UCD women placed 9th and host CSUS placed 20th in the NCAA Cross-Country West Regionals today. On the men's side, UCD was 20th and CSUS only entered two runners and did not compete as a team. The current score for the Causeway Cup is now UCD 20, CSUS 5.

Next up is football on the 20th.

I was born during the Truman administration. I don't have that much time left on this earth.

(We could go on, but we're already drifting too far from talking about Aggie sports.....and afterall that is why we come here.)

I posted this on the football page....but Cal just postponed this weekend's game against USC due to number of postive COVID tests.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32593272/usc-cal-football-game-postponed-due-covid-19-cases-golden-bears

Game to be played Dec. 4, the day after the Pac12 championship game. That won't present any scheduling conflict for either of these teams this year.

D-I March Madness works on a much larger budget (ticket sales, broadcast rights, souvenir sales....) than BCS football. All the games are in neutral arenas. Transporting a basketball team with 12 players and uniforms is cheaper than transporting a football team with its larger roster and equipment. Look at women's basketball which generates less revenue and runs the first couple of rounds at campus sites and you get less travel like UCD to Stanford. Same with lower division basketball...more concern about travel costs, campus sites, more regional games.

I do recall that in the D-II days we had some teams come to Davis from a distance. Lehigh? Bethune-Cookman? Northern Michigan? My memory makes a fool of me more and more these days, but I think they all traveled here for play-off games. As I mentioned in another post, D-II football now breaks the playoffs into four geographical regions, or it did the last time I looked.

Austin Peay traveled to Sac in their lone playoff game in the BCS era...(and gave them a lesson.)

1988 a terrible year. Ags had defeated Slack 18 consecutive years. Regular season game was in Davis. Looked like it was going to get down to whoever had the last possession. Slack had a phenom named Mark (?) Young. He killed us. They won 31-28. Come playoff time we hosted them in a first round game. Conventional wisdom was that through experience we made a better bid to the NCAA committee for hosting. Slack won that 35-14 in a game "that was not as close as the score would indicate."

The last time I checked the D-II playoffs were strictly regional with the field divided into four geographical regions.

And they have South Dakota State playing a first round game and North Dakota State with a bye…

Arizona over Cal, Arizona State over USC, Cardinals over 49ers. Somebody had to uphold California’s honor against Arizona.

Does any other team have both of its remaining games against other teams also on the predicted bracket?

Had a family member working in that area of campus up until a month ago. Regularly sent me photos of cows, especially calves.

Final: South Dakota State 27, North Dakota State 19.

Arizona snaps 20 game losing streak with victory over Cal. To be fair Cal’s lineup has been depleted by COVID protocols.

Final: Portland State 30, Weber State 18.

Saturday final: UCSD 11, UCD 10.

In past years this game decided the regular season champion, but the Tritons tripped up a couple of times earlier this season. Should be quite a tournament with the NCAA bid on the line.

From the Sac athletics website:
https://www.hornetsports.com/sports/mbkb/2021-22/releases/20211105nrsfji

Article on renovated Rec Pool. https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/preview-new-rec-pool-next-week
The Schall Aquatics facility (water polo, swimming & diving) is somewhat south of the renovated Rec Pool and the football field. The field hockey arena is east of that, towards Tercero. Been a long time for me, I had to pull up a map and satellite view of the campus.

Thursday final: UCD 13, LMU 12.

With one game to go Ags clinch best regular season record and top seed in the WWPA championships, which coincidentally they will host in a couple of weeks.

Beating the Gauchos will be tough, but a weekend in Santa Barbara isn't a bad thing.

I know nothing about Nevada criminal law, and have forgotten more California criminal law than I care to admit, but in California you might be convicted of both the DUI/vehicular manslaughter AND reckless driving, but you can not be sentenced for both. Certainly the speed and reckless nature of the driving is something the judge should be able to consider in imposing a sentence, again depending on Nevada law. Hard for me to think he would not get some serious time. In California today he would almost certainly go to prison.

The news clip from San Francisco CBS says they hope to join the NCAA next year, unitl then they are "cannibal opponents." School has an enrollment of about 500. Campus is a single building in Oakland. AD is also the football coach. Takes no salary. Bought all the uniforms himself. The team flies everywhere. He thinks they fill a void as he Raiders have left, the Warriors are heading to SF, and there is constant speculation that the A's might leave. In the interview they had a couple of transfers from Cal and Slack. One of the coaches, Desmond Bishop, has NFL experience and a Super Bowl ring with the Packers. This is all a bit weird, but what the heck, it's 2020-2021 - everything is a bit weird anymore.

Ambitious schedule Sam Houston and UCD.

Lincoln University of Oakland, CA??
First year they have fielded a football team. All of their games are on the road. Cannot even figure out what division they are in, or if they participate in the NCAA or NAIA. They have apparently hired Gary Payton to coach the men's basketball team. They have men's and women's soccer, men's and women's basketball and football. How do they fit into Title IX?
https://lincolnuca.edu

News report on their football team:
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/5975788-lincoln-university-trots-out-oaklands-newest-football-team/