Also bringing three assistants from Folsom High School, including former Slack QB Bobby Fresques:

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article223434755.html

Folsom coach Kris Richardson to step down and join Taylor at Slack State.
http://www.folsomtelegraph.com/article/12/21/18/richardson-steps-down-folsom-football-coach-joins-taylor-sacramento-state

Surprised in this day and age that the NCAA sanctions field hockey. It discriminates against left-handers.

I recall going to the game once in Oakland...and wikipedia backs me up. They played in Oakland in 1970. Proceeds from the game have gone to support the Shriners' Children's Hospitals. For a long time the Shriners had a children's hospital in San Francisco and the game was played at Kezar Stadium. Players made the photo-op visit to the Children's Hospital during the lead-up to the game. After the San Francisco hospistal program was moved to Sacramento players would make the trip up here.

$tanford is, of course, a whole 'nother story, but they list women's teams in fencing, squash and synchronized swimming. Looking at the schedules, all of their opponents in those sports are in the east.

We'll have a campus site. Slack used to play at the Sacramento Softball Complex and now plays at a park in Folsom. http://www.hornetsports.com/sports/sandvball/facility

"spectators are encouraged to bring their own chairs and blankets"

When it was announced that the outgoing NDSU coach would continue to coach the Bison through the FCS championship game while starting his work with the Wildcats, I wondered how it would effect recruiting. Seems to me there is some kind of conflict of interest, particularly when it comes to recruiting when he is involved with two programs, and even moreso during a signing period. I can't find the name now, but I recall reading that a player who was leaning toward NDSU signed with KSU yesterday.

Apparently Whittingham at Utah and Trump have similar issues with staff retention: https://www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-utes/2018/12/18/monson-troy-taylor-is/

Not sure when it was but he was a radio broadcaster for Cal, and was not allowed to both coach HS and broadcast NCAA games.

Edit:
Google first, then post. His wikipedia entry indicates that he was on the radio broadcast team for Cal from 2005 to 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Taylor_(American_football)

There are lots of factors that go into these decisions....but I have never understood why UCD added field hockey. One of the reasons, among many, the school dropped wrestling was that it was not a big west coast sport. There have always been more wrestling teams in the west than field hockey teams.

But I digress.

Rumor becomes official:
http://www.hornetsports.com/sports/fball/2018-19/releases/20181217l02pyo

I think there's a lot of that with field hockey schedules. UCD will travel to the east once or twice a season. Play several teams, often at neutral sites....teams will travel west play the west coast teams....sometimes UCD will meet the team from the east at Cal or Stanford.

The Bee chimes in:
https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article223171005.html

Salt Lake Tribune article on Taylor's possible move.
https://www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-utes/2018/12/14/utah-could-lose-another/

Bison DC Matt Entz is likely replacement at NDSU.
https://www.valleynewslive.com/content/sports/BREAKING--502731071.html

Nope,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_field_hockey_programs
http://www.telluris.us/hbwave/id12.html

With UOP dropping the sport the closest D-1 field hockey schools to the east of Davis are Missouri State and Iowa. That's it on this side of the Mississippi River.

(This one always surprised me: Not only do neither USC nor UCLA have field hockey, USC doesn't even have softball.)

...and after the women’s basketball result the running score is UCD 30, CSUS 10. Next event is men’s tennis at Davis on January 19th. Still no word on whether beach volleyball will be part of this season’s Cup. Pending that there are still 45 points to be won, so 15 will wrap it up for UCD.