similar to last year when you look at the roster. If my math is right, we had 5 returners this year

Daugherty
Sevilla
Rocek
Chappell
Cooper

And Rocek was a surprise. Did I miss anyone?

that happened last year with several guys like TY and Leo.

I’m guessing this is the standard payout for getting a home-only series, but that we more than make it up for going on the road to P4 teams.

This decision of Les’ future reminds me of the calls to fire Biggs way back. He was also way underfunded (we were nowhere near our scholarship limit) but managed to compete well. Brought in someone without changing the finances and it was a disaster. We’re now competing in a world with UNR, UNLV, UNM who have bigger sponsor bases, WAY bigger attendees figures and have been getting TV/tournament revenues - it’s gonna be a struggle to bring in and keep players for some time.

Just looking at the Big West and Mountain West tabs on the portal page is sad:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mPXctsKVPp6BXtieX1QRf5GuXu3ZFQUbXdqAV1_k45A/htmlview?pli=1#gid=1972197097

this is kinda concerning about Omer and his brother. UNM lost something like 8 guys, added 3, so there’s openings.

seriously? If that’s your criteria, about 2/3 of the MWC coaches would be hitting the bricks with him.

Presumably, our payment for being a MWC team playing a P4 team will be higher. It’s a give and take.

I think 350 is a safe bet at this point. Could raise $200k by the end of the day.

We’re at 196 donors for roughly $64k - and give day officially starts tomorrow.

I think it’s on other portal; AgAlum and I are old timers who still use FB

they are no longer in Winters, correct? Looks like they have several Sac locations now (also Folsom and Rocklin).

We’re at 99 donors - next one unlocks a $10000 gift.

This was in my email today from football. There’s a hype video from athletics on FB. As I was saying, they tend to push harder as actual Give ‘Day’ approaches.

If Plough hyped it at spring game with scoreboard QRC, we’ll get a big push there.

great rundown. I was there and didn’t see much of this. I was down on the field and have a hard time picking up the details from there.

Plough is very excited about special teams especially having a dedicated coach with new ideas. Couple that with talented kickers and I don’t think we will repeat last years’s performances.

Also, Matteo Perez is out there. He was in the same situation as the Connors (should be finalized with NCAA very soon), so that’s a valuable backup.

if you look at most every UCD FB page (including the main page) you won’t find much if anything about this pre Give Day period. Everyone makes the big push on the weekend both online and in person. If you go to the spring game, expect a big QRC on the scoreboard to give. Alum, parents, etc will get hit with emails and posts - that’s when folks respond.

I believe Weber RB has a hamstring pull.

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