Sac has a gym that is smaller than most high school gyms. They have a large capacity football stadium which is a basic high school field and hand-me-down bleachers purchased from the Tournament of Roses folks. There's a difference in having 15K seats and having 15K butts paying to sit in them.

The Big Ten is currently at 14 teams...It makes football scheduling unmanageable. I think they currently play the other 6 teams in their own division and two teams in the other. If you're in the West you might play Rutgers and Indiana....or you might play Michigan and An Ohio State University. I believe that will change in the next year or two and teams will play the six in their own division and three in the other division.

In basketball teams now interupt the non-conference early season to play two conference games in early December before finishing the month with tournaments and non-conference games.

Ironically at one time there were ten teams in the Big Twelve and twelve teams in the Big Ten.

Who'd think that we might have done better against their football team this year than against their men's basketball team?

On the bright side for the Ags, the Pac 12 this year DOES have the worst record for the month of December of any of the big conferences. http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/25641970/pac-12-caps-worst-december-major-conference-20-years-five-teams-lose

The WAC has devolved into an MPSF with a pedigree, simply an affiliation of teams into an ersatz league where no other conference exists. Teams change with the sanctioned sports.

The originator of the babble in this thread appears to be a UND fan...a team that has left the Big Sky, for understandable reasons of geography and the possibility of reuniting with former D-II NCC foes like the other Dakota schools.

There are certainly other reasons that Hawk and Taylor could "come home," keeping in mind that Taylor is returning to Sacramento, but not to his collegiate alma mater. Hawk's career took off and then hit some bumps in Colorado and Montreal...he was out of coaching for awhile. Taylor was by many accounts on a merry-go-round for offensive coordinators as Wittingham apparently discards O.C.s like old socks. It gave Taylor a chance to reunite with many associates from Folsom High.....the list goes on.

None of the California FCS schools really have the facilities or budgets to currently make the jump to FBS level football.

I remember when Slack made the move to D-1 there was talk of leaving UCD in the rear view mirror, but the Ags took the time to do it right. Look who made it to the football play-offs first.

Not too concerned about what a UND fan tosses out there about a league that his favorite team has chosen to leave.

Good thing the Causeway game is played BEFORE Thanksgiving....though it might be ugly at the Richardson family table after the game, too.

Also bringing three assistants from Folsom High School, including former Slack QB Bobby Fresques:

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article223434755.html

Folsom coach Kris Richardson to step down and join Taylor at Slack State.
http://www.folsomtelegraph.com/article/12/21/18/richardson-steps-down-folsom-football-coach-joins-taylor-sacramento-state

Surprised in this day and age that the NCAA sanctions field hockey. It discriminates against left-handers.

I recall going to the game once in Oakland...and wikipedia backs me up. They played in Oakland in 1970. Proceeds from the game have gone to support the Shriners' Children's Hospitals. For a long time the Shriners had a children's hospital in San Francisco and the game was played at Kezar Stadium. Players made the photo-op visit to the Children's Hospital during the lead-up to the game. After the San Francisco hospistal program was moved to Sacramento players would make the trip up here.

$tanford is, of course, a whole 'nother story, but they list women's teams in fencing, squash and synchronized swimming. Looking at the schedules, all of their opponents in those sports are in the east.

We'll have a campus site. Slack used to play at the Sacramento Softball Complex and now plays at a park in Folsom. http://www.hornetsports.com/sports/sandvball/facility

"spectators are encouraged to bring their own chairs and blankets"

When it was announced that the outgoing NDSU coach would continue to coach the Bison through the FCS championship game while starting his work with the Wildcats, I wondered how it would effect recruiting. Seems to me there is some kind of conflict of interest, particularly when it comes to recruiting when he is involved with two programs, and even moreso during a signing period. I can't find the name now, but I recall reading that a player who was leaning toward NDSU signed with KSU yesterday.

Apparently Whittingham at Utah and Trump have similar issues with staff retention: https://www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-utes/2018/12/18/monson-troy-taylor-is/

Not sure when it was but he was a radio broadcaster for Cal, and was not allowed to both coach HS and broadcast NCAA games.

Edit:
Google first, then post. His wikipedia entry indicates that he was on the radio broadcast team for Cal from 2005 to 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Taylor_(American_football)

There are lots of factors that go into these decisions....but I have never understood why UCD added field hockey. One of the reasons, among many, the school dropped wrestling was that it was not a big west coast sport. There have always been more wrestling teams in the west than field hockey teams.

But I digress.

Rumor becomes official:
http://www.hornetsports.com/sports/fball/2018-19/releases/20181217l02pyo

I think there's a lot of that with field hockey schedules. UCD will travel to the east once or twice a season. Play several teams, often at neutral sites....teams will travel west play the west coast teams....sometimes UCD will meet the team from the east at Cal or Stanford.