Highly unlikely.

How does moving into a league with Nevada and San Jose State open up Davis to the country? The MWC tv partners are Fox and CBS, with most of the televised games in the late window on FS1 and CBSSN. Nobody watches those networks. Meanwhile ESPN has shifted the Big Sky into the old P12 after dark window (along with west coast home games in the B12 and ACC). Davis was on ESPN three times this year, with two home games, and would be in a less advantageous media slot in the MWC.

That is the profile. More of these to come.

The kids understand the deal. It’s not like guys are leaving to play at sac state for 15k.

lol, no. Without Pinnick this was a .500 team at best. Without Vargas they made a deep playoff run.

UCLA isn’t really the profile except for the Jayce Smalley type of grad transfer. Those kids are on rev share. The good ones will get rev share elsewhere. Those that can’t get a new deal are generally not good enough or driven enough to play at Davis, either. The good fits have been the kids from academic minded lower level schools and Cali kids from other FCS programs. Expect that to remain the case going forward.

Davis is pretty honest with guys so odds are if you are in the portal you have made your decision. Some of these kids are being offered more dough than their parents/guardians have made over the course of their entire lives. In a lot of these situations it’s not the kid making the call.

There are plenty of receivers in the Big Sky that are fast and talented enough and over 6’0 tall. They need to a couple guys with a catch radius to minimize the degree of difficulty for the QB.

Cal and Stanford will wind up back aligned with UCLA, Arizona, ASU, Utah, Colorado, Oregon State, and Washington State for football. The real interesting thing will be the next rung down, the Fresno/Boise/SDSU types, and whether the Montana’s and Dakota’s level up to that world.

The bowl games are actually money losers for the participants which is part of the reason so many programs opt out. If G5 moves to a playoff format that would be an improvement but you won’t need to reserve a seat since that entire subdivision will be losing massive amounts of money.

That would be an uncharacteristic and bad move by their admin. The G5 is on the verge of losing playoff access and the bowls are irrelevant.

Totally different skill sets. No replacement for Simpson on the roster. They absolutely need to find a big outside receiver and another TE in the portal.

They usually don’t want to face west into the sun and those structures on the visitor side are too low to provide a good angle.

Psyk intending to use his final year?

Simpson will need the NCAA to extend the Pavia JC exemption to 2026. They only provided that blanket exemption for the 25 fb season.

A significant portion of scholarship players that wind up in the portal did not get there voluntarily.

Nice little stadium. Built with donor funds. Davis currently has club seats and can’t sell out of the existing inventory. What they haven’t realized and need to come to grips with is building suites makes zero economic sense right now. Someone on this board is always complaining about the tent in the end zone. That tent makes money. In fact if they had more tents, better food, and a couple of decent bars in the end zones or corners they would make even more money. Spending 50m on a few poorly placed vanity suites for the Chancellor and UCD Health will be another bad move.

Other programs don’t have to deal with stuff like this.

The Porter twins were neither Porter’s nor twins. Discuss amongst yourselves.

You two are doing more to market this program than the people who are paid to do so. Great work.