Aggies defeated Sac State 3-1 (25-18, 25-19, 15-25, 25-21) in volleyball at Sacramento tonight. Nice time to get it together.

Hard to prepare for the No. 1 team in the nation, (who just defeated No.2 USC, 12-5, at USC) by defeating a junior college and an NAIA team in only its second season ever.

#5 Ags upset by #16 San Jose State this morning, 8-7, in the first game of the Aggie Round-Up.

Hopefully they can do better this afternoon against West Valley College, a community college, and NAIA UC Merced in their second year as a team.

I'm getting on this late, but don't think this has been mentioned - The trickle down will affect two UC Davis teams. Currently we, along with San Diego State, were supposed to become associate members of the Pac-12 in women's lacrosse in the 2023-24 season. We are also members of the America East Conference for field hockey. The ACC sponsors both of those sports and I imagine Cal and Stanford will be expected to join the ACC for those. What does that do to those sports at Davis?

Meanwhile Sac is on a tear. Swept their second of two invitationals this past weekend.

Volleyball is a streaky game.

Purdue paid Fresno State a LOT ($1.35 million??) to play in West Lafayette. Bulldogs came home with the money and a 39-35 victory.

Collegiate water polo has gone through a significant conference re-alignment this year without the fanfare and TV contracts that have accompanied the realignment of the major college conferences.

For the first time the Big West and the West Coast Conference will each sponsor men's water polo. Davis joins UCSB, UCI, UCSD, CSU Fullerton and Long Beach State in the Big West. This will be a tougher conference top to bottom than the Western Water Polo Association. As of now Davis is ranked #5 in the country, behind of course the Big 4 - Cal, Stanford, USC and UCLA.

Chargers re-sign Doss to practice squad:

https://www.chargers.com/news/los-angeles-chargers-sign-12-players-to-practice-squad

https://boltbeat.com/posts/chargers-plans-jalen-guyton-keelan-doss-roster

This article thinks he may end up back on the practice squad. I’d rather see him in a regular roster than back on a practice squad. Maybe he needs to develop a taste for poutine and head north. CFL, USFL, XFL, get some regular playing time. And I’m sure he and his people are looking at everything. Good luck to him!

Chargers waived Doss:
https://www.chargers.com/news/los-angeles-chargers-reduce-roster-to-53-players-2023

Spent too much of the weeked at Sac in a hopeless effort to support the Iowa Hawkeyes volleyball team....but let's face it, volleyball at Iowa is like wrestling at USC. However the big surprise of the tournament was on the last day when Cal Poly swept host Sac, 3-0. I am not sure that Sac was at full strength, and may have even given some players a breather on the final day of the event, but nice to see a BW team sweep Sac.

Looks like Whelan will be the Green Bay Packers punter!

https://packerswire.usatoday.com/2023/08/28/packers-release-veteran-punter-pat-odonnell-daniel-whelan-wins-punting-job/

A glimmer of hope for Keelan:
https://boltbeat.com/posts/chargers-roster-earned-spot-preseason-49ers/2

If they aren't going to keep him, I hope they cut him early and give him a better chance to find another team.

I thought the same thing....reminded me of Davis. Also reminded me of my hometown, Iowa City, IA....College towns in a rural setting, not much else going on other than the college.

Had a connection with a Pac-12 team about twenty years ago. (Maybe the Pac-10 then??) In any event we went to the OSU game and the team we were following stayed in Eugene.

"I really wish we could split D1 football off from the rest of the athletics departments and put everyone back in their old conferences."

You are not alone in that wish:

https://sports.yahoo.com/heres-an-idea-set-up-football-only-college-conferences-214244420.html

Why not? Cal and Stanford to ACC? https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/california-stanford-interested-in-acc-conference-set-to-evaluate-viability-of-adding-pac-12-teams/

No. 53 in a series. Collect them all!

That was my interpretation as well, but hard to imagine any of those schools pulling an Idaho.

Would Nevada, SJSU and Hawai'i drop to FCS, or do they expect UCD, CP-SLO and a-team-to-be-named later to move to FBS?

Still better than talking about the climate, pickleball, politics, Bud Light, civil rights, the Royal Family, pandemics, or Taylor Swift tickets.

"May you live in interesting times."

Heard one where the new Pac-? conference would consist of Cal, Stanford, San Jose State, San Diego State, Fresno State, Nevada, UC Davis, Sacramento State, St. Mary's (after reinstating football), and Santa Clara, (also after reinstating football.) In football the conference champion would play the 15th place team from the Big TwENty in the Nacho Cheese Bowl at some HS field in Texas.

The predictions for Cal, Stanford, Oregon State and Washington State are bleak. What would a Pac-X conference do for a TV contract without USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington? What happens to those schools if they end up in the Mountain West with a smaller TV contract? What happens to the other/Olympic/non-reveunue sports at Cal and Stanford with smaller TV revenues, and larger travel budgets.

There have beenn grumblings about Hawai'i leaving the Big West. How does this affect them?

How about the teams currently in the Big Ten west who have enough trouble competing againts Michigan, An Ohio State and Penn State. Now they get hit from the other side with USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington?