I love my alma mater very much, just as much as everyone else here.....but we have to be realistic.

This is standard UC Davis cart-before-the-horse stuff.

We draw 7-8k of the quietest fans in college football. We have the lightest and quietest student section of any large school in the country. With the underclassman population on campus alone, the entire east side of the stadium should be 100% full with the band-uh every game (when school is in).
The Athletic Department cant get apparel (free advertising) to fans/students. The Davis community isn't passionate about football.

Like I said earlier.....We were 30 years slow getting the stadium upgraded (including the Edwards Center which should have gone up with the new stadium 17 years ago) and moving to D1. I'm not seeing what has changed in all of this over the past couple of years to catapult us up a rung.

We honestly aren't alone on this....Cal has fought uphill for decades as well (on a different $ scale). Its tough in the UC system to advance one athletic program over the others.

I dunno man......up until yesterday there has never been enough money OR interest behind the program. If we are being honest, we barely got up to D1, and it took decades longer than it should have for the above reasons.
Has any of that changed since yesterday?

And to put things in perspective......the Tweet from the AD looks like a rendering from about 2004 that was recently edited. The field markings are the same from the original upgrade renderings.

I would love to see it all of this actually happen though.

Plough has mentioned chewing clock a few times. Maybe the conservative play calling reflects that?

Echoing you guys...
We are only 2 games in.
I am remaining optimistic. Perhaps Plough's first couple games as HC he's feeling things out. Maybe not showing the Big Sky everything before conference play. With Lan, while there is something to be said for "give it to the best player on the field" because he can beat everyone out there, it would be good to see more creativity.

I am concerned about the QB position though, unfortunately. To my eye there are physical limitations that are just going to be there, and it shows in the play calling.

Good news is the defense is plenty good enough to keep us in games while the offense hopefully figures things out.

I've emailed everyone imaginable in the past (over about 18 years). I never get any responses. I gave up.

Honestly, these people (whoever fills the campus stores) don't care about sports. And this shows by the track record.

They could sell a ton of this stuff. Students/fans love team apparel...anything with an Adidas logo that resembles what the teams where. This is very simple.
Just with parents/family of players, they would sell a lot of stuff.

I read someone on this board over the past couple of years someone said they were told something like "the team doesn't want the general public wearing their stuff"....(???)

This is so cool!
My kids and I did the campus tour last weekend. The guide mentioned "coffee class" often. This made me happy, as I love coffee.

Don't get me started on the lack of cool football apparel (and any other sports apparel) in campus stores.

Casual visitors would barely notice we have a D1 athletics program.
And I didn't find anywhere to buy apparel at the game last week either (unless I missed it)

Miles throwing some nice deep balls. Defenders are falling but it still counts!!!

PILLOW FIGHT

Making the Commerce defense look like the damn Steel Curtain …

Probably been talked about here, but Montana QB McDowell transferred for like the 4th time after going to Frisco last season. Weird. Didn’t even know until I turned them on tonight.

Honestly getting tired of CP sucking. It’s been 5 years…..too long. Horseshoe needs to be a huge game again. I may eat my words someday but oh well!

I have to say....Cal's offense is in trouble. Their offense definitely didn't win that game, and against an FCS team it should.

Great day for football. Some fun moments in the first half!

Frustrating to see Miles stare down his WR on that and throw a pick. Gbatu was wide open 7 yards away from that WR.
He must have really been LOCKED on him.

that really is the problem with these damn games

I think Hastings is going to look better in the Big Sky.

#8 alligator arms on 3rd and 9 is a bad look

Pretty sure Plough isn’t interested in pounding Lan on 35 carries today, which I think is smart

Had a little Dr. Mike halftime meeting in the bathroom. We discussed kicking, Aggie offense, and Aggie defense looking pretty good! :D

I really hate that we couldn’t kick a 47 yd (?) FG there to take the lead heading into the half. Into a light breeze, I know but still.


Thats a big issue.