In the zoom call I ‘attended’, I thought I heard Les say something about the NLI period which kicked off last Wednesday was extended to August. Not sure what that meant. Maybe just that signing will be coming more slowly this year. I don’t follow it outside of Davis, so I’m not sure if there has been a dearth of announcements.

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By the way, there is a picnic weekend sale at the online bookstore. 30% off, free shipping on order over $75. I picked up a couple things with the new logo. There’s some steals on shirts with limited sizes (under $10)

that’s a good way to do it; wish I would have thought of that!

I suspect the Challanges are fulfilled even if the required donor number isn’t met.

Think how much we’ll appreciate Picnic Day next year!

I suspect the numbers will be significantly down ; lots of distractions. Of course, football numbers have never been that great in the past. Besides football there are emergency funds for students and student-athletes.

I was on a zoom conference call that included Les. Sounds like we’ll hear another signing this week. I don’t think he was referring to Hoglund, but we’ll see

Sorry about that

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scholarships and salaries are a big expenditure and those are still there. For the big conferences like the SEC and Big 10 that have huge TV money, the hit might be milder (unless the networks have some bail out clause) but for everyone else this is already a big hit.

The tailgate and run sounds like Brewfest!

it is a dump. Last season they blocked off the entire side of the stadium on the press box side in preparation for work on an athletics performance center, so things must have been a little cozier. Capacity went from 30k to 21k. Articles say an ‘unspecified number of seats’ will be restored when project is complete in (original plan) 2023.

the Bay Area reports tend to be long term speculation. With the big Sky covering so many states, two hit hard,a couple seeming to ignore it, it will be interesting to see how they deal with things. I suspect it will be determined by the NCAA

Williams was before my time so only saw him on highlight reels. Big and strong, don’t know about his speed. Merrill was a very powerful guy, had the bull rush. Rick Mohr was similar.

I didn’t see Robby Flannery ( my off the radar period) but he’s a hall of famer.

Glenn Fricker is still the career and single season record holder. That was 84! Tom Williams was probably before sacks were official but he was really good. Mason Moe was a disruptive player.

Shows how the game is evolving. 6’11’ kid with touch and nice feet, and no offers from even a top mid-major. Granted the ACL Is a scare, but the post player is a not a big part of today’s game.

Sorry to hear Harris is leaving. Good size and he was a JC scorer. Wish him well

I didnt say sugarcoat or ignore, put it in off topics or write specifics about how it is effecting a sport (like how giving an entire football program another year of eligibility will effect the next 4 recruiting cycles).

If there is news of new recruits, it would be nice to see it in this thread. If there is a COVID thread I’ll chose to look there or not.

Since I’m suffering corona overload, how about moving virus talk to off topics. Maybe we get get sports talk as a distraction. They have a best basketball moments final four on MBB Instagram. Maybe we can start a ‘favorite Aggie stadium’ thread as a healthy distraction? And a ‘favorite Les-era’ memory in MBB ? I’ll start tomorrow

I read an article that universities are planning for a delayed football start. All speculation at this point, of course, Just focus on the day to day, and what we can control

I still would be surprised if BB players got an extra season. How about Poly? Their season was over since they didn’t qualify for the BW tourney? Spring sports are much different - we weren’t too close to conference play. Lots of moving parts here, not the least the lost cash inflow that schools budget in.

we may have been the only school in the nation that got in their spring football. some schools got a couple practices in, most got none. in the grand scheme of things, that's a minor thing....but.....we'd have been going into fall without having those workouts to figure out the new QB. hope all the kids can do some training and rehab on their own.

i cant imagine they would extend basketball eligiblity since they all played a full regular season. true, 64 teams didnt get to play for the championship and a bunch more didn't get to play in the other post-season events, but they were able to play in 30+ games. the sports that just started, like baseball and softball, are a different story.

there's gonna be a cost to the schools to deal with the extra scholarships. in addition, the NCAA is kicked back WAY less to the schools (down from $600M to $225M), which will impact all sports.