I had the Lumberjack breakfast once... what was the dinner like?

I recall a lot of trees, fog, and natural women.

My minor tweaks were suggested over the larger changes which change the game, and alter generational comparisons & records... who was better, May's, Mantle, Dimaggio, Aaron, Ruth?

I personally say forget the Roid Brothers, allegedly Canseco, McGuire, etc. (Asterix by their numbers.) I preferred the natural strength... imagine Willie Stargel hit a pill out of Dodger Stadium, only player to ever do that, or Willie McCovey.

Maybe Cricket & soccer will gain traction here. Soccer undoubtedly.

Wouldn't some common sense, simple changes help baseball more?

- limit the batter playing around in the batters box
- limit the pitchers dragging it out b/t pitches
- limit excessive or repetitive coaching meetings w pitcher
- potentially drop the mound 6"
- etc.

So not out of business? Great. Major reno going on next door.

Can you tell us some highlights for first time visitors?

Mr. Bs / de Vere's (?) in downtown Davis is still empty.

Beer is available at UC Davis Health Stadium at the regular concessions and the pizza vendor.

Warzecka laid out some information and need as before we left... Terry Tumey spent 3 years putting together plans and job shopping ... Teresa Gould spent over a year redoing the previous findings into a SWOT analysis ... I guess they got funds for softball, and a big field hockey donation dropped in their lap.

The new batting cages were finally built?

Berkeley started hosting recruits for the first time in 15 months 3 days ago. Are we doing likewise?

Haven't they wanted to raise money for lights for 10-15 years? :roll: Do they sell beer at Dobbins now?

Sad to hear, the recent pictures I saw of him he looked youthful and happy. RIP.

70% is 100% correct. :cool:

I belief Rolf chose Davis strictly for academics with no intention to play football. Our football staff was tipped off bc Pac 8 (?) coaches figured we offered Rolf illegal money. We had to go to the dorm directory to contact Rolf in the dorms!

Most everything else you said rings true.

Did Sochor as HC ever go on the road to recruit, including SoCal? It seems Rolf & O'Brien kind of fell into our laps.

UCSB, LBSU, Irvine, UCR, St. Mary's, USF, Santa Clara, etc., don't have football, so what is the pecking order ... MBB, WBB, and then baseball? Vastly more pro opportunity in baseball (minors), and maybe out of state recruiting needed w changing SoCal demographics.

Multi talented Deion Sanders was 3-2 his first year. Bold hiring by young AD Ashley Robinson.

The ABE discussion here is just a section of a larger report. Three individuals in ICA approve of ABE nominations. When we had a lapse in our standards, one person occupied two positions, and the FAR was cut out. (This went on for over a year.) There reportedly is a yearly report including ABE - ICA vs non-ICA.

Academic Senate report on Intercollegiate Athletics, April 12, 2012

End of page 7: "... Each UC campus is allowed to admit applicants who are not UC-eligible, in various special circumstances, provided no more than 6% of an incoming class is admitted in this way. This is called admission by exception (ABE). The actual number of ABE students is typically around 2% for UC Davis."

[Page 8] "...Campus policy states that before a case for a possible ABE can be sent from ICA to Admissions, it must be approved by three people: the Director of Athletics, the Senior Associate Director of Athletics / Senior Women Administrator (SWA), and the Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR)."

"...In spite of the overall success of the system, there are areas of concern. The first and largest concern is a recent major policy lapse. For an extended period of time, the FAR was not consulted on many ABE requests that were sent from ICA to admissions. This was a deliberate omission, not an inadvertent mistake. This problem was eventually detected by the FAR, the campus administration was notified, and some corrective actions were taken. We are deeply troubled by the duration of this failure to follow policy and the weak process that allowed it to remain undetected for an extended period. ICA does not keep records from which one could precisely determine the duration of the lapse. Based on available information, it appears that it was a year or longer...."

[Page 9] "Second, SARI reports reveal that there has been a recent increase in the percentage of student athletes admitted by the ABE process so that it has become much higher than the ABE percentage in the overall student population: around 5%-6% vs. around 2%-3%. The intent and expectation is that those percentages should be kept roughly equal."

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://academicsenate.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk3876/files/local_resources/docs/pdf/athletics-report-final.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwin6qTJgdXwAhWPFTQIHeBxC90QFjAAegQIBBAC&usg=AOvVaw38MGsAnq4Sx6lJoDnlRJp4

Wonderful news. If Stanford w a massive athletic endowment can't support Olympic sports, everyone's in trouble.

I believe we do, but its very limited. A few years ago when we had an interim AD, I believe the number of ABE jumped for men's basketball as the FAR (Faculty Athletic Representative) was cut out of the process. This abnormality was part of an ICA study.

Better, or more adequately prepared? Who knows, we may have adjusted and competed. No AP classes decades before.

The parents and peer group often drive motivations. In the Bay Area, many Asian and Indian students (many voluntary immigrants) take chemistry or calculus in the summer at the JC, to get a leg up on securing an A grade in their high school classes. Same groups often have huge, private Saturday classes inside local schools - classes in Mandarin, music, math.

There is a large and growing Black and Latino middle class. In California the junior college is a perfect place to take basic courses and prove yourself.

It's not just money, but PC politics won't allow that discussion. Professor John Ogbu of UC Berkeley offered unique research and analysis. He was an anthropologist not a SJW, and first pioneered the phenomena of black students not living up to expectations in Washington DC for fear of "acting white" (oppositional culture).

"His most recent book, "Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement" (Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2003) also drew widespread attention. Concerned parents and other members of the middle-class black community in Shaker Heights, Ohio, invited Ogbu there to help them understand why some black students in their highly regarded suburban school system were "disengaged" from academic work and performed less well than their white counterparts. He concluded that the black students' own cultural attitudes hindered academic achievement and that these attitudes are too often neglected."

I believe this study concluded that African American students spent less time studying that their counterparts, and their parents delegated responsibility for their education to the school system. I also believe when his study was published, he was called an Uncle Tom.

Originally from Nigeria, he distinguished between voluntary and involuntary immigrants (like Dr. Sowell). While raising 4 children, his wife achieved her Masters and PhD from Berkeley in public health.

https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/08/26_ogbu.shtml

Having married parents is another advantage regardless of income.