Movie, please stick with sports where you are a great addition. Otherwise, your politically contrived comments are not well received. They have no place on this site. The deaths of our service men and woman are an all American loss, not a opportunity for your right wing attacks. Did you serve? I did. No response is asked for here.

I put my hopes on WBB. MBB needs a lot of work, sorry to say. And it looks like Campbell is back on the roster. If she can actually play, she is the fastest ACL recoverer that I have ever known. She is great and I hope her well.

Very unlike Bob Dunning to come up with an idea like this. Even if we had the stadium and the fan base (which we do not have) Stanford and Berkeley would nix this in a heartbeat. How would it possibly help them? It would take away and dilute their NorCal presence and recruiting. Much more likely the PAC-12 would look at Nevada and UNLV than UCD. And, by the way, if you have been to a Berkeley game recently their stadium is less than 1/2 full, except for Stanford most games. Few students as well. $400M ICA deficit. Great program to emulate!

I do think there is a lot of talent on this team. I confess when I am waiting for someone in a restaurant or bar I doodle football plays on a napkin. You know, the types of plays that “cannot possibly fail to gain lots of yardage.” I am very good at this even if the plays were never tested on the field. My latest napkin play is this situation: “under 4 minutes to go in the fourth quarter, the Ags down by 6 are on the opponents 45 yard line. Third down 6 yards to go for a first down. Do have we have Whelan kick inside the 5 and hope for a T/O? No. Not enough time. Better: bring in Tompkins, UG and Larison in the blocking positions AND Whelan in punt formation. Direct snap to Tompkins with UG and Larison flaring out left and right. Tompkins reads the situation and either runs it up the gut or tosses to UG or Larison in the flat. FIRST DOWN! How can that play possibly fail? Maybe I should email it to Hawk?

Wow. Let me dream on. Olivieri could be our next Magic!

BlueGold. I guess I agree with most of what you say or hope that I do, AD Blue was the class act of ADs in all of the BS and BWC Conferences. Smart and handsome with PhD. Made UCD vary proud, indeed. His next stop would/should have have naturally been in a power conference school. He was always on the rise! Then he left. For Golf Canada. Why? BG the guy did give ample notice, but what does that mean? That He knew before anyone else? Total speculation at this point. Hey, we are all in the dark here, but these kinds of discussions are fine and good for the program in my view. Long investigations, however, prompt conspiracy theories and I DO NOT want to go there. So, speed this thing UP!

Movie I don't think it is purposeful. The damage is done. The MBB program is done. Maybe the wait could be attributed to letting the kids out of the program before the sky falls in on the team. I it might be too early to get totally into the blame game, but the blame for this dreadful situation may lie at the feet of our esteemed prior AD who recently and very abruptly left his post. Why did he let this get by him? Why did the head coach allow this? For how long did this go on?

This is not good news for those of us who once thought that this was “no big deal” situation. If the UC Davis Faculty Athletics Representative’s (Scott Carrell) 2 kids leave the program, this is a very big deal. And they have left. Strong evidence that the MBB team will be terminated as a UC Davis varsity sport. Maybe not forever, but for a significant period of time.

I still can’t get this Aggie MBB issue bug off my back. Can’t reach it. Can’t grab it. With all the great MLBB news coming out of the Bay with the Giants and the A’s doing well and I an now actually watching Giants games, it is just sad that we still have this issue to deal with. Hope that this does not go on for 4 months. No response needed or expected.

Just found out my own wife was cheerleader in HS (Burbank Bulldogs LA). Can I delete my former posts? Be careful what you wish for or question- I be paying. “Of course it should be an Olympic sport, you old curmudgeon- go to bed”. I went, thankfully.

Elf. I Don’t mean to be contrarian, but how is this the best roster ever without a named starting quarterback? Sorry. Never seen it happen before. Hope i am wrong!

Mind you, this is coming from a staunch Hawk supporter, but I am a little shocked by the “best ever Aggie team” comment he allegedly made to that Montana newspaper. Even if true (and I dearly hope it it’s) isn’t this the stuff that get posted up on the opponents notice board to hype up their team? Coming off 3-2 this Spring, this comment is very un-Hawk like IMHO. I hope he denies it. Much better: “one of the better Aggie teams” ever. But, maybe I am just a worry wort.

