Beyond my abilities to cut and paste the thing, but someone sent me a photo, which they apparently found on Hawkin's Facebook page, of the 1985 coaching staff.....Sochor, Foster, Biggs, Hawkins, Gross, others I can't name. Nice to bring back those memories....

The Ducks might be salivating over a QB with a degree and TWO years left. They may be tired of this one and done approach.

So you can get a degree at 'Bama, the Harvard of Dixie, in about three years while playing an intercollegiate sport?

Cal upset #1 USC in OT, 11-8, to win the championship.

What we missed:

Semi-finals:

USC 19, Harvard 4

A mild upset: Cal 9, UCLA 8 OT

Cal toyed with Pomona-Pitzer in the other play-in, with the Bears defeating the Sagehens, 16-6. Saturdays semi-finals will be Cal v. UCLA and Harvard v. USC. Winners meet on Sunday.

Great year for the Aggie men. Final Four next year!!

That was as bad a streaming feed as I have seen, embellished by some Hahvahd commentary on the side. This is the fourth time Davis has played Harvard in school history, the third time this season. Every game has been decided by one goal. Too bad this one went the wrong way. Congratulations to the Crimson.

Could hazard a guess that we will be away at Slack State on Saturday, November 18, 2017.

About a month ago I was waiting in line for a flight from Burbank to Sacramento that went on to Boise. Hawk was standing in the front of whatever line I was in, probably Z 30 to Z 60. I assumed he was probably heading on to Boise. Now I wonder if he stopped off in the Sacramento area for a look around and to spread his resume...Looked like a slightly aging college kid..jeans, backpack, playing with his phone the entire time.

Good luck to him. Now if he has one more Chris Peterson card to pull from the deck. This is FCS football, baby! This ain't intramurals, brother!

I still associate USD with Harbaugh. Not fair to the Toreros because Harbaugh is three whining jobs past them, but I really wish Cal Poly had won.

Score from the east: Harvard 13, Bucknell 12.

Ags will play Harvard on Thursday in Berkeley.

Go Ags!

Sorry, it's been a long time since I studied contracts, but I still act like I am being paid by the word.

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.