Cal Poly cant be really excited about this. Maybe Humboldt goes D1 next? Great school. Cousin went there and had a great career with the forest service afterwards.

MTB. Your points are good, but they don’t address why Irvine is now pretty much dominating BWC sports and we are not doing as well; particularly BB. Irvine is just as hard to get into as Davis, yet they seem to do better. May just be the SoCal/Urban population advantage? I haven’t a clue. Maybe lights? Irvine does have lights, but Dobbins appears to be a better venue overall and has over twice the seated capacity. This might be 0ne of Rocko’s first challenges- upgrade Dobbins.

Hey, lets just move on with this. What Gunrock did or did not do is protected by HIIPA now and thats very good. Now its Gunrock, the horse versus Elbie, the shark. But Elbie is a very feminine name. Gunrock is a very masculine name. Now both non-binary? OK with me.
Let’s get onto baseball! BAD. . . .

Elbie is a shark? I thought she was a SI swimsuit cover. What idiot thought that up? Not Universal Pictures for sure. Question: is Elbie a white shark, a black shark, a mixed race shark. Apparently, Elbie is non-binary, but does (it) identify as a he or a she? Hey, this stuff matters nowadays. No answers. No such problems with our “Gunrock.” He is a gay male horse who identifies as female and dresses in bright blue and is also speechless. But at least he/she has a family: think “Man-O-War”. How’s that for dropping on Elbie?

On another note. We were just swept by the “Sharks,” no, the 49ers, no, the Dirtbags, or Elbie. Who cares, we lost badly.

More importantly, it seems pretty obvious that Irvine is becoming the very dominant member of the BWC. dominating MBB, WBB (except for us), WVB, WP, BB, SB; it appears that Irvine is on a roll.
As to the LBS losses it was just another sweep by other BWC teams. We are dead last in BB. When were we ever that before? And going down and down over the last years.
I hear that our BB HC is revered and loved, but this has to be dealt with. Cut the sport? Not likely. New coach? Maybe a new name for BB?

A view from afar. I second 72s comments. I am not a big BB fan, D1 or MLB. I did go to some games back in the day when the Aggies had some very good teams i n the D11 era. Then the old players and supporters built the stadium (which is still one of the best in the west, albeit, no lights). Big support from alums for thr Dobbins upgrade. No, I do not see BB being cut. UCD Administration wants to be on top of the BWC and the BSC and cutting athletics is not on it’s agenda. And, Stanfords recent decision to reverse cutting 11 sports will not be lost on Rocko Deluca. So, no BB cuts this year or ever. Better coaching, more money will save the day. Maybe, lights? Hot night in Davis: lets go see the Aggies!! Then the Grad- Oh, sorry misprint there........

Maybe off subject a bit, but Kenedy Brown, 6’2” All-Freshman/All BWC pitcher 1st Team is probably the best pitcher in the BWC this year and maybe one of the best in all of California. But, is she safe from Oregon? Or anyone else? Is there a way for the public to see who is on the Portal? Is there any limit on poaching players by contacting them and quietly telling them to get on the portal so they can be accessed by the other team?

SLO. Intriguing. Again I say as I did with Blueforce: where is the actual evidence! Enough with the: “I heard from a coach. . . . And they said. . . “. All BS unless you can back it up with the facts.. sorry. Not a credible comment on an important issue.

I would like to believe Yu Blue, but I would like to see the actually numbers. Which is about as likely as me getting to see the nuclear codes.

And probably saved UCD/Cal field hockey as well.

Some think that the dramatic increase in applications to the UCs this year was due to the fact that UC suspended testing for Covid reasons. We will see if that takes place again after this announcement. I also wonder if this will have a negative effect on CSU applications as the line between UC and CSU qualifications gets diminished with this decision. Yes, I also think this will have a noticeable and positive effect on athletic recruitment at all the UCs.

River, you are very right. My son went to SF State recently. It is not a nowhere school at all as a university it is probably the best in the CSU system. I meant it in the sense of a major football program. Like on a CV. My son is doing very well with a SFS degree and that is all that counts for me.

Great quote! It all started with Jim Sochor; he was a smallish guy from a nowhere school. No head coaching experience that I know of. Who was the genius who hired him in the first place? That person deserves a lot of credit for this whole “Davis thing” and I have never heard the persons name. Does anyone know? Another thing I might add, is that Jim Sochor was an inspiration for many other Davis coaches besides football, including Bob Williams and Jennifer Gross. Fairly recently Jen Gross commented that very early in her career at Davis she was in a game at the Pav and her team was not doing well and she became very visibly upset with her team. Jim watched it all from his usual spot in end zone bleachers. Apparently after the game he approached Jen and commented about the scene of her being so upset with her team. We will never know what he said, but we can guess it was something along the line of: “that was not very cool, coach better”, etc. apparently she really got it; and look at her now! One of the best in the business and Jim played a part in that story as well..

Can you link it or us?

And their woman’s BB team loses $2.5+/-M a year and they are really bad. Not a good time to be a bear fan.

Good questions Movie. I dont know. My uniformed opinion: the stadium rebuild just killed them. Season tickets so expensive now even my most faithful Bear fan buddies will not be attending anytime soon. So Sad..

Maybe a bit off topic, but not much. For whatever reason, the NYT has been running an ongoing stream of articles on UC Berkeley’s athletic program thru the pandemic. Yesterday the article concluded that Berkeley got thru the pandemic fairly well (did not have to eliminate any sports), it now has to go back to the systemic issues it has been facing for years: chronic deficits and structural debt. That debt is now $438M which is 36% more debt than the next worse school. That debt has to paid off like any other debt does and that payment is an anchor chain around the neck of the entire program. Under Armour now wants out of its apparel contract of $86M. Cal has to “borrow” another $10M of institutional money to finance next season. So let us compare ourselves with Cal. Cal’s sports budget is $97M. Ours: $39M. Number of sports: Cal: 27 Us: 25. GSR: Us: 97 (best in the BWC). Cal: 87. So very close there. We only lack: men’s gym, and woman’s crew. I think the NYT point for this article is that Cal is the “Canary in the Coal Mine” for quality Big Time college sports. Dying in the cage but not yet dead. I think we come out of all this much better than our friends at Cal. I am very proud of us. I wish Cal well. (wife a Cal girl). But she is SoCal and a Dodger fan to this day. And I cannot stand for that. Families are very hard these days. . . .

Erinn go Bragh! I hope to visit the Emerald Isle in the Fall. Have many ancestors there. Please VAX up my beloved Ireland!

The kid looks great and is very fast. But although Speed is good, it is not everything. Remember Reynaldo Nehemiah? World class 110 HH. One hit and he was done. I like UG, Lar and Trent. Fast and can take the D1 hit. Hope this guy can as well. I do like that we are moving toward speed as an overall team endeavor.

She is the best! I have worried that Stanford might get her after Tara retired. But not so! She is a monument to Aggies sports.Just love the girl!

So shifting the subject ever so slightly, I would add that the whole subject of showers or the importance of showers and related privacy is rapidly changing since the pandemic. Daily showers are, says a NYT article today, unhealthy, bad for the environment, wasteful of water and are pretty much unnecessary. So the less showers, the less the potential for exposure to others period, whether it be from transgender people or anyone else for that matter. Funny how some “problems” find a way of solving themselves. The shower at my now open gym: closed permanently. Read the article. Informative and funny.