Causeway match tonight!

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2019/9/2/womens-volleyball-quick-turnaround-for-aggies-as-hornets-come-to-town.aspx

The trip I mentioned that included Williamsburg was about a week long and included DC and Charlottesville. Packed thinking I could get two days out of my shirts. Ha! Was lucky to get one day. Bought a couple more along the way; washed a couple in hotel sinks and hung them to dry in the shower. Still have a William & Mary T-shirt from that trip, but can’t find the Navy Rugby T-shirt, (not that I ever earned the right to wear it.)

I grew up in the Midwest and thought the humidity there was oppressive, but a couple of quick trips to or through Miami convinced me that the southeast was much worse. Also spent a day in Williamsburg, VA about ten years ago as the tropical storm aftermath of some hurricane or another made its way through the Middle Atlantic region. Good HS friend lives in Florida now and is hunkering down waiting for Dorian to make its move. I'll take the threat of an earthquake over a hurricane or tornado.....I say with my fingers crossed and as I sacrifice a couple of small animals in my backyard to appease the weather gods.

Jacksonville in September. Hope he packed some foul weather gear. Good luck to him!!

Sac pulled a nice recruiting gimmick on Friday night. Folsom played "at" Jesuit, but Jesuit doesn't have lights so Sac State hosted the game. Get some players from a couple of the better teams in the area to start thinking of Sac as a destination.

Playing down to an NAIA like Southern Oregon team doesn't say much about the team at this point, but sometimes you have to deal with the schedule you inherited and with the teams that are available. Look at USC adding the Ags to their schedule.

Want him to go wherever it's best for him, but would not be upset if he ended up on some playoff bound team next season and the Raiders baked and wilted without him in their new desert home.

NFLcom lists Doss as cut. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001045786/article/cuts-tracker-nfl-teams-finalize-53player-rosters

Article says that Floria A&M, an HBCU, gave D1A/FBS a try for all of one season in 2004.

Part of what makes the scheduing stick in the craw of USC traditionalists is that if they schedule an FCS opponent, then the last two hold-outs are the Trojans' biggest rivals.

1972 Boardwalk Bowl - UMass 35, UCD 14 - We owe them!!!

The article brings up something I mentioned earlier, that eventually SC might 'back out and buy out'...and something Zander suggested - that SC should develop a long range plan to incorporate use of NFL level stadiums (stadia??) (and the Coliseum IS an NFL stadium) and develop a tie in with Las Vegas.

Helton and Swann will be lucky to be in the employ of SC on Labor Day of 2021, whoever and wherever SC plays.

Another UCD football connection to USC, though probably not involved in the recent announcement: Dave Roberts was an OT for the Ags from 1970-72. He went on to law school and from (I think) 2010 to 2016 worked with NCAA compliance and related subjects in the USC athletic department. After retiring from that post he served as an advisor to the USC president for another couple of years. I have a feeling he was a busy, busy guy in both positions.

I think SC has some sort of financial interest in the Coliseum so it's $$ to them to play there. Could they match that at the NFL stadium?

Something I read indicated that USC made the decision because they needed a home game. If that's the case, they aren't going to pay extra to rent the Rose Bowl or Rams/Chargers stadium...

(I would not be surprised to see some FBS school find an opening in their schedule and a willingness to travel to LA over Labor Day....and SC boosters find some spare money in their change pockets to buy out this contract.)

There are some USC/UCD connections.

Paul Hackett was a HC at SC, Daryl Gross was an ass't A.D., Ken O'Brien was an ass't coach. SC fans hate Hackett...he was known a "He who shall not be named." Gross gets points for whatever he did to bring Pete Carroll on board, but subsequent hires fell flat. USC game program used to note that among the USC folks in some Hall of Fame or another was O'Brien.

SC plays home games at the Coliseum, UCLA at the Rose Bowl.

Any chance SC will keep Helton around for two more seasons?

Transferring works both ways. Three soccer players have followed new women's coach Tracy Hamm from San Francisco State to Davis.
https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2019/7/9/womens-soccer-aggies-gain-three-transfers-from-san-francisco-state.aspx?path=wsoc

Been a LONG, LONG time since I was in law school (and I NEVER practiced personal injury law,) but "assumption of the risk" and "contributory negligence" have generally been replaced by something called "comparative fault" or "comparative negligence." Anything the plaintiff recovers would be offset to the extent the jury determines the plaintiff is at fault for their own injuries. Hard to say how much an athlete is at fault for participating in a contest at the direction of their school and coach.

It's safe to say that the Oregon coach and other defendants will file some sort of cross-complaint or other pleading against UC Davis and the NCAA for allowing the game to proceed in harsh weather conditions as well as other acts of negligence. Mental suffering, anxiety, PTSD...all things probably added more by the player's attorneys than the player to increase any recovery or to apply more pressure to resolve the case.

(We wouldn't look any more diverse, and Rehn Sheffield, Director of Field & Track and Cross-Country, just announced he is leaving. https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2019/6/27/mens-track-and-field-three-big-west-titles-highlight-sheffields-tenure-at-uc-davis.aspx?path=general )