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You know, I was going to say it reminded me of that CAL football game I saw in the late 80's.

Whoever was responsible for choosing the location for Hughes Stadium was an unintentional genius. When Sacramento extended its Light Rail South in 2003 the City College stop went right in front of the stadium. Very convenient, unfortunately too late to be useful for Causeway Classics, as I believe the 2004 and 2006 games were not played there.

Like any small campus City College's athletic facilities are pretty bunched together. Union Stadium (baseball) is right across the street. Softball is right next to baseball. It really weirded me out when I was watching baseball + heard the pa system announcing the players in the softball game as clear as day. Nice ballpark, but some of the best seating sections are off limits.

One strange thing about City College. If you wait in the train station at night you are treated to the constant croaking of frogs.

Games at Hughes Stadium are like stepping back in time to the 60''s or 70's (or earlier), everything from the seats to the ticket booths to the concessions. This sort of follows since it hosted the Sacramento Solons baseball team in the 60's, and that might have been the last time major upgrades were made. The stadium is much older than that, however.

As for the game experience I remember hard, uncomfortable benches with no back support. I remember UCD had excellent student attendance, but the SAC State students mostly couldn't be bothered to show up. That was perfectly evident when people were poking fun at the SAC State band + Sac State in general, and no one objected. Don't remember even noticing the track. Of course I only attended two Causeway Classics there (2000 and 2002), so the experience may have been different other times. One thing I'll say is that the crowd for the 2000 game could've fit into Toomey, was not close to a sell- out on account of the weather.

The 2000 game was such a rainy mess that people were standing on the seats. I couldn't believe the nerve of this security guard who singled me out to ask not to stand on the seat. I said, "Look, I can't see the game if I don't. You want me to sit down, you tell all these other jerks to get off the seats. I paid to see this game, not a bunch of other people's butts." He left me alone after that. Typical security guard crowd control tactic they must teach on day one- pick someone you think is a pushover and exert control over them so you look impressive, and the rest fall in line. No way, Jose.

I was at that game too. If memory serves, didn't that game end on a sack of Ricky Ray, 10- 6 ? That would've been 2000. 2001 was at SAC State. 2002 was at Hughes again, and I remember it didn't rain that time.

He can start, but he better not act like a hot dog. Germany is already full of Frankfurters.

They need to have a ranking of the 25 worst teams in the country. What a great motivator. You don't want to be on that list. Guys will try to pick up women in bars with, "Hey baby, I DON'T play basketball for "school name here"..."

I didn't know spitting on the road was a part of college bball. What a dangerous sport! Typos can be fun sometimes :)

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I thought he had a pretty sharp outing when I saw him pitch last year. He barely pitched for a pretty bad L. A. Pierce team 2 years ago for some reason.

For football certainly, definitely basketball. I would be willing to go to Stanford if they followed through on that whole rooter bus idea + buying a season ticket weren't required.

Wouldn't do the same for a Cal match- up though. I thought the university was not worth the trip when I last saw a football game there. I was 9

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The Phil Collins is mostly to calm me down during baseball season :D Also to tick off the neighbor....

I like it. Reminds me of the 80's, a time when life seemed much better. People with portable phones were the ones who looked like the dorks and Pizza Hut was good.

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Thanks, I deleted Salazar. That leaves just 30 players on my roster, and that includes 4 players whom I haven't seen play or heard anything about this off-season (Worthan, Andres Lara, Barraza, and Ouelette). All told there could be as many as 9 new players of whom I've never heard, but it will likely be less.

I had thought Loar might come back as a 5th year senior perhaps, if he had classes to finish up but it hadn't occurred to me he might also have redshirted while attending Chabot. Until recently I had been unaware of how much redshirting and recruiting go on at the junior college level. Then I saw SAC City's roster. At least half of their new players didn't appear on a HS or college roster last year + they have players (1 each) from Honduras and Japan, to say nothing of the ones from FL, WA, and WI. I don't even remember the last out- of state UCD baseball payer. It can't have been Brian Hunt...that was at leasttwenty years ago that he played.

With 2 more wins the men's team clinches a winning overall record, but not in conference (that would be 4). Not bad for a team people weren't sure about at the start of the. season.

Women's bball clinched a winning overall record a couple of games ago. They need 2 more for a winning conference record. Imagine that- they can go 2- 7 and still accomplish it !

I honestly didn't even know ARC had a good football team until I heard about Hunter Rodrigues' accomplishments. Of course I follow community college football not at all so that's to be expected.

Forgot about Blais. You're right. That's too bad about Loar. I wonder if he'll redshirt. Have you seen Guillermo Salazar play at all ? Is he still with the team ?

The problem as I see it with Kelly's situation is he's not a bad hitter. He just needed more time to develop, but he was banished to the bench (and Bily moved into CF) when he struggled. In hindsight they should have given Bily some opportunities in center his junior year, start 2016 with Bily, and let Kelly earn playing time at all 3 outfield positions. I think there may have been too much pressure put on him initially. He had a really good season in Chico. There are some positives you can take away. One is that he hit well with a wood bat. Of course we have to temper our enthusiasm a little with the knowledge that he was facing lower- quality pitching on average than he will see in the regular season.

Brown should do better with a more consistent role. I don't think he's well- suited to be a late- inning reliever. He just seems like one of those pitchers who needs to be or out there at the beginning of games, when he has a little margin for error. I'm encouraged by Denholm coming back to catch. It just doesn't seem plausible that he wouldn't be better defensively than in 2016. There was a tremendous amount of room for improvement there.

I saw packed houses versus Chico State each year. The women's team used to regularly draw more than the men's team does now. Of course they were piggybacking on the attendance for the men's games to some extent.

There's just so many more distractions for young people these days. In my time people were just barely getting used to the internet. You had very few other options in Davis. I went to volleyball games purely because I was bored waiting for football games to start up (and not the girls). There's not so much emphasis on being well- adjusted socially, which includes showing school pride. I do not equate wearing a UC Davis sweatshirt with school pride. Everybody does it. That's what you get if you need a sweatshirt and do most of your clothes shopping at the bookstore..

I continue to think there's just something not quite right with the atmosphere surrounding athletics at UCD. Not the teams themselves. There's just sort of a palpable distance, as if you're watching a favorite movie you haven't seen in a long time, and you realize it's not quite as good as you remember, not even close. I don't feel this kind of distance when I go to Sac State events, but I think that's because the experience really hasn't changed

I think the "do your own thing" vibe these days hurts attendance too.