[82lsju]

Next year they don’t play UA and Colorado again, bottom feeders with Stanford and Cal. So that’s two losses almost guaranteed to Utah and ASU, teams with far better athletes. At Oregon, UCLA, Domers, three teams with far better athletes. That’s five probable defeats right there.

I gave up on tickets after 65 years of attending albeit with decades of comps and seven years of making films for the AD. I will give up watching them on TV if they play another season of boring football in 2022. Cactus Jack usually lost but the team was never boring. Chuck Taylor’s teams (except for UCLA scoring 72 in ‘54) gave value for the buck. Stanford 2021 is sleep inducing. MSU/Michigan was electrifying and I didn’t have to spend a dime watching it.

I'm willing to pencil in a win Labor Day weekend vs Colgate......

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Sadly, the lack of attendance is a big factor in why this is the low point of the Shaw era.

I fully believe the team can get to five wins, and maybe that is enough to hold on to the recruiting class and hope for ‘22.

But it is going to take something mighty to reverse the apathy.

The only thing I’d say to moderate this critique is that we are in a COVID recovery year, and the usual cultivation of students, fans, band members, etc just hasn’t been normal… for a while. But plans need to be made to rebuild across all of those groups, and nothing helps more than winning.  We are at risk of becoming tolerant of a new low, and what recruit wants to come to a school with a half-empty student section, a band that needs a PA to be heard, and upper deck sections with only one person sitting in them… this year I’ll grant a mulligan.  Next year must improve.

Hate to break it to you, but THIS is the good schedule/odd year.  Next year will be horrific in terms of bodies inside the stadium.  I know it's hard to fathom the notion of it getting worse, but it can get worse.  I think this Friday night will give you a good picture of what all of next season will look like (win or lose).

home games in 2022

03 Sept - Colgate
TBD - USC (I'd guess 10 Sept given that USC plays Fresno State on 17 Sept)
TBD - ASU
TBD - OSU
TBD - WSU
26 Nov - BYU

[82lsju]

Next year they don’t play UA and Colorado again, bottom feeders with Stanford and Cal. So that’s two losses almost guaranteed to Utah and ASU, teams with far better athletes. At Oregon, UCLA, Domers, three teams with far better athletes. That’s five probable defeats right there.

I gave up on tickets after 65 years of attending albeit with decades of comps and seven years of making films for the AD. I will give up watching them on TV if they play another season of boring football in 2022. Cactus Jack usually lost but the team was never boring. Chuck Taylor’s teams (except for UCLA scoring 72 in ‘54) gave value for the buck. Stanford 2021 is sleep inducing. MSU/Michigan was electrifying and I didn’t have to spend a dime watching it.

I'm willing to pencil in a win Labor Day weekend vs Colgate......

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Sadly, the lack of attendance is a big factor in why this is the low point of the Shaw era.

I fully believe the team can get to five wins, and maybe that is enough to hold on to the recruiting class and hope for ‘22.

But it is going to take something mighty to reverse the apathy.

The only thing I’d say to moderate this critique is that we are in a COVID recovery year, and the usual cultivation of students, fans, band members, etc just hasn’t been normal… for a while. But plans need to be made to rebuild across all of those groups, and nothing helps more than winning.  We are at risk of becoming tolerant of a new low, and what recruit wants to come to a school with a half-empty student section, a band that needs a PA to be heard, and upper deck sections with only one person sitting in them… this year I’ll grant a mulligan.  Next year must improve.

Hate to break it to you, but THIS is the good schedule/odd year.  Next year will be horrific in terms of bodies inside the stadium.  I know it's hard to fathom the notion of it getting worse, but it can get worse.  I think this Friday night will give you a good picture of what all of next season will look like (win or lose).

home games in 2022

03 Sept - Colgate
TBD - USC (I'd guess 10 Sept given that USC plays Fresno State on 17 Sept)
TBD - ASU
TBD - OSU
TBD - WSU
26 Nov - BYU