Slack State is currently an affiliate member of the Big West in men's soccer and in beach volleyball.

I really don't have a horse, or cow, in this race. Either is fine.

One example of a human agrarian-type mascot would be Herbie Husker at Nebraska...though even Herbie had PC/woke issues recently and his hand signal had to be changed.

The New Mexico State Aggies have a person of sorts, but he looks more like a gunslinger. Isn't brandishing a six-shooter kind of the antithesis of farming?

I googled "cow meaning." That will offend someone soon. As a verb it means bullying. In the UK it is a particularly derisive term for an ill spirited woman. One definition even had person with a large a** and I don't think they were referring to a farmyard animal.

AggieFinn2 - I was aware of the use of Gator as a play on the Golden Gate. Not sure the opening to a large natural bay/harbor, or the bridge that spans it, is much of an inspiring mascot either but you don't want to name your teams after Coit Tower either.

Still better than the Boll Weevils of Arkansas-Monticello. Who names their teams after a pest? And while Delta State's teams are called the Statesmen, (or the somewhat oxymoronic Lady Statemen) they are more colloquially called Fighting Okra. A team named after soul food?

Perhaps we could follow the culinary theme, and in honor of our renowned viticulture and enology program call our teams the Fighting Gamay Beaujolais.

Or have another student referendum to select a varietal.

I thought I'd read some years ago that UCSF had a few club teams that would play other schools, but I cannot find anything to confirm that. Funny about my memory, eh?

Probably aren't a lot of Gators in the City either, Golden or otherwise....but we sheepishly need to acknowledge the Urban Knights of the Academy of Art.

While wasting my time looking up Aggie and bovine nicknames and mascots I learned that in 1907 the student body at Williams College voted to have the school's mascot be a purple cow. The teams are called the "Ephs," after college founder Ephraim Williams. Hard to visualize an "Eph."

And the mascot of the Texas A&M Aggies is a collie dog. The Utah State Aggies mascot is a generic bovine that looks like a longhorn.

We are from a University system with Anteaters and Banana Slugs.

Ags actually took the series against the Tritons.

"Also- no “d” in Henrickson."

Someone should tell Joe Avison.

Sac won both sides of the Causeway Cup track meet, the Hornet men defeating the Ags 95-79 and the women out scoring their Aggie counterparts 106-81. With that the unofficial 2021-22 Causeway Cup comes to a close, the Aggies winning the overall competition 50-35.

(Don't tell anybody, but if this was scored by the original rules where football, volleyball and both basketball games were scored as 10 points, and if there was baseball this year and Sac won, the final score would be 55-55.)

Having nothing to do with FSC or HBCU schools, BYU just backed out of a late season 2023 game against USC and USC went to it's emergency back up school and scheduled San Jose State for their 2023 opener.

Wonder if USC will eventually schedule FCS.. One of the reasons SC alum opposed the game against UCD was that there were three FBS schools that had never played FCS....USC, and USC's biggest rivals, UCLA and Notre Dame and the USC folks didn't want to hear it from their rivals.

A good day for the Aggies as they defeated Sac in beach volleyball, 4-1, in the morning and then in women's tennis, 4-0, in the afternoon.
If the schools recognized a Causeway Cup this year the running score would now be UCD 50, CSUS 25. That means that even if the schools had competed in baseball, and CSUS had won, the Ags would still have won the overall Cup competition.
The final events between the schools this year are the Causeway Cup Duals in track & field to be held at Sac this coming Friday the 29th.

Go Ags!

Aggie men's golf team finished 6th of 14 teams at their own El Macero Classic with 865 strokes. Sac had 871 strokes to finish in a tie for 8th. Thursday proved to be the difference as the Ags shot 282 to Sac's 297. Running score for the phantom 2021-22 Causeway Cup is now UCD 42.5, CSUS 25. Next up are women's tennis and the second of two beach volleyball meetings, both tomorrow at Davis. With only 17 sports this year the Ags have assured at least a tie in this year's unofficial Causeway competition

This is a VERY YOUNG team. Four of the five golfers that competed in the BW championships are true freshmen (freshwomen?). (One of them is from Kyiv, Ukraine. Imagine what she is going through....) https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/womens-golf/roster

During the season the website listed seven golfers. Not sure why only five are listed now....the other two were a sophomore and a redshirt sophomore.

Sept. 5, 2015
Cal 73, Grambling 14

Grambling brought "The World Famed Tiger Marching Band:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeBmMFzE86w

Buddy of mine is a baseball fanatic here in the Sacramento area. He used to umpire in both high school and Little League, now just Little League. He says the league basically lost two years of players in the pandemic. Trying to get that mini-generation back on the diamond has been difficult.

David Patrick's hiring at Sac now official:
https://www.hornetsports.com/sports/mbkb/2021-22/releases/20220405jc5awe

Sac Athletic department did Coach Laird wrong in the way it handled this, but he extended his thanks and best wishes to the school community: https://www.bigskyfans.com/hornets/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5571

Former head coach Katz chimed in: https://www.bigskyfans.com/hornets/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5572

Granite Bay may be a public school, but the neighborhood is pretty expensive.

He doesn't seem to stay in one place very long and has a prior relationship with Sac's current AD.

Hope Laird lands on his feet in a good spot.

Report: Sac State set to hire new men’s basketball coach
BY JOE DAVIDSON APRIL 02, 2022 10:45 AM
Sacramento State is closing in on hiring its next men’s basketball coach in Oklahoma Sooner associate head coach David Patrick, per multiple reports and first reported by national college basketball analyst Jeff Goodman of the website Stadium.
Sac State as of Saturday afternoon did not comment. This comes a week after false reports circulated nationally that one-time Kings star guard Mike Bibby had been formally interviewed for the Hornets opening with the next step being a campus visit.
Unlike Bibby, Patrick has a resume that makes his coaching hires over the years make sense. Raised in Australia before enjoying a standout senior season of high school basketball in Louisiana in 1995, Patrick was an assistant coach at a six colleges and the head coach at UC Riverside from 2018-20, where in his second season, the Highlanders went 17-15.
Patrick’s other stops as an assistant: Nicholls State (2005-06), Saint Mary’s of Moraga in the Bay Area (2006-10), LSU (2012-16), TCU (2016-18), Arkansas (2020-21) and Oklahoma.
From 2010-12, Patrick was a scout for the NBA’s Houston Rockets.
While at Saint Mary’s, Patrick worked with Mark Orr, then with the Gaels’ athletic department administration and now Sac State’s fifth-year athletic director, who told The Bee last week about this hiring process, “We have a search committee, and we’re working diligently to identify that coach, the right coach for us.” He added, “We’ll get it right.”
Sac State is coming off an 11-18 season in which the Hornets under interim coach Brandon Laird surged late and then went 1-1 in the Big Sky Conference Tournament. Laird for 10 seasons worked under Brian Katz, the winningest coach in program history who stepped down on the eve of the season due to health concerns.

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article260049030.html

Posted April 1st, eh?

Aggie women defeated Sac, 5-0, in beach volleyball at the Big West Challenge hosted by Long Beach State. Unofficial running score of the unofficial 2021-22 Causeway Cup is UCD 37.5, CSUS 25. Next scheduled event is between the men's golf teams when they both compete at the El Macero Classic on April 20-22. Then on the 23rd (Picnic Day!!) both beach volleyball and women's tennis teams compete in Davis.