Not discounting your anecdotes on campus but that’s certainly not reflective of the entire university nor is it unusual for institutions with strong academics to have student support even during finals. This all gets back to Plough’s gripe and being expected to do more with less. It should be a priority to have a show with a sponsor rather than a weekly q&a with Dunning and no microphone. It should be a priority to have someone proof the SID releases and correct the obvious mistakes. It should be a priority to have this game plastered across town the last two weeks, including the student ticket options. These are just basic things that are not being done effectively and the people that should be managing these things are running around touting facilities plans that have zero ROI.

I agree with you there. I think advertising for sports games on campus and around town has been really bad (it seems to be improving this season but hasn't seemed as successful this week so far..). The giveaways seem to help too. I think the production of things like press conferences, the problems with tickets, lack of knowledge about the game unless you are on social media constantly (like you could walk through campus and not know football is being played due to lack of football advertising beyond tv's in the coho saying a game is happening) or flyers/posters advertising the SEASON or team itself in any coffee shops, restaurants or stores in town is just a fail year round. Montana and MSU do this and it seems to get the word out around the area (we could start with Davis and try to branch to leverage north valley/north bay support with this). Last years PR stuff around the playoffs was embarrassing and this year is seeming slightly better so far, but I agree if you are going to play with the big boys and try to get on espn and do all the facility stuff these improvements cannot happen without more public interaction. I was home last weekend in the bay and say like 5 sjsu football and cal football ads on streaming platforms and tv.

I think all these facility/conference things are important in tandem, I just dont get why it seems like the energy into these basics has not been as seemingly important to match that of the new exciting building/higher competition stuff.

Davis has plenty of students that would want to help with these sort of things... heck The Aggie Newspaper is in every coffee shop around town and I hear about the concerts on campus (like sunset fest and lawntopia) NONSTOP for weeks before they happen. I dont think its that Davis doesnt have resources or support, it just seems like the "sleeping giant" is still partly under anesthesia.

"I think the 7 pm start will hurt attendance." What about the students? Is finals week coming up. When I was there, rabid dogs wouldn't have kept me away, or even an organic chem final.

Is much done to get the word out in CoHo, Memorial Umion, Quad, main lecture halls?

Rhode Island v. CCSU highlights

https://youtu.be/sm1nPlPfB1g?si=VjZ-eudFVW5RzHee

lol the Rhody fan on AGS with a score prediction of Rhode Island 42 UC Davis 14... Again I'm not saying that it's 100% chance we win or anything like that and wild things can happen, but I have a tough time seeing that result. That they would put a bigger beat down on us at home than Montana State did on the road is kind of funny.

Still a lot of tickets available... :grimace:

agreed, it shouldn’t be hard to have a functional YouTube press conference. Disappointing to hear stadium audio is still an issue. It’s been pushing 20 years and still not solved?