Speckman lauding Ulonzo. It appears to be a football camp in the Central Valley.

https://twitter.com/MarkSpeckman/status/1485334086512099329?s=20

NAU offered DE Kai Wallin.

CAForever has superb skills. Mine aren't secret.

Do a basic google search of UC Davis football, then scroll left on the subtopics which include All, Images, News, etc. The far right selection on my phone is 'search tools', click that. Then another subtopic pops up for time with a drop down arrow, I select 24 hours - to scan the latest news. It's a wildcard, something I do while having coffee. That's one method. Most results are irrelevant - men's basketball, etc.

A second method is scanning popular twitter handles (names), like local RB DJ Crowther. (Search - Twitter DJ Crowther.) It helps that his name is unique. He pops right up, and the players tweet about their visits, post photos, etc. ... if you search a more common name like Dan Hawkins, you need to add another term or two - like football or UCD - to weed out irrelevant hits. (Most of the DJ Crowther info came from his twitter account, and I just checked it against what we had here.)

Another trick is to search "Dan Hawkins" or "UC Davis football" - which means an exact match.

RB DJ Crowther *** of Christian Brothers is being pursued by lots of programs, including home visits from HC's Best (EWU), Baldwin (SLO), Priore (University of Pennsylvania, aka Penn), and Tee vens (Dartmouth).

New offers include Idaho, Penn, Dartmouth, Fordham, Cal Poly, EWU, and Tennessee State.

It looks like he's seen two of our home games. Cody Hawkins and Coach Speckman made a recent home visit.

Great size, and we beat out a lot of quality competition - Air Force, Army, Colorado State, Navy, Nevada, Princeton, and San Jose State. And a *** commit.

We must prefer OL who are lighter, 275-280. (Joe Albrecht is 325.)

6'4", 295#s. Rolling.

DL Juco offer Jalen Toussant @ToussantJalen from Texas has received 3 more DI offers - Wagner (New York), Tennessee Tech, & Youngstown State. Five offers now total.

Logologo Vaa (@logologo_vaa) has also been offered by Cal Poly.

Some big numbers here.

Press Enterprise: "Gbatu continues to be a handful for opposing defensive backs in the Division 6 playoffs. He set career highs with 11 catches and 187 receiving yards as the Golden Bears defeated top-seeded Camarillo 37-31 in overtime to advance to the finals for the second straight playoffs. Gbatu scored a touchdown and also blocked a field goal in that game. Gbatu’s career night also took him past the 1,000-yard mark on the season. He has 21 receptions for 441 yards in three playoff games."

We're interested in Blaze Iglesias of Orange, 6'4", 260 TE / DE, originally committed to Air Force.

We also had a recent home visit w WR Nico Brown***.

https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/21/huntleys-hot-list-updates-on-orange-countys-top-available-football-recruits

The big shoes we have to fill are Harrell. Does Castles have a year left? Maybe Gilliam returns. If we get Babbs back, that's huge. We're still off the production numbers we had with JM / KDoss. Thorpe & Larrison have serious beast potential.

Harrell - 44 rec, 551 yds
Castles - 12, 387 yds
Hutton - 38, 318 yds
Gilliam - 43, 278 yds
Vaughn - 16, 266 yds
Larrison - 18, 241 yds
Crawford - 22, 182 yds
Thorpe - 17, 161 yds

This is an unusual year. With extended eligibility, and record transfers, maybe they're banking on a lot of HS prospects being looked over.

If we got 2-3 impact players and 3-4 role players, I'd be happy.

Coach Tucker brought several JC impact players his first year - including a DT and LB.

Cody Hawkins & Josh Thompson (WR coach) the drivers here? Unsure if Coach Hawkins hits the recruiting trail.

SJSU looks to be very deep at WR. SJSU: "2019: Saw action in all 12 games... Caught six passes for 118 yards and a touchdown... ... His first major college touchdown catch was a 30-yard pass from quarterback Nick Nash at Air Force (9/27)"

Multi sport in HS including track, volunteered for multiple charities, looks like a high character young man.

Does anyone know how we evaluate transfers? Do they take a physical, workout?

In the early 80s on campus dorms were $200 a month, and fees ranged between $100 - 200 per quarter? Fees only started to spike after Carter, went up to maybe $600, then back down. That's all after RR left Sacramento.

There are lots of articles on the topic - here are snippets from one.

Education Week: Why Has the Cost of College Outpaced Inflation?

April 18, 2019
Guest post by Dr. Douglas Green

"While summarizing Guy Kawasaki’s latest book, Wise Guy, I read that his Stanford tuition in 1972 was $2,850 and that today it’s $62,000.

"According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Inflation Calculator, if Stanford tuition increased at the pace of overall inflation, it would be $17,007 today. That means that Stanford tuition has increased 3.64 times faster than general inflation. Other colleges are in the same boat more or less.

"Let me know if I missed any.

"Less Money From the States...

"Construction and Amenities...

"Administrative Bloat: Administrative staff including fundraisers, financial aid advisers, global recruitment staff, and many others grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009. This is 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions....

"Student Loans: Yearly student-loan originations grew from $53 billion to $120 billion between 2001 and 2012....

"College Sports...

"Textbooks... [oligopoly]...The average cost has risen four times faster than inflation over the past 10 years....

"Compensation...

"Soak the Rich...

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-why-has-the-cost-of-college-outpaced-inflation/2019/04

Higher education is run almost exclusively by Progressives. In California, we've been led largely by Democrats, save for a few GOP Governors. I haven't read the official reports, but have heard we have layers of bureaucracy.

I know Student Affairs has numerous officials and managers that never existed before. The dining commons are now almost gourmet. On campus housing is outrageous, increases in costs far outstripping inflation. For what, square boxes that reach platinum energy consumption? Was it really cost effective to build a new Castillion complex instead of retrofit it?

Politicos are beating the war drums w Russia, and this is the front page of the Bee?

Mangled, negative, wrong title.

"UC Davis students are against fees that fund sports programs"

So students can't go to class, but now can go to basketball games on campus?

https://www.facebook.com/121667286519/posts/10159980052196520/?substory_index=0&sfnsn=mo