This is a good example of not Googling before you post. NCAA only allows for 15 full scholarships for an equestrian team; but they can be split up as needed. As a side note, Texas A&M has 60 riders on its team, so we do have a lot of work to build up this program.

Equestrian team just posted its roster. 19 on the team. 3 out of state. It looks like many of them were able to transition from the club team to the ICA team without a problem. So that adds potentially 19 new scholarships to the overall woman’s ICA program (don’t know how many are actually awarded or are partial). But I believe it was pointed out previously that its the “opportunity to participate” that TIX looks at, not equality of scholarships. However, I doubt we could have hired our coach away from TAM without guaranteeing at least some significant scholarships support. First match Jan. 31 vs. Delaware State at home. Go Ags!

72 very good! But do take note that there are also trans horses on the team. Geldings. I would argue they count towards TIX. . . But maybe they should be banned?. . . Oh, oh, in trouble- no politics allowed on this site! No!

Souixfan have you ever walked up into the Sac State football field stands? Not FBS in any ones imagination. Really a death trap; built of very shaky and old bleachers. Downright scary! But your ideas are interesting so stay on point. . .

Wow Sioux. You have taken on a great venture here. Very exciting; but, you have to realize what we have to deal with here. Our Acedemic Senate basically controls our ICA endeavors, including all academic budgets. The AS likes to debate funding issues like fighting global warming, infectious diseases, economic disparities, poverty, international relations, etc., and you think they will take on a move to FBS? Siouxfan you are smoking too much of that great weed from the North; but i do wish you well on your very competent posts. Just that they won’t work too well here, sorry.

River, I think Sac would love to be in the BW now. I don’t care about the past that much. Sacs travel budget in the BSky must be enormous, plus they are a Cali school and can relate to the BW. I have no idea if Sac has ever applied for BW membership and I would think that info would be a tightly held secret if they did and were denied. It is rather amazing if Backo applied and got in over Sac. Sac is much the better institution academically and athletically. But BW seems to apply a equality rule for entry: UC and CSU equal entry only. If so, there’s are no more UCs left, so the train has left the station for Sac to get into the BW IMHO.

Great in depth article in the NYT today on the financial woes of the Pac12 Conference/Network compared to the other Power 5 conferences. I wont try and summarize it, but the thinking is generally that geography is the big reason. It effects TV starting times and thus national viewing stats are not competitive. Also, there is so much more to do in the West besides watching a football game, whereas in the mid-west and south, not so much; thus, attendance not as high. Can’t really fix those problems. Much, much more in the article including a short blurb from AD Blue.

It’s obvious that the team is in a very bad shooting stretch. It is totally different from last year. Something is very wrong with this teams shooting. So, what are some of the options? Let us start with mediation- yes Buddhist meditation. Accept: Suffering is inevitable; try and be a better person; practice- Sitting. Silence. Deep Breath. Put everything out of your mind except you totally relax, breathe in and out. Phil Jackson was a proponent. Jim Sochor practiced it. Both winners? Can’t deny that .. . . Well, what Else?

It just seems like every time Sac gets a new coach or AD we get the same old “this will finally awaken the sleeping Sac giant” story all over again. Well, hope does spring eternal, but as was said, this is utter nonsense. It is somewhat irritating that they try and get Hawk into supporting this very dubious theory “because he just wanted to come home” to the Sac area; Taylor too. FBS to follow. What are these guys smoking?

Maybe I got a head of things, but I am assuming Kooper’s brother, Kaden, will go to Sac with his dad.

Hopefully they don’t have the brother issues that got Mr. Tuili arrested!

I don’t think so. It’s a strange situation as his brother plays for Folsom as well I think. Where does he go? Brother v. Brother not unusual. What I think is unusual is Taylor taking on almost the entire Folsom HS coaching staff as his assistants.. these are the guys who go out and recruit in the field. They need the creds to do this. Doubtful they have it at the FCS level. Bee lauds this as a commitment to “recruit locally” as Bee has always wanted this. I see this as somewhat lazy or too convenient to make a lot of sense. Heart before head- not always they right way to go. Wish them well. . . .

Les has proved he is a great coach. I am betting he will come back next year with a winning team.

Ham was the greatest. But to be true, he never had the pressure that Les has now. What I cant figure out is why with basically his entire team back this year the record is so poor. Injuries? Maybe Jim Sochor could arrive at Les’s home on Christmas eve as the “Ghost of Christmas past” and teach him some of the basic principals of Buddhist thought. “Suffering is enitvitable” and “do no harm to other living things” That would be the players. He should also be “Strong as a Mountain” (or big tree) and not be “too self involved” or “too prideful”. It just might not be the players IMHO.

Speaking of Ham, I recall one game where he got so frustrated with his [players that he threw down his towel, yelled to the players “OK, coach yourselves” and went up into the bleachers. Actually, the teamed played OK without a coach. Yes. Coach Les needs to calm down a bit to say the least.

I love this project. I know that Toomey’s stands have been removed. But I also know that the longest home run ever hit in Aggie history or in the FWC was hit over this field by Sam Viney in 1971 and I don’t think it has been recorded on the ground there. I was there, it was a ball hit so hard it went for at least 500 ft from a point that is now the parking structure’s northeast corner to a point that is now the eastern most end of the Toomey track. Oregon center fielder never even turned around. It was gone. Willy Mac would have loved it! We should enshrine such great events with some permanent marker IMHO.

Wow. Didn’t expect that.

Very good question: 2009. So I was dead wrong to place this on AD Blue. I do not recall who was AD then. Otherwise, still an interesting decision.

Adopting FH over say rowing might have been Dr. Blues first real stumble as AD. It’s hard to say not knowing if there was any evidence out there to indicate Pacific was cutting that sport. But going with any sport that is so very uncommon in the West is, to say the least, going to be problematical. Someone did mention that FH was made financially feasible due to some big bucks from a athlete parent. So maybe thats the reason we got FH. Still wonder why not rowing? We had a very successful program before it was cut.

We’ve had some very good “smallish” QBs in the past. A kid by the name of Peterson comes to mind. Not the biggest guy physically, but had great vision and mobility, not to mention knowledge of the game which has served him well since playing. Been said his play in defeating Pacific a few decades ago was a big factor in them dropping football.