so-good ones, 5 years is enough time to determine they got to go. I'm not sure I see a repeat of the 16-year Greg W tenure as likely.

I'm glad to hear this. Would appear to keep us on the same trajectory. He must have impressed May and gotten the right endorsements because I would have normally expected an outside diversity hire. Haven't tried, but hopefully continues Blue's habit of answering emails personally and promptly, even to us little people.

This year is weird indeed, but even in a normal year I think the FCS voters are predisposed to wanting MVFC vs CAA in the championship and decent teams in Big Sky and Southland get overlooked as much as possible. To the extent they can’t be ignored, the voters then move to name recognition as a metric. But I’d rather not be overhyped leading up to important games. Perceived underdog is a good position to be in, except for the polls after the last week - then if playoffs should be willed by the football gods, gimme those home games.

probably with a ticket stub :roll:. But free might be paying too much at Pizza Guys.

yeah, the camera work was subpar but I’m glad the feed wasn’t behind a paywall. It’s easily six figures to get a real production setup, probably not in the CW31 budget when Pizza Guys is your main advertiser. Although I get a chuckle remembering when Aggie Stadium opened, the AD made a point of noting that it was “equipped for multiple national tv feeds”, though oddly turned out to not be equipped with a single working ref mic.

Wow, what a game. Too bad it wasn't able to be a full house. Would have been rocking.

To say CP got a pounding is putting it lightly. More like a Tabasco enema. Our win streak is now 4 years, which means most of their guys have never beat Davis, and I guess don't get their team pictures up in the locker room. Aside from the one extracurricular facemask, looked to be a pretty clean game. Credit to most of the CP players for keeping their composure because things usually get chippy with these kinds of blowouts. I imagine this is them hitting bottom and Baldwin will improve things once he starts to cycle in some new recruits. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised 3 years from now if the 3 CA teams were the ones to beat in Big Sky.

Great showing on both sides of the ball for the Ags and glad to see we reduced number of game-changing penalties. Still need to know when to throw the ball away. Unforced errors will cost us against a better team. All the PATs were good this week, but at least in the camera angle looked kind of wild. Hopefully in real life they drilled straight through. Our depth of quality young players was on display for sure. I hope we don't have any bad PAC12 teams try to come shopping.

I was thinking the same thing that the water tower looked pretty raggedy. I believe it was last repainted around 2007. It previously had the legacy block CA logo

I think in the past buses were the norm between Davis and SLO but I'm not sure what they do these days. At a ~4 hour drive I would think you are approaching the break even on time when you factor ground transport and logistics on both ends. Santa Maria is the nearest airport to SLO that can land 737s and A319s. Allegiant does have operations there and I think that's the airline teams typically charter. The problem for SUU may have been on the other end in that the nearest airport of note is Las Vegas, and that's already 2.5 hour drive from Cedar City. (Of course for Band-uh types, 10 hours on a bus with a hotel stay sounds like luxury. I remember driving straight through to hellholes like Conway, Arkansas, sleeping on random floors.)

yes, myturn.ca.gov is the state site, but far from the one stop shop it was advertised as. Allows you to make appointments for some county or health system locations and tells you which Safeway stores “might” have doses - redirects to Safeway’s site to actually check stock. But there are additional county locations and health systems that are running their own signups that don’t reflect on the state site that you kind of just have to know about. Walgreens, CVS, and VA are federally managed and have their own separate signups.

Right now, doses are being redirected away from other areas to LA and San Joaquin Valley. Indeed these are hard hit areas, lots of poverty, and happen to be Latino-heavy areas. Coincidentally, these probably happen to also be the zip codes where the recall will be won or lost, so read into that what you will.

Glad others have been able to find appointments close to home! I’ve been helping my mom long distance because she’s not super computer savvy and all I can say is the MyTurn site is not very helpful. Her county and local pharmacies say they are getting stiffed on doses being reallocated to other areas and were only scheduling second doses. Anecdotally, I have young, healthy friends getting lucky at places like the Tulare fairgrounds mass site because the eligible folks just aren’t showing up, which is how I started following the trail of readily available appointments up Hwy 99.

I have a family member who is eligible to receive the vaccine but kept getting appointments cancelled and encountering lengthy waitlists due to short supply in the Bay Area. Was able to get her a next day appointment in Fresno area. A bit of a drive but seems to be much better availability at pharmacies along the 99 corridor from Madera to Bakersfield if anybody is currently trying to get one.

I guess we find out in a couple weeks. The Aggies have always struggled with the Eagles for reasons I don’t know. I don’t think Barriere is quite as magical as he thinks he is, but he manages to pull out wins. With these kind of polls I think EWU and Montana (I know not playing this season) historically get overrated while the three California teams get under appreciated. Which is fine because I think we perform better as perceived underdogs.

The Idaho press is saying the current COVID outbreak on the UI campus is linked to a couple of frat houses, and that there have been Greek-linked outbreaks after every holiday weekend or major snowstorm. Seems plausible there is overlap between the team and said houses. Hopefully nobody from Davis gets sick, and I hope anyone involved does not experience serious symptoms.

In my area they are noting huge upticks in senior citizens who have been vaccinated kind of leaving caution to the wind and resuming normal activity without precautions. They’re calling it things like “revenge tourism”. A dangerous game for sure, and to those of us patiently waiting our turn feels really unfair.