I don't have an issue with differing political opinions. What I do have an issue with a large amount of his political opinions are, at best, stretching the truth, and, at worst, downright lies. All too often it's simply regurgitating whatever far right troll he likes to follow at that particular moment.

Want to have a fact based discussion? Great. Nothing wrong with that. But what he tends to do isn't that in any way.

That list is accurate. It's players drafted, as opposed to guys who actually played in the NFL.

Here's two lists. The first is UCD players drafted and the second is UCD players who played in the NFL and accrued stats.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/schools/californiadavis/drafted.htm

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/schools/californiadavis/

I'm guessing it's a combo of how you've looked so far and how good the voters thought you'd be coming into the year. This is the argument for waiting a few games to do a poll. Because preconceptions can cloud judgement. But people like polls and they like seeing "#3 vs #5" or whatever it may be to hype up a big game.

Guessing it's nothing more than Sac was ranked 25, they won, and teams above them lost so voters move them up.

Now, let's be honest here Drivers, bicyclists, pedestrians- there's lots of terrible ones to go around, and that is because at least 90 percent of the population is comprised of stupid, selfish, scum. There is no moral superiority among users of any of these methods of transportation — Goags20172

90% is a bit high but your general point stands. I can't stand when bicyclists just barrel through the stop sign like cars have to wait for them. Ditto for pedestrians who don't look and just walk into the intersection. Now, I try to be as aware of pedestrians/bicyclists as I possibly can be and will let them cross in front of me even if I have the rightaway. But just acknowledge that I'm there. I don't think that's too much to ask for. More often than not, bicyclists do wait and pedestrians do look before walking into the intersection.

But yeah, like you said, tons of idiots out there regardless of the mode of transportation they're using.

Tulsa had one final chance to get the ball back, as the Aggies faced a third-and-4 at their own 49 with 2:03 left and Tulsa out of timeouts.

Always the riverboat gambler, Hawkins called for a pass play that would have stopped the clock if incomplete, but Rodriguez was on target for an 8-yard gain to Gilliam and the Aggies took two snaps in the victory formation to secure the win.

Boy I love this mentality. Lot of coaches would play it safe, run the ball, burn 40 seconds and punt to pin them deep. But you’ve got 3rd and short with a QB who has completed 80% of his passes on the day. Go for the win. More likely to pick up the 1st down and there for more likely to pick up the win. Obviously you tell your QB not to force anything because the worst case scenario should be an incomplete pass.

IMO, the Big Sky is the best FCS football conference in the country. — movielover

I'm not sure if the Big Sky is the best, because I don't pay enough attention to FCS football, but the Big Sky, Missouri Valley and Colonial are consistently stacked year after year.

Holy crap. Went to check the US soccer roster and the score popped up with us up with about 4 minutes left.

Amazing win.

Question, which president agreed to pull all troops out of Afghanistan in the first place?

Of course, we all know movielover doesn't care about that fact. If the same exact scenario had happened except it was Biden who agreed to pull the troops out but Trump was president when the troops got pulled out, movielover would have been destroying Biden for agreeing to pull the troops out in the first place.

This whole situation is a disaster and likely would have been regardless of the political party in charge. Bush got us into this war and Obama was fine with it. Trump wanted to get the troops out and Biden seems to be in agreement with that. It's an incredibly unfortunate situation all around that appears to not have a clear good solution.

My god that's a terrible column.

Several years ago UCD qualified for the I-AA — now the FCS — playoffs and came within a whisker of playing for the national championship.

It was three years ago. Several implies like a decade or so. Just say three years ago.

If men’s and women’s basketball can do it, so can football.

Yes, we're D1 in those sports because the FCS only exists in football. We're essentially in the FCS though if you did break it up into two divisions.

Well, just as I was thinking all these thoughts, I saw a story by ESPN’s excellent senior writer, Heather Dimich, with the headline, “Pac-12 commisioner George Kliavkoff says conference not looking to add schools, but would be ‘foolish’ not to listen.”

Yeah, they're looking to add schools from other major conferences, like the Big 12. They're not even looking at MWC schools, let alone a random FCS team has had 1 season in the FCS with 7 or more wins and only 1 winning season in the last decade.

And, miracle of miracles, the Aggies actually own a football win over Stanford, rallying from a 17-0 deficit to take a 20-17 victory home to Davis.

Of course that win was great. But one upset isn't a reason to justify moving up to the Pac-12.

This is a "I'm up against a deadline, have to come up with something and I've got nothing better to write about" type of column.

