Wow. That seems like it came out of nowhere.

Holy sh*t!

I keep on seeing the endowment mentioned, but endowment accounts are usually restricted, and normally only 4% can be withdrawn from the corpus per year. My guess is that little of the endowment corpus is usable towards sports, let alone football.

WHAT

id also imagine that the MW wants us to expand our stadium before the transition phase would begin if we were to join for football.

https://themw.com/news/2024/12/10/mountain-west-welcomes-uc-davis

Wut?

I'm at work and I don't have the BW boards on my phone. How are they taking it there or at the Sac board and Poly boards?

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-join-mountain-west-conference

that question asking about future of the football team is so corporate speak, i cant be that much of a conspiracy theorist to imagine our fbs move is more of a when not if now...

It surprises me that this wasn't announced before a double header weekend with one of those events being such a big playoff game. I high fived May at least twice Saturday, and he made no mention of this to me!

hey me too! gary gave me a fist bump and didnt spill anything to me! I thought we were friends!

Let me just say...being able to attend games (against hopefully a future rival in SJSU) in the Bay will be a game changer for me

Agreed. It's 1.5-2 hours to get up to Davis, and usually not practical to drag kids or convince my wife to let me take off for the entire day. But living in San Mateo, I try to make it when they play football or basketball against Cal/Stanford/USF. SJSU adds one more convenient option.

also so happy to potentially see reno back playing us in davis

The Reno games were always great.

My initial reaction:


1. Is there an unwritten agreement we are moving up to FBS to be football team #9 and Sac coming on soon to be #10?
2. This is a step down academically (but this isn't as big a deal these days for ADs)
3. This is a step down for baseball
4. This is a step up for basketball
5. MWC has larger athletics budgets, which is good for the future of our athletics depart (I don't have facts to back this up at the moment, just my assumption)


1. seems likely......maybe we are being given some time to fundraise and make an announcement about FBS football in a couple years?
It seems like strategically the MWC has some football options if they want to get to 10 (Sac and Davis.....and however else they can snag)

I'm also assuming they want an even 10 football teams (for 2 divisions, or whatever)....and they might not, since they've reached 8 at this point.

Honestly, I'm not sure what the point is unless we are planning on moving up in football fairly soon.

Being able to drive to games at Reno and San Jose is great. Our closest conference games in the Big West were Bakersfield and Cal Poly and both of them are 4.5 hours away. Maybe Pacific, St Mary's and San Francisco will be more interested in playing us as non-conference games now too or, hopefully, Cal and Stanford as well.

It sounds like we kicked the tires on the WCC as well......which means a football move likely wasn't part of the plan (?)

One fact remains: the Big Sky is a very stable spot for Davis football.

This probably means absolutely nothing but…

Where and when did you post this question?

X/twitter

When...recently or when Rocko posted the stadium expansion photo?

SochorField Pavilion.

in response to Gary’s tweet about MW expansion. I don’t necessarily think this really amounts to anything but still funny he or a social media intern is liking stuff like that

I don’t see how this is good news for football. The MWC aimed to enhance its Olympic sports programs while remaining open to a strong football-only arrangement. That just show how we would be a last resort solution.

This seems only worth it if football moves down the road.

What I’m curious about is how this will affect recruiting for non-football sports. Assuming the MW will be intriguing for recruits… guess we will have to see what the first few years look like competition wise.

I think our basketball teams are going to get much harder looks by highly ranked California kids. The future is bright!