I think we heard somewhere this year that a bunch of our players were in a grad program. I'm not sure if they get preferred admissions, though?

Interesting that all of the known portal offers we have are on guys out of the northeast

Not surprising, last senior class to reap the COVID year.

Ge's also been offered by Kent State and UNLV. Bio includes:

130 TOT, 6 INT, 18 PD, 1 TD
Unanimous First Team All-Ivy DB
Buck Buchanan FCS DPOY Finalist ***

Zach Kennedy is the only one I know. Ulonzo 2 years before that.

New offer on University of Arizona DL transfer Nicholas Fernandez. He was a RFr this last season, big boy 6'4 300, from San Pedro.

Utah adds UC Davis cornerback Blake Cotton from the transfer portal https://www.deseret.com/sports/2024/12/18/utah-football-transfer-portal-addition-cornerback-blake-cotton/

Bains should wind up at a P4 also but may be too slight to get a real bag from an upper tier program.

I guess this kinda surprises me. I didn’t think of our corners as a real strength this year but, honestly, I don’t follow that side of the ball too closely.

We've had taller / bigger CB's in recent years. Its made for a far more competitive secondary, I'd say.

New CB coach moved players around, Verner and McWilliams starting late season games, Bains consistently started at Nickel.
Cotton was a reserve last half of season but played quite a bit
Last years starter Alexander seldom played until end of season.

We had fantastic corners. Think about it like this. We had literally no pressure on opposing QBs all season. Outside of Montana State and South Dakota. Think about how many plays we stopped. Tight coverage, balls swatted or picked.

The more time a QB has, advantage WR.

We are lucky we had the corners we did otherwise this season would look way different.

I wasn’t saying anything bad about the corners - just didn’t hear much about Cotton, so a move to P4 was a surprise. Agree with you about the stress on corners this year.

Agree that Cotton was a surprise going to Utah…

Our defense had 7 all conference players, and none of them were the cornerback that transfered to a P4 team, or the two guys who played ahead of him,.
Did our defense underperform our talent?

The two ahead of him aren’t 6’3. This team had some major flaws. They exceeded expectations.

It's been years since I recall us having a player who can rack up sacks. Nick King had 8 sacks in 2013, also tallied a lot of TFL.

New offer on kicker/punter Tyler Hughes out of Poway! Chris Sailer has him ranked a 5 star punter (FBS level) and 4.5 star kicker (FCS level). GO AGS!

We definitely need the punting help. The aforementioned Chris Sailer has Hughes ranked as his 11th best punter prospect in the country.

Two best outside rushers in the last ten years were Mason Moe on Hawk’s best team and Cam Trimble a couple years later. Bryce Rogers was a good interior pass rusher. It has probably been 20 years since there was a traditional edge that could consistently get pressure.

Moe and Trimble were great.

I remember guys like John Faletoese from the interior, James Amos on the edge, even Nolan de Graaff, who was a tremendous athlete and switched from tight end his senior year I think, way back in the late transition days.

Faletoese and Amos were huge in the Stanford win! Cool hearing those names again.

Bump. Any updates on transfers coming in?

https://247sports.com/college/uc-davis/season/2025-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24158

As noted on "X", players entering the portal (so far), all dbs:

Cotton
Alexandar
Bains
Minor
Langley

I know Cotton is gone, but hopefully everyone else stays.

I guess Cotton taken due to size. Personally I hope Bains ends up staying. Great tackler.

Seems concentrated in the defensive backfield, not random

All these guys appear they will be graduates with 1 year of eligibility (?) except Langley and Cotton who are listed as Juniors.

As riveraggie says, its hard to tell what is actually true as the roster is all messed up.