Hawk has a vacation home in the area and travels to Boise regularly. He was interested in the job when Boise State hired Coach Avalos. I really dislike stealing head coaches, but you gotta do what you gotta do. — MarktheBronco

I know Hawk loves the Boise area but I think his heart is in Davis now and it will probably be the place that ends his career some day. I remember his comments when he was hired here. He said it was like coming full circle and coming back home. I could certainly be wrong but I would be surprised if he left now for a another head coaching job that would most certainly bring on much more stress and pressure into his life than he has as the head coach at Davis currently.

There's a lot riding on this game for both teams. Here were everyone stands currently in the Big Sky:

I'm both excited and, to a lesser extent, dreading this game. I'm glad it's being played at home rather than at Sac but the last Causeway game in Davis was no fun at all for my wife and I.

We were surrounded by Hornet fans many of whom were pounding the beers one after another. The guy sitting right next to me was loud and obnoxious. Before the game even started he kept talking to me about how there's no way we would be able to stop, "My boy, Skattebo." Then, during the game, he never stopped talking loudly and would nudge me or pat me on the back and say, "See what I mean, what did tell, you've got no answer, he's unstoppable," and on and on all game long.

We thought about getting up and moving but the stadium was packed and we didn't want to end up standing or searching for a place in the in he end zone grass so we just stuck it out. The whole experience was so unpleasant that, after the game, my wife told me that she would never go to a Causeway game again.

After two years, those feelings are behind us now and we plan to be there on Saturday. We sit in section 124 and there aren't a lot of season ticket holders around us but I'm hoping that we'll get lucky and have a bunch of Aggie fans around us this year.

It looks like it was worse than the beating they gave us and it certainly makes Sac's win over them a whole lot less impressive as well.

Big West Scores for 11/11:

Irvine 91 New Mexico State 74
Long Beach State 77 DePaul 73
UC San Diego 63 San Diego 58
Wyoming 80 Cal Poly 66
Fullerton 78 La Sierra 48

Oops

Montana 34 Portland State 10 - Final

Crushing loss for the Aggies after dominating the majority of the game and applying pressure on Irvine again and again. The game was tied at 0-0 after regulation and 2 OT's and then Irvine won the penalty kicks 10-9.

Soccer can be a cruel game where one team candominate play but the ball just never finds the net. I always feel terrible for the player who either misses a penalty kick or gets the kick stopped by the goalie when games are decided on penalty kicks.

The Aggies are a young team and they made a tremendous run that got stopped 1 penalty kick short. They'll challenge for the title again next year. Great season, Aggies!

I agree but we simply won't know until next year.

This is ridiculous. You should email the athletics department and let them know about it.

Yes, that's all we can hope for. It's particularly tough now that the major programs have sponsors who can offer up significant NIL money to players. That's tough for young athletes to pass up.

You would think that we may be able to score some points against Sac if Poly could put up 30 on them. However, we just seem to have such struggles offensively so who knows. I also think that Sac was probably overlooking Poly today. Anyway, there's a lot on the line now in the Causeway.

100% agree. Gordon knows his football and he adds a lot to the broadcast team.

We most definitely could lose Larison to the portal and Rex Connors also. You know that major programs will find a way to get the word to them and that they could be making big bucks playing before big crowds. We'll just have to hold our breath and hope they want to come back and be the leaders of the Aggies.

The ISU announcers were excellent. They spoke about the best for both teams and we didn't get any of that whinning, "we're-getting-screwed," homer stuff that we get too often.

If that's truly the case, Hawk owns good piece of the responsibility since he selected the OC.

He has 106 of our 171 total yards. Would you say we are one-dimensional?