yeah but he was benched this spring, and all this year

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately they project all their offensive linemen to play against us. James Madison got lucky and caught them with a banged up offensive line.

James Madison moved the ball well against Weber.
The third string Weber QB made some big plays at the end. I bet we see him if Barron is still out.

At least in the last game it was an injury to his shoulder. He was holding his fingers as if he had some arm pain.

UCD seems to be taking the minority position on this. Haven’t seen Cal doing this, or the SF Giants. I think the arbitrariness and lack of uniformity of these policies is what people find irritating.

I think by their QB you’re referring to the Dixie game.
In the last Weber game the game changed at half time. They were shut out in the first half but got the second half kickoff and drove for a touchdown, mostly with QB carries and passes. Then the short field TD. Their last score was a field goal following our turnover. They were able to make an adjustment at half time and we seem to have figured it out again and contained them in the fourth quarter. Game got away from us in the third quarter.

I’m vaccinated and would get a booster if they offered one, but I have to point out that the vaccine does not prevent vaccinated people from spreading COVID.
It is primarily of benefit to the vaccinated, in lessening severity of symptoms when they get a breakthrough infection.

Before the ESPN+ move, we could have watched a replay of the game this spring on BigSky tv. Too bad they took that down. Petty if ESPN requested that.

The box score shows the game to have been very even statistically We lost a ten point lead in the third quarter, almost all the damage done by Barron running or passing.
Their second TD drive of the quarter started at their 45 after we went for it on 4th and 2.
Aside from that quarter we contained them pretty well. This is another of those games with Weber that I think we can win. I’ve always been wrong about that.

I hope your child gets into the school of his choice.
By the way I never said admits had bad grades. The point is everyone has good grades hence they mean little. Now no standardized test, which leaves nothing objective to base admission on. If it’s all up to the essay, that’s a bad method.

You think the admissions office is capable of weighing how important this kid’s dinner prep contributions are vs the other kids milking the cow? If it’s all subjective it’s going to come down to a counselor writing their personal statement for some favored students and the rest on their own. There will be certain phrases that will indicate ethnicity, and an exaggeration of any personal hardship. It will all come down to telling a story.
I’ve seen kids whose parent is a school counselor get her kid nominated for various rewards, over much more deserving students. That’s why fairness requires some objective metrics.
The tests do test something predictive about how kids fare after admission. Your personal story about how well you fared taking a catch-up math course doesn’t indicate what your math score was on a test that didn’t presume precalculus. I didn’t do well in trig and analytic geometry as a senior but still scored in the 97th percentile in math on the ACT, so I was able to benefit a lot from taking a course in precalculus at the JC. You have to know quite a bit to do well in a precalculus prep class. With no standardized tests no baseline exists. If someone isn’t ready for UC it isn’t a value judgement about his worth as a human being or even a scholar. It means he’s not ready, and given your observation about limited number of seats, he’s occupying someone else’s.

Almost immediately in my limited experience

it’s unfair to toss a guy for parts of two games over something that had no potential for injury and no intent to injure. They should read the definition of the rule and limit targeting calls to dangerous plays as the rule clearly was intended to do.
They can call unsportsmanlike conduct if they want to discourage an action that doesn’t rise to that level.

No one suggests that the kids from low performing schools are less smart. But clearly they are less prepared for college .
The argument for fairness can be reduced to absurdity simply by considering that some schools have top 10% kids who don’t read at grade level, and don’t know Geometry. Should UC be dumbed down so those kids succeed? I’m someone who has taken classes at JC, UC, and CSUs. The difference in education is primarily a difference in expectations that we’re based on students scholastic preparation.
Is society better off if we don’t have GATE programs ? Make Lowell High School admissions not competitive?
At the other extreme if the UC Medical School class has 6 kids named Nguyen should they not have been admitted because their culture and family values gave them a head start?

I thought I saw incidental helmet to helmet contact on the play they reviewed near the end of game on whether Rodrigues got a first down around the 16 yard line.
I think they need to split this rule and separate targeting which is an attempt to injure or spearing with the crown of the helmet from helmet to helmet contact. The two have little to do with each other, they’re like a Venn Diagram with a <20% overlap. They slander people with the implication there was a dangerous intent to injure when there was no such thing.

How can the average rank of our opponents be 306? We haven’t played Simon Frazier.

in the case of student admissions, it clear that the goal of additional criteria is to change the student body that would otherwise exist absent those criteria.
They didn’t like the outcome of admitting a greater share of students from well performing school districts, or private or Catholic schools, so they came up with “success in a local context” to favor students who would not otherwise gain admission. When they “look at the whole person” or “overcoming adversity” that is to give room for more subjective decisions that replace better prepared students with more “deserving”. When those tweaks prove insufficient to achieve the desired outcome they dump test scores altogether. Since grade inflation essentially makes high school straight As a mere record of participation there is no objective means to identify the best prepared students. Now UC is just CSU under a different banner and with mostly better architecture.
Similar process is underway for hiring I suspect. Adding criteria as opposed to selecting the candidates based on the most important criteria, with the goal of changing the decision to favor members of preferred groups.

It was a lot to 3 only because when Weber was about to tie it up at 10, the backup QB fell down backing up from center leading to the 92 yard fumble return for a TD
Weber is probably the better of the two teams except for the QB position. Physical as always on defense.

I haven’t followed the band controversy close enough to comment on the merits of the changes. I’ll just say that it was always a point of pride for students in general that the band was a student run organization. Too bad

while talking about ball carriers as a group, not just running backs, can’t leave out CJ Hutton. That guy is great carrying the ball. Surprised we didn’t see more of him after his first possession 20 yard run. We played a lot of two tight end, less of the three wide receivers. Can’t forget about CJ.

That’s now a pattern seen in several games where they have TT run a series, and then come back to HR.. I don’t think it necessarily indicated they changed their plans.