It would be a challenge and I think he would do as well as any potential hire. It would be a bit weird being a Cal grad coaching Stanford, but opportunities like this don’t come around every day.

I am pretty sure there was a good reason for Crump not taking the field. Hawkins and Davis have gone more to playing younger impact players vs the old days in which there was more of a “wait your turn” system. And transfers were pretty much unheard of.

There are reasons players transfer and one of them is not playing where they were. SJSU is not Alabama (for that matter neither is Arizona) so just because they transfer from a FBS school doesn’t automatically mean they are going to play much. Smalley was a transfer who got quite a bit of playing time (and of course Castles). So if you are a transfer and fit into the culture/system and have the talent and level of performance - I gotta believe you will play.

I second the Montana thumping. Watching the game - their players absolutely refuse to help an opposing player up. SEMOs qb would get sacked then raise his hand and Montana players would refuse any assistance. But what would one expect from a Hauck-coached team.

Richmond is good, but Elon looked pretty pedestrian yesterday so I don’t give a lot of credit to only losing to them in OT. I think Sac is definitely favored but should be a good game. I think William and Mary is the class of CAA this year.

just like their coach .
I think RTD should stand for “return to dormancy” rather than “return to dominance”.

Touchdown SEMO. Go RedHawks!

TD Idaho. Their problem is stopping SELA. I guarantee you the Aggies would not have given up 45 against SELA.

McCoy threw real bad telegraphed pick. Second of game. Just threw third.

Bailed by roughing passer.

Idaho SELA turning into a thriller. 31-28 SELA after kickoff return for TD for Idaho to get back into game. 14:00 to go in 4th.

LOL. ….. brain part that is.

I did said push student attendance. But the fact is still it’s a hard push in Northern California. Cal and Stanford attendance is abysmal. It’ll never be like Montana or Montana State but maybe an average of 12,000 (however that is measured) is attainable.

Sands breathes sigh of relief. No more sports center fame.

Set up for a sands rocket snap over head of punter for losing TD?

Don’t look know but UND pulls to within 7 of Weber. About 3:30 left.

football is just not on the culture for students and most alums. Even when the stadium is full it seems as if the students are just there socially and not serious about the game. It is a sort of of a west coast thing. Think reasonable expectations are to push student attendance since they are already on campus. Alums and others are going to be spread out and I suspect not many are coming beyond a 1 - 1.5 hour drive. The city of Davis is not exactly a sports hot bed. Winning is obviously important with a tepid fam base.

Noticeable is how many HBCUs are in the top of the attendance ranking. It is more of a family and alum thing with all the attendant social functions and bands.

Furman goes on. From what I watched Elon looked impotent. The only offense they could seem to muster was their QB scrambling. Elon’s QB is Matt McKay ex. Montana St. ex. NC State QB.

Delaware crushes St. Francis (Delaware didn’t deserve such an easy opponent (Northeastern conference is very weak and always 1 and done)

Davidson crushed (another non-starter auto-bid in playoffs)

Fordham out of Patriot League has 0 defense - kept it numerically close against New Hampshire with offense. New Hampshire gets another Patriot League team in Holy Cross next week.

Weber dominating North Dakota - another team I don’t think deserved getting into playoffs.

Man, it is hard watching these games with teams obviously inferior to UCD.

correct. And it didn’t help SEMO that they averaged less than 4,000 a game in attendance. Happy Thanksgiving all.

I don’t know how committee members (at least some) could keep a straight face with the reverse engineered argument to get Montana in the playoff. I am convinced that Montana was selected prior to their game against MSU and no matter how badly they were embarrassed it would not have made a difference. I honestly think the committee is lazy and doesn’t want to do objective analysis. I actually am ok with the Aggies not getting in - it’s just the double standard given to Montana.

We have some promising young players who took huge strides this year, encouraged by guys like Budgett, Larison, Rex Connors (a RFr.), Hastings, Venable, Kraft, Tompkins, Hutton, Buchanan, Poerio, Eaton, Sarale, Ford, Toki, Davis, Thorpe, Castles, Kennedy and Perez coming back.

Biggest holes to fill are Left Tackle, Center, Place Kicker and Cornerback... my opinion. Center, less so, because when Pettek went down I don't think Davis lost much of a beat offensively, the backup did well.

The punting this year was not good. I know it’s hard to fill whelan’s shoes, but the punters were switched back and forth trying to find someone with consistency. I don’t think it resulted in dire consequences, but for example, the last punt against Sac State that only went to the 50 wasn’t good and most punts turned out better simply because they were too short to field and rolled.

I would add Gale as a potential impact player. I wonder if the coaches have considered moving him to wide receiver. We did not have a big wide out to throw to. He is fast (outruns DBs) and with the bigger Castles and Thorpe at TE, why not move him to wide out? Kraft has been around a while, but injured a lot. He was listed this year as a junior - so not “young”. I thought he looked good in Bozeman. Poerio is also a junior this year.

My thoughts exactly B&G. I too have many other interests, but I still want the Aggies to win - I would think Hawk would say excellence in whatever you do - academics or athletics. I love college football (don’t even follow pro sports anymore) due to the overall experience. Of course the Montanas and Montana States will always have a more fervent following - only teams in state, plus California is much more reserved in terms of following college football. Stanford is sort of like a mausoleum.

Re: Sac. I don’t think Taylor will take the Cal OC position - he is head coaching material. Only thing left to prove at Sac is either a NC or a deep playoff run, then I think he’s out of there at first good opportunity. Catch is that FBS fires their coaches early so he almost has to jump ship at mid season for timing. I am pretty sure Sac will cool off after he is gone.

LOL!