I’m glad to see a studious approach to this. Sometimes one architect firm will own a gig from blue sky to completion but it is also pretty common for one firm to propose a master plan and conceptual design with different firms chosen for actual schematic designs. I’m not familiar with this firm but looks like they have a portfolio of several aquatic and mixed use projects. It would seem like football and basketball venues have to be part of this conversation but I could also theoretically see something mixed use to include retail, dining, entertainment, office, hotel, or housing elements as a part of an athletic village.

if I were a big west fan in 2026, I’d hope they would skip UVU. Leave it as a 10-team SOCal league. Makes scheduling easier.

They should invite Cal State San Bernadino so people can get CSUSB and UCSB confused.

Most definitely reading into it too deeply but having multiple davis football coaches repost the Gloria Nevarez (mw commissioner) visiting davis post on their accounts commenting about how awesome davis is makes me wonder if they tell recruits the mw is in sight for fb.

Conference names used to mean something. Admitting UC Davis makes a mockery of mountains everywhere.

Mockery? Why UC Davis is less 90 minutes away from the smallest mountain range in the world.

:rofl:

I can't see why they wouldn't mention it. Even though it's unspoken, it's pretty obvious what the MWC and UCD are trying to do. It would almost be weirder if the coaches didn't say anything about it. Parents and players will want to know what the program will look like in the next 4-5 years.

The question is not whether the MWC and UCD see a football fit, it's when.

Politics

The house settlement has been approved.https://x.com/SamHerderFCS/status/1931161778693521888

I did a little reading about Grant House. Apparently the premise of what he said thought the suit was about was he and a buddy wrote a (bad) song and talked about how unfortunate it was they couldn’t monetize it if it became a next top 40 hit (it did not). A friend of a friend was a lawyer who convinced him to become the named plaintiff. He thought he was suing to allow athletes to monetize their social media accounts and maybe do a little swimsuit modeling. But he didn’t actually talk much to the lawyers or judge and really didn’t understand what the case actually was. As lead plaintiff, his payout is thought to be $125,000. Apparently he has faced threatening phone calls and bullying on the swim deck because the settlement is demolishing Olympic sport rosters. I certainly don’t condone that. But I also would never hire this guy. How irresponsible to lead the charge on something you don’t understand that appears so far to be a net negative for the majority of society. Major character flaw. So there you have it, college sports set on fire by an unreleased terrible music video.

If it wasn’t Grant House it would have been someone else.

A judge shouldn’t be making major impact decisions that “are a net negative for the majority of society”, The judge allowed a class action suit that included in the class athletes who have dramatically different interests in the outcome, a few are major beneficiaries, more will be net losers, like many of the “olympic” sports athletes. And society wasn’t a party in the suit at all.

Do we know yet if UCD "opted in" to the House settlement?

yes, we opted in

Well, this is garbage. UCD's going to have to shell out significantly larger sums (beyond scholarships + other current recruitment costs) just to bring in the same level of talent (or lower) it gets now.

I am in favor of student-athletes being paid if the university or a 3rd party is using them as a marketing tool (with written authorization of course). That's something I would expect as a private citizen if a company wanted to use me for marketing (YoloHW Pancake Mix-taste the Causeway !), but just paying them to play is stupid. I don't give a crap how far some doofus can throw a football; he doesn't deserve to be paid for it until a real pro team gives him a contract.

USPS sent an e-mail showing I have a letter from UCD Athletics. I hope the people in UCD Athletics who continue to send these to me iare fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon because this letter is going right to Shredder.

People prioritize the wrong things, and we get this mess. College football is not so important that it supersedes everything. Anyone who believes it does is wrong.

Yolo get some rest.

I am well-rested. Thank you for your concern.