I'm going to try and keep updated from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Will be hiking this morning...44 degrees and windy...hope we stay dry! Post up often and Go Ags!

Nice find. Rening had 17 carries for 305 yards in that game...wow...

Was that definitely classified as a tornado? It looked very unorganized without much circular rotation. It looked more like a big dust devil to me...

I found this over on the Big West Basketball Boards Forum:

Blue Ribbon, the most in depth publication out there regarding Big West basketball, released it's PDF version this week. Here's how they see the conference shaping up:

1. Santa Barbara
2. Irvine
3. Northridge
4. Hawai'i
5. Fullerton
6. Long Beach
7. Riverside
8. Davis
9. Cal Poly

All Conference Team: Sow, Diane, Leonard, Heidegger, and Gomez. POY: Diane. NOY: Kamga
Top 3 Backcourts: Santa Barbara, Northridge, and Irvine
Top 3 Frontcourts: Northridge, Irvine, and Santa Barbara

Definitely a clear cut top 3 in the league with a battle for the rest of the slots. Even Cal Poly who is a consensus last place pick has some decent talent coming in. Jamal Smith (3.3 ppg. 2.4 rpg at Fullerton), Nolan Taylor (8.9 ppg, 4.0 rpg at Pepperdine), Keith Smith (7.1 ppg, 3.1 apg at VMI), and Malek Harwell (2.2 ppg, 0.7 rpg at Boise St) all are coming in with D1 experience. Smith and Harwell are grad transfers.

Dropped to #14 in the AGS Poll:

Rank Team: Total Points First Place Votes

1 North Dakota State Bison 2210 80
2 James Madison Dukes 2119 6
3 South Dakota State Jackrabbits 2049 3
4 Weber State Wildcats 1860
5 Villanova Wildcats 1839
6 Montana State Bobcats 1658
7 Montana Grizzlies 1591
8 Furman Paladins 1445
9 Central Arkansas Bears 1305
10 Towson Tigers 1292
11 Illinois State Redbirds 1283
12 Northern Iowa Panthers 1261
13 Kennesaw State Owls 1240
14 UC Davis Aggies 1142
15 Youngstown State Penguins 972
16 Southeastern Louisiana Lions 960
17 Nicholls State Colonels 779
18 North Carolina A&T Aggies 706
19 Maine Black Bears 492
20 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens 453
21 Stony Brook Seawolves 439
22 Princeton Tigers 349
23 Eastern Washington Eagles 205
24 Austin Peay Governors 184
25 Elon Phoenix 132

My thoughts exactly. Right now I have many more doubts than confidence in the ability of this team so far. It appears that we have fallen off quite a bit from last year and I'm not sure why since we returned a lot of talent.

Very true.

I wouldn't be surprised to see us drop out of the Top 10 in the FCS polls. I'm hoping that this was just an all-around bad day for the Aggies and a very good day for the Griz. I'm worried, though, Montana exposed a lot of cracks in our armor.

Hawk was creative in describing why we got beat: "out-played, out-executed, out-energied, out-desired and out-everthinged." Saying that this would be "a good lesson" for the team is about the only thing he could find to say that wasn't completely negative.

Time to put this game behind us, regroup and see if they can begin to turn things around at North Dakota.

Official attendance: 10,011

It's going to be really tough. We have some glaring weaknesses at the moment:

1) We have not be able to rush the ball consistently and effectively
2) We have not been able to protect Maier and give him time
3) We have not been able to establish a good pass rush
4) We have not been able establish a deep pass threat

Northern Colorado 27 Idaho 24
Idaho State 51 Portland State 24
EWU 35 North Dakota 20
MSU 49 NAU 31

The students might have been louder if they had something to cheer about. This was a total beatdown by the Griz. We were never really in the game. Honestly, I think we were outplayed and out-coached today. To play this poorly with a good crowd and lots of students is extremely disappointing to say the least.

Unfortunately, you can say goodbye to most of the students for the next home game after what they saw today. We may have been ranked #4 or 5 going into this game but we didn't even play like a team that should be in the top 20. We will drop like a stone in the rankings and deservedly so after getting dominated like this.

The Griz have absolutely dismantled the Aggies...

Ags are getting their butts kicked in front of a big crowd...wow...what a bummer

Every frickin' week something is messed up with the video stream....

Capacity crowd?

How big is the crowd?

I just tuned in from Nova Scotia...good grief...