Better to remain silent and have people think I’m stupid than to say something and remove any doubt, eh? Thanks.

Thanks. So at this point the computers "Artificial Intelligence" is debating with it's "Actual Ignorance."

(I could make a wise(?)crack about the computers being hacked by Trojan U.F.O. Space Lazers, or rigged polling, or poll-voter fraud, but I've said too much already....)

Hard to put too much faith in polls in the early season especially with everything that has happened and not happened in the last year and a half.

I saw one of the FBS polls where though USC dropped out of the poll's Top 25 they still received something like 39 votes and Stanford, who just decimated USC, received ten????
https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2021-09-12/college-football-rankings-oregon-iowa-climb-ohio-state-falls-ap-top-25-poll-week-3

As I recall Jacksonville was a D-II power at the time we were. Like UCD they usually got a round or two into the playoffs most years.

Sorry, did not mean to do anything that would open this door. I've said too much, ...again.

UCD women defeated Sac 1-0 today in soccer. Causeway Cup tied at 5-5. Next scheduled event is men's soccer at Davis on October 30.

(This assumes there is a Causeway Cup competition this season. UCD has not updated their Causeway Cup webpage since 2019-20, Sac has not updated theirs since 2017-18.)

(We can speculate whether or not there will be baseball.)

And we're not talking a faculty or research job where background checks may take some time....this is for entry level service (housekeeping, food service, physical plant...) type positions. I can't get an email from a local restaurant that doesn't encourage readers to apply for a job. Restaurant jobs are going begging and restaurants are cutting back their hours, but takes forever for the U to do what it is that they do.....

Great field presence on the run after the catch, and great block by No. 9.

Having little to do directly with the investigation into the baseball team, but I know of someone who is dealing with hirings and promotions at UCD, (at both the Davis and Sacramento Medical Center locations). He/she says that the process is interminably slow and drawn out.

9-7, Sac at the half, but UNI opened up in the third quarter. 34-9 at the end of three.

East side stands at Sac are empty. We'll call it social distancing.

Two point conversion attempt failed. 28-23 with 3 minutes and change. Oklahoma State ball. Tulsa has one time-out left.

Hold that thought, Tulsa just went downfield with ease. Now 28-23 with extra point pending.

Happy Birthday to one of the few people on this board I can call “Old Timer,” …but I won’t. That would be rude.
Enjoy your celebration.

Maybe Kevin Thompson wanted to spend more time with his grandkids.

And Cal comes one step closer to asking Sac’s AD for permission to talk to Troy Taylor….Goes up 14-0 on Nevada in the first quarter and loses 22-17.

...however they did not incur the training, travel and accommodation costs of playing an FCS opponent either.

Keelan Doss and Roster Purgatory:
https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_wr_keelan_doss_and_the_state_of_roster_purgatory/s1_16460_35713832

No doubt you're correct. Things like that happen. One time USC couldn't find a football game and reached down to schedule an FCS football team. Imagine that.

That explains DII Academy of Art. But NAIA UC Merced? Rumored game against DIII Whitman College? All in the same season?

We live in weird times. Hopefully things will right themselves in the near future. Basketball will find it's groove. Baseball will have a rebirth.

Go Ags!

Agreed, but that means playing Academy of Art is more reasonable than playing UC Santa Cruz, (DIII) or UC Merced (NAIA). i threw out those schools because there is at least some neighborhood or historical connection....fellow UC schools, or former conference foes in the NCAC or CCAA. Again, I would emphasize only one game every other year or so.

Back in the DII days we used to travel to Berkeley every year for a game. Those days are obviously gone.

On scheduling down...I agree. I hate these games. One, every once in a while maybe, but we have two this coming season and there were rumors of a third? How does Bob Dunning think UCD is a Pac 12+ ready team if we schedule Academy of Art? I recall a comment on this site that WCC schools avoid Big West schools because Gonzaga wants the conference to keep its strength of schedule at a high level so that, if nothing else, the Zags' schedule looks good, to say nothing of getting other conference teams into the post season. No one benefits by scheduling a bunch of games against lower division schools. I'd prefer to see one game every other year or so against someone like UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz, or a CCAA school, but no more than that.