Yeah, that seems like it would be odd to suspend the entire baseball program because the coaching staff fostered a culture that discouraged studying and academic success. Seems like you'd just fire the coaching staff if that was the case. And if there was a toxic culture among the players as well, you just tell the new coaching staff to make sure academics are a priority and if some players don't like it, they don't play. Guarantee the coaching staff you back them for a few years to build a better culture and bring in players who buy in that way they're not focused on a quick fix/aren't worried about having a couple horrible seasons as they turn the program around.

Why care what I think ? I'm just a random on a message board whom you offended. — Goags20172

Because it was the courteous thing to do? You clearly took my statement in a way I didn't necessarily intend (not your fault in any way) so I wanted to clarify what I meant. Apparently you thought I was just being a dick with my followup so I attempted to reiterate that I wasn't.

Goags20172: "Its not nice to attack me."

Also Goags20172: *proceeds to attack another poster*

I wasn't walking back my statement so much as I was clarifying what I meant. I know exactly what I said originally and I do understand how it could be taken harshly, hence why I attempted to clarify what I meant. I was being 100% serious when I said that there's nothing wrong with not wanting to be around random fans at a sporting event. I have a coworker who avoids crowds as well. She knows what she likes and doesn't like and she avoids situations that she knows she won't enjoy. That sounds like what you're doing. You don't like random fans bothering you, so you either don't go or you specifically sit in areas where random fans don't and can't bother you. The enjoyment you get in going to sporting events isn't worth the hassle of enduring constant annoyances. That's perfectly fine. That's how we make choices. We ask ourselves if the positives outweigh the negatives.

LOL. You sure got me good there. I’m not sure how I’ll ever recover.

Here’s the difference. You’re assuming I’m an internet troll based on one single comment I made, which was perfectly valid because of your post.

On the other hand, you said you actively avoid other people at sporting events because they always annoy you and sitting next to people forces you to endure constant annoyances. And hey, there’s nothing wrong with that! You don’t like sitting next to random people at sporting events, you know it, so you move away. Or you avoid events that are going to be sold out or close to it.

But that doesn’t mean my statement was wrong and that other fans are the issue. I’m not saying all fans are perfect and wonderful to be around. They’re obviously not. But you have such issues with fans that you’re going to fewer and fewer sporting events when you can’t essentially have like 5 rows to yourself. So the logical conclusion is that you don’t like being around people you don’t know. And again, there’s nothing wrong with that. You’re certainly not the only one.

Sounds like it isn't sporting events or other fans that's the issue.

Yeah, that's a pretty bold statement considering the 2018 was one drive away from hosting an FCS Semifinal game.

That being said, I hope he's right.

I mean, they suspended the entire program, coaches included. They're not going to do that if like three or four seniors decided to haze a couple freshmen one time.

You don't have to like the Bee, but this clearly isn't making something out of nothing.

Agreed.

Carson Wentz only had a year and a half of playing time, though he was a 4 year player, and as much as he’s dropped off the last couple years, was a favorite to win the MVP before he got hurt when the Eagles won the Super Bowl.

Just because the dude went to an FCS school isn’t a good knock against him in the same way that just because a guy performed at a big time FBS school, he’s not a lock to succeed. There’s risk in every single pick. A lot of these guys are going to fail.

It is about money, but money is deeply correlated with zip code, school quality, family living situation, immigration status, and yes, race. — fugawe09

Bingo.

When certain races are more likely to have money, they're more likely to have resources (money) to invest (both in terms of money directly but also moving to specific areas to get their kids into specific schools) into their kids, thereby giving them a better chance of performing better on standardized tests. When you reward those people, it just trickles down and the wheel never stops.

And I say this as someone who could be described, completely accurately, as a privileged white man.

Wasn't rooting either way, and both teams qualify for this distinction, but it's always good (as an independent viewer) seeing a team finally get over the hump. Sam Houston had become known for not just losing in the playoffs, but getting blasted when they lost.

39-13 in 2012 to NDST
35-3 in 2014 to NDST
62-10 in 2015 to Jacksonville State
65-7 in 2016 to James Madison
55-13 in 2017 to NDST

Three of those were semifinals and a fourth was the title game so this wasn't some crap team that snuck in, won a game and faced the 1 seed.

Related note, over the past decade, Sam Houston has made the playoffs 8 times. Of the 7 times they didn't win the title, four of those they lost to NDST. SDST has made the playoffs the last 9 seasons. Four of those times they were eliminated by NDST. It makes sense considering NDST has won 8 of the last 10 so if you make the playoffs every year, you're going to lose to NDST a few time. Still crazy to see though.