you beat me to it, I cannot believe how much they have fallen in the last few years since smith left.

yeah I think a large amount of people are going for the concert that is included after the game (from sac state reddit and twitter). I seriously dont get why you dont just redo the current spot. Building a 40k seat stadium is just a waste of resources at this point. Even if Davis moves to the FBS expanding our stadium beyond something like 25k would be something I would never think of.

I listened to him when he went on the griz fan podcast (the montana fan podcast) like a week or 2 ago and he said the same thing. He also slipped in that he was "very confident" that they will be in a new fbs conference (which also seems like it could mean a few things). He keeps saying fbs schedule but already has 2 fcs games listed...

yeah i was literally gonna comment like 30 minutes ago about how impressed I was for the home side but the visitor side is a ghost town. not even a knock against sac but he just says things that make you scratch your head. seems like a nice dude but talks wayyyyy too much without backing anything up.

idaho loses to EWU... yikes.

is the sac qb tall?

This is what I was thinking might happen. If they can keep the ground game going/sac doesnt make any major adjustments I am still gonna see them pulling the win out..

This Montana team is not the 4th best in the country.

Yeah probably like Rice, SJSU or Uconn? Honestly of those schools Davis already has pretty similar quality facilities (maybe increase the football stadium by like 8-10K)

I think we will still get better recruits than being fcs

exactly! I really do look forward to moving up hopefully in the next 5 years..

Where do you think we will fit into that MW football bracket? Id say mid of pack if we were in it right now.

I honestly think the new (remaining) mountain west is pretty decent and will end up being a good FBS spot for Davis. Decent teams that often go to bowl games and occasionally stack up 10 win seasons but are not constantly CFB playoff level teams. Also geographically it’s pretty great with sjsu and Nevada so close and the rest of the school almost in the same travel footprint as the Big Sky.

my prediction for NOCO vs Sac is
27 NOCO
24 Sac

this is the argument going on in the montana-verse at the moment

well I dont have a photo of him in Paris with the hat... but I have a story to tell. My parents just got to Venice and were sitting at a cafe. They heard someone speaking english and looked to their left only to see a guy wearing a davis colored shirt. They joked about it for a minute onkly for the guy to turn around and be wearing a UC Davis Aggies t-shirt. Apparently their kid is a freshman and they have been wearing Davis merch all around Europe. Small small world!!

yeah I don’t really know about that. I think personally Davis could do some things to raise national profile for athletics but commenter school is a headscratcher

Luke wood’s confidence never ends

I was committed to Oregon state before getting into Davis off the waitlist. Really cool town, love the brick everywhere, but the weather man….

Oregon state is going the wrong direction in every way. Other than baseball I feel like they are going back to what small relevence they had nationally before Smith became the coach. While it’s a bigger job, I agree they unless they give him a boatload of money it’s not like OSU is in some crazy better position. I’d be curious though to know if Plough knows or has been given a game plan for Davis realignment. Id imagine it would be much harder to pull him from raising his kids at his Alma mater if Davis moving to a higher level of football is in the future. The new PAC12 is better than the MW but the difference between UC Davis in the MW and Oregon State being mediocre in the new Pac12 doesn’t seem worth it.