This was the first time I was able to get to the game since the championships started rolling in. The women play some very entertaining basketball when they have momentum. Third quarter was hard to watch, though I agree that seemed to be an anomaly born from picky officiating and a physical opponent

Been a while since I turned off a UCD sports game because I felt terrible for the other team.

Anything other than a conference championship for this team would now definitely be a surprise

I'm thinking the entertainment competition argument holds less weight than it used to. All three teams have Netflix as their biggest competitor for eyeballs on a saturday night these days

Thanks for stopping by and the quality writeup. UCSB looks to be for real this year. I almost went to the game tonight; if I was feeling better and the weather was nicer it would have been cool to see.

Wouldn't be surprised to see y'all turn heads in March...

We had one great year, but we have tons working in our favor.

I looked up some comparisons between the Ags and EWU and NDSU a while ago; the amount of people and money the UCD community has compared to those to schools, and especially EWU, is insane. We could compete with EWU dollar for dollar with only a fraction of the donor, sponsor, and admin interest because of how many more resources we have kicking around.

But I'll parrot others on here that I'd love to see us become an FCS power first. We can do that with pretty much the current level of interest and investment. Davis could potentially be one of the highest-profile MWC schools too, but it would require much more buy-in than the school's teams currently have.

Hawaii's in-house stream had more features than this.

Ags up at the half. ESPN crew is pretty confident in their prediction that UCD will be contenders

Ags lose a tough trip to the island.

The deliberate missed FT-> kickout for the 3 was a thing of beauty though

Nice run by UCD to tie it at the half!

Aggies struggling to make shots. Hawaii isn't playing terrifically on offense either, but still is making way more plays than the Ags

Aggie basketball is back in the most Aggie basketball way possible

It looks like it, with the feasibility study and all. Student body size isn't a tremendous factor if they have the money.

Of course, for football there's always a chance of independent, or Big Sky associate membership. Doesn't necessarily imply a conference realignment like discussed in this thread.

So.... Dixie State has a big Athletics Announcement scheduled for Friday
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FCSFansNation/

Incidentally, the WAC is having a press conference the same afternoon:
https://www.wacdigitalnetwork.com/

Credit to someone on the FCS Fans Nation facebook page for discovering these; thought I'd share

Showed a (sound-less) clip of Coach Hawk giving his acceptance speech for Coach of the Year, and then as they transitioned back to the game they talked about how Hawkins took the team to the playoffs and came so close to upsetting EWU

Huh today I learned the CFL once had teams in the US

Nice shoutout to Hawkins and UC Davis there

It's Idaho's fault, if anybody's. Each team only gets up to two protected rivalries as I understand it. I'm not sure how many Big Sky schools other than the California teams took advantage of that though before Idaho became Montana's second. Even though the California teams probably screwed up the conference schedules more than most, it's still a stretch.

Corey Hawkins was leading the career list a bit too his senior year if I remember right.

The thing about good players from top-flight programs is they tend to get drafted before their senior year, or at least that's true in Men's.

Marsh said on the radio broadcast that TJ did indeed attempt to call a TO, but the ref didn't see it

Spencer has had such an interesting career. Never a week 1 starter, but played 2-3 positions depending on how you count them, had PT all four years, had passing, rushing, and receiving TDs, and started and won a Causeway Classic. He's kinda like the Michael Onyebalu of the football team

I bet we'll need a few more years of dominance first. Even FBS teams sometimes play body bag games at P5 schools