I'm hoping Coach Tucker, Foster and crew prove them all wrong.

We didn't recruit any JC kids on D, and we only had 2 defensive players drop off the roster, so they are satisfied with our roster. Or Hawk has doubled down on outscoring people. D was young, now seasoned.

Go Ags!

San Jose State will be VERY interesting, and televised on a Thursday Night. I have some huge hunches, but will not post them publicly... I hope others won't, either!! The element of surprise.

Huge game.

It will be interesting if we'll see some of Hawkins redshirt freshmen play a role ... Carson Crawford, Cam Trimble? Or true freshmen ... 329# DT Josiah Suani, DL Cade Peacock?

Stanford will be interesting, but no one has stopped Love, and our defense is unproven at best. ... San Jose only had 2 victories and struggled for those, unproven QB.

College Football News, snippets.

"One Reason Why San Jose State Will Win"

"UC Davis won’t be able to play any defense.

"Yeah, the offense will push the ball all over the place, and it’ll keep up the pace, but it’ll also struggle to stop anything the Spartan offense wants to do."

"The O that couldn’t do much of anything last season should boost up right away under new offensive coordinator Kevin McGiven. He has eight starters back including almost everyone of note in the receiving corps. There’s nothing the Aggies will do that the Spartans can’t answer for."

What’s Going To Happen

"This should be as much fun as any of the FBS vs. FCS games in the first part of the season. Both teams are going to bomb away, and both teams are going to have their moments when they take control.

"Both teams can throw, both teams are going to be bad on D. San Jose State will be a little more efficient at throwing, and a little better on defense."

Fearless Prediction & Line

San Jose State 41, UC Davis 27

https://collegefootballnews.com/2018/08/san-jose-state-vs-uc-davis-fearless-prediction-game-preview

Thank you, brother! Love your articles. Hope you can add DB Sequoia Magdalena*** to your next top-recruit list.

Here is one from the 925.

"WR / TE - Blake Thorpe *** 6'3 220 Las Lomas High School (Walnut Creek, CA) Tweet
Offers: Howard, Oregon State, San Jose State, UC Davis"

Plough and others say "Huge commit" out of the 925 area code!!

Non-Senior Departures (10) - shuffled
Offense - 8, Defense - 2

Roster Departures

- TE Joey Berzins
- TE Dan Plum
- WR Marcus Cummins
- WR Aaron Moore
- WR Kristian Gilbert
- QB Jake Dunniway
- RB Dumar Fisher
- OL Christian Labow

- LB Christian Leota
- LB Donovan Taylor

Competition fierce at WR, TE, and QB. Huge OL class, probably a couple walk ons here. We had a DB and OL walk on each earn a scholly, Duncan and Richardson.

Moore was lights out, I hope he returns. Leota is huge, converted QB. We have depth at LB. I wish them all the best and thank them for their efforts.

Camp opened! 4 weeks until opening night!

SJSU coach rah-rah, jumps on table.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SJSUSpartanFB/status/1024693859324846080/video/1

Vacaville Reporter article

"Our stated goal going into games this year is to throw it to him 20 times a game." - Coach Dan Hawkins

http://www.thereporter.com/general-news/20180801/college-football-uc-davis-receiver-keelan-doss-on-why-he-chose-to-return-to-school-rather-than-go-to-nfl

Now the Mountain Hawks ... I prefer Engineers.

I've said and heard Lee-high.

Great to have, I'm assuming the Engineers aren't as muscular as NDS and Berkeley.

Lehigh was 5-7 last year, 5-1 in the Patriot League.

Brian M. at HeroSports has already listed a top 100 FCS recruits.

49. Miles Hastings, QB, UC Davis

84. Orlando Ornelas, WR, UC Davis

https://herosports.com/fcs/football-2019-recruiting-top-100-commitments-aug19-ajaj

I already emailed him on our HUGE get in DB Sequoia Magdalena***.

briandotmclaughlinatherosportsdotcom

Lehigh Football Nation@LFN

"Lehigh played UC Davis one other time before: the Division II playoff semifinal in 1977. Lehigh went to Davis and beat the Aggies, won the Division II National Championship, and were never invited back... until today."

https://mobile.twitter.com/lfn/status/1024058835185610753

I saw a picture of a shirtless Logan M. on Twitter. Yolked!

Stanford beat Rice 62-7 last year in Australia. Love had a 62 yd run first play of the game. Ended up with 180 yds in 2 1/2 quarters. Looks like the Cardinal averaged almost 10 yds a rush even w/out Love's long run.

In Rice's defense, they started a RFrosh QB. They were 1-11 on the year.

I spoke to a Stanford insider this weekend.

He said if Love gets past the line of scrimmage, its over. He claimed:

1. Love led college football in 50-yard plus TDs.
2. Love did that with a sprained ankle half the season.

I believe part was common sense. I thought it was a gradual move with first partial scholarships. Greg Warzecka and Larry Swanson were in the process, Pam Gill probably the last to join in. Guessing. I believe the new facilities were important, and Vanderhoef eventually came around.

In our DII years I never heard anyone suggest a possible league we join, just an ocassional reference to DI.

I'll take it.

Given your sacrifice, I think you get TV priority to put on our game for background conversation ... if time zones and start times work in your favor (ie no direct conflict). ... have fun!

Do the Michigan folks, or you, know how Coach Harbaugh originally motivated Stanford football players out of their doldrums?