A sleeping giant like UC Davis that desires to excel in every endeavor it undertakes, academic or otherwise, cannot long tolerate wallowing in this gridiron backwater.
There are, of course, some folks who say you have to win one division before moving up to another, but UC Davis never won a Division II national championship before moving up to I-AA.
If the Aggies stepped up their game and started regularly playing Southern California instead of Southern Oregon, or Penn State instead of Portland State, they’d need to quadruple the size of their current stadium to accommodate the crowds.
If we can get 100,000 people to Picnic Day, we can get 40,000 people to a football game.
The Mountain West Conference, with three California schools, is in the FBS and has been sniffing around for new members. Maybe Montana. Maybe North Dakota State. Why not UC Davis?
It’s hard to overstate the enthusiasm such a move would generate among fans, alumni, future student-athletes, the media and an entire region that has never had a collegiate football team competing with the best of the best.
Ag school, law school, med school, vet school, engineering school, fourth-ranked public university in the land. This is not an FCS campus.
The UC Davis philosophy of student first, athlete second, is so ingrained in our DNA that it will never be compromised, whether we’re playing the Colorado School of Mines or the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Integrity is integrity. It has nothing to do with the level at which your athletic teams compete.
Let’s knock heads with the best and see what happens.
Go Ags. Go far
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