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by swordsman1989
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Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Ted Kaczynski outta Toledo
Replies: 47
Views: 3145

Re: Ted Kaczynski outta Toledo

valleyaggie21 wrote:
Yesterday, 11:06 am
Patches O'Houlihan
Our team will be masters of dodging wrenches.
by swordsman1989
2 minutes ago
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Ted Kaczynski outta Toledo
Replies: 47
Views: 3145

Re: Ted Kaczynski outta Toledo

aggies22 wrote:
Yesterday, 6:56 am
Hoot wrote:
Yesterday, 6:47 am
Tom Kazansky should also be available.
Iceman.
You guys are dangerous.
by swordsman1989
March 14th, 2024, 5:54 am
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: NIL Wild West is official
Replies: 38
Views: 1773

Re: NIL Wild West is official

Nothing about NIL is good. Just do away with college sports. :(, shocker, greed is taking over. Yeah it really sucks that universities can't take complete advantage of kids anymore. Sure, the other 30,000 students at USU can transfer whenever they want to whatever school they want, but it really su...
by swordsman1989
March 7th, 2024, 2:35 am
Forum: Big Blue's House (General Sports Talk)
Topic: Dartmouth MBB Players Now Unionized Employees
Replies: 8
Views: 428

Re: Dartmouth MBB Players Now Unionized Employees

flying_scotsman2.0 wrote:
March 5th, 2024, 12:46 pm
ViAggie wrote:
March 5th, 2024, 12:39 pm
college sports used to be fun.
Dunno if that was every true at Dartmouth. Maybe in rowing or something pretentious like that.
Dartmouth hockey games are a lot of fun. Went to a ton of those when I was growing up. Actually enjoyed the football games too.
by swordsman1989
February 3rd, 2024, 6:32 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Al Lapuaho found a landing spot
Replies: 12
Views: 1404

Re: Al Lapuaho found a landing spot

Anyone else notice the plethora of offers that Iowa State has dolled out to Utah kids recently? I can’t seem to find a coaching tie to the state but they are certainly making a big push. I saw that, and I don't get it either. It's like Iowa State just decided to dive into Utah. Ummm maybe suddenly ...
by swordsman1989
December 12th, 2023, 7:08 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: NIL Momentum
Replies: 25
Views: 2961

Re: NIL Momentum

Students paying athletics fees is not a new thing. No. But now they are paying professional athletes. Students and taxpayers are subsidizing professional athletes in a money losing endeavor. Many students are being forced to take on additional debt to cover that subsidy. Sorry, I am not okay with t...
by swordsman1989
December 12th, 2023, 6:19 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: NIL Momentum
Replies: 25
Views: 2961

Re: NIL Momentum

Students paying athletics fees is not a new thing. No. But now they are paying professional athletes. Students and taxpayers are subsidizing professional athletes in a money losing endeavor. Many students are being forced to take on additional debt to cover that subsidy. Sorry, I am not okay with t...
by swordsman1989
December 10th, 2023, 4:34 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: NIL Momentum
Replies: 25
Views: 2961

Re: NIL Momentum

What do you think most of our college athletes have grown up in? Are you talking about the ones on full ride athletic scholarships that have their tuition, books, housing, and meals paid for, tutors, and their own computer labs and study halls? But… but…but…the student athletes don’t have spending ...
by swordsman1989
December 6th, 2023, 3:51 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Blake Anderson Critics
Replies: 67
Views: 4609

Re: Blake Anderson Critics

NVAggie wrote:
December 6th, 2023, 12:00 pm
I never saw a 7-win season from USU until 2011. The time previous to that was 1979. I am very pleased that six wins is the floor for our program.
We got 7 wins in 1993, the Las Vegas Bowl season and the 58-56 win over BYU.
by swordsman1989
December 6th, 2023, 11:51 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Blake Anderson Critics
Replies: 67
Views: 4609

Re: Blake Anderson Critics

Should 6-6 be the minimum expectation for us as fans? Regardless of bowl game outcome. For those of us who suffered through the ‘80s, ‘90s, and ‘00s, 6-6 as a floor seems entirely reasonable. Glad we are to a point where we question whether or not we want to accept it. There were decades where we w...
by swordsman1989
November 30th, 2023, 9:47 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Colorado cast-offs- USU mentioned as potential landing spot
Replies: 9
Views: 1193

Colorado cast-offs- USU mentioned as potential landing spot

An article about the Colorado players who got the boot from Sanders after spring ball last year. The main focus of the article, an OL named Luke Eckardt, is supposedly drawing interest from USU after spending this season at Iowa Western CC. https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-colorado-players-were-tol...
by swordsman1989
November 30th, 2023, 5:46 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Bowl eligibility
Replies: 12
Views: 1307

