CSUDH should be a junior college, like Utah Valley used to be. It should be demoted to continuation school.

SAC State was an affiliate member for baseball, and I believe they still are for soccer.

There are fewer sports at CSUS, and their athletics program gets money from the state (whereas UCD's relies entirely on donations). The trade-off there is the govt. gets to meddle as much as it wants. Of course the on- campus athletics facilities are smaller, mostly pre- Vietnam War (except for the stickball sports). They've been there so long Tom Hanks probably thought they were old when he was a student. Hey- oh !

But the thing is when you have a smaller program that doesn't spend millions of dollars on a 1 win field hockey team (especially when you already have a run down the field with a stick making other women less pretty sport), and have small, outdated facilities that don't require as much upkeep you have money for things like lights for your baseball stadium and travel for your teams, so more trade- offs I guess.

While we're at it, why not invite Cal State Monterey Bay ? No one will root against the otters. If you do you hate animals !

We needed to lower the average conference gpa

Well that will stink for Bakersfield having to play on July 1st. No one else will be. They'll just have to play with themselves :D

I like this. it's as if you went to your high school reunion and all your old friends said they were going to move into your neighborhood.

Next step should be to add San Bernadino. In the CCAA days of old the Coyotes used to beat the Roadrunners (Bakersfield).

This should help out baseball's scheduling. That's six fewer non- conference games to schedule.

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Thank you. Almost makes me wish I hadn't edited it to make 6thman look silly...haha. Oh, what the flock ? I'll re- type it, albeit with different timing and a new fact I learned from Wikipedia about USD.

Oh, you had to go and spoil my fun with facts. I'm going to edit my last post so you look like a weirdo. :D

You know what would be really good right now ? A Wikipedia article about viejas.

I have only a rudimentary understanding of football. I don't know what the flock you guys are talking about most of the time. Fly offense- is that where everyone pretends they're Peter Pan, or does someone put a bunch of garbage on the opposing team bench to attract flies and distract the defensive coaches ? I mean you might as well run a mosquito offense while you're at it. Football has so many subtleties. Is this why they have a women's huddle every year, to pass our glossaries of all the football lingo ? There are men who could benefit too !

You know, I saw about 36 players practicing at that fall game, and I can name maybe 28 of them at most (assuming everyone with eligibility remaining returned except for Ryan Steindorf), and that's including the freshman players whose names we've thrown around here (and 2 we haven't) There are going to be a few names on the roster none of us recognize that might make a big impact. I'm assuming they'd be mostly infielders, maybe another catcher.

I was surprised I didn't see Guillermo Salazar play. He's easy to recognize looks like a slugger, and everyone calls him "G" when he's at bat. Wonder if he graduated. Maybe Proaggieguy or Aggiebaseball saw him in one of the other games.

I looked over the schedules for the last six seasons (since UCD joined the Big Sky). The only teams that have played the Aggies each of those years are Cal Poly and SAC State. The hornets have been the last opponent each of those seasons. The teams that have played the fewest times (3- Montana and Idaho State) are on the schedule next year. The ones that have played the most (5- NAU and PSU) probably won't be. And we know one of the ones with 4 ((Weber State) isn't

They are constantly balancing and re- balancing so the most likely candidates to fill the remaining two conference slots are

Montana State, Northern Colorado, and Southern Utah. Since neither MSU nor NC played the Aggies this year and SUU has played each of the last 3, the Thunderbirds are the likely odd ones out.

This means we would play Montana State at home and Northern Colorado in Greeley (based on the last games played. So, 11 games..6 on the road.

Per Idaho State's website (future schedules), the Aggies host them 10/13. Their first game is 9/1 and Davis is week 7. You could probably put placeholders for the weeks you haven't determined yet to make it easier to visualize if you wanted. You know there's at least 1 week before Stanford, 2 between Idaho and Idaho State, and 1 between Montana and EWU.

This kind of helps me with the baseball schedules:

9/1 TBA (@San Jose State? )
9/8 TBA (San Diego ?)
9/15 @Stanford
9/22 Idaho
9/29 TBA
10/6 TBA
10/13 Idaho State
10/20 @ Cal Poly
10/27 @Montana
11/3 TBA
11/10 @Eastern Washington
11/17 SAC STATE ?

According to this model you'd have 11 games. Most likely bye week would be the week of 11/3, but it might not be. 9/8 is probably not a bye and a logical landing spot for San Diego.

We'll, I can tell you who they're not playing- Weber State (according to their website)

Did you see the headline on the SAC State website ? "UC DAVIS uses late run to eventually beat men's basketball." Huh ? Odd phrasing.

The baseball schedule is close to finished. Just one more series and some mid- week games to figure out.

Edit: Uh duh on me. They released it today !

We'll see more Printup as soon as Coach Les gets back from Staples with the paper and cartridges X-)

lol. And I thought I was the only one who liked to piece together schedules

We'll, I'll be. They released it today.

Well, since FBF has spilled the beans (not really, Oregon just released their schedule). I'll fill in another series I know about + Mark it with "tentative" so nobody books a hotel on my say- so, not that it's a real destination anyway. Heard it from some guy at the game.

Good catch ! I'll update the schedule.