Western Colorado University

David Cone, he always makes my playoff, former Michigan quarterback.

Blake Crane, he's my little brother, so he's technically in the playoff every year, former Western State Colorado wide receiver.

Allegedly.

Uh, allegedly.

I do think, I wouldn't let the Georgia Tech game turn me off of what this defense is.

You gotta...

Georgia Tech got embarrassed by Colorado at home the week before.

It was their, like I said about Florida State and Mike Norvell, it was their Battle of the Bulge for the year.

And, folks, here's the deal.

Yes, Antelope State is 0-2, but they played Western Colorado and only lost by

three, and

WT got absolutely smoke-bombed.

And they're 0-2.

Well, Western Colorado beat them by two or three.

Three points, yeah.

Yeah, and that's a Western Colorado team that kind of embarrassed WT at home.

I don't know.

It'll be interesting.

They're followed by Harding, Kutztown, Minnesota Mankato, and CSU Pueblo.

Rest of the top ten occupied by Grand Valley State, Northwest Missouri State, Western Colorado, Findlay, and Western Oregon.

Other NSIC teams in the rankings this week, Duluth on the way up from number fifteen to number fourteen.

Augie also making a leap up from number twenty-two to number twenty.

And I ran track and cross country and really loved it, but it wasn't anything special.

And really wanted to walk on to the track and cross country team at what's now Western Colorado University, the school in Gunnison.

And they didn't really care that I was coming.

I kept sending... calls and emails and they're like yeah sure you can come here and maybe you can try out maybe i don't know and it was like my dream um so that lets you know kind of where i was competitively and uh was just sort of having injury troubles as a high school runner like just overused stuff um and decided i didn't want to end up pursuing all that But I was all set and ready to go to Western, like had my classes and my dorm room and everything all figured out.

Alvina.

Well, I had the distinct pleasure to be a board of trustees at Western University in Gunnison.

So what I learned, I think, in that experience is, and we just talked about this sense of belonging, is in these Western communities, you see people of different parties and community come together for a shared responsibility of our public lands and I think that that's a great example of what Colorado is is that communities coming together no matter what your political party is this is something we all care about but it's threatened when people at the committee don't have a say in how these implementation things are happening I mean we know about the horses now that are being round up the wild horses the wolf reintroduction that has been clunky and disastrous for some agriculture.

So I think we have to make sure that in that belonging space, in that we're bringing people together, that voices are being heard and answers are being found through combined solutions of people's different ideas.

And I think if you're Josh Lynn, you've got to go look.

Angelo State, who's our opponent next week, is not Western Colorado.

They're not Grand Valley State.

Am I telling you they're weak? No.

Let's talk about some new wildfire science.

An August paper from Dr. Jonathan Coop from Western Colorado University finds recent extreme and severe wildfires may not allow regeneration of the former forest.

You talked about this several years ago on Radio EcoShock.

For example, you said super-hot fires can sterilize the soil, uh, slowing down or killing off regrowth.

David Cohn, former Michigan quarterback.

Blaine Crane, former Western State Colorado wide receiver.

Blaine, Pauly, I see your market.

It's speaking to me.