Re: Bowl eligibility

Prior to our Sun Belt affiliation in ‘03 and ‘04, we had a connection with Arkansas State and Louisiana Lafayette (Formerly SW Louisiana) from their 1993-1995 affiliate status in the Big West. Louisiana Tech and Northern Illinois were also a part of that Big West affiliation.
by swordsman1989
November 29th, 2023, 7:02 pm
Forum: Big Blue's House (General Sports Talk)
Topic: RIP Mary Cleave - Aggie Astronaut
Replies: 1
Views: 528

RIP Mary Cleave - Aggie Astronaut

Astronaut and fellow Utah State Aggie Mary Cleave has passed away. Cleave was selected as an astronaut in 1980 after earning her PhD from Utah State and spending nine years working at the Utah Water Research Laboratory at USU. Cleave was the commencement speaker when I graduated from Utah State in 1...
by swordsman1989
November 24th, 2023, 12:54 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Going bowling with a win?
Replies: 23
Views: 1385

Re: Going bowling with a win?

Given the number of bowl games, and that every year it seems like one or two officially non-eligible teams sneak in due to not enough teams qualifying, I would say the odds are overwhelming that we go bowling with a win.
by swordsman1989
November 17th, 2023, 5:11 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Angie Machado: A Merger with the MWC is the Worst for OSU
Replies: 67
Views: 4675

Re: Angie Machado: A Merger with the MWC is the Worst for OSU

Why the dismissal of USU? Outside of 2016, USU has been at its worst a mid level MWC program. By all important metrics, W/L record, bowl appearances, BB records, USU is in the upper half of the MWC. In the most important metric of all, revenue generated for the conference, USU ranked fourth since jo...
by swordsman1989
November 12th, 2023, 2:44 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: 5-5 with 2 games left
Replies: 33
Views: 2414

Re: 5-5 with 2 games left

We are like 2-30 all time against Boise. All of our losses are basically blow outs. I would love a win but unless they (I can't express myself without swearing) the bed it won’t happen. I guess I need to make a trip to Logan next week. Both times I have seen Boise play USU in person, USU won (1997 ...
by swordsman1989
November 1st, 2023, 10:30 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Illegal Recruitment?
Replies: 108
Views: 8089

Re: Illegal Recruitment?

Honestly, I have very limited interest in supporting an athletic department in the current environment, especially a very high budget money losing football program. As long as the Aggies are fielding a team, I will cheer for them. But college sports is ruined, and I have zero interest in investing m...
by swordsman1989
October 31st, 2023, 1:00 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: 30 years ago today…
Replies: 32
Views: 1940

Re: 30 years ago today…

Has Utah State ever had good corners? Off the top of my head: Nevin Lawson, Will Davis, Curtis Marsh, Tay Glover-Wright, Chris Randle, and Jalen Davis were all NFL guys. Randle had a great CFL career. Terrance Alston was pretty good as a senior but he didn’t go pro. Although he’s a traitor, Jamarcu...
by swordsman1989
October 31st, 2023, 12:01 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: 30 years ago today…
Replies: 32
Views: 1940

Re: 30 years ago today…

I was there, near the top of the student section. My first year back at USU after my freshman year in ‘89-‘90 (so I was also at the water bomb game in the Spectrum against UNLV). What a fun and stressful game. Unfortunately I was too far up in the student section to make it down to the field before ...
by swordsman1989
October 30th, 2023, 12:13 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Question for those who can remember the Dennehy years
Replies: 31
Views: 1729

Re: Question for those who can remember the Dennehy years

hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
October 28th, 2023, 3:00 pm
I don't think Dennehy remembers the Dennehy years.
I don’t even think he really figured out where he was coaching. Remember in his press conference he mentioned how excited he was to be coaching at the University of Utah.
by swordsman1989
October 18th, 2023, 1:04 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: NIL Strategy
Replies: 41
Views: 2409

Re: NIL Strategy

How does an NIL collective work? Is is basically paying the kids a salary from a fund? I assume the NIL deal is basically the school paying the player to license their name and image in promotional deals? How much NIL money does a football player at USU bring in versus a player at a schools like Geo...
by swordsman1989
October 9th, 2023, 6:03 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: My wild theory about the 1st quarter
Replies: 14
Views: 1304

Re: My wild theory about the 1st quarter

If we could put together 4 quarters of football we would be 5-1at worst. Really is a bummer. If Blake can get this issue figured out in the next game or two I'll cease and desist from bashing him. I hope he can. If games were only from the second quarter on, we'd be 6-0 and one of the most dominant...
by swordsman1989
October 2nd, 2023, 9:13 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Air Force / SDSU game
Replies: 17
Views: 1319

Re: Air Force / SDSU game

Wait, how did San Diego State lose?! I thought they were so good that they they were just waiting out bidding war between the Big Ten and SEC?
by swordsman1989
October 2nd, 2023, 9:09 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: USU staff on UConn sideline?
Replies: 9
Views: 1376

Re: USU staff on UConn sideline?

