Davis Enterprise: UCD football signs 11 new Aggies; spotlight shines on offense

Quotes from Hawkins:

“Excellent, just excellent quality,” came the coach’s reply when asked about his bumper crop. “It was kind of an abnormality our first go-round, we signed 32 guys. This group is smaller in number, but really, really impressed with overall athleticism. Again, the Davis model is the well-rounded guy, the good student who has done some other things than sports … and played some other sports.

“I like (all that) about this crew, and a lot of these guys have been on championship teams and have that expectation and know what that’s about.”

“Next go-round we’ll probably be in the three or four range,” explains Hawkins, who spoke with The Enterprise by phone from Idaho, where he’s visiting family for the holidays. “We have some guys (now), walk-ons who deserve some (financial support). We’ll see how it shakes out.”

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/ucd-football-signs-11-new-aggies-spotlight-shines-on-offense/

Welcome to 'Shredville': UC Davis building national name with local talent

Great article about Bryce Peterson, Evan Bearden and how the Aggies are mining the valley for recruits:

https://www.frontrowpreps.com/posts/welcome-to-shredville-uc-davis-building-a-national-name-with-local-talent#.XBsJVvI8MhQ.twitter

Here's a list of other FCS HC changes:



http://footballscoop.com/news/2018-19-nfl-college-head-coaching-changes/

Nice. It will be fun to see him in action again.

Great summary!

I wonder if some of these TE's might end up playing some other positions. Seems like we have a bumper crop of TE's.

I think Les is a great coach in many ways also as I noted above. I just think he needs to step back and calm down once his anger builds up to the point that it's more detrimental than productive. We recruit high character, intelligent players who most likely do not respond well to angry outbursts or threats like he made in the Enterprise article.

That's a huge loss for them if he's out. I remember Tim Plough saying that Tiuli "can ruin the game for you if you don't slow him down."

Why was Tiuli suspended?

Great job, CA Forever! :cheer:

We're a dark horse for Dixon but fingers crossed...

Ooof...pretty hard hitting article...

Great post, 69aggie. Puns aside, there's a lot of valuable wisdom in Zen Buddism.

Awesome. Good for Pele!

You're right, Les seemed almost unengaged in the early stages of the first half. I didn't get a particularly good feeling about that though since he was obviously shaking up the line up and his body language looked like he was just barely tolerating what he was seeing. He got more animated as WJU built the lead.

I was observing the the body language of the players too. To me it looked like some players like Schneider and Mooney were visibly frustrated and Fuller seemed to be confused about what Les was upset about with him and, at times, looked tentative on the floor from it all. Other players more or less just walked by the coach without eye contact after Les had pulled them from the game. Les had a quick hook in the second half if a player got beat on defense also.

I think Les is an excellent tactician of the game and makes really good, strategic decisions in the heat of the moment during the game. I also think he needs to practice some self-control with his anger and find more positive ways to communicate with his players and to motivate his team.