Did he just let slip that there’s a new OC? Said in the Fox 40 interview that there’s an OC with Aggie ties he can’t name but is excited for.

I’ll echo the hope someone else posted that Mike Cody still remains working with the line or run game in some capacity

Just looked something up: despite only technically having one winning season as OC under Hawkins, Plough had a top 15 offensive rating in Massey each year, even after Doss graduated. Bodes well for the second Shredville era, especially if some of the key skill players stay.

Watching LL pound the rock against a top 10 team when literally everyone in the stadium knew it was coming was a sight to behold, one of the greatest "big boy football" moments I can remember as an Aggie fan -- along with Maier and friends picking apart Montana at Wa-Griz and the Tulsa game.

Regarding draft prospects for LL vs UG -- Larison has two inches and ten pounds on Gilliam if random draft websites are to be believed, plus has notched a higher yards per carry each of the last two years than any single year in Gilliam's career. More yards per catch too. To be clear I'm not saying that Larison is a better college RB than Gilliam, but I can see why NFL scouts would be more willing to take a chance with him.

Speaking of, to give credit where it's due, the production quality has quietly improved to a more or less passable level from what I've seen of the home broadcasts.

I watched some of the first quarter on replay afterwards, and unless there were streaming problems with it live, it looked relatively professional from what I saw. A far cry from the audio and visual problems I remember from ~7 years ago.

Gotta start putting Pioneer teams and Utah Tech / TA&MC on the schedule every year. Committee just does not care about our conference record it seems.

Starting to think the committee would have found a way to exclude Davis in 2021 had we not upset a Tulsa team that we didn't predict would have an army of players suspended

I feel like I could construct an argument that it's no big deal that Davis relies on an individual's talent that much. We can't go shopping in the portal like other schools in the field can. Occasionally some skill players of insane talent who also have the grades like LL, Doss, Gilliam, Manzanares back in the day, etc take an interest in what our program has to offer and pretty much by necessity the ball ends up going to them most plays.

2022 Committee: “No you’re putting way too much focus on SOS and quality losses, the most important thing is to get to 7 wins with at least a good win in there”

2023 Ags: “OK”

2023 Committee: “No not like that”

Weber is only up 6 per the last Google update, not as close as I would like since they’re our only chance at claiming another win against a team with a winning record

Turnout is good for a normal day, great for a rain game

NAU and Weber are putting in work to make our prior schedule seem more respectable going into Causeway week.

At least Weber is going to (likely) finish above .500. I'm still thinking/hoping that next Sat is essentially a playoff audition.

Even with allowing 23 it felt like the most complete game this season

SF needs to pick that guy up sooner rather than later

Thought LL did a very good job with the head fake to at least introduce the tiniest bit of doubt. Then when he sees the hole nothing can stop him

Special teams race to the bottom

Non homecoming, non marquee, non rivalry game when the team hasn’t been doing so hot, I figure attendance was a lost cause. Just gotta figure things out on the field, come into the sac game with a decent record, and attendance will work out for Causeway

Did they change the arrangement for the National anthem? I thought there used to be a high trumpet part and now there’s countermelody from the low brass that I don’t remember from before.

Maybe this arrangement has been in place for a while, I usually don’t get to the games early anymore

maybe someone has posted this question already but how much of Hastings’ insane stats from last season were either against very bad teams or were YAC by Tompkins and the listed RBs?

He’s not untalented and sure winning the games you’re supposed to win and getting the ball to playmakers in space are part of being a good QB, but it feels like he hasn’t really developed since a mediocre first season and is only as good as the talent around him

Accounting for the narrow Weber victory, Massey currently has the Aggies favored in 3/4 of the remaining games (by a TD each for Portland State and NAU and 2 TDs for Idaho State) and actually just slightly an underdog hosting Sac.

https://masseyratings.com/539277/8200

Absolutely nothing on that schedule is a gimme and we know all three of NAU, PSU, and ISU can win. But the point is as much as we're not impressed with the eye test, playoff hopes are very much alive and a 7-win season would not be a particularly surprising outcome or an overperformance. All that especially true if we come out of the bye with a healthy RB corps.

Cody beating EWU with Idaho State before UCD getting its first win ever against the Eags wasn't exactly on my bingo card or possibly anyone's

I believe Fisher has one more game he can play before redshirting under the current rules. In retrospect probably not a good thing for the season prospects that he got carries in the OSU blowout, but hindsight is 2020 and at the time I'm sure it seemed like a low-risk way to give a freshman some reps against talented defenders