I think defensive end is a position we really need someone to step up at. I notice that Luka Nixon isn’t on the roster; he looked like he was really coming on as a player but then was beset with injuries.

I’m hoping our defense can be better. it seems we have quite a few good players and good depth all around, but the results have been average at best. We’re over 100 yards a game worse than the top three defenses in our league and we were next to last in defensive yards per rush at 5 yards a carry.

I notice that Tattersall isn’t here for spring. I suppose he’s finishing the semester at Cal. I don’t recall that I’ve seen what his academic standing is, is he graduating from Cal, and coming here as a grad student?

Good catch.

yes, that’s right. But they tore the 59000 seat stadium down and replaced it with a 10,000 seat one, so it’s not the cavernous place in the movie.

Kezar Stadium now has about the same capacity as Aggie field.
What a historic place. Home field at different times for USF, Saint Mary’s, Santa Clara, the 49ers and the Raiders.

Kezar stadium has fresher air.

I hope he is given the opportunity to have input. We certainly have a few experienced veteran coaches on offense.
The offensive line was coached last year by a coach who moved up from a lower level of football. We might need some mentorship there.

Impressive that CCSF won three mythical national titles while he was offensive coordinator. At CCSF they had exceptional stability in the coaching staff Allen spent the first 25 years there with the same head coach. WSU was the opposite this last year with half the coaching staff and his friend, the head coach, getting fired over the vaccination mandate mid season. They still had a decent season, amazingly.

We needed a wide receiver coach with all the new guys this year. He has impressive resume. I’m kind of curious about the offense CCSF ran when he was offensive coordinator. He’s been associated with Nick Rolovich who has favored the run and shoot for years but I’m guessing that wasn’t CCSFs offense.

Commerce Texas, with a student population of 12,000 in a rural town of under 10,000 you can imagine the students dominate the town, a quarter of the residents are between age of 18-24. Back in the 70s Davis was limited to 18,000 students so as to not overwhelm the town of somewhere around 30,000 residents.

it will be interesting to see if they can sustain that without the strong start to the season.
The team has markedly less publicity on their web site than they had prior to the pandemic. One can glean from the team’s twitter account that there is some kind of practice going on but is this spring practice? Or just some organized workouts? I think the team needs to publicize itself because of the lack of media exposure in their market.

Story can’t figure out if they are football or soccer.
I think the story was written by artificial intelligence.

https://sportsnewest.com/2022/02/23/it-helps-being-the-camels-inside-college-footballs-most-unlikely-recruiting-success-story/

Almost all doctors have some speciality, and they’ve missed out on a lot of pay getting their training, but that wasn’t my initial point. My point was that a family with the primary earner being a young professional may have may have financial incentives to leave California. I’m stunned that that seems hard to believe. There are lots of jobs which don’t pay more in California and lots of states where the taxes and cost of living are less. Tennessee happens to be one where doctors make as much or more money on average, cost of living is 18% less and they don’t make the doctor work for more than a month to pay their state taxes.

According to zip recruiter the average MD salary in Tennessee is greater than California.

The era of people making more money in California is in the past.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-Physician-Salary-by-State

Also an Orthopedic surgeon makes a lot more than an Obstetrician.

I have a daughter graduated UCLA med. First thing after medical school a five year residency at approximately $59,000 a year at a major midwestern university, a peer institution with Davis, but in a larger metropolitan area.
After residency which is where MDs learn their specialty they then can make significant income but they have spent four years in medical school racking up debt, and three to five years in residency making a token salary. But they have a large debt that isn’t tax deductible, and states like California tax them like they are the “rich” and they have no retirement vesting, probably no house equity, California has a large population of poor people which means doctors who serve a cross section of the population have a lot of patients with Medicaid which doesn’t pay well. The cost of living here is high, and medical salaries are not correspondingly high. So moving out of state might make sense.

Roster listed Jacob Thomas as an assistant coach for the offensive line although he was hired last winter as a quality control assistant; we had two seasons last year so apparently he earned a promotion.

Looks a lot less like a rebuilding year with Gilliam and Babb.

What is the rule on players participating in spring practice, do they have to be enrolled?
I assume spring practice is in the spring quarter this year. It would be a plus if the transfer QB and other transfers are in spring practice,.

I’m not saying why they left.
I’m just saying that for young doctors who maybe came out here to do a lowly paid residency or fellowship, who are in their thirties and whose debt may exceed their assets, California is not a good place to try to make up for getting that late start in building wealth.

Young MD probably has substantial student debt and can probably make as much money elsewhere as in Sacramento.
You might not but a lot of people would move for a $20 000 increase in take home pay.