Drove thru with grandkids last summer. Areas great, but I personally did not like sitting in the Macs for lunch with guy next to us carrying a big Glock 9mm hanging on his belt. People do NOT like anyone from CA.

Movie. $9-15 per hour. 1 1/2 time after 9 1/2 hour day or 56 1/2 hour week. Highest paid farm workers in the country by far. Government labor policies are driving these number s up as we speak.

After hearing Hawks speech regarding fostering Aggie ethics of hard work, humility and helping your players and mankind generally before your self, please hear this story of a recent Aggie grad who works as a viticulturist in Napa and Sonoma Counties. She’s an attractive blond gal around 23-24 and is in charge of a lot of vineyards in these parts including looking after vineyard health, irrigation picking time,and watching over the picking crews. Early this week it was 100+ and she was with her crew on the Sonoma Valley west facing slope at around 4:00pm so it was probably 110+/- up there in the full sun. She has a mule, but insists on walking with her crew up and down along the rows, making sure everyone is hydrated and taking salt pills. She is with them the ENTIRE shift! Eats with them, jokes with them, shares family stories with them etc. and speaks good Spanish when about 4:30 shouts went out that a crewman was down probably from heat exhaustion. She promptly called 911 And got him on the ambulance, rode with him to the hospital and stayed with him until he was released (most of these workers have no family in this country). Then she went back to work with the picking crew into the night. That her crews adore her is a given. That she is a young female Anglo “boss” that is considered family by her Hispanic crew is quite extraordinary. This is a story that will never get in the papers but I thought you guys would enjoy it. Hawk would be very proud indeed. By the way, the next day the vineyard owner came to the worksite and said to the crews that due to yesterday anyone can choose not to work today. Not a single member of her crews took that offer. It was 105 the next day.

OK article, but I do not think that a coach at any level should get involved in trying to “psych” the other team out no matter what words are used. Just coach the game already! It certainly didn’t work in this game at all. I also doubt that the Eaters fans are all that pleased with Coach Turners admitted glee after the game for getting a possible new HC position at “a major program.” i really don’t see any upside for this coach after this incident. But I do not know this man so I am not qualified to judge him.

Has there ever been a statement from the AD as to why we cannot get the steam engine back? Does anyone even care anymore except for us? So many schools have potentially dangerous activities during games: artillery firing, longhorn cattle, wolves, falcons flying, alligators, vicious bulldogs and we cant have an antique steam engine that equates with our ag history? Pathetic! WHY!!!

Movie, what brought that to my mind was not really the CJ strategy (which was very iffy in my mind) but going back to the late ‘70’s early ‘80’s, when I think we were playing Poly (?) at Toomey. Our OB (Moe?) was down and we had to start a back up (Johnny____?) who could not pass really well, but could run like a deer. We won and we were big underdogs. Our running QB completely flummoxed the opposing team. We were in the North bleachers and all we saw is this guy running the other way to score- never to our end. Point is, QBs who can run really add a new dimension to the game IMHO. P.S> Maier ran some last year and he was not that bad.

Regarding Maier running the ball, how about rotating Hunter in every few possessions the way we used CJ. But Hunter can pass the ball and CJ had problems with that part of the game; and Hunter really can run the ball well.

AggieFinn I think you are very wrong (I hope so at least). We have a strong passing game which the Bison will be most worried about. We are much faster and more mobile. Can we run the ball is he big question. We never did back in the day with NDSU. Yes this is a biggie. We are probably a 20+ underdog, but that is great. This is what the big time, anything can happen on a Saturday, is all about! I think this will be a high scoring game. Ags by 3.

Brawn versus speed. A very interesting test for the Ags.

If USC offered I think Dr. Blue would get a six figure plus plus raise and many new benies. Ms. Blue would not have to worry about work. But, that said, USC too stupid and proud to deign to hire an AD from UC Davis. So no worries IMHO.

We do not even need a new band. We can hire this band. You all should watch this youtube video of young Germans who belong to “discipline marching bands” or like “Fanfarenzug Dresden e.V., -2016 Marschwertung Harmont. Some say inspired by GI occupation troops bands after WW2. Look at their band leader- no one messing with her IMHO. Probably very little hazing as well.

I agree. I would not like to be with the team traveling home. D needs a lot of work. That said, USD was really cranked up for this game. A 4 year home win streak like they had is an amazing motivating force and it showed. They did not give up. Ags were a bit on the shall we say over confident or sloppy side of things. I find it kind of reminiscent when the USD announcers/media talk about the Ags being “a scholarship program” and USD is therefore the underdog. Boy, did Sochor ever use that pony trick to our advantage in our DII days to motivate his teams. It works!

I love the line in the SD Union article regarding the USD defensive play against Poly: “Except for that issue with the iceberg, the trip on the Titanic was a nice boat ride.” The guy can write a very good and entertaining sports story. Rare talent these days.

Just another observation, but if this CAMB situation was so bad for so long, why did the administration (Emily Galindo?) not see all or much of this “bad conduct” a long time ago? The only possible defense for this is that there were never any formal co plaintiffs, much less lawsuits, against the CAMB so the administration had no notice if the “bad conduct.” This is exactly why this so-called investigation is so flawed. It is based for the most part on subjective evidence (“I was upset”) and outright hearsay. None of the interviews were under oath, so some kids could say anything they wanted. Remember 85% of all CAMB members felt their band experiences were “positive”!

Is this investigative law firm actually independent? As a long time attorney and King SOL Grad I never knew that there was such a thing as a boutique law and “investigative practice” firm that specialized in T9 stuff, much less in sacramento which is not exactly a bee hive of T9 issues (maybe USC?). So, now we have this law firm that specializes in T9 lawsuits and related issues doing this “investigation” by the leading partner of this law firm who was a former university counsel at UCD with many ties to the administration. I would challenge this choice of an investigative firm for a non-biased investigation.. i would ask: is this a “decision done by UCD- now go figure out how we can sanctify/justify this decision”? One question more: “who retained this law Firm”? If it was Galindo, she should start packing her bags. This will not get better for her.

And they cruised by montana today 3-0. Mahalia was outstanding and led all teams in kills!

Like so many others, mine is a mixed marriage. Me Davis; she Berkeley. She says she never went to a football game while she was at Berkeley, but she did date some Cal athletes and will sometimes needle me about the one that became very big in tech and is now a well known bazillionaire. But when we lived in the Sac area she would graciously attend UC Davis games with me and was a stout fan of the Aggies. She says she really doesn’t care who wins this game, but I think she secretly would enjoy an Aggie win. No disrespect for Cal; It’s the underdog thing I think. Both Davis and Berkeley are first class universities with first class football teams. No one will deny that.

Any thoughts on red shirts. Lily is my big concern.

A 20 point underdog? Why even show up?

No Blue and Gold game this year? Or did I just miss something?