Website lists April 18 for the spring game in the morning. That seems like an early date for the game if they haven't started practice yet.

Bingo.

Impressive number! Going to be an interesting month of April. I predict someone emerges from the QB pack sooner than last year, just have a feeling...

Other key position battles: Left Tackle, RB2, TEs 2 & 3, Edge, MLB, one of the Safeties

Very good RB room and plenty deep. Experience concerns are limited to the QB room. Almost every other position, aside from Safety in our scheme, is pretty much plug-and-play. OL/DL need the physical development year or two out of HS, but otherwise I would not be concerned about experience behind Fish with the RBs. And those dudes need to come to play for the first 3-4 games as the new QB tries to figure out which way is up at game speed.

Good on him and UCD for speaking at the clinic. Often times we in the public or fandom are not privy to the actual truth in matters like how his tenure ended at Stanford. We live in a state and an era where "complaints" are taken for fact often times prior to due process. I don't have any skin in the game and don't know the guy, but my guess as a semi-knowledgeable foosball (italics for a Momma Boucher bayou accent) fan is that 3-9/3-9 and a new GM had more to do with the end of his run than complaints that he was hard to work for.

Fish is so much fun to watch but that video makes me miss football season even more.

USA-Mexico tonight in the WBC, that'll get me one day closer to training camp

Really cool bottle, way to go Mrs. Dr. Mike!

Really enjoyed the Pod with Buchanan yesterday afternoon as I was fighting body confusion due to the time change. Stayed awake for the entirety of the show and found a new favorite NFL player! That kid is solid and squared away.

Looking forward to actually talking football in <177 days! Will we have any boots on the ground at spring ball for some reporting?

Offering the higher profile local recruits is good, free publicity and the logo goes to the top of the kid's X feed for a few days. This was an offer for 2029 or 2030, looks like he'll be heading off on an LDS mission first.

You play at the rodeo grounds, then a beer garden is a MUST. Would be disrespectful and un-American not to have it.

Again, the renovation at Shredville needs to include a Colorado State-like beer garden pavilion above whichever grassy berm survives, overlooking the beautiful, natural grass playing surface.

Mo's the man, BTW

Pretty certain it was an ACL. In many cases, a player can recover at a satisfactory level at or just before the 12 month mark. A year seems to be the norm (correct me if wrong). Everyone heals differently.

Porter was in a boot, so his recovery would be a lot sooner one would imagine.

Thanks, makes sense. Keep the cards close to the vest. Always interesting to see which transfers will make the greatest impact. Maybe I'll go to the Signing Day post on the team website and review some film. Beats working...

Plough made a solid move by not only retaining Chapette as TEs Coach, but by bringing vonAppen in as the Special Teams guy. He has coordinating experience as a DC which will help greatly and I believe he has history with the current staff.

Anything update on the RB hire?

Do we typically produce a 2-deep for spring ball? There are some interesting questions to be answered at several key spots.

Another thing to consider is that they are both most likely still rehabbing from their injuries, at least that would be the case for Rex I believe. This seems to be so obvious and such a no-brainer for the NCAA, but as I was once told by a wise old man, "assumption is the mother of all f-ups."

Regarding the messaging, the summer piece is HUGE. If there is a way to feed the kids and cover their summer housing alone, that goes a long way towards a successful season. Give them time to work part time jobs during the summer and pocket that money, cover their room and board and we are well ahead of most of the Big Sky in my estimate. Back in the old days when I played, our football boosters actually arranged an ID card of sorts with a small handful of local restaurants that would provide us one meal per week. We were capped at $10 per meal (or a pizza or combo or something specific) so it wasn't abused, and there were plenty of burger, pizza, and burrito joints to spread the economic impact. It was nice, and we didn't use them all the time. That was not an NCAA program and it was back in the 1980s, but in today's NIL world, it seems like there are enough restaurants close to campus where we could provide something similar to our scholarship players (65+/-, maybe a little more with partials) with summer meals (even 10 per week would be amazing) and solve that piece pretty easily. Start it after spring quarter through the start of training camp when the program feeds them. Give the participating restaurants signage in the stadium and PA recognition and you're rolling. Just a thought from the recesses of my mind.

Have heard or seen nothing as far as the new RB coach. Easiest job on staff, just need to be a talented and connected recruiter and amateur psychologist.

That is really interesting about that surface, pretty cool! I feel smarter today thanks to you guys.

Screw the optics and conservation, bring back the grass man!!! :rofl:

Have you seen the robotic field stripers they have now? They operate off of GPS and can stripe and number a football field in about 60-90 minutes. I hate robots and believe they will eventually kill us all, but this deal is pretty cool.

About one month from the start of spring practice... any reports coming out of the winter conditioning period?

I had never heard that about Lambeau or of a similar product existing. I was on the sideline there in pre-game for a Packers-Bears game back in the early-90s and it was just frozen tundra. Some of the hybrid Bermuda surfaces go dormant late in the season (that's why they look yellow on TV) but I haven't noticed that in recent years. Davis could have a similar surface to the Rose Bowl, almost like a putting green.

The radiant heat is enough to ban those artificial surfaces from the planet. The get very hard with age, the infill needs to be groomed and eventually replaced, the injury rates are significantly higher, and obviously the harder the field the greater the risk for concussions. Plus they smell bad. Nothing better than a fresh-cut grass field. What's an extra $75k per year in water costs?!