I remember well. I actually thought Randy had a decent game considering the circumstances.

He was a RS freshman I think, but yes our QB situation is much better this time around

It was his first start ever, not just as an Ag. He was a backup in high school to a guy who went on to Tennessee. That’s a big test!

Wright was a starter as a senior at Cardinal Newman. Back up as a junior.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2192027-181/newman-qb-wright-joins-list%3fview=AMP
Lacy was the backup to the guy who went to Tenessee

You’re right, I was thinking of London Lacy. Damn old brain

Ugh, ignominious.

Well the point is that we’ll be a veteran offense this time around. Hopefully Cal won’t have a five star freshman receiver this time. That guy was uncontainable.

Lehigh hires Tom Gilmore to head program:

LU alums think the hire is short-sighted.

https://lehighsports.com/news/2019/1/8/lehigh-names-tom-gilmore-head-football-coach.aspx

Montana State DC not returning for 2019 season.

Link

Hero Sports looks at next year's "Top Ten" FCS championship prospects.
https://herosports.com/fcs/football-favorites-win-2019-fcs-national-title-bzbz

What a difference a year makes.

Awesome!

Weber making the list is a head scratcher: “Defensively, the Wildcats lose six First Team All-Big Sky players”. I would think they have to fall off defensively due to that,
So they’re a top ten pick, even with the acknowledgement “Jake Constantine is back at quarterback after an up-and-down season in his first year as a starter.” Kind of a reach.

Pretty fair write up on Davis.

It looks as if Gage Gabrud is attempting to transfer from EWU if his request for a sixth year of eligibity is granted. Saw it today in the Seattle Times. Here is the Spokesman write-up: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jan/11/sources-eastern-washington-qb-gage-gubrud-looking-/

Coach Pete?

I think its a stretch he gets another year....but what do I know.

He redshirted in '14, played '15, '16, '17, and 5 games in 2018.

I get that he played the minimum 1/3 of EWU's games, but.....I think the question might be "Could he have play more games in '18, but coaches decided to roll with Barriere?" In that case, I think he's done. Pretty sure EWU and Gubrud did a pretty job of making things seem like he was too hurt to play in any case.

It seems the answer is that he doesn’t qualify because he wasn’t the victim of loss of opportunity for two or more years
From https://247sports.com/college/north-carolina-state/Board/103770/Contents/Please-Read-Redshirts-Medical-Redshirts-and-6th-Years-53648593/
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It comes from rule 30.2

A waiver of the five-year period of eligibility is designed to provide a student-athlete with the opportunity to participate in four seasons of intercollegiate competition within a five-year period. This waiver may be granted, based upon objective evidence, for reasons that are beyond the control of the student athlete or the institution, which deprive the student-athlete of the opportunity to participate for more than one season in his/her sport within the five-year period.”
The 30% rule applies to scheduled games for redshirts so it doesn’t factor, as he already used his redshirt year, and if he hadn’t he wouldn’t qualify anyway as five games are in excess of 30% of the scheduled games. I’m assuming his redshirt freshman year wasn’t beyond his and the teams control.

Pretty big precedent if they consider someone who played in five games as not having had an opportunity to play.

it doesn’t seem Gubrud lost much time to injury in years prior. He was a walk-on in 2014 and redshirted. Held for kicks all year and played one game at QB in 2015, and played 14 games in 2016, 10 games in 2017, (EWU didn’t make playoffs in 2017), and five games in 2018.
A number of postings on an EWU board think the 1/3 of games includes playoffs and 5 is one third of the fifteen they played, but I think “scheduled games” means scheduled games in the regular season. We’ll see. It seems the precedent would be that anyone injured in first third of a season would get a bonus year; his situation is far from rare. Maybe that policy is fine but I don’t think so.

If Gubrud was hurt for two years of his Big Sky days, he's going to love the Pac 12

i thought 'scheduled' meant the original schedule. that's why '4 games' was the magic number for the new redshirt rule (1/4 of 11 or 12). i don't think teams in the post-season get to take advantage of the extra game(s) but who knows.

I had to laugh at all the hoopla about the Clemson football team getting served burgers at the White House. As a footnote to this story is the fact that the Clemson team actually has an “Executive Performance Chef”! She sets all the team meals and is quite the strict nutritionist. Now I don’t know if any FCS teams have such a person or even a training table, but we certainly do not. You would think that with our reputation in food and nutrition science that UC Davis would b e in the forefront in making sure our players eat a correct and nutritionally proper diet. I recall many years ago eating at the old Cafe Italia when all of a sudden the UCD basketball team filed into the room. Their meal: pizza. Not something an executive chef would probably recommend as a pregame meal IMHO.

No wonder some of those guys looked hungry for a burger! Human nature to want what you can’t have.
Good nutrition is not a settled science. I wrote a paper for an upper division nutrition class in the early 70s. I looked at all the research available on the relationship of various saturated fats in the diet and cholesterol. There was no evidence for the “saturated fat” relationship with cholesterol. Yet it was taken as gospel by most people giving nutritional advice. Since then I’ve been more skeptical about claims from second hand experts. What they say the science says ain’t what the science said.

Hey, Babe Ruth did it on hot dogs and beer!

... and houses of ill repute!

And who came up with this gluten phobia!? I had a no gluten bagel once, tasted like cardboard!

A friend in the food industry said fat tastes good, and is filling / satiating.

My sister's gluten free by choice, I guess it works for her. Helps her with energy and keeping weight down.

Does Aggie Stadium have GF options?

So do blueberries from South America. Key is to eat a variety of fresh food in season. Healthy food tastes good.

Will Martin offensive lineman in our list at start of thread is on next year’s roster as a senior. Played in 11 games in 2017 but only one in 2018. So I guess he got a medical redshirt.
Will, plus all the freshmen we recruited in 2017/18 signing class, should provide great depth to a line that loses only one player.
Only one other offensive position where we lost a starter is wide receiver and that will be fascinating to see who grabs playing time there.

https://herosports.com/fcs/football-top-returning-passers-jake-maier-bzbz

Injured his self-esteem perhaps