Just curious was there anything in the Bee about UC Davis or Sac about the last games? I’m only an epaper person and nothing there, except that a third string Alabama player had a hangnail. Probably out for the season. Pathetic. . . .

Movie, maybe a little picky on the watering thing. I worry about my plant too. But, the Thomas run to my mind was the exceptional play of the game. He has been hobbled with an ankle. I hope 2 weeks off will help. Great game by the Ags! I see a renewed athleticism on our team.

Zythe interesting but sometimes too much can be. . . Well too much and not really all that cool either. Hope we never go down that path.

Yes and the idea was that they could go to on line versions of their papers and do OK. But, they aren’t OK; they’re are terrible because they are attempting to still save money by cutting staff and using poor IT people so their papers are almost useless. The Bee is basically aa AP news outlet. It covers high school football fairly well, but thats it locally. Oh yes, there’s the Bees fetish about “local craft beers” and it does cover the Kings well, but I am simply not interested. The Enterprise covers no national news (which is fine with me) and is OK locally, but its IT is terrible. I can never log in because it wont take my password. You have to call in and get a temporary one. I will not be renewing my subscriptions to either newspaper.

Not that it is really is surprising anymore, but no story in the eBeeversion for either us or Slac. Print?

I watched on PAC 12 TV. Comments were very fair and even some times complementary to UC Davis. They did say at one point that the Stanford D line was significantly bigger than our “typical FCS sized line”. Several were even “NFL size”. Very difficult to run against those guys.

No, it very simple. The image is: We have a person (an Aggie) following a plow horse (Gunrock) plowing a field of wine and then cannabis. Everyone is very happy. Gunrock takes one too many bites of weed and then want s back into the barn and leaves Aggie in the field. The Aggie is dumbfounded as his horse has left him in the middle of the cannabis field. With nothing to eat he tries some of the weed all around him. He then becomes very befuddled and sees visions of an angry Indian through the field of cannabis coming towards him. He panics and runs. The Indian is carrying a tree as a weapon! The Aggie faints. He wakes up to see Chief Lightfoot dancing next to him. Chief says, they got rid of me as an Indian. You get rid of that damn smelly horse and we are good. The Aggie says “never” and the Chief beats the Aggie to a pulp with the tree. Sorry, no good ending here. . . . Stanford 45, Aggies 7. Hope I’m wrong.

Movie, i am actually old enough to remember back when the Stanford Indian mascot would come out under the scoreboard to do a war dance after a Stanford touchdown. His name was Timm Williams, aka Prince Lightfoot, but he was a real Indian. He was In authentic dress. Not the Florida state Seminoles or the Washington Redskin Indians who were/are completely phony Indians. Chief Lightfoot was gone in 1972. My first job (age 15) was to park cars at the Stanford football games (circa 1959-60. Then after the first quarter we were let in to the south end zone free. My whole family were Stanford fans all the way. Now, having had some better education at a “relatively good” university. I have shifted my allegiance totally to my university who has a totally non-Indian horse mascot named “Gunrock”. He was trained to fight Indians, but never fired a shot in anger towards our Nativre American brothers. So now: It’s Gunrock versus the Tree. Who would not pick a great horse over a tree?

So no love?

I was at the Stanford game 13 years ago and my memory of that game has stuck in my mind ever since. It was a ridiculously late afternoon game and hot even for Palo Alto. I parked my car in the “woods of eucalyptus trees” that is Stanford ‘s parking lot in the daylight (later i could hardly find my car when the game was over because it was so pitch dark). Anyway, back to the game. I thought Stanford was going to win. They stopped our running game. Our passing game was off. Then something happened that is what makes people always say “on any given day. . .anything can happen in sports” and they did. We punted to Stanford and the returner muffed the ball on about his 20 yard line and we recovered. The tide and emotion turned and we pulled out a win. Before that game it was also said “we would get crushed”. Well, we didn’t get crushed. Hawk will play the video of that game to the team as a reminder of what can happen “any day” in football and we will see what happens next Saturday (if you go to the game make sure you remember where you parked your car in the Stanford forest!).

I did not know that CTE could come so suddenly so as to kill an active and successful CEO on a hunting trip. He was a great player. Big loss to us all.

What time does the game start Saturday? Maybe i will make it if a late PM game. Get a Gradburger and go!

A big physical, fast, smart player. These gets are very hard to find, but the Hawk seems to get it done. My favorite play is when he goes down the sideline and repeated hand checks the defender (olden days: “stiff arm”) perfectly legal with open hand. Just a great recruit by the Hawk!

Maybe I missed it last year, but the new uniforms are a great improvement; especially the use of the old “CA” helmet logo somewhat modernized. The I love the Gunrock idea, but the logo is just way too complex to be part of a sports uniform in this day and age where simplicity rules the day. Bet that Hawk was in on that change.

The outright pettiness of the sac bee in purposely ignoring the Aggies is beyond rediculous. Its stupid. UC Davis is a huge economic and prestige pressence in sac. No one else is even close. Recently the UC Davis medical Center was rated the 5th best hospital in CA. Was this covered in the bee? No. Only a mere mention several paragraphs into the story. Does sac have anyone or anything thing else anywhere thats 5th best in the state. No. Simply stupid and petty by sac bee.

I only get online version of the bee, but not anything about the Ags victory apparently. Is it the same for the print version. If so, not surprising for the bee. But still strang.

So is it true that we run the “hurry” no huddle offense? I watched some games last year on tv and never noticed a the “no huddle”. I do know that this is a very difficult offense to run consistently but maybe our smart guys can pull if off.

NC what is this about? What is the link to your post? Very strange post.

I absolutely agree with River. Don’t even think about over confidence with this game. SJ will come out in a fury of emotional physicality and aggression. We are the type of team that they have institutionally hated for decades: their so-called “Elites” of California universities: Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, a few other major schools, and now us. Expect a very blue collar, penalty infused game with I hope few injuries. Doss alone will not win this game. Prediction: 21-20 Ags.

I am an old south peninsula guy. SPAL high school league. Cubberley HS (now gone). Most of the best players from all of our SPAL HS teams went to SJSU. I watched many Spartan teams in my HS days as they were always an “underdog” and they used that to motivate their teams and fans. They had great fans. I saw them in the late fifties defeat a very good Stanford football team. Do not underestimate the Spartans in this game. They will come out very intense and very hyped up. They are very big. Physicality may rule the day. If they get the upper hand athletically we will lose this game. I think CA is point on: if they get to grind us down we will not win this game. My RX: a good running game from Thomas. Short passes to Doss/Preece. Slow it down!!!