Hughes Stadium – Fansmanship https://www.fansmanship.com For the fans by the fans Fri, 12 Mar 2021 03:58:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.29 For the fans by the fans Hughes Stadium – Fansmanship fansmanship.com For the fans by the fans Hughes Stadium – Fansmanship http://www.fansmanship.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Favicon1400x1400-1.jpg https://www.fansmanship.com San Luis Obispo, CA Weekly-ish Cal Poly at Colorado State – second half photos https://www.fansmanship.com/cal-poly-at-colorado-state-2nd-half-photos/ https://www.fansmanship.com/cal-poly-at-colorado-state-2nd-half-photos/#comments Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:15:40 +0000 http://www.fansmanship.com/?p=10794 Cal Poly’s second half was a lot better than the first. Tim Walsh and co. seems to always make prudent adjustments at halftime, even against FBS opponents. The Mustangs played the Rams to a 7-7 stalemate in the second half and were a blocked field goal away from making it a one-score game. More analysis […]]]>
Willie Tucker catches a touchdown in the second half. By Owen Main

Willie Tucker catches a touchdown in the second half. By Owen Main

Cal Poly’s second half was a lot better than the first. Tim Walsh and co. seems to always make prudent adjustments at halftime, even against FBS opponents. The Mustangs played the Rams to a 7-7 stalemate in the second half and were a blocked field goal away from making it a one-score game.

More analysis to come later, for now, here’s a photo gallery of pictures from the second half, including Willie Tucker’s spectacular touchdown catch.

FIRST HALF PHOTOS HERE

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Rashard Higgins of Colorado State beats the Cal Poly defender to give the Rams a 27-10 lead. By Owen Main

Rashard Higgins of Colorado State beats the Cal Poly defender to give the Rams a 27-10 lead. By Owen Main

Cal Poly was in town by Thursday afternoon. But they weren’t really into the game vs. Colorado State on Saturday until the second half.

The first half was pretty much all CSU. The Rams got up 13-3 and were leading 27-10 at halftime. The fans who made it out were loud and the changing sky was a beautiful backdrop to a football game in the midst of the turmoil all the rain has brought to this region of Colorado.

 

 

 

 

 

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]]> https://www.fansmanship.com/cal-poly-at-colorado-state-first-half-photos/feed/ 1 Through rain, floods, and closed roads https://www.fansmanship.com/through-rain-floods-and-closed-roads/ https://www.fansmanship.com/through-rain-floods-and-closed-roads/#respond Sat, 14 Sep 2013 16:47:19 +0000 http://www.fansmanship.com/?p=10774 Running thoughts on the Cal Poly – Colorado State game Saturday – 5:05 PM So I didn’t really post too much on this one throughout today, so here’s the last thought from the game before I write a few other posts (with pictures too). Each of the past two games have been pretty stereotypical ones […]]]>

Running thoughts on the Cal Poly – Colorado State game

Saturday – 5:05 PM

So I didn’t really post too much on this one throughout today, so here’s the last thought from the game before I write a few other posts (with pictures too).

Each of the past two games have been pretty stereotypical ones for FCS vs. FBS matchups. The FBS school (Fresno State and Colorado State got out to decent leads, Cal Poly eventually fought back and earned some moral currency to take forward.

The problem is that the next game is a Big Sky contest at Portland State. It matters a lot more for Cal Poly. If they come out flat like they have the past two weeks, playoff implications that weren’t there the past two weeks will rear their ugly heads.

As for Colorado State and Fort Collins, they’ve been great. Fort Collins is a BEAUTIFUL setting for a game and the CSU fans had a decent showing (over 14,000 fans) considering the weather disaster nearby. Planning to have a few more posts and lots of pictures throughout the next twelve hours or so.

Saturday – 12:10

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80 Minutes to Kickoff. The tailgaters at CSU know what they’re doing. There just aren’t very many people here yet. One guy said he thought this might be a record for least attendance since the 60’s…

Here are some interviews with CSU Tailgaters and pregame stuff. More will be posted as Youtube Accepts them.

This game may approach the lowest home opener crowd ever at this stadium. It’s around 12,000.

Saturday morning – 10:40 Mountain Time —

At 9:45 last night, Tom Barket and I made a decision. We were going to try to make it.

Fort Collins, CO was virtually shut-down. The city was basically on an island. The weather channel was making look like all of Colorado was in the middle of some kind of Armageddon.

All the roads in and out were shut-down and it was questionable whether we would even be able to get into town today (Saturday). Visions of driving my rental car into a lake or rushing river danced through my head.

It turned out, the last 30 miles of our wide-open drive into town included no puddles and not even a drop of rain. Surely, Boulder is in much worse shape than Fort Collins — the Fresno State at Colorado game today was canceled — but aside from the ground being a little wet there isn’t any sign of all the flooding craziness you might find with Jim Cantori and others across cable TV news.

Phew.

It will be interesting to see how the weather affects both teams — or whether it affects them. Since school hasn’t started yet, Cal Poly has been here since Thursday. I’ll have more updates on how many people are actually here, etc… as the day goes on.

I’m here now at Hughes Stadium. It is an artificial turf field, so drainage shouldn’t be an issue. Going to check the tailgates and find out how many fewer fans they are expecting here today than usual.

 

 

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