a metaphor is a terrible thing to waste. All I know is that the oven we have takes way too long to pre-heat.

Great explanation of all the things associated with stadium construction. Thanks for the education and logic. I had the opportunity to visit the new Texas A&M stadium a couple of years and listen to a presentation by one of the project managers. Very interesting technology used. They essentially demolished 1/2 of their old stadium in 2 consecutive years and had it ready about 1 week prior to the season both years. Of course it is A&M where they are pretty fanatical about their football and pretty sure donations are not an issue (or perhaps even endangered armadillos).

To me expansion doesn’t make a whole lot of sense until there is sufficient and consistent demand for seats. I think it is more exciting to watch a game in a full smaller stadium than in a sparsely filled bigger one. Every time I watch San Jose State on TV I ask myself “where are the fans”. It doesn’t seem possible that they have the 12,000 or so in attendance that is listed in the game stats. South Dakota State just redid their stadium - they seem to be more of a cohort/model.

need to schedule a game with Elon.

Correct, and rates have to do with capacity and number of applications. Stanford doesn’t have to do much marketing to get a whole lot of applicants so acceptance rate is going to be low.

Another wrinkle with the academic stats is that schools may have to accept 2 to yield 1, etc.

through Oct. 13
Scoring Offense: UCD 2nd in big sky 7th in nation (out of 125) 40.8
CPSU 11th in big sky 78th in nation 25. (Idaho State 1st BS at 41.3)

Scoring Defense: UCD 5th in big sky 69th in nation 30.5
CPSU 12th in big sky 106th in nation 38.8 (Weber 1st BS as 21.7)

Time of possession: UCD 9th in big sky 96th in nation 28.06 min.
CPSU. 1st in big sky and 4th in nation 34.41 min.

Last stat for random scatter discussion.

Demographics a bit different - enrollment ~12,000, state population ~750,000 and of course it is where "everyone is above average" - so yield will be higher.

The ISU Liberty game is intriguing. Liberty has been all over the map with thier biggest win perhaps Troy (formerly State and fomerly D2). Liberty is one of those schools hell-bent (pun intended) to go D1a (FBS). They used to be big South. UNC Charlotte, South Alabama, Georgia State are all similar in their 0-60 in 6 second approach with new football programs to go FBS ASAP. Must be a southern thing. If ISU is not too bummed out from last week, I think they have a good chance of winning.

Especially this year.....

For those of us unable to see the game in person or on Pluto, it just calms up on bigamy’s tv as a replay. Just back arrow a couple of days and all the games are posted.

Well at least the banana slugs of UC Santa Cruz ;-). They used to have a pass/no pass grading system and was the joke of the UC System. I have some colleagues at Poly in irrigation. So irrigation, extension, manure all good.

I do remember Ramses Braden. He was on the team that almost beat (and should of except for something like 3 missed extra points) Wisconsin. I remember listening to that game. I also drew your analogy.

yes there are. You just have to use the back arrow to go back in history one day at a time and it will list the events for that day as a “replay”. Nothing up yet for the ISU game - I think it takes s few days before it’s put up and linked to a server. I am hoping that since it won’t be a live stream it will be much more stable.

LOL! My wife called me Friday to ask if we want tickets to the symphony that friends couldn’t use my reply was “well what do you want to do”. She said “go of course!” When she asked why I didn’t seem more enthusiastic, I said “I’ll miss the game”. She replied, we’ll you can watch it Sunday can’t you? End of discussion. Was convinced the Ags were out of it when I checked the stats board at intermission and down by 16 well into the 3rd quarter. Imagine my surprise this morning - and I can recommend a live performance of “Appalachian Spring”. Had to suffer through one of those obligatory modern pieces. Looking forward to stress free watching when it’s spooled up for rerun on bigskytv.

34-0.

Another turnover. U pND guy rips ball away. UM must feel snake-bit

28-0 UND. Oops 27-0
UM secondary does not look good. One thing I notice about UM. They look big but overall team speed is not that good. UND containing Sneed well.

Update again. UM fumbles at goal! Hauck must be going nuts but looks remarkably cool on sideline.

UND 14 Montana 0 early in first quarter
Sneed intercepted first series, then Montana fumbles on kickoff return, both resulting in UND touchdowns
Montana has had turnover issues past 2 games. Also Sneed the UM QB does not seem to do well with adversity. He was visually upset on sidelines last week and see,s to get out of sorts. Update - big play by UM down to 10 yard line of UND

Schadenfruede . Or joy in others suffering. Schaden is “too bad” and “fruede” is joy. And yes Maier is a German name and it is pronounced incorrectly strictly speaking. The second vowel (i) should be sounded, not the “a”. OK enough of the pedantic German lesson (I am a rank amateur at it).

there must be some very lazy coaches doing the coaches poll. NC A&T is overranked and no way Weber should be were they are now. NDSU SDSU, EWU, and James Madison all deserve to be at the top. I think UCD should be ranked higher. The issue is that voters tend to work off institutional memory (sort of serial correlation) rather than look at the current year. I sure hope the selection committee is not made up of the folks doing these polls. How many slots are open after conference autobids?