Heavy DEI blurbs.

https://main.hercjobs.org/jobs/19533302/coach-ast-3-assistant-football-offensive-coordinator

$60k is better than a starting state job, which I suppose is the bar that you have to minimum beat for a professional job in this area. I wonder if "commensurate with experience" means they're willing to go up another 10k or more to actually bring someone in from another program, rather than promote a grad assistant or hire a graduating player.

Cal Bears lose their bowl game 34-14, shut out the last 3 quarters. Coach Plough now focuses solely on the Aggies and recruiting.

First signing period opens in just a couple days. I'm sure the remaining coaches are pushing to get this kids signed early.

https://x.com/VintagePlough/status/1736742027843485960?s=20

https://x.com/VintagePlough/status/1736741163967902149?s=20

For what it's worth, Mike Cody has updated his Twitter profile to just say UCD OL coach and he was retweeting all of today's signings so looks like we may be retaining him... Just not at OC

Glad we are keeping him. The offensive line has been a huge part of our success and hopefully we can continue to be dominant in the trenches.

I do wonder if our OC is coming from the NFL ranks. I feel like if he was coming from another college program we would have heard about it already. Given the NFL is only in week 15, if the OC were to come from an NFL club we likely wont hear about until mid January. Just speculation.

Could be. It is someone currently employed who wants to finish a commitment. Either keeping it secret because of a bowl game, recruiting period, or like you suggest NFL.

Given the trigger was pulled on Plough quickly, they're probably casting a wide and diverse net.

After the passing of Buddy Tevens at Dartmouth,
longtime assistant Sammy McCorkle was elevated to HC. He's 51, so he's going nowhere. My guess is that Kevin Daft has his eyes open. Wasn't he on Ron Gould's staff?

Plough in a interview with Fox40 on the day of his press conference said they have an OC “in place”, with “Aggie ties”

Daft shared the OC job with Plough in 2012 and was the OC under Gould for Gould’s entire 2013-2016. So he has a lot of Aggie ties, as hall of fame player and on two coaching staffs for five years as OC. My guess is it isn’t him because he is so high profile, but just a guess. On paper he is a perfect candidate if he and Plough share same philosophy.

Daft may also see Plough as an equal and not want to be subordinate to him. Not sure how old the Dartmouth HC is. He may decide to wait for a HC coaching job opportunity for his next move.

53? Maybe Daft would like to be near family. He would be with a like-minded coach (i.e., not Gould), playoff caliber team and $45M in new facilities. If Plough nails it, he may be teed up for the Cal job and others. Cal fans not thrilled with Wilcox and his fat contract... he got a 2 year extension when Oregon came sniffing around. Many say it will take 3 years before Cal can buy out of the last year or two (ends in 2027). Roughly $4.25 mill per year.

https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/wilcox-contract-details

Daft definitely came before Plough did.

Down Nation: Ottawa Redblacks fire offensive coordinator Khari Jones Nov 3, 2023

"The Redblacks finished the 2023 season with a 4-14 record after suffering injuries at the quarterback position to Tyrie Adams and Jeremiah Masoli....

"...Jones most recently served as a football operations consultant with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 2022 and joined the team midseason after he was fired as the head coach of the Montreal Alouettes following a 1-3 start to the season."

https://3downnation.com/2023/11/03/ottawa-redblacks-fire-offensive-coordinator-khari-jones/

Not sure how well CFL experience translates to CF. 'DEI' is big on campus now.

FTR, TE Castles said when he first got to Tennessee their tempo offense had him gassed.

Plough is bringing in Austin Taylor from Cal as an unspecified assistant defensive coach. Was defensive quality control last season at Cal.

I wonder what “defensive quality control” really means? Evaluates performance? Analytics?

Step #1. My understanding is immediately breaking down game film, grading players, entry level work.

Seems an unusual amount of publicity for the hire. Same job title as TEVIS BARTLETT, and Tevis didn’t get a news story on ucdavisaggies.com.
The wunderkind hire is a recurring theme at Davis, where very young guys get promoted to bigger roles than they previously held.

Draft Scout FCS RB Ranking 2024

https://draftscout.com/div.php?CFBDivisionId=2&GenPos=RB&DraftYear=2024&sortorder=TSXPos&order=ASC

(edit) nevermind...

That is the running backs who have used up their college eligibility.

Assistant Football Coach 3

http://scholarshipdb.net/jobs-in-United-States/Coach-Ast-3-Assistant-Football-Coach-University-Of-California-Davis=l7Rme92s7hGUYwAlkGUTnw.html

New WR coach coming to us from the University of Oregon

Lockett appears to have had stints in the Pac 12 in offensive and defensive graduate assistant posts. I'm also reading he's been a private coach in the LA area working with local talent. Originally from Diamond Bar. College ball at San Diego State, cups of NFL coffee with Cincinnati and the Washington team...then the BC Lions.

WR Coach.

correct. Typing on my phone, but implied in the coaching thread

Lockett was previously a graduate assistant at Oregon, helping guide one of the nation's most prolific offenses. He worked with both the wide receivers and running backs in his one season in Eugene.

From 2021 to 2022, Lockett was the defensive backs quality control coach at the University of Washington, where he assisted in recruiting and developing some of the nation's best prospects. He held a similar role at his alma mater San Diego State from 2020 to 2021 as a graduate assistant.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2024/1/10/football-colin-lockett-named-wide-receivers-coach.aspx

Austin Taylor has updated his role on Twitter. Looks like he will be coaching the OLBs which was being covered by Coombs last season. I also noticed that Evan Hicks' Twitter profile now only mentions being safeties coach and not special teams coordinator... We had more than our fair share of problems on special teams this last year.

Tevis Bartlett was a defensive assistant who worked with outside linebackers and edge rushers last year.
He is now with the Nevada Wolfpack.

Football scoop is reporting that Coach Shanbour is out as QBs coach