Damion Squire is a 6'0 PG from Montreal, Canada, who has most recently played at the Wasatch Academy in Mt Pleasant, Utah. Wasatch Academy was one of the top prep basketball programs in the country last year.

I think Coach Les saw Chima at combine of JC players in the midwest and saw how much raw athletic talent he had. He seems to be just one of those players that flew under the radar and has really come into his own under Les and his staff. Some players show lots of potential in practice but struggle when the real games start. Chima just exploded onto the Big West scene once he got an opportunity to play.

I've heard good things about PG TJ Shorts who is a JC transfer out of Saddleback College. Another JC transfer from San Jose City College, F Jonah Underwood, had a great year last year at SJCC but how that will translate to the pace of D1 competition is yet to be seen. F AJ John, a D1 transfer from Pepperdine is eligible this year and true freshmen Delvion Jackson from Boise, Gio Nelson from Corona, and Logan Strom from Norfolk, Nebraska are pretty much unknowns at this point. Jackson was heralded as one the the best preps in Idaho and Strom had a lot of D1 offers in the midwest.

It's going to be very interesting to watch this team develop.

Well, as it turns out, my wife and I will be home for the SUU after our misadventure in southern Utah between our car and a poor deer. The repair shop has now told us that they expect the car to be fixed by the 22nd. We want to be home for Thanksgiving and it would be too expensive to stay here for that long so we booked a flight from St George to Sacramento on Friday. Then we will return to St George on the 29th to pick up the car and drive back home. So that means we'll be in the stands on Saturday rooting for the Ags to upset SUU!!

I had forgotten about that. It's going to be important that some of the other Aggies step up and take some pressure off Chima this year. Teams began to double and triple team Chima late last season. He's pretty much the emotional and physical leader of this team and teams are going to be designing there defenses around stopping him. That should create some space for some of the other players and they will need to produce if we are going to make another title run.

I'm still laughing. I think that's the wackiest rant about sports officials I've ever read in my life. It's hard to believe he really believes that stuff...UCD...DUCT....!!! Haha...I think what we really have here is a "drugged up ISU fan" or DUISUF!

Thanks 6th!

My wife and I are in Kanab, Utah, and it looks like we'll be here for a while while our car gets repaired after hitting a deer or we'd be there too. Please post up your thoughts after watching the game.

And more from the poison pen of Ronald Long:

Ronald Long · Idaho State University
"ISU lost defensive lineman JonRyheem Peoples to a targeting penalty after six plays. For all but 1 minute, 36 seconds of the game, the Bengals were without their clogger up the middle."

'We all sat there and wondered what happened. Nobody saw anything but this little crap head ref in the white hat. The whole game went that way. These crap head refs the Big Sky Conference curses us with. Jerks who want to make themselves look important and worthy of their job and really nothing but creepy stinking lice that crawl out from the Big Sky wood pile. The refs in this game were the worst I have ever seen. I was totally disgusted with the miss calls and total chicken shit penalities that crippled ISU."

https://idahostatejournal.com/members/isu-football-bengals-struggle-in-ugly---loss-to/article_50574a4f-d7b4-5a05-bdcc-89219e859f3d.html

Also from the his Facebook page:

Studies at Idaho State University
Studied Creative writing at New Mexico Highlands University
Studied Teacher Education at Idaho State University
Studied English literature at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Maybe he just had a few beers and was just practicing his creative writing!

https://www.facebook.com/ronald.long.984

Oh my God...that's freakin' hilarious...what the hell is in the water in Pocatello??...my side aches from laughing!!!

Sac routs UNC 50-21.

Poly gets their first win of the season 35-28 over PSU in a nail biter.

SUU 47 North Dakota 21 Final

Who knows what the final score really was...59-17 or 56-17 or 59-14 or...???

The final score was 56-17 not 59-17.

That's a huge win for the Ags! Congrats!

The Ags scored 2 goals in the final 22 seconds of regulation to beat CSUN 4-2 and advance to the BW Championship Game next week.

Solid play on both sides of the ball for the Aggies in this one. I think the Ags will be sky high for SUU next week. Wish I could be there but it looks like I'll be watching Kanab, Utah, or somewhere nearby.

Thanks for the well wishes.

The sheriff said they have had about 300 deer accidents in the county so far this year. He said most crashes happen when people try to swerve to avoid hitting the deer and said it's just better to hit them than swerve...yikes! He said the deer often will see their shadow when a car is coming and get spooked by the shadow so they try to flee from it and then jump into the roadway. He told us when that happens there's nothing you can do since they will jump out of the brush right into the road.

There was an official sheriff's truck at the repair shop that had terrible damage to the front end from hitting a deer. It's amazing how much damage that hitting a deer can cause!

My wife and I will be watching the Ags online from Kanab, Utah.

We've have an unexpected turn of events that is going to prevent us from being home in time for the SUU game though. We hit a deer yesterday morning before sunrise on our way to Bryce Canyon NP. A big doe jumped in front of us and I didn't even have time to hit the brakes at 55 mph. Our SUV suffered major front end damage and the radiator got shoved into the engine block. Luckily, we didn't crash..not so lucky for the poor deer though.

So we were on the side of the road somewhere between the small Mormon towns of Cannonville and Tropic with no cell reception. After about 2 hours a sheriff came by and, eventually, we got towed 2+ hours to St George, Utah, where the repair shop said it may take at least 2 weeks for repairs.

And now the kicker: there were no cars available to rent in the entire town of St George. So we had to get a cheap room for the night...one of those places that has a sign in the bathroom that says, "we charge for missing linens." Of course, we arrived in our dirty hiking clothes and our day packs looking like a couple of vagrants so we fit right in.

The only option for us to get a car was to take a shuttle to Vegas to rent a car and then drive 300 miles back to our rental house which is located in a remote canyon between Escalante and Boulder, Utah. We finally got back at 8 pm last night.

We leave this morning for Kanab and will be staying much longer than planned and will miss the SUU game...dang it! Oh well, nothing to do but roll with it and Zion NP is just down the road so we'll be hiking a lot in this incredibly area.

Go Ags!!

The latest Massey Rankings has the Ags ranked #41 in Massey Rankings out of 124 FCS teams. The Massey Rankings are made up from a composite of 33 ranking sources. The following are the rankings for the Big Sky teams:

#8 NAU 6-2
#12 SUU 6-2
#13 Weber State 6-2
#17 EWU 5-3
#29 Montana 5-3
#37 MSU 4-4
#41 UCD 4-4
#42 Sac State 4-4
#61 North Dakota 3-6
#64 Idaho State 4-5
#74 Northern Colorado 2-5
#86 Cal Poly 0-8
#105 PSU 0-8

https://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare1aa.htm