agreed, it shouldn’t be hard to have a functional YouTube press conference. Disappointing to hear stadium audio is still an issue. It’s been pushing 20 years and still not solved?

I looked up the communications team. Most of the team are new within the last year or two. Looking up state pay, idk if the pay is competitive with other universities but it is not competitive with corporate internal/external communications. May be hard to retain talent and no in-house pool to tap since we don’t offer sports admin, marketing, or journalism majors.

maybe someone can spill some peppermint schnapps into the hot chocolate. Festive and warms the soul. It helped in the infamous Eastern Washington fog game.

dude who created pom

I mistakenly read that with an “rn” in it, but I guess POM is a pomegranate juice company?

if we want a dating analogy—it’s like telling your main girl, who might be average looking but sweet and a good cook, that it’s exclusive while Uncle Wingman from down the block is still running your Tinder profile trying to find you some SEC motorboat side action, and then falling for it when the stripper says she loves you.

If someone enters the portal but doesn’t end up transferring, does it cause weird feelings with teammates about commitment or is everyone all in on business is just business?

I wasn’t suggesting anyone specific on our team. More thinking the broader football market.

Not accusing anyone specifically, but would be interesting to run some broad stats on out-for-the-rest of-the-season injuries and transfer portal cash grabs to see if there is a correlation. Kind of like how NFL prospects refuse to play in bowl games.

exactly. If I recall, the premise of the House case was really that if an individual who happened to be an athlete wanted to make YouTube music video, should they be able to monetize it. What we have here is something so far removed from that fundamental question. As per usual, the legislative branch was nowhere to be found, so judges legislated this. The NCAA and universities should be regulated with some cursory guardrails on the greed like power and insurance companies are. Said another way, congress should have slapped Ohio State right on the pp and said this is too corrupt even for politicians.

He’ll worry about that later. He’s currently on hold with American Airlines trying to get a refund on his Nashville tickets.

The committee chair just talked about OOC like Mercer v UC Davis being a “resume enhancer”. So yeah, seems like we got double secret credit for leading a tight game against #6

Looking forward to seeing video of the team watch party! I don’t think this was expected since they were already hawking tickets for next weekend

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it will be on ESPNU

by “school they once were” do you mean the early 90s when they were relevant in D2? But yes, tough market—commuter school and for sure second fiddle in the market to O and OSU, even though neither is in Portland.

GO AGS! Stingers Down.

In the off season, perhaps coach Marion can find some cattle for all that empty hat. And possibly some pants that aren’t meant for a flood.

my thought is that if you boxed in the mezzanine, the building might not have the vertical height to make a sightline work from the upper level. With the boxes pulled back as proposed, you potentially create a sizable cavern under them to put modern ADA-accessible restrooms and concessions. I suppose use cases vary, but when I got invited to my company’s box for an NBA game, watching the game was secondary to the open bar situation and executive politicking in the back of the suite so maybe the view wasn’t that important.

For the stadium, I would probably recommend they just demo the press box and build a simpler tower including all the press boxes and suites, especially considering Scott and Scott have mentioned the press box is cramped. In my experience, interlocking two independent structures like that is always more expensive and complicated than planned. I’d be curious to know what they mean by an open food court. I don’t love food trucks. In a stadium, your transaction time goal is 15-20 seconds and food trucks are super slow. You want 1-step foods that limit customization to deliver quality at volume.

The UCU renovation looks pretty nice. Hard to tell in the rendering, but I wonder if they will fill in seating at the north end to make up seat count from the loge? Hopefully can undo the aesthetic atrocities of the 2008-ish renovation. Maybe they can hold a ceremony to cut down the horrible divider net?

well, I live in Orlando (lightning capital of the world) and outdoor football games, concerts, and theme park parades still happen. Usually thunderstorms pass through violently but quickly. This was just an unusual set of circumstances. The storm ran out of wind and parked. The City of Montgomery had no vested interest in the outcome so no incentive to keep the power meter spinning for the lights, and the Davis travel arranger had the pilots scheduled too tight.