I must apologize to the people on this thread that I gave Movie the opportunity to regale all the great things that Trump did for this country. All false, of course. Are we any better now than before Trump? No. Trump tried to use tariffs against the Chinese. Are tariffs good? No. Tried to buy lumber lately? Don’t. Prices have skyrocketed. Cause: Tariffs. Can’t buy a new car? No chips. Cause: Tariffs.
The point I was trying to make is that the Bee’s phony journalism starts out with a storyline that is falsely reported (‘Chinese Communist scientist at UC Davis”). When the falsehood is found out, the Bee just pivots, never retracts its libelous story. Now uses the dismissal to regurgitate the initial charges. This because the Bee has so little to write about except: Covid, Drought, Wildfires, and Sac crime. My point: expect the same with the MBB situation. But I do agree with Movie that the investigation has to proceed much quicker.

As the Bee continues to keep ginning this story up (see todays video on front page) and keeping it front and center, news arrives that the case against the so-called “Chinese Communist Scientist at UC Davis” has been dismissed in Federal Court today. Recall how the Bee tried and convicted this woman in its paper when the news broke about her arrest (for lying on a visa application). An arrest that was largely the result of the prior administration’s effort to arrest as many Chinese scientists in the US as a part of a very ineffectual anti-Chinese foreign policy. The only evidence? A photo of her in a military uniform. The Bee story still shows her photo in a military uniform, which Chinese scientists are required to wear at times in Chinese Military hospitals even when they are not in the military. The US Attorney prosecutors have now dismissed the case specifically on those grounds. The Bee’s journalism is so pathetic, but with no competition why should they care?

Bee is really trying to gin this thing up with a big editorial this AM. Allegedly, some players parents are in an uproar because they don’t know anything. This can’t be a Chima treatment thing. Best if May clears the air ASAP. I agree with Fug that there may not be much meat on this thing aside from a pissed off player or two, but you never know.

Didn’t someone say that there would be some further information out Sunday? I saw nothing.

I think that May was correct to make the statement that he did. Although hazing is not good, it could well prove to be something rather minor in nature which is what I now expect because of this early statement. This could/should help clear up the wild speculation that the “misconduct” was egregiously bad. I am old enough to recall that freshman Aggies had to wear a frosh “beanie” their first year at UC Davis. That was indeed a form of hazing and totally condoned by the administration. Navy Seals go thru an indoctrination ceremony that is total hazing ditto some elite Marine and Airborne outfits. New Navy guys are routinely hazed when they cross the equator this first time. Military condones it as a “bonding thing”. Really depends on what it actually was: did the newbie guys have to wear their hats backward during warmups? Clean up the dugout? Could be any stupid little thing.

I am getting very dizzy. I have gone around the circle on MBB over lights and coaching and the BWC and the poor seasons of play we have had the past few years more than I choose to recall. But this development pretty much seals the deal for me. I do not care what the final outcome of this potential debacle is, whether it’s a small IX issue, weed in the dugout, or some larger thing that I don’t care to imagine, I think UC Davis MBB is gone, cooked like a goose, disrespected and dead. Not any more UC Davis MBB seasons in our lifetimes. The mind is boggled by this development. Did Blue know and leave? What about the faculty rep that I so recently praised, did he know and do nothing? Matt Vaughn? Once the respected alum and beloved coach, what in heavens name happens to him? Not a happy week in Rocko or Chancellor May’s land this week. Bee will chew on this for the rest of the year: “Hey, this might be better than Katehi, Ha, Ha. . . . . .” Stay tuned, won’t be good.

I guess we have to put the lights on hold. Bad thing. But we now don’t have to worry about firing the coach or hiring a new coach. Good thing. Probably not a bad idea to have the faculty athletics rep having a son on the BB team. Can’t very well lie to Dad can you. . . For long. Feel bad that Rocko inherited this thing.

OK, we can pass on third down. TT can do that as well. As I reported before, according to the WP statistical study of the effectiveness of passing the football. We have: UG for three. Larison for three. 3rd and 3 is about is good as it gets for a completion percentage or by a run by TT. Who would you rather have with the ball? Thanks agalum, great post.