Bryce Young and Kyler Murray are hardly doing "just fine" in the NFL, unless you mean they got drafted highly and got paid. Young is 23rd in QB rating out of 33 qualified QBs. Murray, if he qualified, would be 20th. Dillon Gabriel is 31st. Tua is 26th. I mean, credit to them for making it but their lives would be a lot easier if they were 6'-3".

We've got decades of examples that it is an issue being under 6'-0" if you want to play QB at the NFL level. This is not my narrative. This is how the NFL has operated. Look at the top 10 guys this year in QB rating. Only 1 of them is listed at 6'-1" or shorter and that's Jalen Hurts, who is listed at 6'-1" and is one of the most mobile QBs in the league. All NFL teams care about is what helps them win and they all prefer taller QB's. What does that tell you?

For the last time. that does not mean it's impossible for a 5'-11" QB to make it in the NFL. Drew Brees is a HOFer. Russell Wilson has had a great career. I'm sure there are others. It just makes it a lot harder to be successful if you're 5'-11" as opposed to being 6'-3".

Joe Flacco is 6'-6" and Aaron Rodgers is 6'-2" so I'm not exactly sure what your point is with that list.

Yes, there are QB's at 6'-0" or shorter that play in the NFL. That does not mean it's at all common and you better be really good at other stuff if you're going to succeed at that height.

FBS it's definitely not uncommon. In the NFL it is still pretty uncommon. I mean, a vast majority of NFL QB's are at least 6 ft tall. By definition, that makes those under 6 ft tall uncommon. And while Wilson and Drew Brees have had very good careers, Tua, Young and Gabriel haven't done much yet to convince teams that short QBs are the way to go.

If your point is that Bryce Young made the NFL and got drafted highly (in his case, 1st overall), I've got no counter. But Bryce Young was also the top QB recruit in his class. Pinnick is not that.

There are always exceptions to the rule and that doesn't mean it's realistic for others to do the same.

That being said, I do agree with you on Pinnick taking the money if offered. Unless his family has money, if he's offered significantly more to go to a D1 school, he should probably take it.

We bought tickets last weekend when they went on sale. Didn't expect the game to be moved to 7 p.m. Last year, I believe, was an early afternoon game. Told my daughter, who is 8, that the game got moved to 7 p.m. She asked if she could still go. I said yes and she got excited solely because she immediately knew it meant she could stay up past her normal bed time.

Also, I believe Tennessee Tech was one of the teams people thought should have gotten the 8 seed over us. Not going to overreact to one game against a solid North Dakota team (lost 5 games by a combined 17 points to either FBS or FCS playoff teams), but it's not a good look to lose by 25 at home in the first round.

Nice tank job by Youngstown St.

Mine were available for download roughly 24 hours after (like somebody here mentioned would happen).

For sure that makes it even worse. Was just clarifying that they didn't have the excuse of "oh it was Thanksgiving weekend, the students were gone". That would be more understandable. But you have two weeks to get the word out.

Plus you're coming off the momentum of that massive Montana St game, which yes they lost but people showed up, then you beat your rival, get a bye and then seemingly don't take advantage of it.

It wasn’t even Thanksgiving weekend though. Just like this year, we had a bye the weekend of Thanksgiving. That game was Dec 7 last year.

Man I didn't realize we only drew 6400 for that game last year. That's pathetic.

I think somebody might have mentioned it but rest is huge here. Yes, it kind of sucks that if we win our game, we get NDSt in the QF, as opposed to, say, a 12 or 13 seed where you avoid NDSt and the Montanas until the semis. But even eliminating the fact that we can't lose this upcoming weekend because you can't lose a game you don't even have to play, the fact that our guys get a week to recover while our opponent has to play is massive.

There have been rivalries that have died because teams switched conferences, like Texas-Texas A&M. Though that one renewed last year with Texas moving to the SEC. Kansas-Missouri as well, though they played an out of conference game this year also.

Got it, thanks! When I looked an hour later the seats weren’t available for purchase so I figured that meant the transaction went through. But I wanted to be sure.

How long does it take for the tickets to show up? Ordered them a couple hours ago, got the text and the email, but when I click on the link, it doesn’t show my order or the tickets.

For those that go to games, is the view from the front row okay? I'm tall so I usually like getting aisle seats but there are some front row seats in 124 available. Just wondering how the viewing experience might be from there.

That's a really weird time. But it's also on the UCD website now too.

One thing they mentioned on the AGS forum was that every game was at Noon local time. So I wouldn't be surprised if the times aren't accurate.

I’m sure they’re a solid team and the game, if we play them, won’t be easy. But they only played 1 of the other 4 teams in their conference that had a winning record (we played 3 of the other 4) and they have a loss to a 5-5 Ivy League team.

Massey has us 7th in FCS with the 9th hardest SOS (I’m assuming that doesn’t count the Mercer game either). Rhode Island is 20th with the 79th SOS. Central Conn is the 78th ranked team with the 112th SOS. I guess that’s why they’re playing the 9 seed.

Sagarin (which includes FBS teams) ranks us 19 spots higher and 62 spots higher in SOS.

The only “go go go” Sac will be doing the next couple weeks will be their players go go going into the transfer portal.