SteaminWillieBeamin

Dude - there was more that showed up to SMU with no excitement heading into the season with a new coach or conference. Look that up. We didn't have nearly the level or showing we did for Houston or Indiana or hell... even TSU.

Wink Wink.

No no - if you look at the poll, I think less than 3 wins in total. Cal was not one of them. But I didn't expect to not get a single victory in the same. "RBs look good!" "Defense got some pressure!" It was zero's across the board. I don't think people expected that TOTAL failure on day one.

You predicted the abject failure on all fronts? I assume that is what people are reacting to - not the actual L. We are used to losing to non-conference teams, even worse ones.

No way 20k is our average. But yes, against a "known" name school for the home opener, with all the supposed press on moving to AAC, new awesome HC, etc, I'd expected way more.

I think there were more people at the first game last year - despite the massive traffic SNAFUs.

There were two of us that were <=3 Maybe people are joining us down there. Misery loves company?

They comp the vast majority of the seats and those are no-shows because ... well... the product.

Barely. For one year on a 7-5 team.

That looked generous too.

His Ted Lasso look?

You're trying to sell that players were flocking to go to Cal with the same HC and staff that was mediocre - versus Sander's cherry picking all the top players from a team he already knew inside and out? That is ridiculous.

I'm sure the AD is going to love that they moved from the seat license model to the double the price single season model in the HUB club. They already where down 15% is sales YoY, now the people that did sign up for this new year can simply not renew without "losing" their seat license fee and having to suffer that sunk cost fallacy.

FWIW - they ran the ball more than pass at WSU. I was wrong. Read the stat sheet incorrrectly.

I watched Ark State get creamed by OU and it reminded me of that Dodge first game and how bad it was. But hey, at least it was against one of the most talented teams in the country. I guess.

This AD hired a coach with 4 years of FCS head coaching experience - with a .500 record. One of those years, his OC and QB were all world and now is playing in the NFL. Then he went to WSU and bored their fandom into a nice slumber with a lackluster offense and crap football. The AD (especially) and some of the fans here were acting like this was an obvious hire and just set for success. We aren't out of this game, but we are pretty close to being blown out. The defense is bad, the offense only has a vertical play and the crowd is sparse. It's not a good look. Edit: All at home and with their backup QB playing.

Come on. Yes, let's blame the MEDIA for the amount of real mass shootings. Murdering someone in public space is pretty mass and does traumatize people that were in hiding for hours and had to be building by building cleared with their hands up and police with guns drawn. This wasn't some killing of the adviser at his house in the suburb that ONE person is calling a mass shooting. I give some freedom with this one, because it did disrupt a campus of 32,000 for a day+.

Our talent is rated just above MWC and SBC averages. Hard to rah rah the AAC talent when we aren't rated up there with AAC.

You can. Just use one that is plastic. 🙂

"Here's my hydroflask pipe bomb." I think it is that type of security measure. Same as using the see through bag.

It doesn't really matter, they make up a number that makes them feel ok about themselves.

Likely for sale at CostCo, but not selling.

Admittedly, I am skimming the article, but is there a price announced? They definitely touted the Apogee dollar amount when it was announced.

What is this "Twitter" you speak of?

No - not worth it at all. I've had the hub club since day 0. Send me a DM if you want to hear about it 🙂