UC Davis Athletics Joining Mountain West - Football to Follow I hope I am not becoming overly paranoid but I see a trend that I don’t like. I feel like UC Davis is being the focus of a lot of major school’s portal recruiting efforts. They like that we recruit freshmen with good academics, coach them exceptionally thru their first year and then they’re ripe for the portal and ripe for the picking. Recently a cal athlete revealed that he was recruited thru his parents who were the first to contact him for going into the portal too, and eventually be picked off by another school. They had been approached by an agent. “OH, could you use some extra cash for some home improvement?” Do I have a deal for you, or, I should say your son/daughter! It’s happened to our basketball team, our football team, many of our entire women’s soccer team last year. I am here to be convinced that I am wrong.