Aside from the sports themselves, I always got a laugh out of the names that some of the teams gave themselves. When I first for to Davis, the dorm teams all called themselves Pierce L, Ryerson 3, Nova, etc. but the off-campus teams gave themselves colorful names usually with some off-color innuendo, such as I Phelta Thi, Dixon U or Howard's Ballers. By my last year (and I was one of those rare birds still living in a dorm) the dorm teams had caught on and my team-mates asked me for a suggestion and I said "The Organ Grinders" which they immediately adopted.

So this game does not "count" as far as the NCAA is concerned.

IS UC Merced Div. II? In a conference?

I recall that it has always been the case that a grad transfer does not need to sit out a year. Like Kennedy Koehler, I suspect many graduates of UCD would be highly likely to be able to get into graduate programs in most schools across the country and would want to continue their educations in specialities not available at Davis.

What a great game. To be 15 points up, watch it evaporate then hold on to grab the momentum back and win the game says a lot about this team's character.

It's amazing how Pacific came out with so much energy and the Ags seemed to sag in reciprocity getting sloppy with the ball. Things seem to have evened out now but it's anybody's game to win.

Aggies shooting 57% from the 3-pt. line. Whatever Coach Les did after the sad loss to AA is working. The team is being very aggressive on defense and on the boards.

Bob Williams is doing the color. Ags look okay after a slow (2 of 8) start. They're playing hard.

Thanks, I think that's only the 32nd time I've messed up the time difference subtracting instead of adding the Hawaii time. Guess I haven't been living out here long enough.

In his fourth season as head coach, Bob Hamilton's team lost 8 of their first 9 games. I don't recall anyone suggesting that he should be fired, but then I wasn't in touch with any alumni in those days. He went on to post a 8-4 record in the FWC. My former room-mate had tried out and been cut from that team, but he pointed out to me that Hamilton used those early games to see what his players could do, what combinations worked best, to try new plays or defenses and get the players to understand how to work together as a team. In that and other seasons he scheduled games against the likes of Ohio State, Santa Clara (then a top ten team nationally) and Missouri, almost always on the road. He wanted to his team to learn from the best. May I suggest that Coach Les is doing something similar?

Can't say I'm sorry I missed it, but I liked SloStang's point about at least being there. I hope we have something to build on for next year.

Somewhat reminiscent of the Pepperdine game, the Ags seem to have improved a lot in the second half, but were too far back and did not have enough of an improvement to overcome an 18 point deficit at the half. This is not a good trend and I am sure Coach Les will try to figure out why the team starts so badly.

Ags have 9 turnovers and one assist with 3 minutes left in the half. Glad I can't see it.

I'd like to write that I'm too afraid to watch, but the truth is that I'll be traveling so I won't be able to watch. I hope the Ags can pull of an upset though so I can see at least one more game even if it is against Sac State again.

Dang! I forgot to set my DVR for this morning and missed the ESPN broadcast. It seems odd to me that they would set up the brackets so that so many Big Sky teams play each other so early. Are they trying to save travel money?

I noticed that Big west teams were 5-0 yesterday.

One difference is that the game was at UCI. Still the Anteaters must be pretty good on D. They held Mallette to 4 points on 1/5 shooting and shut out Zidek.

The curse of any sports fan is raised expectations. I spent 8 years at the University of Washington during one of their runs when they rarely lost, often got to the Rose Bowl and were in the top ten of the national polls consistently. My friends there got to the point where they were sorely disappointed if they did not go to and win the Rose Bowl every year. I'm not saying we're there but right up to the EWU game when we were ranked as high as #4, all of us had a national title in our hopes, right? Hence the frustration and some thoughts of sour grapes. I'm hoping that the team gets into the playoffs and that maybe we lost our last two games to two very outstanding teams, meaning that we could see a win or two after this week. But then, I'm an optimist. I actually expected Cal to rip Stanford today.

I find it hard to believe that the Hornets are that much more talented than UC Davis. It just felt like Sac State wanted it more. They seemed to be playing harder. I don't think the coaching staff did the quarterbacks any favors by being so inconsistent with them. Of course, we don't know the reasons behind the vacillation, but a clear difference in the last two games was quarterback play. Still, this is the first year since 1974 when I have been able to see most of the Aggie football games and this chat site has helped me get some of the recent history. An 8-3 season is not bad, no matter what happens next week. I guess we all had our expectations raised by the upset of Tulsa, followed by a relatively weak schedule. Still...

Now I'll settle for any Aggie score.