Our game vs EWU will be on ESPN!

Sam Herder has us as the #4 team in the nation in his pre-season top 15:

After back-to-back quarterfinal appearances, is UC Davis ready to make it a round further? The Aggies retained great talent, especially at the skilled position. Standout receivers Samuel Gbatu Jr. and Stacy Dobbins are back, as is productive tight end Winston Williams and 1,000-yard running back Jordan Fisher. Davis will need a new starting quarterback to step up, and the Aggies have shown they can reload at that spot. The defense has to improve to win games deeper in the bracket, though. All-Big Sky defenders Rex and Porter Connors headline that unit as the twin brothers earned an extra year of eligibility.

Link to article

Oh I was just asking what AP references in your message

Davis and AP supported football, and how that was a problem.

AP?

at the sac airport:

+1

Not directly connected to football (for now) but saw Plough posted about MW+. Assuming this is the new streaming platform for Aggie games in conference?

Another good transfer imo.

Yeah I took a look at MW school transfers the last few years and its obvious how many more major program players transfer to MW schools than Big West.

Cool beans!

uhhh I am beginning to really worry if they dont get some huge corporate/tribal donor this is going to crash even worse than thought.

I would love to watch that! I think they would all bounce off each other really well :-)

I really like Samuel Akem. Always has good videos and seems like a fun guy to be around.

I don't think the portal situation is the reason we should fire him. I'm saying that I think a part of the issue with sustained success, funding and the portal are intersectional in the core issue of Les having such a long tenure at Davis and lacking the success to back keeping him on at this point. The energy is not in the building. While obviously the portal, attendance and funding have a ton of external context other than Les, I don't see how keeping him on and having a stagnant program with no juice (and this is from personal experience, talking to family and 10+ students) makes any sense. In the portal era losing a ton of guys in unfortunately the norm, but I also hear from everyone on here that he's an amazing recruiter... and then we have mediocre season after mediocre season... and then half the team leaves... and then we keep the coaching staff (which is the longest tenured in D1). Its insanity.

Fire Les. This is ridiculous.

Was hoping more would come with picnic day and everything

How’s the turnoutc

I worry about basketball donations. The hype for football is immeasurable (and we haven't even joined the MW for football) while basketball is at 20k coming into its first MW season.