Yikes! That's scary. Thank God it turned out ok!

I was on a plane when I was 10 years old when one of the engines caught on fire just after takeoff and we had to make an emergency landing back in in Miami.

My wife and I were also on a small plane flying between islands in Fiji in extremely rough air where the plane was literally bouncing around all over the place. All 10 of us passengers were hanging on for dear life. After we safely landed, the lone Aussie pilot walked down the aisle to open the door and said in his thick Aussie accent, "Well ladies and gentlemen we cheated death again!"

That's crazy! He obviously finds it hard to be happy anywhere!

According to the stats on the Athletics website we are averaging 599 per game through 6 home games. That's terrible! The Ags are a good team this year so I sure hope the attendance pics up a whole lot.

I'm really happy to see SDSU take the title as well. Great to see the wealth spread around a bit rather than total domination by NDSU year after year.

I honestly think we would have had a great chance to beat the Bison this year also and, given how close we played SDSU, who knows just how far we may have gone if the selection committee hadn't thumbed their noses at us.

So maybe we were actually the 2nd best team in the nation but not good enough to be selected for the playoffs.... :cool:

I watched the last 5 minutes of the Poly-UCSB game and SB pulled it out in the final 2 minutes. The game was much closer than the score. Poly is very much improved.

Leaving the Aggies out of the playoffs, given our schedule and how weak many of the teams that got in were by comparison, was !00% a biased decision and totally unfair to the Aggies.

That's a good point, Russ. Last year's team struggled after losing Trpcic at the point. It really showed just how important Trpcic was to the success of the team during her time as an Aggie.

Loss of taste is associated with Covid, Finn. My sister-in-law lost her sense of taste and smell from Covid for 4 months before it started coming back. She said the only benefit of that was it stopped her from snacking so much. :rofl:

It interesting how Covid affects everyone so differently. My wife just had mild symptoms for 5 days and was over it. I'm in day 13 right now and, although I finally tested negative yesterday, my energy is zapped and I'm still really tired. It's a nasty bug for sure!

Good question. We went through an amazing string of BW titles and I think most of us knew that wouldn't continue forever. We struggled last year despite having a veteran team and I don't think anyone saw that coming. The coaching staff brought in some experienced, new players this year but the team is struggling to find consistency again.

This was an uncharacteristically poor game by the Aggies. The wheels simply came off the cart
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I'm sure the players and the coaches are disappointed with how the season is going so far. I'm sure that Jen and her staff will find a way to get this team going again.

The official attendance last night was only 749. Wow...that's a shocking low number for a game against one of the best teams in the Big West. It's got to be a bit of a let down for the team to be playing in a nearly empty building at home. I sure hope we put a few more fans in the seats against Bake tomorrow

Post-game comments from Coach Les and Coach Turner:

From Les:

“I didn’t like our performance at all,” said a disappointed Aggie head coach Jim Les afterward.
“We didn’t play physical or aggressive and a team like Irvine preys on that. We gave up 88 points, which is not how we like to play. We have some issues we need to correct with our consistency.”

“If we can correct some things, I think this team has a chance to be pretty good,” noted Les, pointing out that the expanded Big West schedule stretches to 20 games this winter. “The good part about the Big West is that you can get your butt kicked one night and then you have 48 hours to go at it again.”

From Turner:

“That was a great win against a team we have tremendous respect for,” said Irvine head coach Russell Turner.

“I’m always nervous until the game’s over, but we’ve had two tough road wins now, so I’m very pleased. UC Davis has a spirit that I genuinely admire and that comes from their coaches and spreads to their players. They always fight and they’re never out of it.”

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/basketball-uc-davis-men-2/

I don't think it could get much worse for the Aggies than this. Irvine crushed the Ags 67-38.

The Aggies did not make a single basket in the entire 4th quarter and only scored 6 points in the 2nd and 5 in the 4th. They shot 22% for the game including only 2-23 from 3 and had 20 TO's to boot. Wow...

Heck of a rally in the final 2 minutes by the Aggies. There's no quit whatsoever in this team but we had no answer to Irvine's big man, Leuchten. As Toke stated earlier, a lot of BW teams have a 7 footer and we're not going to match up well with those teams that have great size.

We're 1-5 in the last 6 games. We really need to get on a winning streak if we're going to have any chance to be relevant in the conference late in the season.

Ooof...I'm late to game...thought in started at 7. I think I still have Covid brain fog!

Well, unfortunately, I'm going to have to watch this one on ESPN+. I finally tested negative for Covid after 12 days of feeling like crap but I still not back to my normal self by any means. This bug kicked my butt and sapped my energy big time but I feel like I've turned the corner today. My wife and I will be there in spirit though. Go Ags!

I watched some of Vanderbilt's win over South Carolina tonight and Ezra had a great game and scored 23 points. His highest game at Davis was 27. He has really adjusted to the higher level of competition in the SEC.

Same to you CA Forever and also to all our AST Forum members. I wish you all good health and prosperity in 2023 and here's hoping for lots of continued success for Aggie Athletics.

I remember that showboating on the Hawaii bench during that game also and I've seen that going on with the Hawaii players in some of the other games we played in Hawaii. I just think their coach just doesn't really care about that level of discipline and so he allows it or just tolerates it. It seems like our games with Hawaii are generally high intensity and have the potential to get a bit chippy.