Okay, sure, I'll take the Aggies this time because WBB was just about the least frustrating team during my time there. #mildAggiePride

As far as I know this is the first meeting of the two schools in any sport since I started taking MBA classes at State. Don't know who I'm rooting for yet but I look forward to watching the stream!

I do think the Aggies will have the edge given that SDSU hasn't shown many positives yet. They struggled to establish separation from Cal State San Marcos when I went to see them play, but other than that I don't know much more about them than what shows on paper.

The game also marks a semi-homecoming for SDSU's Baylee Vanderdoes, who's from my area up in Auburn and is the sister of UCLA's Eddie Vanderdoes, one of the top nose tackles in the nation. Quite an athletic family.

I agree that it should be considered, but if we're ever in a position to feasibly move up, I'm not sure being a middling-bad team in the Mountain West would be preferable to being a decent team in the Big Sky.

Currently the "recognizable" schools in our schedule consist of:
Sac State
Poly
one FBS that slaughters us

If we join the MWC West division (assuming Montana or NDSU join the Mountain to balance us), then our guaranteed in-division opponents would be:
SJSU
Fresno
SDSU
Hawaii
Nevada
UNLV

which, with the exception of SDSU, are relatively mediocre. And considering I just had a close UCLA friend (who considered Davis) ask me if SDSU is even FBS, there will still be some recognition issues for our students. (Being able to get home-and-homes with Pac-12 schools would be the clear upgrade of course.)

Going to a MWC school this year has been interesting so long as we were still good enough to have a shot at the Cotton Bowl, and it's cool to have 40k attendance and all, but really it's not terribly different or more relevant than the Big Sky when it's all said and done. Nor is the talent gap particularly noticeable between the bottomfeeders of the MWC and EWU, Montana, etc.

Coach Hawk was introducing himself to students in Segundo apparently

https://twitter.com/UCDfootball/status/803775443316785152

On one hand, yeah that was surprisingly fast.

On the other -- Ron Gould possibly needing to go was not exactly a hard thing for Blue to figure out midway through this season, or even at the start of it. And if Blue realized at some point that it would be more likely than not that he would need to procure a new coach on short notice by the season's end, then Hawkins might have gotten a heads-up call weeks ago.

Well, all good things have to end sometime.

The rebounding issue is weird, I would have thought that Bertch + team speed and athleticism would keep them competitive there. Still, it's good to see that they've been competitive in every game so far -- not something you see every day in the Aggie revenue sports.

I saw someone mention Mark Johnson, former UCD and Utah State DC in another thread.

Didn't get to catch either of the games but it sounds like the Ags played hard against a so-so Hornets team. The conference race looks relatively open this season so I expect it might be a fun year.

I'm not terribly surprised to hear about SDSU's support -- several players are from the Sacramento area and the campus has a terrific basketball culture. Hopefully one day UCD has the same.