Fresno State is the only game in town in Fresno for much of the year. Before the economic downturn in the late 2000's (and the later demotion to Single-A) the Fresno Grizzlies also used to draw very well despite not being very good.

Memorial Auditorium is better suited as an event space for graduations,plays, or concerts-events where people are using the stage. In it's current configuration it's not well-suited for basketball.

Cost was likely a huge motivation to move the games back to campus. I think I remember someone saying they were trying to get more students to attend. It is over 3 miles from the school. That said I think it really was about money. They had to pay for the upkeep of Hornet Gym regardless of whether or not they played games there, so why not use it and stop paying to use a venue that was too large anyway ? I believe Cal State Bakersfield came to the same conclusion with its basketball arena.

In my opinion Sac State will always have problems getting students to attend most sporting events regardless of where they're hosted. This is just because it's more of a commuter school. People don't have time to hang around school as much when they have jobs/families to support/they live off-campus. The notable exception is football (especially the Causeway Classic). That it's largely a barbaric sport, full of yelling, hitting, and tackling, played on Saturdays, gives it a wider appeal. Also, the Causeway Classic always draws out the low-brow types who just want to get drunk and be nasty.

@fugawe09@agalum In this case I was making a pun based on the wording of the article title.

I don't care how endowed the assistant coach is-that's too much money.

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It's a sad state of affairs. The line between student-athlete and professional keeps getting blurred, and it makes it difficult for me to want to support NCAA sports teams (well, ones that would be affected by NIL anyway) .

I already shred any letters UCD Athletics sends me asking for money because I don't support NIL payments, FBS aspirations, or any of the student-athlete-only programs. It's not making a difference, but not contributing to causes I don't agree with makes a difference to me. Everyone else can just continue to do what they've been doing.

If people were actually that concerned about the state of the NCAA they could vote with their wallets in a similar fashion, but they won't. The lure of nationally-televised football and basketball is too great.

Davis wants to play for Sac State ? Ever notice how no players surnamed Sacramento ever want to play for Davis ?

And just the other day I was asking, "what is happening w/UCD's Adidas and BSN partnersips ?" Asked and answered.

Pinnick's also on the baseball roster, but I doubt he plays given the football time commitment. He was a .160-ish-batting outfielder in HS according to Maxpreps.com ; did Nicholson consider converting him to pitcher, because of the whole quarterback having transferable skills thing ? At .160 he would know a lot about making outs; the trick would be applying that to getting other people out.

Is this now the longest-running topic in aggiesportstalk.com history ? If so, the longest -ever thread is about Sac State. That's no small feat considering some of you guys post a reaction to almost every single play during football games.

Hasn't UCD already clinched this thing ? I think they should cut events out of this that are not exclusively Sac State vs Davis competitions, such as track, golf, and 3-4 team gymnastics meets. This way there's always clearly a winner and loser between the 2. This cup is about yearly overall supremacy, and that is most accurately measured when they play only each other

In golf, for instance, one team might finish 6th and the other 9th. Finishing 6th doesn't establish dominance, it just means one team endured a worse loss than the other. They still both did not win. Do kids at spelling bees brag that they finished sixth (assuming there is even a 6th place) ? The concept of college golf is stupid anyway. It's an individual sport they try to make into a team sport to get more funding.

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https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2025/4/14/football-aggies-prep-for-spring-game-set-for-april-26.aspx

Can you imagine if Sac State tried to do something on the scale of Picnic Day ? Where would they even put all the people ?

This isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. There's one glaring difference here-spring games are free, whereas playoff games are not. If you had told Hornet fans they had to buy a ticket to watch a practice game, 7,149 people would not have shown up. Also, optimism and interest may be artificially high due to the new coach. Time will tell.

Having said that, there definitely is less interest in UCD football.

I don't want to take anything away from the accomplishment though-that's an excellent crowd for a practice game..

Soory for the extra post. Somehow my 2nd post was duplicated.

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I think it's funny that the posters in the Wood Reddit discussion feel the need to share that they are alumni (even when they graduated), as if it makes the slightest bit of difference to him.

The-great-tostito would probably fit in well with the FBS-or-bust posters on this site.

The graduating seniors ceremony is meant to recognize the players who will no longer compete FOR THAT TEAM (and sometimes it doesn't even reflect that with complete accuracy). You get 5 years (and as we are very aware, student-athletes find ways to extend that) to use up 4 years of eligibility in a single sport, but you still can compete in a second sport after (or even with some overlap) if you are still pursuing a degree and haven't exhausted your eligibility in the 2nd sport. So if Prongos is still pursuing a degree he can certainly play football.

Good for him-maybe he'll get to play more than 10 minutes.

Mike Bibby is 46-not that young. Les is 61-far from being too old. Les may need to adjust his strategy, but I don't see a younger and less-experienced coach doing any better.

I think we need to ask and answer the question-

How much is barely making the NCAA tournament (at best) worth to UC Davis ? You can make all the recruiting + coaching changes you want but UCD will never make a serious run at an NCAA Division Imen's basketball title. Women's maybe. The idea that the team can systematically build a big winner by recruiting leading to winning then to better recruiting is nice in theory but every single coach in the nation already believes that. Making it happen despite yearly setbacks is another thing.