Well if you think we are weird (add wife to this- we are all very weird!). My brother in law is from Michigan and went to Michigan. This guy is so into M games that he dresses up in his M colors for each game. Lives in Marin and is a teacher there. When the M games comes on at 10 am CA time ALL ACTIVITY must stop in his house. No phone calls. No answer the door. No talking! And he facebooks the entire game! It not go too well For The mighty M today at Michigan State today. Bad calls! M lost and the front room was a complete mess in front of the TV. Sister IL has to put him to a dark room with a Xanax to pull him out of his major funk. You know what? It’s just a game. Remember Friday Nights Lights movie? That was its message. Great movie. Watch it if you haven’t. We aren’t that weird are we?

Wow. Harvard coach time out. Not a good call.

Final comment: I think the team must love it when he comes up with this stuff. Makes practice FUN!

It was so fast I may have it wrong. But TT took the snap handed it to UG who handed back to A WR who reversed it back to TT who then then shovel pass it a WR inside. Problem: DL guy right there and dropped it for a loss. I may be completely wrong on this. I would watch the replay.

I generally agree with the poly broadcaster comments, but they sure got one thing spot on: the Tompkins trick play- which did not work. They even said that he comes in for “trick plays” and he did. I would like to see Tompkins play in more normal situations like last spring. Not just for the tricky stuff. I do not think we use him enough. That said, I must admit I love trick plays and this one almost did work. Maybe Hawk throws those in to make the next opponent work a bit harder. Overall, a good game for the Aggies. Poly was up for this game and it showed.

Aggies, you better be up for this game. Mustangs are upset at the last game results. Bad things happen with this atmosphere. Just saying, don’t relax for this game. Poly will be very tough tomorrow.

On a happier note. Halloween is coming Davis. Do you know that many alumni come back to davis with their kids to do the downtown trick or treat thing. They come from far away and recall how davis was so safe and happy during their days there. There is no hotel space in davis on Halloween! I learned the hard way coming from the sac airport. No rooms! Try and bottle that! I still came into town and all the kids were so happy with their young parents. Sent happy chills down my spine.

I wholeheartedly support this. We do not do enough of this stuff. Many universities do more of this and do it well. V & E is our most prestigious department and it is right that they start with them. It has the potential to bring in a lot of dollars to UCD if used wisely. Yes, big names work: Wade, Waters, Mondavi and many more are out there. I think UCDs Shaun Keister is doing a great job! Let’s do more!

Would be nice to know the school that made “the leap”

Great win, but Something is wrong with our passing game. I have no idea.

It is also very common for SF business firms, law firms, hedge funds etc. to give out Stanford/Cal tickets to employees and to clients. I really don’t see that happening in Sac, much less davis for UC Davis. Having said that, Stanford/Cal attendance very poor still. Am I seeing attendance down at all FBS schools in CA? Sure looks like it.

I agree with DRM and agalum. Very unlikely that we move to FBS for a number of reasons some previously stated. First, it would be enormously unpopular with present CA FBS member schools some of which are experiencing a lot of financial stress to their overall programs due to the cost of running an FBS football program. Just for example, Cal feels that Sac is “their territory” for recruiting and it has many alum (many more than UCD) there which they count on financially. Fresno feels the Central Valley is theirs for some good reason. Second, attendance. Cal cannot get its students to their games, so how can we? Ditto San Jose St. Cal alum told me that his kids at Cal “do not go to football games- boring”. Game v. WSU there were empty stands in a facility that just took hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade. So where do we get the fans for the games? The only obvious place would be Sacramento. Why would they come all the way to Davis when they have their own team in town. And then there’s the media. Davis has no real newspaper or TV. The DE? It’s a 5 day a week understaffed joke; almost like a advertisement paper you would get free at the Safeway. OK, so we rely on the Bee? Sac TV? Good luck with that. So all that nonsense about how our stadium will be “packed” is just b******t and BD knows that. Oh, and I forgot. We will have to upgrade our stadium to handle all these new fans. Should we hire the Cal engineers to get all this done for under $400,000,000? BD used to be happy with Jim Socher or BB during their reigns in DII. Why the switch?

I wonder if we will see a lot of Larison today? Home town crowd for him, no?

I wonder if the “lone safety” 25 yards back that we have utilized so far is actually in preparation for EWU and its very mobile QB. As some have said: the bend but don’t break defense. Barrier got blitzed a lot in the playoffs last season and did not handle it well and EWU lost that game. We have a big D-line and very fast and Mobile LBs, so, yes we give up some big chunks of yardage some times but so what if we eventually stop the offense and they do not score? That lone safety is a big part of that IMHO.

I hate it when BD makes these blowout predictions. Bad JuJu!

I would agree with that DrM. We all love BD, but hey, we are all getting along and so can’t he just take a victory lap? And its who wins the game right, not who has the best media guys.

I read early on that TT has the unique ability to pass effectively without having to use the seams to grip the ball. If so, that should at least make for a super quick release.

I would not be surprised to see Hawk keep HR on the bench for this next game. Concussions are just way too serious to deal with. A concussed brain will not readily heal after a second hit to the head. If this occurs, then he is gone for the season or forever. Hawk is way too close to the parents to even chance this. Plus, we have other guys ready to play. Just IMHO.

Probably not, but TT? No question. He is a Paul Horning type of guy. Very rare.

I would say that is very good news indeed!