Why couldn't we land Ryan Beasley? With his teammate and brother here, seems like he would have been interested. Verbal commits shows he only received one offer from USF and took it.

This report seems to show that Cal Poly somehow picked up a lot of the top 50 so cal recruits. I wonder what the draw was? Lots of full scholarships to offer as the team fell apart and has a lot of openings or a better opportunity to start as a freshman? They show QB David Rasor as committing to Cal Poly.

https://news.scorebooklive.com/california/2023/02/01/updated-where-californias-top-50-available-2023-football-recruits-have-signed-on-signing-day

What about all the noise Jackson made about his mission to return the HBCU teams to former greatness. All the recruits he sold on that plan. Now he leaves all those 4 and 5 star recruits on their own while he moves to the DI stage he talked them out of. Seems a little hypocritical.

Wow, I don’t know how some of these teams can replenish their roster when 10-15 or more players leave through the transfer portal.

Well I’m proud of these guys. They played hard and didn’t give it away. While not the result we want, we did make a big jump forward and we’re competitive against the top FCS teams. We were missing a consistent long pass threat that would have opened the field more for the rest of our game. Hats off to Sac St and I hope they do the Big Sky proud in the playoffs. And if we get lucky and get in, then we have another chance.

I was encouraged that we recruited some bigger players as we always seemed to play a small lineup. But we appear to historically change our lineup to best match up to the team we play instead of forcing other teams to bend to our play. This team looks to have promise, but others have too. I hope I don’t end up with another year frustrated.

Nice win. Good to see the team really excited and energized. Glad so many backups got to play. I wish the backup QB's got to play more. Dixon didn't quite have the speed on his throws as I expected based on the announcer hype. Harper may have thrown harder. I was really hoping one or both of those guys would be able to cruise down and score. Maybe they'll get more playing time next week.

We can still run the table and end up 6-2 in league and make the playoffs. The others at the top are still slated to play each other and will beat each other up a bit. Idaho and Sac won’t be walkovers but I don’t expect they are as strong as Weber or Montana St.

I am not that down on the defense. They definitely weren’t ready for a mobile QB and they struggle with WR with great speed. I am not that concerned about UG’s graduation. Larison is tough, fast and can catch the ball in the flat. If Perryman had stuck around we didn’t lose Parks to injury maybe things would be different. We seem like we are right there. Our line on both sides of the ball are big so we finally have a chance to compete.

Hawk has great enthusiasm and a positive competitive outlook which is infectious. I have doubts he would demote Cody as it seems he stuck by him at Boise until it cost him his job. Maybe the QB recruit from Corona Del Mar will step up for us next year.

The short 5 yard passes aren’t bad except when that is all you do. Hardly any passes to our wide receivers. Most 20 yard plus passes are short of the receiver. We used to recruit great wide receivers because of our offensive scheme. Who will want to come play for us now?

How does Hastings throw an interception in the flat around the 20 yard line?

Why are we giving the ball to little Perez on 4th and 1?

Our defense didn’t show up to this game.

Hawk has improved the program and every year our hopes are up but we can’t seem to bust through while other teams have improved more on a shorter amount of time. Not sure what it’s going to take or who to blame. Is it the QB, the OC or the head coach?

Whatever it is, I do miss the excitement of Shredville.

I just don’t see us winning a lot of games with Hastings. Lots of completions today but too many bad passes in huge situations. Easy TD pass to wide open Gilliam and a couple other deep balls were short. Very frustrating loss just like SD State game. I think it’s great that we are much more competitive with the top teams than before but frustrating because we could have easily won them.

We're not going to win with Hastings. He is not comfortable in the pocket, he's inconsistent and he makes poor decisions. Time to give someone else a try at San Diego so they have some practice prior to league play. I expect San Diego will be an easy win so not a real test for Hastings who could look good in that game, but better to use it to give someone else some experience.

Very disappointing loss. Our defense kept us in that game.

South Dakota played Iowa tough. Their defense is strong but offense is suspect. Will be tough for Hastings to get the ball off. He needs to make quicker decisions. He also threw a lot of late passes.

Positives from this game:
-O and D line did well. Improvement over prior years where we were undersized
-we moved the ball on offense. Total yardage good
-No jet sweep
-lots of heart and good depth

Hastings makes good plays, hope he can stop the horrible forced passes and learn when to fire it in there vs loft it.

Would like to see Larison more involved

Would have helped if Perryman stuck around for his last year. We missed him

Should have kicked that field goal early and went up 10-0 on a Pac-12 team. Why was that not good enough for Hawkins?

We had one or two almost interceptions for touchdowns. We get those and avoid our own interceptions and this could have been a close game.

I am most impressed by our line which gives me hope for this season. Go Ags. I am fired up for the next game.

I wonder what the problem is. His routes aren't good enough and he is not getting open? He's not fast enough? I know he dropped some balls in games, so is his reliability there a question? Did he just never get enough attention in practice or games to really show what he could do? What a bummer. Hard to believe a guy that was that dominant for us can't seem to make the NFL.

We have gone from quarterback U to tight end U!!

As long as we turn those big tight ends who don’t start into some other useful position.

Don't the big programs have their spring scrimmages on TV? Doesn't seem like they are as concerned about privacy.

I guess the game will not be taped or shown on ESPN+? Any way to watch it besides in person?

I remember some previous comments on this board that some team members felt Les' coaching style was a little abrasive at times. But I also read some comments over the years that were the opposite and the team loved him. So, I was never quite sure. I can see on the sidelines that is very passionate and competitive. Possibly with the team not doing so well maybe he rode these guys hard.

Maybe it has nothing to do with Les and more to do with Yolo County and the school having tougher covid restrictions than almost anywhere else putting us at a disadvantage and ruining their college basketball career. Hard to know what is happening for an outsider but something is up!

That is great. I remember reading a thread a while back that said Coach Les wouldn't let a player back on the team if they chose to jump into the portal as it showed they weren't fully committed to the program. Glad that Coach Hawkins does not share the same philosophy. Seems reasonable for some players to want to see if they can make a move up to a higher level and increase their chances at getting into the NFL and if they don't have success in finding a school to take them than stay at Davis.

Recruiting class looks good. The past couple years seems to have been strong as well. Watched some of Newman's videos and looks like he has a strong arm and good mechanics. Hopefully, he is what we are looking for. He led his team to a state championship at the JC level, so good resume. If one of our existing guys beats him out then that is good news too. The two PAC12 transfers are good and a couple JC transfers for immediate impact hopefully. But not too many of them that it puts us in a spot in future years as too much talent graduates at once. Lots of linebackers, which is good. But we struggled on both sides of the line. The linemen we got had good size, but seems like we could have recruited even more.