This just in: NCAA settles player’s lawsuit regarding pay for play. $2.8 billion! So now the question is who is paying for this? And it turns out, incredibly, that the smaller leagues will be paying almost a third of the settlement (990 million dollars) and they were not even named in the lawsuit! This development is way too complicated to even consider summarizing it here. It it appears to be very flawed and poorly thought out. Will a soccer player be paid the same as a star quarterback? Will women’s sports be paid the same? How does Title IX fit in? Are players now employees? Congress has to step in here and try to straighten things out if it is even remotely possible.

Is anyone seriously challenging MH for the QB position?

So plough will be HC/OC?

I was wondering the same thing. Or maybe for more money for the assistant coaches. So is it set that plough will act as the OC on top of his HC duties? I sometimes wondered if football teams were a bit over coached, but then when you factor in recruiting maybe not so much.

Don’t these guys scout out the possibilities before they jump into the portal. I know that Brooke Yanez was actively contacted by oregon before she Jumped. By the way what is the status of their scholarship while the are in the portal?

Good information toke. Stay on this as we need you.

I’m wondering is this the what the future holds for college sports? Everyone hits the portal because why not give it a shot? Is there any disadvantage for doing so?

I’m a big Mazzie fan especially when she was mocked in her freshman year by I recall the Hawaii guys for her “awfully hard to pronounce funny name” yes she is amazing now and finally getting her appreciation by many fans.

Didn’t we always have a “Managerial Economics” major which is in essence is a business degree program run out of the Ag Econ program. I also recall that in the sixties or thereabouts after longstanding complaints from the State University system UC ceded all lower division business administration majors to the CSUS as well as undergraduate nursing and a few others I don’t recall. The UCD a program was an end around that prohibition and was not appreciated by the CSU people at all (read sac state). So I would think a revision of this decision would be somewhat newsworthy and I haven’t seen anything about it in the news. But if true I support it 100%. It’s a very popular major as I recall.

Bob Hamilton. I saw him once at a game at Hickey Gym call a time out and tell the team who he was very upset about to “go coach your selves” and then go into to the stands with his towel in his mouth. I actually thought I was seeing something, but no he never came back. Hamilton was a great person and coach. Who would do anything like that now?

I do indeed remember Tom Woods and he was an outstanding player and yes an excellent passer. If memory serves he shared the floor with Gordon Barranco who was himself a great guard and later an esteemed judge of the Alameda County Superior Court. Other outstanding players of those 60s teams were as I recall Al Steed, and John Frost among many others. These guys would now be in their 70s. I wonder how their lives went after UC Davis?

Great Washington post article on Teresa Gould being the new Pac 2 commissioner today. She is In almost an impossible situation. I always thought she was just great when she was here. Can she pull this very bad situation out? She needs new conference members and she is forbidden from poaching the WAC by contacting rules. Yet she sits on a PAC 2 endowment of millions of dollars. Could she patch together a mix of BWC and BWC schools to do this. You only have to have 6 colleges with 6 sports to do this according to NCAA rule as I understand the NCAA rules. Should this be an option? Or even possible?

Don’t be so depressed. We just beat Baylor! In equestrian. . . Well, some good news does along ways.

Jalen Harris. Looking at his clips I would have to agree that highlight film is hardly the way you’d recruit a player. But his is is pretty good nonetheless. His stats on the other hand are very impressive as is his speed. Very very elusive as well. What Larison has brought as he matured is a mix of Ulo elusive ability and speed. Ulo was fast but not at LL’s level. JH has LL speed and maybe a tad more. Being so close at Berkeley he was probably very well scouted. So I am not surprised that the coaching staff is very happy to get him. I can’t wait to see him play!

OK here we go: you get an A for a first round KO. The other fighter a 0. No credits for possible brain damage from a concussion. An A for an arm lock submission. Zero for the loser. Again no credit for possible oxygen deprivation to the brain (which is apparently not an issue with sac state education). Look we are not here talking about women’s wrestling, or boxing which are acceptable sports, but full contact no holds bar fighting. Uriah Faber style. Really sad to see him a UC Davis grad advancing this really stupid program. Oh, by the way who do they compete against? Answer: Them selves. No other school would even consider this ridiculous program.

I hope she picks up Morgan’s spin move as well. With that skill set could exceed Morgan’s since she is a proven three point shooter. She’s the future heart of Aggie WBB!

Well, this is pretty cool. Finally we get lights! Portable or not they will be a great enticement to go to a game. And these guys apparently are very serious. Portable sports lights are not cheap. 6 lights go for around $3300 a month. 8 for around $4400. Go to SportsLightsSupply.com to check out the latest. Maybe UCD will be able to help?

A couple of questions: what level of play is the pioneer league? Will the Aggies be able to use the lighted field too? I.e to play night games?

I think that there are several other players who could have jumped into the portal but didn’t. Most notably LL and TT. That is a testament to their loyalty to the team, university and, most importantly to their teammates. That intangible kind of stuff is noted by the scouts as a component of a winning personality and a strong locker room culture. I would empathize that I am in no way criticizing those players who did transfer out. Every case is different. Simply said,. Eli is a great player and person.

Rugby is such a great spectator sport! My best friend played in law school. Especially when you can get right onto the sidelines and see the action up close. I used to ride my bike to campus on a Saturday and see the men’s and woman’s games for awhile right on Russell. They were so entertaining to watch. And UCD was then a very good rugby team both men and woman. We used to beat Stanford and BYU regularly. Cal not so much. It is Such a great sport for young men and woman to play college sports who can’t quite make to and ICA D1 team. Looking good for our current squad. I wish we had a Dean witter guy who could write a check to at least fund a full time rugby coach like witter did for cal. Then we could compete on a level playing field with the Cal’s and byu. Hey, it’s now an official Olympic sport!