TY put his name in, and we came up with enoigh money to keep him around. Not sure if that’s possible with any who have entered this year.

To offer some context, as of now there’s been a total of 510 donations for the entire give day, 109 in athletics. . We have 59 for football.

I thought TY entered but stayed. He’s the only one I remember.

hard to compare since they’ve only gone to this extended give ‘day’ the past couple years. This is the most ‘gifts’ that I can remember. Last year was the first that they offered lower level gifts that opened with 30-50 donors. Seems like we’re ahead of the past and the number of higher end gifts at 300-350 is much higher.

It should ramp up the end of next week. Plenty of time for everyone to add another email address!

If I were a point guard languishing at another school, I’d be calling Les ASAP. TY, Wilson come from bench tiles elsewhere to have starring roles, same with Milling to a lesser extent. Manjon parleys his time to a starting job at an SEC school. Now Fagbemi will get an even bigger shot after his transfer from C Arkansas.

Last year, we lost a bunch to graduation and one transfer (Tomba), and we reloaded pretty well. Let’s see what happens this year

Our fans tend to be last minute people from what I hear, whether it’s game tickets, wine event or this. They react to a deadline so they will wait until closer to picnic weekend.

2 graduating. Niko and Daugherty.

we never had spring practice back then. I’m pretty sure Davis didn’t stRt spring ball until we’ll after Sochor stepped down.

they would usually bring in 20 or more freshmen for the first couple weeks of camp as extra bodies (and to get done familiarity with the system prior to frosh football). The total number of players dropped each week until we got to preparation for the first game

basketball seems to have taken this insanity to a different level vs. football. probably because the impact of 2 or 3 quality transfers can be a huge improvement. look at the Big West and you see UCI with 4, UCSD with 5, UCSB with 4, CSUN with 5. The first 3 have had success (2 with long time coaches) and have much more NLI money than we do. Scroll to the SEC and see teams with Tennessee and Kentucky with 7 or 8 transfers. Its nuts. I think its the coaches and the players -> i don't think the coaches have any issue with tossing aside returning players for a new, shining player that can start and take you to the final four.

wilson is on this 3rd school in 3 years. not sure what kind of top degree you can get with that track record.

I know; just thought the timing was interesting.

You don’t suppose Cooper is planning to play for his dad:

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2026-04-08/lakers-great-michael-cooper-cal-state-la-basketball-coach

As for Les v Taylor, there were a couple games a few years back when both staffs got very heated with each other. I think Taylor took the Davis game personally and often let his emotions show.

for those keeping track at home, Jac Mani is one of the 11 (yep, 11) Fresno State players to enter.

i think as we get closer to Give Day(s), they will ramp things up. I haven't seen much of anything out there among the many UCD mailers/emails/socials i have access to.

i think the reality is that we are in no position to compete financially, especially moving into a conference where many of the schools have resources to spend. Until we start to get some conference money, we're definately going to struggle in this environment. I won't be surprised to see Wilson and Cooper move up to a better spot, both in terms of conference quality and dollars. Not sure about Stokes (i don't think he was highly recruited out of high school and his freshman year was decent). The others? Lost in the ether.

I don't follow the portal, so i have no idea how our former Big West teams are doing with regard to losing guys. I suspect all but UCI, UCSB and UCSD (i know, no longer BWC) are losing key players.

I wouldn't be surprised if Les decides enough is enough and heads off into the sunset after this season.

i honestly thought he was just a practice player that we threw in for a few minutes here and there. I guess i need to learn our roster better!

My wishful thinking is that this means Wilson and Fagbemi are both back. Connor will almost certainly return so there’s still a logjam at guard.

he was such a turnover machine, it was hard to keep him out there. Seemed like teams would attack him whenever he got in and bad things happened.

The portal is only going to get worse as high level teams use it more and more successfully. Michigan just won a title with an all transfer starting lineup.

Local schools like Cal and St Mary’s took big hits in day one of the open portal.

we’ve had a number of guys who are end of rotation players who leave and end up at obscure schools - makes me wonder if the transfer is a mutual decision, or if the player doesn’t feel like the school is a great fit. It’s a tough school especially when you have to devote so much time to basketball.