I haven't seen anything about potential transfers coming in but I always wonder if any Aggies will enter the portal now that there's so much NIL money to being thrown around by the big time programs. It's encouraging that Lan Larison turned down a $400,000 offer from the University of Missouri to stay here for his final year and that TY Johnson turned down a big time offer in basketball to stay in Davis as well. Those two athletes exemplify the very best in Aggie Athletics. It also says a lot about the tight, family culture that the coaches at Davis build for their teams.

University of Arkansas is what I heard BG.

As to Aggies turning down NIL money to go play at another school, an almost always 100% more athletically centered school, I think it's a testament to the value of a UC Davis education...and also the commitment by the players who choose to come here - and finish what they start.

Nobody will put their name in until after the playoffs. Lan didn’t last year, but SOMEHOW schools were able to reach out with cash!

I figure the same to be true this year with at least one of our high profile returners. We’ll see if our collective can come up with some cash to help them make the decision to stay.

My speculation is we are near the end of the graduate transfer era due to the COVID year aging out., and transfers will be more juniors and below. Davis has benefited from those types of transfers. I think we may see highly regarded high school recruits who didn’t earn playing time moving between teams as much as big programs poaching stars.

Is there a public listing of these benefits?

not that i know of. most of this is just word of mouth.

I'm curious to see if this transfer portal encourages more kids to transfer to FCS schools to keep playing football and go to school. Davis is such a good school academically. If we can continue the progress on the field, I'm betting we are going to see more higher-rated California kids choose to transfer to Davis in the coming years.

A bunch of Sac State players have entered the portal. Some jumped in right after the Causeway loss and more since Andy Thompson resigned to take a position at Stanford. Troy Taylor quickly built the Sac program largely around transfers and I would expect that, when they hire a new head coach, he'll recruit heavily from the portal hoping to find players who'll make an immediate impact.

Just hope we can hang onto Meyer. Cal just might to try pick him off like with Tedeye. Certainly did work for them getting Tedeye.

I think he doesn't have any eligibility left

More concerned about the twins.

The future is now:

“NEW OPENING!

The University of "…………..” has just announced that the position of “Associate Coach for Transfer Portal Analysis and Player Acquisition” is now open for applications.

QUALIFIED APPLICANTS MUST HAVE:
Division 1 successful athletic coaching experience
Either an MBA or JD degree from an accredited Institution
Either an undergraduate degree in psychology or sociology
Verified community volunteer experience I with the underserved
Verified experience in fiscal matters including monetary settlements (especially with players parents)
Verified history of obtaining major donations from all interested sources
No major heart or other stress related health issues

Compensation is open for negotiation”

A lot of schools are calling this position “football general manager” and giving it an executive pay boost from director of personnel. What I don’t know is if this is generally the HC’s hire or reports to the AD. Or who’s head rolls if the W/L column goes south for a particular team due to transfer portal.

FWIW Meyer is a grad student already so IDK if that limits his transfer opportunities. My understanding is that the people who jump twice typically use their one-time-no-consequence portal transfer in undergrad then use the older grad transfer rules (can go to a new school for Masters or PhD so long as your old school doesn't have the same program) to squeeze an extra year at a third school.

What I don't know is if he transferred as a "portal transfer" or "grad transfer" or if the NCAA considers that a difference / requires them to be in the above order.

This is the 4th year that David Meyer has played in 10 or more games. He has no more eligibility. 21,22,23,24. He was at Poly in 20 (21 spring) but Poly only played a couple of games.

Hey I want to apply for this job! It looks amazing!

Bump.

EWU's Visperas goes to . . . Tennessee Tech

RB from Pitt, Rodney Hammond, coming to Sac.
2h

Sac also brought in a QB from Tulsa. It'll be interesting to see if Marion rolls with Conklin or the FBS transfer.

No incoming transfers that I have been to find, but the handful of offers that are on the recruiting thread. I'm sure that we'll see some incoming guys. We have plenty of holes to fill on offense.

We should go after some of those USC kids. That whole team is transferring.

I think just going after USC kids is easier said that done in the NIL era. Even benchwarmers at some of the big name universities are looking to get a big pay day. For some it will happen, for others it won't.

Sac State is killing it in the portal right now though. Marion is going to have them reloaded with talent immediately. It's just a matter of implementing his plan which is a coin flip if it works in year 1.

Josh Gale has entered the portal

Josh Gale

2024: 16 rec / 208 yds / 1 TD
2023: 26 rec / 335 yds / 4 TDs
2022: 7 rec / 283 yds / 4 TDs

Winston Williams

2024: 34 rec / 265 yds / 6 TDs
2023: 3 rec / 61 yds

Ian Simpson

2024: 16 rec / 185 yds / 3 TDs
2023: 14 rec / 87 yds / 0 TDs

They love Ian Simpson who is also back. Gale just didn’t seem to be able to get consistent time with this staff. Wish him well. He was a weapon down field at times

I wonder if Gale putting on as much weight as he did after averaging over 40+ yards a catch in 2022 diminished his effectiveness. Lots of spread teams have light tight ends and it seems that there would be a place for that especially with the multiple tight end sets.

Our offense hit another gear when Simpson became more involved

I saw that too. Second half of the season, the offense turned it on. Having an athletic TE with great hands helps a lot....Danny Fells!

Williams usage was one of the staff’s personnel blind spots IMO.

Gale previously broke some big plays in prior seasons.