The Griz will be looking to make a statement tonight. If we can keep winning, the Montana brawl game should help settle the top 5 so I’ve got to root for Montana tonight.

In Fantasyland, who cares about the turf because they will be playing in front of 40,000 at Cal Expo momentarily. If they get any games scheduled that is.

The sad thing is it will probably lead to more eyeballs on their game tonight and the program than ever before. Thereby, reinforcing the behavior.

I understand, completely, pushing the envelope and trying new things...being bold when one feels like things aren't working, etc.

In this case, Dr. Wood exhibits behavior unbecoming of a university president. The people in the Sac State Office of the President need to step in and straighten him out. He is doing damage. Having another concert tonight is a bad decision for safety reasons (obviously), but also cost concerns will now arise that the school will need to answer to.

I can't imagine the uproar if any UC chancellor behaved in this way. Especially Chancellor May.....or maybe people would fall in line / not care, who knows. Hopefully Davis never has to find out. The whole thing has been pretty bad.

Baby, Davis Robert Livingston...Aggie Pride runs deep!

UCD takes down Santa Barbara in 5 sets. Davis came back from a set down (twice), fighting off 4 match points in the 4th set.

Also got an assist from CSUN, who defeated 2nd place Long Beach, also in 5 sets.

UCD as a Buick turnaround for the next game, traveling to Cal Poly for a Saturday afternoon contest.

GO AGS!!

I think it was Ch 10 that ran the clips of the Sac State President dumping on Montana. I was thinking "who IS this guy" because I thought he was someone in the athletic department. But nope. I mean you can be behind your team but dissing Montana like they were a second rate team from the sticks who only win because they play weak teams . . . it was beyond the pale. Shame on Sac State. I hope no one at UCD goes this route EVER.

The quote: "full transparency, there's been six jobs that they've reached out to me and like 'Hey, you interested? You want this job?'

To be contacted 6 different times to interview (assuming FBS) is a big deal.

Its good he's talking about "5, 7 to 10 years out at Davis"

Compared to its fellow conference members Montana consistently has a easy out of conference schedule.
How many FBS teams has Montana played in the most recent five seasons? One, five years ago.
How many D2 teams has Montana played in the most recent five seasons? Two
How.many FBS teams has Davis played in the last five seasons? Five
How many D2 teams has Davis played in last five years? Zero

No, we need Sac to survive, they're important to many. I would hate to see Dr. Wood permanently harm Hornet athletics. Someone needs to reel in the Cal Expo $150M temporary stadium.

Shaboozey would have been more chill, far less chance for violence. This video has almost 300 M views.

https://youtu.be/t7bQwwqW-Hc?si=ZN1WwVsJjRjUTi0i

He will. SAC Fans already do it.

I bet he says something like 'Sac State is the premier university in Sacramento compared to small time UC Davis."

Regarding the weekly press conference, no trash talking from Plough. I wonder if Wood’s mouth is going to run wild on the week before the causeway.

Listening to the APP.....
Northern Colorado game is similar to Portland State game last year in terms of atmosphere. Sleepy park-like stadium. The big difference is Portland State was terrible, UNC is underrated.
I think the Ags are going to be more up for this one.

I really like Plough's idea about the Aggie Football event in February. This should for sure be pumped here on AST.

We visited Toronto in early June when the Blue Jays were able 5 games back of New York. I bought a Jays hat that first day to blend in (last thing I wanted to do on vacation was discuss US politics)….and since then they’ve been in a nice roll.

You’re welcome, Toronto!

Ohtani is amazing, and his batting and pitching stats supposedly being almost identical to Babe Ruth is astounding. If he continues pitching effectively, he may go down as the best player ever. May's, Mantle, Williams were superb... but a player doing both at a peak level. Once-in-a-lifetime player.

Bobby Hauck with a funny yet needed response to what Sac States president had to say: https://x.com/HEROSports_FCS/status/1980379942115594345?t=KEM8WNNZbKUQjc3jXOrBFg&s=19

So, Lil’ Yachty is NOT a yacht rock tribute act? Boy, I would have been in for a shock!

These shows are great to get Sac St. and local HS students into the stadium....I guess the hope is they start to like football too, and remain interested. This looks like the target demographic from the marketing I've seen (heavy on the hot air / sh*t talk).
Also, its recruiting gimmicks. Much like offering Toosii a scholarship.
Interesting that none of the recruiting stuff is centered around a "40 year decision," like many schools use. They are literally selling a "1 year" plan.

For the NoCo game it appeared that around 6k showed up over the 3rd / 4th quarters. To my eye, attendance looked like 14k in the first half (there were like 150 people on the East side).
The crowd looked really young on TV.

When Davis plays Sac I want Sac to be out of contention and some of their players thinking about their next gig.

You get it!

Not a big Montana fan (although I do have a tremendous amount of respect for their program) but I do not know of any other program that at the administrative level as foolish as Sac state. They are a great case study on how not to behave.

Pulling 100% for Montana to not only win, but to run up the score on behalf of all of the other JV football teams.

Go Griz! I’m currently about 150 miles north east of Bozeman. All these farmers are Griz fans. Its closer to MSU so i was expecting a lot of cat fans.

Nothing wrong with bringing some entertainment to the big sky! The statement is really fun in my opinion, creates some narrative for this season and gives people someone to hate. Rooting for Sac State to put us in the top 5

A Montana loss is better for us I guess but, man, the way they are going about doing things over at Sac and the constant hyperbole from Dr Wood really puts me off so I'm a Montana fan for this game.

no. I'm rooting for Montana.

Lafayette giving Oregon State a game. Beavs are BAD.

There's a reason those players did not catch on at other programs

Yeah it looks like it’s filled in a bit in the second half for sure…for the postgame show.