One dimensional but it would have won except the one dimension got hurt. Now we’re in a pickle.

On the other side of the ball, here are Eastern’s first 3 drives of the second half. 68, 91, and 58 yard drives. What happened that made the third quarter so successful for EW, when they struggled most of the game? It wasn’t that the defense was tired, they had half time and Davis had a six minute drive just before the 91 yard drive. It is almost a bad omen when Davis has a team backed up near the end zone.

EWU 3rd EWU25 15:00 KO UCD7 12:12 FG 8-68 02:48
EWU 3rd EWU6 06:24 KO UCD3 03:08 DOWNS 9-91 03:16
EWU 3rd EWU42 01:31 PUNT UCD0 13:08 TD 9-58 03:23

We couldn’t win against a ranked opponent in that year either.

. We went from a pass oriented team that had Ulonzo Giliam and Tehran Thomas, to being a run oriented team that has Lan Larison, and thats pretty much it as a running back. None of our competitors have that lack of depth at the position they are dependent on.

We cant win when we give up 227 yards in a little under 17 minutes in the beginning of the second half.

The obvious thing that has changed is we have a new offensive coordinator and a new QB coach. The QB coach is new to being an assistant coach, is not from the program, and so may have a different approach. Not saying thats a bad thing, but its something different that Miles has to adjust to.

The game was lost due to the turnovers that led directly to points, the lack of depth at running back which is unexplainable since this is now the fourth season where we are more of a run than pass focused team, and the defense allowing the first three drives of the second half to cover 227 yards.
They made a half time adjustment and we had no counter to it.

The box score still has that error listing a defensive lineman who doesn’t wear #70 as a starter in the game in place of Eli Simonson. Four games in a row.

That is called a conditioned response.

Game notes are now found in in the “media center” They even had one for A&M commerce, although I dont know when they put it up. The link to media center is found in the preview, or is for this week.
Here is is:
https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/2023/9/12/media-center.aspx

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There is also the possibility to play FBS teams that aren’t from Power conferences, like San Jose State, Nevada etc. Those two would be great to have on the schedule because the game is likely to be more competitive, and they are close enough so Davis fans could increase the gate receipts.

Coaches take the attitude after a loss that winning or losing was controlled by their team, that is the only half of the equation they have control of. The time to complement the opponent is before the game to make beating them more impressive.

Hawkins didn’t know that we have never beaten EW

just win

Now Davis according to the article linked at top of the thread should be tied for third along with UC San Diego, which is where they belong. Unless Berkeley and UCLA implode Davis is never going to rank above those two.

To a large degree a UC is a UC. You have to get down to major departments to distinguish between them. Davis was historically harder to get into than UCI and UCSB, and easier the UCSD. The only way UCD is behind all those schools is if you rate the smell of salt water highly as one of your criteria. Some of the UC campuses are nice, but isolated from town. If you walk out the front gate of the campus, what’s there?

That places Davis 6th among state schools, following Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia.

Chubba had a dominant series in the third quarter when he got mad after getting called for a facemask. Chubba needs to find a way to be pissed off more often.
Porter Connors was back as a linebacker, and had a great series there. He appeared to me to be playing middle linebacker. They play linebackers in multiple positions, i wonder how they do that with different coaches for inside and outside linebackers.
Nick Eaton and Da’Von Frazier both listed the “Rush” position in the depth chart, but they were both in there together a lot.
It is surprising how many plays the “backups” are in on defense when the game is still undecided.

On the third game if the season they are are still copying the same error and listing a defensive lineman as #70 in the list of starters in the box score.
70 Roncevich,Luke DL
Should be 70 Eli Simonson OL

70 isn’t even Luke’s number.

Davis’ D really dominated the SUU offense until Davis got what seemed to be a comfortable lead. Even in the Commerce game Davis let up in the second half and let them put up respectable stats even though they were never in the game. Last year Davis was actually the best team in the big sky as far as points allowed in league play, but near the middle of the pack in other defensive stats. The defense either loses focus, or plays soft when they have a bigger lead.

Minor Mysteries of the Depth Chart:
Uilsoni Amone has been listed on the depth chart for two years and according to his profile has never played. Meanwhile Suani and Toki are not listed at that position, where they have both played and in past seasons started games.
Porter Connor is listed as a linebacker in depth chart and on roster as a DB, a change they made a few weeks back.
Up to this point last season and this, the backup to Larison has been Matteo Perez, but they don’t list him.