Meanwhile on one of our opponents' Media Days, Bryce Love is getting flack for missing Stanford's for -- get this, going to class.

https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2018/07/27/stanford-bryce-love-ripped-skipping-media-day-to-attend-class

I could totally see this conflict happening to Aggies. Maybe it already has, and just wasn't publicized.

My Bay Area friends, including my old Davis roommate who's never been to a football game before, are all coming!

I don't think they care too much about the score (hopefully -- I've tried to be realistic with them) but the hype around Aggie sports is finally building to where they can't ignore it anymore.

Lol, I think I may have provided the tip for that.

There was a guy in the FCS Fans facebook group asking for people to talk about their school's traditions so he could write an article, so I wrote a comment about the Helmet Rule.

It looks like he just got most of the info from an article about Petersen from some years ago. Does anybody know if Hawk still enforces it? I thought I read that Gould didn't.

Long bomb, possibly TD, to Does on the first play if the season; calling it now. Gotta instill fear into those hotshot FBS DBs.

Incidentally it worked on a good SDSU defense and that first drive probably would have resulted in a score of it weren't for an unlikely tip to pick.

I love the smell of upsets in the morning

She's a biochemistry and molecular biology major; something tells me she isn't transferring to UC Davis just for basketball...


Which is great!

Wasn't the guy last year kind of a unique case? I remember someone saying he lives in La Mesa which is like five minutes away from SDSU

Although I agree that the #1 QB in a major city seems like the kinda guy who could get good offers later if he has a strong Senior season

sounds more like a Gould Game (TM).

If he's decently athletic it will be cool to see a guy with that kind of height in the Avery/Lawrence/Michael position.

I like the trend of getting children of pros. Probably means they had good mentorship when they were learning to play -- maybe we'll see an advantage in fundamentals?

The Raiders coach let go of the normal punter, Marquette King, a few weeks ago. As far as I know Wadman is currently the only punter on the roster and will be a camp leg at minimum. Since he's technically number one on the depth chart that means two of of 32 starting punters in the NFL right now are Aggies!

I'm not sure how much other UCD news we'll see in the draft since Doss is staying. At least two players UCD has played against recently -- Allen from Wyoming and Penny from SDSU -- were first-rounders.

For what it's worth, on the UC Davis subreddit I see more and more people complaining about a housing shortage since I graduated -- they're growing the university each year and while admin is somewhat keeping pace with freshman dorms, there hasn't been much housing growth for upperclassmen. As a result the private apartments are getting more competitive and more expensive.

So I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that the Sac campus might have housing. And I heard the idea was tossed around a few years ago in strategic planning meetings.

Ranked only behind the greatest tournament upset of all time and a 3OT game. That's some high praise.

I think 69 might have been referring to FERPA, which does cover the release of many education-related pieces of information. It's been a while since I had to deal with it but Wikipedia has a relevant comment (emphasis mine):

Examples of situations affected by FERPA include school employees divulging information to anyone other than the student about the student's grades or behavior, and school work posted on a bulletin board with a grade — Wikipedia

So we maybe won't ever know unless someone from the school leaks it or there are actual criminal charges.

Wait, I am pretty darn sure I went to that in I think 2000. Rail Fair it was called.

It was my reward for learning how to tie my shoes

I'm sad I didn't get to see much of the WNIT, but I am still so impressed with this group of athletes.

The same squad (basically) went 5-2 in postseason play over the last two years, with several of those wins being against Power 5 teams. What a magical era of Aggie WBB.

I shouldn't talk like it's over though. Morgan, Nina, the twins, and co. will be out for revenge in the BWCT next year.

What do y'all think happens if Les gets poached? Does Blue start a national search or promote internally?

Am I looking at it right that the team building is just sheet metal? That looks rough for afternoon games. I hope there's AC or several good fans in there.

Edit: also I like the lockers with player names on top. Details like that matter for impressing recruits I imagine.

Ugly 30ish seconds by the Ags but time's basically run out for Wyoming

UMBC was also pretty low in KenPom ranking too. Makes me feel validated for honestly believing Davis had a chance against Kansas last year. Truly anything can happen in the tournament.

Commentators were saying that you'd expect the 16v1 games to get closer as the 1-and-done system forces the top teams to integrate new rosters of inexperienced players each year; it's been weird that that there have been fewer close calls recently rather than more.

I got to go to the games at SDSU today and Marshall had a strong showing to upset #4 Wichita State there. They played with a lot of confidence and challenged the Shockers at part of the game, like UMBC did. Seems like the key to pulling off big tourney upsets is to go all-in and hope for a little bit of luck for the shots to go down.

At the beginning of this season I would have guessed Printup was being groomed to inherit the role due to his size and experience but as the year progressed Mooney got the most reps.

I didn't realize Nelson was 6'4" though and Jackson seems like a prototypical 3 in addition to getting reps this season so it's a good point, either one could progress enough to earn the role.