Agreed. As QB is the most important on a team, healthy competition and a good backup or two to account for possible injuries is desirable. This year’s roster shows 6 QBs (Hastings last year but no other seniors). Seems a bit heavy. At other institutions there may be multiple portal moves at QB, but that is not normal at UCD unless a grad transfer.

Montana fans are always offended ……

Not as much of a puzzling situation when one has graduated (I am pretty sure that is Buchanan’s situation). Castles did the same thing last year and likely got more exposure in the SEC with Tennessee and although going undated was picked up by the Eagles. Just for the record, I am not in favor of all the hop-scotching prior to graduating.

highly doubtful. Home team is Cal and is scheduled to be on ACCNX (ACC network“extra”) which is owned by ESPN. ESPN would not broadcast on two of its channels for a game like this. I would assume Big Sky football will again be on ESPN+ this fall, but would include only those big sky conference games or games against other non-FBS schools.

well good question. Just looked up an article that says Cal and Stanford will get partial media rights from ACC of about $25M per year until year 7 or so then a full share. Don’t know if anything developed from the potential suit and liability of those jumping the PAC-12 ship. Of course who knows what Cal will be forced to pay former athletes for NIL as recently ruled. It’s a chaotic landscape. But $500,000 or so these days is becoming chump change. As Cal is not likely to set the world on fire and has precedence playing UCD, my guess is that they will honor the game.

Assuming the game is not bought out by Cal, it will be on the ACCX network. That is available with sling orange sports extra (I toggle that on for college football come end of August). I am sure it is on other streaming services. It used to be on the PAC-12 network but surprise surprise that does not show up in that package anymore. I think the late August heat of Stawberry Canyon is much preferable to Davis heat. Cal gets to look forward to going to Auburn the first week of September. Welcome to the ACC and attendant humidity.

As usual, these pre-season polls don’t reflect much serious research and are “safe” based mostly on last season results. Three teams from MVFC and three from the Big Sky in the top 10. I find it hard to believe 6 from the 2 top conferences in FCS will populate the final top 10, but it is also a bit difficult to predict the “surprises” that will certainly pop up over the season.

I have sac state at 8-4 or 7-5 (2 L from FBS) and
Idaho at 7-5 (also 2 FBS but tougher than Slac). I think both the Ags and Weber are better positioned than Idaho for success next season.

he looked good against Sac and was their best option last year - just a very weak team around him. I suspect he is just searching to get on a team with more visibility. I think like a lot of kids these days - thinking the transfer portal will solve all their problems.

I don’t know if the new program is exclusively undergraduate, but there are research opportunities in areas such as econometric modeling - although the utility of that is limited compared to undergraduate programs/degrees.

and Perryman didn’t make it to the NFL. Seems like many kids think they will end up there (NFL) and can only improve their chances by “portaling up”. If you are good the NFL will find you in FCS, e.g., South Dakota State tight ends.

….. or San Francisco Bay Oakland International……

Met a friend of an in -law in a group including wife’s siblings in New Orleans recently who said he was a “business” major out of the Ag Econ department back in the day. He had worked part of his career in a federal position auditing banks. I took an Ag Econ class back in the late 70s at UCD. Ironically the text we used was authored by J. Price Gittinger, not to be confused with the man of the same name who led the Aggie band for a while (I had confused the two). From my perspective Econ is pretty much Econ at a basic level and can be applied to various sectors including, of course, Agriculture. NC State has had a bunch of Davis grads as faulty in their Ag and Resource Econ Dept. in the college of Ag and life sciences and has an economics degree program in the college of management that also has other business-related majors like accounting.

I think adding a business major is a good move and I don’t think it will “hurt” any other business programs at the CSU schools, My wife was a business major at (the school formerly known as) Hayward State - she had a good experience there.

Some of us remember this all too well. I remember listening over the internet from a hotel room in Amman Jordan. From certain victory to collapse as defense wore down.

https://buhuskies.com/news/2020/12/2/football-bloomsburg-universitys-great-comeback-20-years-later.aspx

Agreed that offense should be better. I am a bit concerned that the defense may not be as good as last year. Losing Maee, Buchanan, and Tattersall is concerning. Hopefully some other linebackers will step up - not sure what young guys will rise to the challenge. Defense by and large was very solid last year with the exception of some sporadic DB play. I know everyone is thinking of “shredsville” reemergence and excitement, but defense wins championships.

absolutely. Defense was was good last year and I always believe defense keeps you in games. Don’t think the Ags would have had 7 wins last year without the defense they had. Kennedy was a major contributor to that.

very well spoken and appears to have been raised right. Good to know that at least some young folks appreciate classical music.

100% correct about real “commercial value” but rather slush funds from collectives to “hire” players in an attempt to buy championships.

really, really dumb and stupid. Who really decides this? NCAA, ESPN? Does City of Frisco or whomever manages the stadium (I think naming rights were sold to Toyota), or Frisco Chamber of Commerce, e.g., have any input? My hunch is that ABC/ESPN controls this for all intents and purposes.

Merry Christmas to all!

oh yah. I listened to that game overseas - defense collapsed in the Bloomsbury game. Aggies scored too fast I think and defense couldn’t muster anything last quarter from being on the field too much.