Yep, he’s been to a bunch. Of course I’m biased, but he is in all honor classes and gets straight A s. My son did one of his graduate degrees at Stanford. He loves UCD, and when he was a kid i dragged him to all the home football games and quite a few bb games. But the grandson at this stage has his goal set on Stanford. I wish i had that level of direction at such a young age.

Thanks guys. Grandson is turning out to be a superb basketball player. He’s been playing the Sac area leagues since 5 or 6. He’s only 11, but my son is trying to research best HS options for him now. Interestingly, he currently is 2” taller than Shaq was at the same age. Most kids his age only reach his shoulders in height, so you can imagine he dominates in the paint.

Thanks. Modesto is a bit of a drive. Granite bay might be too far as well. Too bad Sheldon isn’t rated higher academically.

Aside from his MC role, what does Darius do for a living? Seems like a real talented fella.

Movie, i just returned from our escape pad in a remote area of Lassen county. I havent been there since early November in the car (usually fly). The amount of clearing was huge. All the brush and burned trees have been removed along 36. Maybe this management is forced by the fire scars, but I’ve never seen so much activity up there.

On a related note, i saw a commercial from the CA tribes that have gaming, essentially lobbying against Draftkings gaming enterprise presence in CA. I don’t know about the masses, but if i go to an indian casino it’s going to be related to the whole experience, such as a nice meal, concert, and some one armed bandit action. I don’t see online wagering hurting them.

Yeah, my farmer friends were lobbying for that reservoir 20 years ago.

72, too bad the UOP stadium isn't an option. But back to the point, I hope athletics is being proactive on possibilities. I suppose one possibility is making smoked out home games “away” games to the opponents stadium.

Looks like tx commerce is a D2 program. I find it strange that we schedule an away game that far across the country with a D2 school.

And the ladies drop this one in OT 75-84

Shots not dropping. Might be over.

Ags down 66-74, 1 min 37 to go in OT

Ags down 22-31 at half.

40-54 8 minutes to go. Need to make something happen now!

Terrible offensive drought for the Ags. Need to get a hot hand or two.

I’m with DrMike on those Bora fouls. He at least gives us a chance under the glass.

Ags down 27-37 at half. I think Bora has helped on the rebounds.

Really tough competing with these guys under the bucket. Pepper sits early with two fouls.

Here we go. Lets not get bit by the same snake (TOs) twice. Go Ags!

This article discussed some of the strategies used to increase attendance:

How UC Davis set uncommon attendance marks in an uncommon year
https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2021/12/8/football-how-uc-davis-set-uncommon-attendance-marks-in-an-uncommon-year.aspx

"I think it starts months, years in advance," UC Davis Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca said. "The formula is pretty simple but this year presented some big challenges to figure out how we were going to message and get things done in a safe way. I think on the heels of the pandemic, people were so excited to get together and celebrate something like a football game and that helped feed into it. But you look around the area and that wasn't the case everywhere so I think it was a lot of hard work by our external staff to message and communicate some of those pieces."

“ Despite not being able to host large scale events for a full year and not allowing more than 10,000 fans in the gates until the second home game on Oct. 2, UC Davis' entire season attendance net 11,000 more fans than 2019. The Causeway Classic on Nov. 20 saw a stadium record for attendance and average attendance over five home games surpassed 10,000 spectators.

All of that turnout translated to a 29 percent increase in revenue over the 2019 season, including two record-setting single game revenue marks in homecoming on Oct. 16 and the Causeway Classic.”

Two tough losses. As someone else commented, Fullertons D was pesky. Give them credit for coming back after being down 9 with 3 minutes to go. I was waiting for Pepper to get the hot hand but he was limited to 3-15 on FGs. I hope we turn this around for the tournament. So close.