I am trying to remain politically neutral, at least on this site, but I think it's ironic that some of those who downplay the COVID-19 virus and want to accelerate the return to those halcyon days of yesteryear by opening up the economy, opening up schools, etc., want to have indemnity laws and personal waivers. Why would anyone need to waive the effects of a mild flu-like illness, or why would governments and businesses need to be indemnified against litigation over the same?

UC Davis plans to open up, at least a bit. Still focus on online classes. Dorms will have fewer students per room. In person classes will be in larger class rooms. KCRA is running the story, but the best information I can find on the web at the moment is a UCD release:
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-plans-welcome-students-back-campus-fall/

Post-script: Here's a link to the KCRA story:
https://www.kcra.com/article/uc-davis-plans-welcome-students-back-to-campus-in-the-fall/32897954

And from the Bee:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article243631187.html

A couple of threads on the Slack State site:

On Thomson rumors:
https://www.bigskyfans.com/hornets/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3705

On Taylor and Thomson rumors:
https://www.bigskyfans.com/hornets/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3525

PSU? North?
SUU? South?

Couple of small kinks to iron out. Post season bids? What does the conference do for basketball when UCD and Poly aren't around? The 14 teams in the Big 10 have scheduling problems. Up until recently a team played the 6 teams in their division and two in the opposite division. To keep a rivalry alive Indiana and Purdue play each year though they are in opposite divisions. When you played two teams in the opposite division you might be a team in the West and play Ohio State and Michigan, while another team in the West plays Indiana and Rugers. Now you might get Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State while someone else gets Indiana, Rutgers and Maryland.

UCSD "joins" for scheduling purposes July 1, 2020. They have to make the transition from D-2 to D-1 and won't be a full-on member until July 1, 2024.

CSU-Bakersfield joins as a full member July 1, 2020.

https://bigwest.org/news/2017/11/27/IMPORTED_STORY_20127_20127.aspx

This doesn't seem to resolve scheduling issues as there will still be an odd number of teams.

Dixie State would get the Big Sky back to an even number of teams which is nice for scheduling, and is a better geographical fit than was UND, but 12 teams is kind of unwieldy for BCS football.

(And we have wandered astray from the focus of the lead to this topic.)

Looking back it looks like the last pledge drive was in December of 2019.

(I think I ended up with a couple of Doo-Wop videos and my wife signed up for some Downton Abbey deal, or maybe a Rick Steves travel special.)

I heard the same, but by the time I got around to posting I could not remember which was which, and which came first....As Marcos Breton suggests, whatever you call it, he was released by the powers that be.

https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article243215331.html

(On a bit of a sidenote, I will admit I had no idea that "All Lives Matter" had such a perjorative connotation within the context of the "Black Lives Matter" discussion. The words themselves would seem innocent enough, and really something positive. I can see now where they aren't, at least for now and in the current context. Learned something. Old dog, new tricks.)

He has since either resigned or been terminated from his positions with the Kings and with the radio station.

Follow up article from the SF Chronicle on the CCAA suspending fall sports:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/collegesports/article/Why-a-Division-II-conference-in-California-was-15305843.php

California Collegiate Athletic Conference cancels fall sports season.

https://www.kcra.com/article/california-collegiate-athletic-association-suspends-ncaa-games-for-fall/32454883

CSU campuses to remain "on-line only" for fall term.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article242668291.html

...and as one of the articles I read pointed out, the CFL doesn't have much of a TV contract. Teams rely heavily on ticket sales, and presumably related things like concessions. That's going to plummet with social distancing or games without spectators.

Could be more than just this season if the CFL is forced to cancel.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/bleak-future-for-cfl-if-2020-season-cancelled-570320902.html

I'm all for putting my kids in a nursing home now, so that they will have a little better understanding of them when they decide it's time to put me in one.

He came here from a Pac-12 school. Not surprised to see Pac-12 schools looking at him, and expect he will check it all out. The coronavirus situation might make larger schools more attractive because they have a better chance of getting through this with less damage and their programs still intact.

I recall when the Ags won the D-II basketball title and Williams left that someone, probably the then A.D., said something like 'we knew we couldn't keep him here forever.'

Hope Blue stays, but wish him well wherever he ends up. Makes us realize what great things we had with Sochor, Foster, Biggs....who preferred the situation at bucolic lil ol' UCD.

I say having gone to a small high school, attending UCD, and getting a professional degree from a smaller school.

Go Ags!

OK, now I've read it and we cn breathe a short sigh of relief...for now.

"Three candidates who were at one time among the front runners for the job -- Fresno State AD Terry Tumey, UC Davis AD Dr. Kevin Blue and UCLA senior associate athletic director Josh Rebholz -- have been told they are no longer being considered.

Tumey was never even interviewed for the position, according to sources."

Won't comment on the Tumey references. Nothing to be said.

Much prefer your interpretation. Can see though that it could be used to hold on to players, then if circumstances force the team to cut the player late in the pre-season, the player has fewer opportunities to latch on with another team.

Hopeing for the best for Keelan.

That sounds less good. Bound to one team, can't negotiate with other teams, take that teams' offer or sit. Hopefully there is some money up front during the life of the tender.

Good luck to Keelan in any event.

I give up, what's an "exclusive rights tender?" Sounds like good thing, but what's involved? Mostly, what is the upside for Keelan?

A follow up to Napolitano's statement and its possible effect on football in the fall.
https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/cal-football-napolitano

(I put this on the football thread too...you've got options if you want to reply....)

S.I article on prospects for Cal and Pac-12 football in the fall...

https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/cal-football-napolitano