ticket sales looking good for the game!

My issue with the Big Sky, or really FCS teams, is active football message boards. I checked all three Utah teams we played this season, Mercer, Northern Arizona, and Idaho State, and practically all have dead message boards.

Awesome, just like the old days!

potential upset is in Cheney where it will be 55 and potentially wet

EWU defense pretty much stinks and is giving up 4.7 or 5 yards a carry depending on overall or league stats. Anything could happen on that gawd-awful red turf but I suspect Sac State will likely run all over them.

Of course Sac defense is also iffy. If they had played disciplined ball last week, they would have beat Montana. Pint muff was a big turning point not to mention hold on to-the-house kick return for TD. But Sac State and discipline are oxymorons.

Silver Dragon closed. There is another Chinese place there, Tasty Kitchen.

He's playing, a lot.

So, per Coach Hawk II, the players are playing and not the coaches:

Teams that commit to running the ball at the Bengals have great success. Throwing out UNLV (FBS) and Lincoln (maybe the 2nd worse college football team in America behind Simpson up in Redding. Yes, there is a football team there), Southern Utah went for 323 on the ground, Montana State went for 328, and NAU with a very average rushing attack went for 200+. Against UNC, the Aggies looked to have a lot of success with an outside zone play. Great answer for all the 5 down fronts in the BSC. Pair that with their usual inside zone, gap schemes, and jet sweep packages, commit to 12-15 carries between the tailbacks, and we will win this game going away.

Conversely, teams that attempt 45+ pass attempts per game (removing the 20 attempts vs. hapless Lincoln) don't stand much of a chance to win vs. Top 25 teams especially. The Bengals QB is a dealer, but they don't play with Tight Ends, they throw it too much, and play with tempo which typically equates to a lot of opportunities for opposing offenses.

This game will go 3.5 hours+ in an Aggie ass whippin' of the Bengals...

Yeah, and interesting that Orr is no where to be found through all of this. I’ve mostly thought that Orr was good for them. But you’d think he would have at least showed up after the Big Sky levied the fines on Marion. But they’re done with the Big Sky so maybe it doesn’t matter to them (?).

Watching the Idaho State - Northern Arizona game the things that stood out to me.

NAU had long drives that kept the ball away from the potentially dangerous offense of ISU. ISU defense was in general poor against the run. The bengal passing game was off, mostly due to Cook being off. I think a key to this game is with the Aggie rush game being used to control things at critical periods.

We’re on our way back from Paris and we plan to be at the game even if we’re still jet lagged. These long haul flights are pretty tough on us nowadays. It takes longer for us to reset the biological clock now than it did when we were in our 30’s!

Fisher had 3 receptions in the whole game. 11 was his rushing number. He’s the best inside zone runner on the team and has been for the last three years. Should have put the game on ice early in that second half but got cute with the pass game and too much Vargas.

Yeah, I was just talking about Ivy grad transfers....I'm pretty sure nobody on scholarship in the Ivy League is transferring before graduation.

Davis offers a BS in Business now (finally), which I assume will help things for business admin portal guys.

IMO, Orr was doing a good job and his biggest problem is Wood interjecting. I think history will ultimately remember Wood as Sac’s version of Katehi - an incompetent leader hired for the wrong reasons, who has demonstrated poor performance and judgement in a short period of time. Should the CSU trustees want any advice, my observation has been that providing a bad executive hire more time and a longer leash has a poor track record of achieving vindication.

I agree that FBS name recognition may increase the value of a degree at sac state slightly, but you know what would do it even more? Elevating their academics. Sac is a decent school but is consistently ranked in bottom 3rd among CSUs (I was surprised how high all the So Cal CSUs were ranked). I know they will likely never surpass schools like cal poly, SDSU, SJSU, but sac should be in the 2nd tier at least. That is what dr wood should focus on. Elevating academics and making sac not a commuter school.