Gomez has shown he has a leg for distance but his accuracy has been off. Might be more mental than physical.

Officially 8822...nearly 6000 less than the San Diego game...

Yep...EWU travels to Gainesville. Hurricane Ian is passing through the area on Thursday. I wonder how this may affect their travel?

Anyone take a tour of the new athletics facility before the game?

Scott Gordon has been doing the commentary alongside Scott Marsh and he's extremely knowledgeable about the game...truly outstanding...the best we've ever had here. He's a former Aggie golfer..

I couldn't have said it better myself...excellent summary.

The most disappointing thing for me, aside from the tough loss, was the low attendance of only 8822 which nearly 6000 less than last week even though we were playing a highly regarded and ranked opponent. That tells me the students probably won't be showing up in any sizeable numbers and that the general public attendance appears low as well. That may change if we start winning and have a chance to be in the playoffs but I'm not optimistic that we're going to come anywhere close to last year's average of 10,422 a game.

I really have no idea. He's having great success at Sac and has deep roots in the Sacramento area. Big money at a big program is nice but it comes with a lot potential negatives including pretty much having no time left for family and enjoying life outside of football. I think he will be happy to stay at Sac and try to win a national championship for the time being.

Sac may well be the best team in the conference. What Troy Taylor has done with the Hornets in just a couple of years is nothing short of remarkable. He has certainly established himself and one of the best coaches and recruiter in the Big Sky Conference. I can't remember any coach in the conference that has been so successful in such a short period of time.

Here are a few quotes from the Bob Dunning article in today's Enterprise:

“I hope we do all hurt, because that means we care,” said Aggie head coach Dan Hawkins afterward."

“We were in it, and we did some good things against a great football team, but the margin of error is small. We need to give Weber State credit and not hang our heads.”

Noted Weber State head coach Jay Hill, “It’s hard to go on the road against a very, very good football team and come away with a win. Our defense did bend, but it didn’t break. I told the Davis quarterback that’s about as good of a performance anyone has ever given against us.”

Dunning noted that we had 25 first downs, had more total yardage 417 to 356 and won the TO battle 3-0. However, he didn't say anything about how we were only 2-5 on FG's and he didn't mention the controversial decision by Hawkins to try a FG from the one yard line on the last play of the first half. That we continue to struggle with our kicking game is simply a statistical fact. Aggie fans would like to know about Hawkins' uncharacteristically conservative decision and that's completely missing in the article.

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/football-aggies-drop-heartbreaking-conference-game-to-wildcats/

I thought that the replay showed that the FG from the 1 yard line was not tipped, it was just shanked low and wobbly.

Hawk's decision not to go for the TD from the one yard line on the last play of the first half shocked me especially with the terrible time we've had making FG's. He also sent a message to his offense that he didn't have the confidence in them to make one yard. This was not a good game from a coaching perspective.

The official attendance was only 8822 tonight. The attendance will be even less for the next home game if we lose at Montana State next week and come home with a 1-4 record.

Hawk usually plays to win and goes for it especially when the offense needs an emotional boost but he went conservative in this game and it cost us. We had every opportunity to win this game but Hawk's conservative choices, poor FG kicking and punting and an overthrown ball on a sure TD to Gilliam did us in.

That last pass didn't even give our receiver a chance to make a play on the ball...air mailed again...

Wouldn't help when the offense can't execute.

Terrible throw by Hastings...that was an easy TD for Gilliam...all Hastings had to do was softly get the ball to him.

Hawkins, the notorious riverboat gambler who often says you can't beat good teams kicking FG's instead of going for it, decides to kick 5 FG's with a kicker who is only making 33%. He also sent his offense the message that we can't get one yard. Why go so conservative now?

Hawk needs to give another QB a chance...we're dead in the water on offense.

Agree...I didn't think we looked that good against San Diego. San Diego got beat today by Valpariso so our win doesn't mean that much.