they’ve been desperately avoiding wide shots of the crowd. Lot of empty seats even before halftime.

Montana 3 / Tenn St 3 at end of 1st quarter.

in the 2000s the band travel budget fell short so we paid the difference out of our own pockets with some help from the alumni band. To control costs we usually rented vans, either from the university or from Enterprise, drove all night in shifts, and negotiated sleeping on the floors of gymnasiums. Eventually as a safety measure the university decided to require professional bus/air transport and hotel arrangements. So travel kind of stopped since that greatly increased costs.

well they had 6 fewer before playing us.

@AggieFinn Venue capacity is determined by square footage (every human is allocated x square feet), number of exits and the pathways to get there, and number of toilet fixtures. There are ways to safely overload a facility by using portolets, opening extra gates, and hiring extra firefighters and medics to stand by. I haven’t worked with the UCD fire department but my experience elsewhere has been that if you maintain a positive and proactive relationship with the fire marshal they will work with you to a point on the “big” events but will grow weary of granting exceptions when it becomes routine. It’s about safety and probability but also optics. No fire department wants other departments to view them as soft on the NFPA code, kind of this my mustache is bigger than yours thing. So you have to get creative on how you ask for exceptions, make it look like you are “innovating” with processes or equipment.

I was in the car and the car only has certain streamers built in. I get a slightly different mix of stations on the TuneIn car app vs phone app. The car and the phone weren’t syncing for whatever reason so I had to go with what the car could get on its standalone data package without the phone. I think the technology gods knew I was late when they decided not to work right.

I was on the road for part of the game and for whatever reason KHTK wasn’t on TuneIn app so I listened to the Sac radio broadcast. Dear god, it made the clowns on the TV call seem like absolute professionals. But Sportscenter came on after and as much all this NIL and transfer portal business allows big FBS schools to treat FCS like their personal D-league, they were saying it has at least created greater parity among the FBS schools that nobody is unstoppable anymore because the Alabamas of the world don’t have the depth to keep excellent players on the bench for rotation. Those guys transfer to places like Colorado to get playing time. It was an interesting take but sounds like FBS playoff selection might be even more complicated than FCS.

I won’t make it to the game but I need to hire a new third shift janitor. Can anyone put my card up at the Hornet locker room? Senior day, time to think about a career. $19/hr with union benefits.

one of the years at Hughes (maybe late 90s?) was a monsoon. My dad and I wrapped up in rain gear and blue tarp. Still ended up with bronchitis. And the field was a trashed mud pit after 3 games had been held there Friday. I think most schools in the west have gone artificial turf these days so not sure people really appreciate sinking and sliding on muck. Natural grass is still common at the college level in the southeast but a wet September in the south the grass is still growing. By November in Davis the grass wouldn’t be growing much.

If it were fair, Northern Colorado would provide the committee member on behalf of Big Sky. Historically slim chance of conflicting interest.

The committee is chaired by a representative from NDSU. The Big Sky representative is Mark Orr of Sac State. Not sure that we can expect him to advocate for Davis. Of note, interesting that Orr would sign on to a 4-year committee commitment just this August if he thought his exit from the conference to FBS was manifest destiny.

it was kind of funny talking to someone, that a number of schools from the D2 era considered us their rival more than we did them. Apparently we were the big game as far St Mary’s, Humboldt and others were concerned.

Well it may depend if Sac slicks down with PAM cooking spray this year. I’m really hoping for no injuries. Last thing we need is a key player taking a dirty hit.

Ooh I forgot about the seasonal “north wind” bicycling up Anderson feeling like you were going backwards.

Looking through the seating chart it looks like about 300 tickets remain, mostly 109, 118, 119 at the $30-$50 price-point.

somebody is getting paid for sure because of course season ticket holders would have repurchase their seats. And in the D2 days I believe students had to pay. As I recall, in our previous D1 home playoff game I believe a benefactor stepped up to sponsor student tickets.

Regarding the game Montana plays between plays. Play clock is running, Aggie offense is ready to go, defense is taking forever to substitute. On one occasion we snap the ball and Montana gets called for too many men on the field. But on another the ref is preventing the snap and we call a timeout as time expires. Had we not called the timeout, would the delay of game have been on the defense?

good god, it feels like I was just there at that game. Already 20 years ago. It seems you get a game like that every 20 or so years. The Miracle Game, Ken O’Brien, Stanford. Last night was a tremendous win but is it one that will be talked about for the next 20-50 years? Maybe, maybe not. We thumped them at home in 2018 too. Is this the year we get one of those signature games that people remember for 20+ years? Maybe, we are statistically about due.

long range forecast suggests only a high of 60, dropping into the 50s or 40s after the sun goes down. Will be brisk by CA standards. I think in addition to ESPN+ it may be on a regional sports channel in MT which may have impacted schedule. Would assume they wanted the game in prime sports bar hours. Scott mentioned last week that UNC was the last (regular season) home game they would have the TV call.

ESPN+ is a paid streaming content. ESPN2 is a cable channel. You can watch ESPN2 on the ESPN app, if you sign in with your paid cable provider information. In your case it sounds like YouTube TV is your cable provider.