There is a duty in basic contract law that the party damaged by the breach of a contract should mitigate their own damages. If your car gets damaged in an accident you can't then smash it into a tree, or go out and rent a Lamborghini and expect the party at fault to pay for the added expenses, (unless you were driving a Lamborghini at the time.) Generally a party that loses a job is required to seek other comparable employment. Gould would not have to accept employment as a nuclear physicist, or a cab driver, or to accept a head coaching job in some far off corner of the country...but on the other hand if he gets a job, say as an RB coach with Tedford at Fresno State, he probably can't say no, and then expect UCD to pay him as if he were still coaching here. Also he can't accept the job and expect the UC to pay his Davis salary on top of that.

Of course this general rule could probably be subject to a term of the contract itself, or could be negotiated in the "buy-out" which is essentially a revision of the contract.

This should all be preceded by "If I recall correctly..." It has been a long, long time since I fell asleep in contracts class.

My deep research into the off-the-field stuff, by which I mean I did a drive-by wiki-google-pedia search, says that Hauck left after the 2009 season to become HC at UNLV. He was succeeded by Robin Pflugrath, who had been the WR coach under Hauck. Plugrath was the HC for two seasons, 2010 and 2011. The Grizzlies won the Big Sky and made it to the BCS semi-finals in 2011 "but those were vacated by the NCAA on July 26, 2013 due to infractions which included a nationally publicized rape scandal. Individually, Pflugrad was hit with numerous sanctions by the NCAA for his part in the infractions." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Grizzlies_football No indication in my uber-comprehensive search that Hauck was implicated.

You look at the issues facing the school now and realize just how fortunate we were with Sochor, Foster, Biggs. All qualified, all more than happy to coach in Davis. Never had the feeling that Gould's heart really left Cal.

Hawkins
Moroski, but he has struggled this year at NAIA College of Idaho. May not be the rebuilder we need.
Ash
Slo Stang suggested Bobby Hauck. Did well at Montana, but not so well at UNLV. Currently ass't at SDSU. Was he involved with the off-the-field issues at Montana? Seems like he has aspirations that might not fit with rebuilding at the bottom of the pile in the Big Sky.
McClure
Taylor

Also hope that Blue can talk to Coaches like Peterson, Hawkins, Shaw at Stanford, Gary Patterson at TCU...people with a UCD connection or who have dealt with schools with admission issues like UCD, to see if they have some suggestions on coaches who might fit.

Great game at a great location. The crowd looks sparse in the photo above because of the early tip-off, but it was pretty crowded for the last half of the UCD/ssu game and the first 3/4 of the Cal/SDSU game. Crowd thinned out when the Cal game was decided. They actually did close off the entire second level and drew a huge black curtain around it. A lot more SDSU people there than I would have thought.

Two Causeway Cup victories in three days. Nice.

"Win 7 games and face San Diego in the first round of the playoffs. Seems to work for Poly."
"But then they get NDSU..."

At some point in the FCS playoffs, (or if you're one of the fourteen teams in the Big Ten,) you get NDSU, or worse yet, somebody who beat NDSU.

Carried over from old site since this is kind of ongoing news:

Ags beat UCSD, 12-8, to win the Western Water Polo Ass’n championship and will play in the NCAA tournament, to be held the first weekend in December in Berkeley. Like basketball, there are two play-in games, which will be played on December 1st, also in Berkeley.




Ags will play the champion of the Collegiate Water Polo Ass'n in a play-in game on Dec. 1st in Berkeley. The CWPA champion will be determined this coming Saturday, the 26th, when Harvard (Northeast) hosts Bucknell (Mid-Atlantic). Davis has split with Harvard this year, and has not played Bucknell. The winner of the Dec. 1 play-in will meet top seeded USC in a semi-final on Dec. 3rd. 

In the other bracket, host Cal plays Pomona-Pitzer in another play-in, also on Dec 1st. The winner of their match plays UCLA in the other Saturday semi-final with the championships on Sunday the 4th. 

Other than the Bucknell v Harvard match, all games are in Berkeley. 

This is the first season that the Golden Coast Conference (primarily BW and WCC schools) has had a men's division and the champion, Pepperdine, did not receive an automatic bid. Host Cal is ranked No. 3 and received an at-large bid over the No. 9 ranked Waves. 

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/m-wpolo/spec-rel/112016aab.html  

Go Ags!



Davisbear added:
The Ags split with Harvard this season.  They lost 13-12 at the start of the season, then beat Harvard 7-6 later in the season.
It would be great if they could make it to Saturday against USC.  They would have their hands full with SC, but it would be great to have a shot at them.