Agree. I think they just look ugly (I take trying too hard for 200 Alex).

Punting was a glaring weak spot for most of last year so hopefully that will be rectified. Field position is a big deal.

Hard to say. Rich Martini was also on that baseball squad and played football and landed with the Raiders for a couple of years. Martini was a wide receiver and fast. Stole a lot of bases. As I recall, Moroski was also a pretty good basketball player (we played basketball instead of baseball practice when raining - we had some pretty good BB players. Those were the days of Audwin Thomas, who was the basketball teams best player.

I was on the baseball team with Moroski back in the late 70s. We just straggled onto the field after classes/labs and I’d was quite low key. Some guys did extra work and games were against far western conference foes and other close northern/central California colleges. I think the furthest trip was Reno. So not a big stretch to do football and baseball back then.

cynical …….. but spot on.

As @fugawe09 says, the 1M corpus is not eroded so you only are taking 4-5 % of that annually for “use”. At NC State endowments were tapped at 4% annually, and at one time (maybe 2008-9) some endowed scholarships were frozen due to being “underwater”. Depends on markets and investing strategy to a degree. But the big numbers the public sees doesn’t reflect the actual annual disbursement.

I had a former neighbor refer to Florida State University (FSU) as Felony State University back when they had their legal issues with their football program. Now I am not trying to slander the entire student body in this acronym possibility, as I am sure Sac has produced many fine graduates and citizens, but maybe Sac’s football program direction will lead to the unintended consequence of having some label CSUS as “Criminal State University Sacramento”. I am pretty sure Marion cares little about player academics except for football eligibility, and he is looking to the portal in an attempt to feather his own bed for a potential coaching advancement ASAP. If I were a Hornet football fan, I think I would be hoping for a longer term plan with a more stable culture. Maybe that just isn’t in the cards.

Isn’t that more than your home playoff game last year?

Don’t know that I’d bring up last year if I were a Hornet fan, especially in comparison to the year Aggies had. Pretty impressive resolution on the attendance number - down to units.

Actually, looking at the other CSU president salaries it does not seem out of like. For a good administrator (that would likely include somewhat of an ability to help “advancement”, aka fundraising) that doesn’t seem to be out of line. However, for a self-promoting huckster, that seems to be taking the taxpayers to the cleaners.

Is that the section right after the 20 best plastic surgeons in the Southwest in-flight magazine?

LOL. Good one.

Air temperature reduction would vary of course but on a typical late summer cloudless day would likely be more than
10 degrees F. Instead of cooling due to natural turf transpiration, you get more “sensible” heat or what you feel in the energy balance. Yo can irrigate artificial turf to get evaporative cooling but that only lasts so long unless you want to play in the sprinklers like we all used to love to do as kids. There are NCAA regulations related to that. One thing I hate it when sideline reporters stick a thermometer directly on the field with no shading to get the shock factor without explaining that the temperatures reported on weather channels are from probes 2 m above the ground with a vented radiation shield (shading). So it’s comparing apples to oranges.

A couple things I note about the referenced article is the singling out of Winston Williams over Ian Simpson who I think is a more impactful player. Likely just because of stats due to more snaps as Simpson was out several games.

Interesting that Plough did not mention David Rasor at all in QB watch. A long time until first game in fall and it will be interesting to see who starts at that point.

I know that the list excluded pre 2000 but 1977 against Reno was a major win and tremendously exciting for the home crowd.

- Tulsa was a great win. Almost perfect game by Hunter

-I remember driving into campus at NC State to be able to watch the game against Boise (campus had espn3 access). Great goal line stand in first half and drew close in fourth quarter.

-both Montana wins were big. Saw this years in person at what is a great venue.

But Stanford 2005 had to be the most amazing win in program history. Especially since it was a dominant win statistically. Held Stanford to less than 200 yards as I recall. Game was not on tv, pretty sure.

LOL. Good one.

With bad grammar to boot. Must have BS’d his way through his PhD orals.

Man, he’s gone to the dark side. I don’t know the full story but it seemed Plough really liked Dixon, and seemingly at the expense of Gale. My guess is that Plough valued blocking at tight end - a lot of 12 packages and maybe that was not Gales forte. Maybe Gale would have been better used by not having him bulk up and just using him as a tall rangy and fast wide out. In my opinion, Gale was one of the most underutilized talent on the team.

sac State’s president is in sales and marketing. I’ve always like the Dilbert cartoon that likened marketing to “liquor and guessing” although Wood is more smooth smoke blowing. Davis has the better leader (Chancellor May) by far.

Just saw Chubba Mae on an AT&T commercial early in the Penn State - Notre Dame game.

Agreed about the decision not to punt on the first half. I don’t think NDSU missed a single tackle - that was a major factor as some runs were 1 missed tackle from a big run if not TD.

Well, the Ags held Montana State to fewer points than NDSU.

yah. For the athlete and player Mellot is, his passing skills, including reading coverages was not great tonight. That’s just from relying on his legs historically which has worked, but Miller played the more complete game and was much better in the pass game. That was the difference tonight.