On the other hand, the school wants something it can copyright. Can't copyright a C, or an A, or even a CA. So much for calling the teams the California Ahwahnees.

Think Woody Hayes....nobody at The Ohio State University did a thing until he stepped on the field and punched a player running down the sideline.

Or some of the stories about Bobby Knight.

Saban is a first class jerk, Kiffin is right in there. Switched numbers for players during a game, refused to let opponents practice in the Coliseum, played around with air pressure in footballs before the Patriots...

Apparently 24-7 over Washington is not enough and Saban lets Kiffin go this morning with one game to go in the season.

I agree with you 100%.

On another note...hard to pick sides in an argument between Saban and Kiffin. Kind of like the 2016 elections. And what kind of coaching staff argues, or hands out old fashioned a$$-chewings, on the sidelines during a game and then makes light of it. Down the road a lot of these Alabama players will make some money playing on Sundays, but it will be interesting to see where they are when playing football is behind them. Will they work with families and co-workers? Or will they figure winning is the only important thing, and winning by a lot is better than winning by a little, and that good ol' fashioned a$$-chewings are proper conflict resolution?

What's with 'Bama players not shaking hands after the coin toss? They need a little dose of the helmet rule.

I found these in the course of my Saturday morning Googling:

A couple of links to lengthy articles about Coach Peterson’s career and the UCD connection:

http://archive.kitsapsun.com/sports/washington-huskies-petersen-picked-football-coaching-over-being-a-school-psychologist-ep-584616847-355337251.html

http://www.si.com/college-football/2014/08/11/inside-read-chris-petersen-washington-als-challenge

A short excerpt from an interview:

In what ways is your coaching influenced by what you learned from Jim Sochor at UC Davis?

PETERSEN: I think you talk to the Davis guys, all the Davis guys that have come out over the years that have been into coaching, and there’s a lot of them, and all-stars with Coach Sochor, Jim Sochor, and Bob Foster, both those guys. Unique place. I know I wouldn’t be into coaching today without question had I not gone there.

http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/uws-chris-petersen-on-husky-hype-jeff-tedford-jake-browning-and-more-at-pac-12-media-day/

Way, way back I recall reading an article where a coach complained that opponents were scouting his team's practices...(Why do I think it was someone across the Causeway doing the complaining???)...I don't recall the details, though something tells me it was by standing in a wooded area or on a hill from where the alleged spies, er, scouts, could view the practice...and the story went on to say that it was a violation of some rule. Can't scout a team's practice but you can if there is an admission charge. Who charges to attend practices?? My assumption was that it's OK to scout something like a Blue & Gold game if admission is charged. That was a LONG time ago, and my memory is not a great resource for much.

If you read this article and your eyes aren't just a little moist, or you don't hear the Band-Uh playing, then you don't belong on this board.

This is Aggie Pride.

Check out the USC fansites. Trojans feel about Paul Hackett like CU fans feel about Hawk. Hackett is referred to as "He Who Shall Not Be Named."

Fight on for dear old Gryffindor!

I may have been prescient. As of today, the ucdavisaggies.com website has the women's basketball victory and score, but shows the current Causeway Cup points at 30-5. Hopefully by the time anyone checks this out it will have been corrected and I can be accused of fake news, in which event I will enter politics.

...and to beat this to death, under the previous scoring system, where football, volleyball and basketball were worth ten points, we would now have 55 points of a possible 100 and would have wrapped this thing up before Christmas.

Go Ags!

You are correct. ...and to think someone started this thread noting that the men's earlier basketball win gave the Ags 30 points.

Thanks

WIth the resounding victory in women's basketball this afternoon, Davis leads the Causeway Cup competition, 30-5, out of a total of 80 points.

Ags swept what used to the the 10 point matches: football, volleyball and both basketball games.

This puts the Causeway Cup standings at UCD 35, Slack State 5 out of a total of 80 points.
Go Ags!

Beating a dead horse here, but this is why the university needs to approve outside jobs. DeVry, the "for profit" "university" on whose board Katehi accepted a position, just settled with the FTC for $100 million for false advertising. That's not Aggie Pride.
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/12/16/devry-ftc-100m-settlement-advertising-suit

Beyond my abilities to cut and paste the thing, but someone sent me a photo, which they apparently found on Hawkin's Facebook page, of the 1985 coaching staff.....Sochor, Foster, Biggs, Hawkins, Gross, others I can't name. Nice to bring back those memories....

The Ducks might be salivating over a QB with a degree and TWO years left. They may be tired of this one and done approach.

So you can get a degree at 'Bama, the Harvard of Dixie, in about three years while playing an intercollegiate sport?

Cal upset #1 USC in OT, 11-8, to win the championship.

What we missed:

Semi-finals:

USC 19, Harvard 4

A mild upset: Cal 9, UCLA 8 OT