Way to go with the obvious reference to the upcoming football games.

I hope a hornet stings you on the face while you're chatting in your My Little Pony chatroom. Go tweet in the street !

Sac State wins. Utah State is the game you're still going to be talking about if the Aggies start 3-7...well we beat Utah State. Maybe Utah State laid an egg that night, who knows ?

BTW Not a Sac State fan. Just thought the topic could use a different point of view. I'm rooting for the game to be over because I detest the Kings and the Golden 1 Center, which is where they are playing.

Too soon ? Well, I thought it was good. Fine I'll go back to my corner now.

Mayve he's ust mad because the baseball players wouldn't give him lap dances in January. Gotta jpin the team first, dude !

Maybe Calvin is grumpy because his stuffed tiger beat him up again.

Seems like it was neither. To me the report reads more like an indictment of Vaughn than the players who participated in hazing the new players.

The 2018 incident seems less like the focal point and more a supporting argument to Vaughn not doing enough to prevent hazing from continuing and allowing it to happen in the first place. Wasn't really a closed issue because the hazing supposedly continued into 2020. Blue apparently considered the matter closed when it wasn't.

The report highlighted exit interviews and yearly surveys conducted by the players about the program and their coaches. The whistleblower was likely a player (or maybe more than one) who gave the program and Vaughn poor marks and chose to emphasize the hazing as the reason. Eventually the evalauations were kicked around in incompetence until someone acted on them. The whistleblower was probably even around in 2018 (perhaps the student involved in the incident ?), making them possibly a graduating senior who feared no retribution.

And what of the players transferring out ? We might assume they left because of the hazing allegations that were brought to light, but perhaps they had already planned to leave because the team sucked, and the allegations gave them the perfect opportunity to do so. So we know of at least 3 key players who left-Campagna, Carrel, and Smith. Two players who were second year students in 2021 ane one third year. Whether they actually were 'rookies" who were hazed or not, they knew about it. The only 2021 players who may not have known were the true freshmen. So clearly most of the players conspired to keep it quiet and they have been lying the whole time they were claiming to know nothing. Despicable.

By the way, they frequently used the term "rookies" where you would think they would say "freshmen", so perhaps some transfer students were hazed as well ?

Anyone have a guess who the new coach will be ? At this point they're not going to have a lot of the choices. Who's going to want to enter a lame duck situation this year ? Since the assistants were more or less cleared of wrongdoing my guess is Brett Lindgren on an interim basis. He already has a rapport with the returning players and probably recruited some of the new ones. He'll need a pitching coach. Maybe interview Vaughn for that position ? That would be too funny.

I read most of the report.

It was interesting to see some of the behind the scenes looks at incidents involving the players you wouldn't normally hear about, like the player who quit on opening day 2021. He was in the lineup. They redacted the players'names, but you could guess from context who some of them were..or at least a team parent could.

I think the game reduction is also a punishment, despite the joke I made earlier. Reduced opportunities to play and travel. If they weren't hosting Hawaii in 2022 I would say part of a good punishment would be that they stay home and forfeit that series.

I did a Google search for "baseball schedule uc davis 2022". It only turned up one non-conference opponent (San Francisco) with the Aggies scheduled so far.

If we're being optimistic we can hope that ending the hazing rituals and installing a new coach will end the terrible baseball- after a reasonable adjustment period of course.

We would be naive to think the destructive behaviors began and ended with the initiation rituals each year. How many games over the years do you think involved players who were hung over or under the influence ? There have been games where it looked like the whole team was drunk.

It will be interesting to see who they get as a new coach. It's probably against the rules to tamper with another team's coaching staff under contract, but volunteer assistants should be fair game.

Since the "national" search for a new AD yielded someone already employed by UC Davis I guess they will ask one of the interim coaches (Or all ? Tag-team it and give one the head coach because they have to ?) to take over for this season only. After the season I bet they ask SF State permission to interview Tony Schifano, and they hire him.

A very descriptive account. Shocking !

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news10.com/sports/uc-davis-says-baseball-team-hazed-students-with-alcohol/amp/

The baseball team lost Jalen Smith-its best position player-to UC San Diego. He is on the Tritons' 2022 roster.

How is UCD even going to have enough players to field a team, let alone one that gets through a minimum four full games a week?

69Aggie-I think the Club team plays its home games over at the dairy fields. The students you saw throwing were not in uniform, yes ? What you saw might have been a mix of club and varsity players. With no NCAA team presently what is to stop them from practicing together ?