UOP tore down their stadium. It was in pretty bad shape and refitting it would be too expensive, particularly if the school no longer had football.

The site now houses a tennis facility and soccer pitch. It was the home field for UOP's short lived field hockey team.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagg_Memorial_Stadium

I recall Sochor saying that he was concerned about rumors that UCSB was going to move it's then D-3 football program to D-2. As he said, once a recruit visits Santa Barbara we'll never get him to Davis.

For their efforts Fullerton gets Duke in Coach K’s last tournament.

As usual, I learn a lot from your posts. After reading a comment you made on another post about Slack defeating "No. 6" Long Beach, as well as this thread, it is interesting to read the different rankings included in the Slack State post about their own national ranking. A week ago the Hornets were ranked at four different positions (20, 23, 24, 25) in four different polls. Not one of those polls had Long Beach as No. 6 in their "Previous" column. I think the highest anybody had the Dirtbags was #10. It's also worth noting that pre-season and early season polls don't mean much, and I bet a couple of years of a pandemic have not helped. Slack has gone 1-5 since they were ranked. Life's too short for me to search for updated rankings, but I doubt anyone has them in their top 25 now.

Somebody's thoughts on betting the Big West tournament. He thinks six teams have a chance of winning. Ags are not any of them.
https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-basketball-betting-big-west-has-six-teams-that-could-win-the-tournament-170004519.html

Great article and a nice reflection on UCD, but the life of an assistant coach or coordinator at the college or pro level is a tough one. They don't stay in any one place for very long.

The Hornets defeated the Aggies today in softball, 3-2.

Causeway "score" is UCD 35, CSUS 22.5.

Next competition between the two schools is March 21-22 when the women's golf teams play in the Fresno State Classic.

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Aggies and Hornet split today as Davis won the gymnastics meet in Sacramento, 196.225 - 195.400, to sweep the season series. In a softball game in Davis the Hornets defeated the Aggies, 2-1.

Unofficial Causeway Cup score is now UCD 35, CSUS 20.

The softball teams meet again tomorrow in Sacramento as part of the Capitol Classic.

Sac finished tied for 6th place (of 11 teams) with 866 strokes, well ahead of the Aggies who finished in 10th place with a score of 882, at the Gunrock Classic.

The Aggies are a very young team - of seven players on the roster there is one senior, a sophomore, a red-shirt sophomore and four freshmen. (One of the freshmen is Elle Rastvortseva of Kyiv, Ukraine.) They have finished either in last place or next to last in most of their competitions this year, going back to the fall season.

Sac had a player hit a hole-in-one yesterday.

The two teams will compete against each other again in three weeks at the Fresno State Classic. There still does not seem to be an official Causeway Cup, so unofficially, and awarding 2.5 points for this meet, the running score is UCD 33.75, CSUS 17.5.

The next competition between the schools is on Saturday, March 5th, when they will meet in gymnastics at Sacramento and also in softball at Davis as part of the Capital Classic. The softball teams are scheduled to meet again on the following day in Sacramento, also as part of the Capital Classic.

ESPN story on Campbell:
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/33323417/how-campbell-small-fcs-school-north-carolina-competing-deion-sanders-fbs-teams

Whatever the "official" status of the Causeway Cup may be this season, yesterday was a good day for the Ags in competitions against the Hornets. Men's tennis won, 4-3, in a match in Davis and gymnastics defeated the Hornets, 195.625-1995-000, in a meet in Sacramento. Unclear how gymnastics would be recorded in a year when neither school is recording anything, but conservatively the running score is UCD 32.5 - CSUS 15.

Next scheduled competition is women's golf when both teams compete in the Gunrock Invitational on February 28th and March 1st.

I don't recall the particulars. I followed USC football when a family member was going to school there, all in the Pete Carroll era. On one particular fansite Hackett was referred to (keeping in mind that Harry Potter was very popular at the time) as "He Who Shall Not Be Named."

As an Aggie I just bit my tongue.

(Yet there are USC publications which list people associated with the football program who had success in the pros or various halls of fame that list one time USC assistant Ken O'Brien.....)

Hope he fares better as a HC than his father. Paul seemed to be one of those people who did well as an OC, but had problems at the next level. He had a bad run at USC. Fans there have nothing good to say about him, not that USC fans are fickle or have high expectations. ....

Will Rodgers follow Hackett to Denver?

It’s official. Humboldt State or CSU Humboldt is now Cal Poly Humboldt.
https://www.humboldt.edu/

A visit to the campus bookstore for Aggie gear used to be an annual event for me. Haven't done it in a couple of years, but just this week I found lemon/comet CA logo facemasks on the bookstore website.

https://ucdavisstores.com/MerchDetail?MerchID=1708902

Front page story from this morning's Sacramento Bee:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article257204677.html

[Sorry, subscription required. Somewhere between the Bee and my computer "skills" cutting and pasting Bee articles has become labor intensive. I'll work on it, but it will take some time.]

It appears that the Causeway Cup is currently on suspension or has died for lack of interest, but undaunted I will proceed and note that over the last two weekends the Aggie gymnastic team has defeated Sac not once but twice. On the 9th the Ags hosted a triple meet with Michigan State and Sac. The Aggie women finished second to Sac State's third. This past weekend Davis defeated Sac in a dual meet held in Davis. With four meetings scheduled between the two this season, and no record keeping on either school's website it is difficult to keep track of the score, assuming there is one,....but were we to award 1.25 points for each of the four meets, then the running score is now UCD 27.5, CSUS 15. If we go with the idea that gymnastics is determined by home and away dual meets each worth 2.5 points, then yesterday would have been the home leg and again the running score would be UCD 27.5, CSUS 15.

With no baseball game on the schedules this year, there are 85 possible points.

The next scheduled event between the two schools is men's tennis on February 11th in Davis.

A follow up on Bourla's statement:

"Social media posts and online articles claim Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said two Covid-19 shots offer "very limited" protection against the disease. This is misleading; Bourla's full remarks in a recent interview make clear he was speaking about the efficacy of two doses against the Omicron variant, not Covid-19 in general."
https://factcheck.afp.com/http%253A%252F%252Fdoc.afp.com%252F9W78Z2-1