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  1. It was 31-14 Davis, until a garbage TD with 2 minutes left. Perhaps we have different definitions of dominate. I was at the game, at no time in the 4th quarter did I feel Davis was in danger of losing.
  2. Yes, I believe so. Sac beat a terrible Stanford team early in the year so I guess that's the only data point the committee chose to look at, even thought we dominated them last game of the regular season. Also wondering how North Dakota got in at all, let alone host a game.
  3. I was at the UC Davis Sac State last Saturday and watched Davis dominate the game. It was 31-14 before a late garbage TD made the score more respectable. I was bitter that 7-4 Sac got in the playoffs over my 7-4 Davis Ags. Now seeing that Sac won- I'm furious. Two straight years Davis got screwed out of the playoffs.
  4. Is this the look the Big 12 was going for when they invited Houston? What are there, 9 people in the upper deck? Both home teams disappointing 4-5 records. Both screen shots taken in the 2nd quarter. Houston having homecoming against a team in the playoffs 2 years ago. Boise hosting... New Mexico. Anecdotal evidence and I know butts in the seats doesn't drive realignment but... probably not what the Big 12 was hoping for.
  5. Gracias hermano. Would you still want me to post more if I told you I wish Albertsons Stadium had some nice natural green grass? On the plus side my 5th grade son heads to school most mornings head to toe in BSU gear. I'd love to see them make to return to 10+ wins every year.
  6. In a perfect world there would be a slam dunk Big Sky coach ready to make the jump up. Unfortunately, I don't see that right now. If this had happened last year, Troy Taylor comes to mind, but I digress. I will say trying to get the "band back together" or hiring someone because they "know the fight song" is not a great strategy. Look at USC post Pete Carroll. Full disclosure I've only lived in Boise, and watched every game, for 3 years so I shouldn't be listened to.
  7. LOL great post- being able to make fun of yourself and excepting the absurdity of life.
  8. I took a hundred page or so break from this thread, and come back to all Yoda all the time. First reaction- And I see the irony of a nobody with only a few posts asking that question but it made me laugh, so... go for the joke even if it makes you look dumb.
  9. Agreed- Davis athletics have been mediocre at best since moving up from Div II. I'm the first to admit that I don't see any move happening soon. But without any slam dunk options for the MWC, it's fun to speculate that my school could make the jump. As it stands now, Davis has academics (I know, who cares?) and potential.
  10. The basketball would be a easy fix IMO- just improve the wonky upper bleachers (that we don't even use often enough), the lower bowl is fine. The football stadium was built with potential build out to 30,000 seats in mind. But I doubt there is desire or money available to do that any time soon. We can't even get lights for the baseball stadium.
  11. Congrats to Sac State and their 3 straight wins against UC Davis, that brings their all time record against the Ags to 23-46. Count me in the camp that thinks Sac returns to football mediocrity without Troy Taylor. But at least they have that amazing basketball arena.
  12. Long but interesting post I saw on reddit regarding the Utah President's comments and the Pac's academic/research appeal. "I have no idea if this is true, since it seems pretty flagrantly unprofessional and out-of-character for Utah's president (I've worked with several folks who have worked with Dr. Randall, and all spoke very highly of him as a professional), but this rationale is absolutely part of Utah's calculus, and I've been saying it for a while now. The PAC-ALC academic consortium features a resource-sharing system analogous to the BIGAA's system, wherein each school's researchers are granted courtesy access to the RSS ("research support services", or the university-provided services and resources to enable research; the big ones are library resources/holdings, grantwriting centers, and statistical consulting services). Utah, as well as several other PAC schools (notably Arizona and Colorado), have grown their academic research wings immensely using their courtesy access to the PAC-ALC RSS pool, which is famously subsidized overwhelmingly by the absolutely massive RSS functions at UC-Berkeley (it's pretty well accepted in the scientometric and institutional analytics world that Berkeley has the most impressive breadth of mature RSS functionalities on the planet, surpassing even institutions like Stanford, Cambridge, MIT, etc.), with UCLA, USC, and Washington as the other major contributors, while Stanford's neither takes nor contributes from the pool. Several Big XII schools (Baylor, Texas Tech, TCU, OKST, and OU) have apparently made various attempts in the past to form a similar RSS-sharing consortium, but it's consistently been rebuffed because Iowa State and UT would almost certainly be the main contributors (UT is a research giant, and Iowa State has one of the most outstanding statistics departments/consulting centers in the academic world). The standard university administrative cut is 50% of any competitive grant received by a university faculty member, and Utah's research growth has been immense in their relatively short time in the PAC, and that half of their research funding far outstrips any amount of athletics money they might add. This makes complete sense for Utah, as their on-campus RSS functionality isn't even remotely sufficient to support their academic operations in isolation; Utah needs to keep their courtesy access to UC-Berkeley's and UW's RSS functionality. That said, I guarantee that Utah's, ASU's, Arizona's, OSU's, Colorado's and WSU's libraries and statistical support centers got huge budget raises this year, and they'll get the same thing again next year. There was speculation in the institutional analytics world that UC-Berkeley might move to limit the courtesy access that they provide other PAC-ALC members, so as to protect the resources available to their own researchers at Berkeley, but it wouldn't shock me at this point if they're using that resource availability as an incentive to keep other schools onboard.
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