Game ball guy makes sense. I seem to recall from back when I was working on the field in the late 1990s that the game ball guys did not wear team branded gear on the opposing sidelines.
by swordsman1989
October 1st, 2023, 7:42 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Late hit
Replies: 17
Views: 1783

Re: Late hit

They should certainly be able to review noncalls for targeting or unnecessary roughness when a player gets injured but the refs missed the hit. I don't know about ejecting a guy just because they hit a guy that got injured, even if the hit resulted in a penalty. That seems like a slippery slope. Th...
by swordsman1989
October 1st, 2023, 7:39 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: USU staff on UConn sideline?
Replies: 9
Views: 1376

USU staff on UConn sideline?

Just watching the replay of Larsen's blocked kick and in the immediate aftermath (literally 4 seconds after the whistle blew), and still with 40 seconds left and before the onside kick, CBS shows UConn coach Jim Mora, and immediately in front of him is a guy in a USU hat. Why is there a USU guy on t...
by swordsman1989
September 30th, 2023, 1:58 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: IKE!
Replies: 35
Views: 2909

Re: IKE!

Saved our bacon for sure. What a play. It shouldn't have come down to that however. Blake took his foot off the gas two drives too early. Yeah, I agree. Tuned in for the last part of the fourth quarter. The minute USU got the ball with a TD lead and inside the 50 yard line, I was thinking to myself...
by swordsman1989
September 30th, 2023, 1:53 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Done with this team
Replies: 43
Views: 3065

Re: Done with this team

newhouse9 wrote:
September 30th, 2023, 10:56 am
I’m just glad I’m heading up to Vermont to enjoy some time with my wife after this game.

And here’s hoping we wake the crud up. Holy moly.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
What part of Vermont?
by swordsman1989
September 10th, 2023, 8:06 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Game didn’t last three hours
Replies: 29
Views: 1734

Re: Game didn’t last three hours

I am more than happy about the rule change. Way too much clock stoppage and down time in college football as it is. Would love to see a rule that limits replay reviews to 1 minute or less, and only reviewable for scores, turnovers, or targeting. Other than that, let the call on the field stand. If r...
by swordsman1989
September 10th, 2023, 7:24 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: 1 box score, 4 no ways!!
Replies: 28
Views: 2071

Re: 1 box score, 4 no ways!!

One box score that could rival that would be the time San Jose State got shutout by Hawaii while going all day without punting. I watched a Boston Red Sox game about 30 years ago where the Sox lost 4-0. The Red Sox starting pitcher pitched the complete game without allowing a hit. But because the R...
by swordsman1989
September 10th, 2023, 4:45 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Big Sky getting better or MWC getting worse?
Replies: 5
Views: 834

Re: Big Sky getting better or MWC getting worse?

LarryTheAggie wrote:
September 9th, 2023, 10:47 pm
Eastern Washington has a history of beating FBS schools. Beat a mike Leach WSU team a few years back and that wsu team ended up pretty good.
Eastern Washington left Logan with a victory back when I was at USU.
by swordsman1989
September 9th, 2023, 9:37 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: The Bangles Edition:
Replies: 14
Views: 1061

Re: The Bangles Edition:

"...you are such an idiot. You're the worst assistant ever, and you're disgusting Dwigt" - Agent Michael Scarn.
by swordsman1989
September 8th, 2023, 4:14 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: OSU / WSU Suing PAC
Replies: 30
Views: 2595

Re: OSU / WSU Suing PAC

Certainly not a legal expert, but it looks to me that both bylaws and precedent favor OSU/WSU. I know labor law is different, but I have seen in labor disputes in my industry that precedent or historical trends can supersede labor contractual agreements (i.e. if the contract says one thing, but one ...
by swordsman1989
September 7th, 2023, 3:52 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: WSU/OSU/SDSU working to rebuild PAC without USU
Replies: 134
Views: 11768

Re: WSU/OSU/SDSU working to rebuild PAC without USU

I like the regional conference, peer institutions, many of them land-grant schools together in a conference. Of course, NIL would still be in play but it is closer to level when you look at the cities that the schools are in. I was talking with some kids on Monday how long they think Utah and BYU w...