1. What's it take to get students in the stands these days?
2. Do you see a bump in attendance should the Aggies take on stadium renovations and increase capactiy to say 20,000+ - along with a Mountain West home game schedule? This would take at a minimum 3 to 4 times the student involvement in my opinion to get the stadium marginally full for a game against say Air Force, Wyoming, Hawai'i, Northern Illinois, San Jose State, UNLV, UTEP...New Mexico.

we have to have a big non-student attendance increase since that’s revenue. But, I agree, more students means a better game time atmosphere which, one hopes, rings more paying fans

Ask Darius if anyone had ever list the hidden balls under the three hat game. I contest they win every time because there is a ball (horseshoe?) under all 3 hats!

silent students don't help either. There's nothing a visiting team loves more than a silent student section.

Aggie Pack needs to educate those first years and build the student culture just like the coaches are building the football culture. They will catch the bug the first moment they discover they are impacting the game. Thats when it gets fun!

......I seem to remember for a few years they were doing rallies and teaching/practicing "Aggie Fight" and gameday stuff (It appears that 9/10 Davis 1st years have never been to a college game).
Are they still doing this?

Out for subscribers!

I loved the jersey combos that year. The gray and gold was awesome.

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Dropped on YouTube 7/16/25
Darius Livingston, Winter Walk On, Inspiration and Hype:
https://youtu.be/63wGqbDTQ_E?si=G9Iqz61l5iZxJJRR

Not quite apples to apples but two of our children attended the University of South Carolina and during freshman orientation the cheerleaders and student leaders taught them the fight song, school traditions, and the Sandstorm tradition (Sandstorm plays and everyone waves the towels that are given when you enter the football stadium). The towels are sponsored by local businesses and have the date and opponent on them. We have a bunch of them which are great for dusting the house or detailing the car.

Our youngest son is attending the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and despite not having a football team (basketball, baseball, and soccer are big there) freshman orientation included the school cheers, fight song, etc.

interesting about UNCG. Our son graduated for there a dozen years ago or so and he never once mentioned fight songs, etc. The school was originally a teachers college - and our son was a physics major so do t think he attended any basketball games. Maybe they have focused on that aspect more recently.

As far as UCD, the band-uh was the place where are the fight songs and yells were inculcated. Not sure all of the traditions have carried through after the rebranding of the band.

I hope Darius sticks around for a long time. We really need guys like him around!

Great episode, good work guys.

thanks man.

Trying to get some preseason content out to the people. Coach Bronzan interview taking place tomorrow. Hope to have some BTS stuff for subs.

Bronzan! nice, great guy.

Hard not to love Winston Williams: https://youtu.be/cOPxSlvIcTo?si=RDbq4CnPO3gflgyR

Great work on the interviews with Winston and Rex. This is great content for fans/alums and even recruits who are looking at Davis.

Just so many likeable dudes in this program.

Enjoyed the Bronson and Fibich interviews. Quite a contrast with Gogo TV.

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It's always great for Club Fred to get some love. I miss sitting in the shade, hearing stories, and then taking it to the O'line.

Class of??

Sam Herder is on the POD tonight. Send over any questions and subscribers can join in live at 7 pm. DM for the link.

the guests have been next level recently.

Ask Sam what sticks out for him from all the transfer portal news. Obviously, Sac is grabbing players in mass on the star scale - heard Montana grabbed a QB out of USC - was it NDSU grabbing a 4 star RB from Wisconsin?

Has us at #7 in his pre-season poll he released today: https://herosports.com/fcs-top-25-herder-2025-preseason-ballot-bzbz/

Interesting ranking for Illinois State @ #6

You might ask if he feels the overall quality of FCS has declined. I don’t think this years Davis team would have been ranked #7 in last years FCS preview, but almost every team lost more than they gained in transfers, except for Sac (and to a lesser extent Davis).
The need to rebuild goes for almost everyone. Example Idaho, new head coach, new coordinators, lost 20 transfers to FBS, and yet they are top 10 in some polls.

These are good. Will do our best to ask!

I'd love to hear an in depth preview of the Sac St. SDSU game. Has anything changed for him since his 6/3 and 7/15 previews of those two scools?

Does he have any inside info on Lan and the Patriots?

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