My equestrian competitor niece just came back from a big SoCal equestrian event; says that our move to add equestrian as a varsity sport was the talk of the meet. Not surprising that there is much speculation is that we will attract a very large and qualified pool of head coaching applicants as well as student athletes. What i did find surprising is that she said there was also a lot of talk about people wanting to donate horses to the program= as sort of a “thank you” for adding this sport. This is apparently a very big deal for the equestrian world. These people also tend to have a lot of money and are not above showing their appreciation by spending it. Interestingly, one competitor she knows (from California) is on a Texas college equestrian team is thinking of transferring to UCD, but wonders if she has to sit out a year. Does anyone know if she would have to sit in this situation?

I seem to see some similarity in the recruitment strategies of both hawk and les. Go high when you can, but look at the edges for the players who do not or have not been +3 +4 which are actually out of out range anyway both in MBB and FB. Maybe they have a beer together at the grad from time to time.

Does he have to sit for a year as a transfer?

I noticed on the baseball news today that the pitcher shown (no number) is wearing the old style “CA” hat which was the traditional hat used for decades of aggie baseball. Is the team now wearing this style hat again? I definelty prefer this hat to the “UCD” version.

Does anyone know what’s up with Jackson? Was he injured? Did he even play? Is he on the squad still?

What about Matt Neufeld? Has not played for us yet, but has a lot of history. Seems like he could really add some muscle inside. Canadian and Aussie players seem to play with a no fear attitude that we sometimes lack. Maybe Fuller as well. The English are a tough breed.

Do we need an ICA spokesperson? She’s here and near and very good!

I agree with blue.. what is an interesting question is: how do we get these foreign players? I can’t imagine Les traveling to the UK to actually see this guy. Is it possible our budget can sustain this? Or as is more likely this is all done on line with consults with the UK guys. Great job by Les to get this very good player!

This guy looks like the real deal! I did not think we had anymore open spots or scholarships on the team. Is he the next Ogubalu?

Zither, you are correct. They just nailed (supposedly) the long sought after “east area rapist” and it turns out he went to sac state and became a cop, then a serial rapist and killer. Can you just imagine what the bee would do with this story if he went to UC Davis?

According to the sac business journal the bee has just laid off 14 more journalists. It laid off 12 last year. It’s stock value has plummeted 85% since 2014. I know its a tough time now for print journalism, but the bee’s shoddy policies and business practices have contributed towards this steep decline.

Good point didn’t know that.

I get the point, but CP is getting hammered in the national media because of the above stats; and to add, in its own student newspaper as being the quintessional “white school” of California public education. Why would a black student want to go to UC Davis rather than CP? It’s in a relatively “white town” in the relatively “white” sacramento region just like SLO is. Both have extensive ag programs (not a big African American interest, at least in california) and a lot off other similarities you all know. Even sac state has a far better percentage of black students? Look, i think CP is a great school and some of the criticism is frankly unfair, but the huge negative stats state the case and the CP administration has to accept the blame for CPs non inclusive reputation. This is a must fix now situation for CP.

Compare- undergraduate enrollment: At UC Davis 29,546. Black students: 4.0%

At Cal Poly 22,500. Black students: 0.8%

All numbers are for 2016 school year. Nearest date I could find. Anyway a big difference for two very similar universities.

Plus, after pushing for Aggie Square with all its might in major part because of the much more “abundant housing” in sac, sac bee in editorial today now says the project should add a major new housing element so that oak park is not “gentrified” and does not push out the long time oak park residents. So UC Davis should now build housing in sac so UC Davis students can commute to sac daily? Adding even more traffic to the moving parking lot known as I80? Nonsense in my book. Keep UC Davis in Davis!

I had to go to Carmicheal yesterday for business and we got stuck on the causeway at 2 pm. Traffic totally jammed. Took 30 more minutes to get into sac than google said we would. That said if we plan to start moving students into sac housing (where it is apparently “abundant”) when they start attending classes on the Davis campus there’s going to be a big problem. Maybe light rail could help, but I see no active interest for sac to move it into Davis. Movie is right. Orchard Park is being rebuilt (my old stomping ground) and a large new apartment complex on Olive drive as well. Nishi remains an issue, but it may pass this time. Davis is just too NIMBY. A half a dozen attorneys make a living in Davis challenging any kind of development that could aliveate this housing problem.

sorry to follow, but this is even more ridiculous: Nevada woman's tennis is 100% foreign! Slovakia, Russia, France all very well represented. the state of Nevada zero. who recruits these woman and why- just to get a trip to Europe? Implausible, as the best teams (UCLA) have mostly US athletes. and by the way. they are not that good.

Well, Nevada men’s tennis just beat us. They have 7 out of 8 foreign players! This is just getting ridiculous. Is the NCAA even looking at this?

Fug, you can clearly see that the sac bee strongly endorses your “incorrect” scenario. Because of so-called “inadequate housing” on the Davis campus, they envision undergrads and new housing on the sac campus. The bee has absolutely zero interest in how this could benefit UC Davis and only wants it for what it will do for sac. Mayor Steinberg is a friend of UC Davis and Oak Park needs all the help it can get, but Chancellor May must watch out that he not bambozzled by sac people into some expensive projects that do not directly advance UC Davis’ educational goals.

I love this so much and am sending it to everyone I know who knew him.