I am tired of marginal targeting calls. I am all about safety where it’s malicious but I think this “targeting focus” causes ref squad to err on the side of calling it rather than not when the evidence is shaky.

The broadcasters are fine but I think I will need to take some seasickness pills for this camerawork.

No hat. Also not much smiling.

In Fantasyland, who cares about the turf because they will be playing in front of 40,000 at Cal Expo momentarily. If they get any games scheduled that is.

Probably a serious question all taxpayers should be asking, all Californians are contributing to his salary. This is unusual for a chief executive to get this involved in any one line item. It kind of makes the athletic director appear irrelevant or incompetent. Wood is in the any publicity is good publicity phase. But eventually he will become a bad publicity albatross. Imagine if the governor decides to seek higher office and this clown makes himself a national distraction, he’ll get a one way ticket on that high speed railroad to nowhere.

what Sagarin may not consider is that Big Sky officiating squads have long offered some sort of extra courtesy to Montana, and consciously or not, are probably less inclined to do any homecooking for Sac. Historically, playing clean is not the Hornet way, and key penalties or spots can have an outsized impact on an otherwise close game.

I’m not invested really because I am not going to go see it. Using music, food, fireworks, etc. to draw out the community- great. The choices here would just not be my approach. It’s kind of like Disneyland and Magic Mountain both draw a crowd, but not the same crowd, and there’s one I’d pick over the other every time.

I had to research a little bit about the 6 artists Sac State booked. None of them are family appropriate and all are basically variations of hip hop, Latin rap, or trap. These acts belong at a spring break nightclub in Ft Lauderdale. Mercer does a game day concert series to drive attendance and it’s mostly country music (fits the broad market in Georgia). These artists won’t draw people to care about Sac State football and don’t seem like “broad appeal” artists to get families out.

certainly unto each their own in their personal life, but probably unwise to mix religion into the locker room at a public university.

The touchdown tower lighting looked good on tv. Looks like they installed a catwalk on top of the tower. Somebody ought to get the OSHA safety guy buttered up with a Cattlemen’s dinner because if they could get Gunrock up there it would make a sick cinematic flyover shot for promotional materials.

if @ Stetson ever happens, that would be about the only tailgate I could host lol.

I seem to remember a story about the Aggie Band intentionally performing their halftime show slow so time ran out for Poly to finish their show. The relationship varied over the years, eventually warming up to joint halftime shows. But up until 2010-ish there was no journey too far and no hour too late to win a battle of the bands. Sad how bad the mismanagement has deteriorated things.

Nice slam from the commentator about the missing UCD Band. You know, the real Aggie Band-UH was always there. Take note, Gary, that the public notices these things.

Wood knows he needs a win soon. I’ve heard faltering support among students and faculty. The politicians like him for now but his loose lips will be a liability come election season. The more I watch this, it’s like Sac State and Cal Expo got drunk on Hennessy one night, hooked up in a port-a-potty on the American River Trail and now are rushing a marriage before the bump starts to show.

It’s not that unusual for theoretically non-profit or public universities to own for-profit businesses, think patent rights marketing or Stanford Shopping Center. But basically Ohio State wants to own a professional sports team as an investment and they’ve decided a professional team branded as Ohio State is the better return than buying a stake in the Cleveland Browns. Buyer (or seller) beware, private equity cares not about your brand. They care about this quarter’s profit and maximum resource extraction, even if it destroys the business. Go ask TGI Fridays, Red Lobster, Southwest Airlines, Buzzfeed, Vice Media, and others. They thought they could find Oz by sniffing the sweet rich taint of PE and they all ended up eating dogsh*t.

If you were building a house, you’d use the design-bid-build process where you hire an architect to design what you want and then find the best/cheapest builder to execute. That’s not what they’re doing here.

They are using the design-build process where one contract manages design and construction simultaneously. Right now they are soliciting a request for qualifications, which basically asks interested contractors to submit a portfolio proving they have the experience needed. At this point they have requirements- how many seats and lockers they want. Maybe some napkin sketches, but not a design. The university is estimating $171m. Ultimately the design-builders aren’t just competing on who can pour concrete for less, they are also competing on who can come up with the most efficient design concept that fulfills the basic requirements. The state posting specifically says no design competition so no points for beauty. Once the low bidder contractor is selected, the university and contractor will jointly bid for an architect of record to actually draw the contractor’s concept.

Sometimes you hit pay dirt on this with a contractor that has done similar projects, and through lessons learned proposes a really efficient great concept. Other times it’s just as bad as it sounds, a low bidder hiring a low bidder and you get something really ugly.

nothing on this whole endeavor has really been meant to make sense.

Bidding process is moving for Cal Expo stadium. Based on document posted, about 5000 seats from the grandstand can be reused and an additional 17,000 “modular” seats are specified in addition to “modular” locker rooms, press box, and artificial turf. Estimated cost $171m. Design-build, no architect yet. Unknown where the money is coming from.

Unrelated or not, Wood’s brother and his multiple fake companies are now pushing a 7500 seat arena in Rancho Cordova for an indoor women’s soccer franchise. No funding source identified but mild speculation it could also be a place for Sac State basketball to end up.

For any concerned about security in Europe, may I recommend Epcot Center. No muggings, just drunk fat women on rented scooters who may run over your foot racing to a midafternoon Wilson Phillips concert. France pavilion is perhaps on point with rude servers who smell like an ashtray. Food is better in Italy. Beer is better in Germany, and Norway is where they hide the eye-candy.

It looks like in the series history 13 of 23 Sac wins were in Sac, so slightly over 0.5. Sac had our number after Sochor retired and during Troy Taylor but otherwise it’s been a lot of Aggies. Historically I’d say Davis brought a lot of fans to Hornet Stadium while Sac fans didn’t travel so well to Davis. But like any rivalry, there are years where who won doesn’t make sense in context of the rest of the season record.