I watched the men's game. Our forward pack was better than theirs, but their backs were excellent. I'm looking forward to the return to 1A rugby next year.

I'm pretty sure I saw helmets on the ground at the Aggie games I saw this year.

Looking forward to the game. $5 and my Vandal ticket stub from the afternoon game gets me in.

I read the $5M comment on the Idaho board:

'Re: New Big SKY coach
8:19 AM

The local Davis shopper newspaper had an article on the new U C Davis AD - brought up in the Stanford athletic department, full of energy, energizing alums, new plans for improved facilities good fundraiser ($5 mil in the Hawkins hire) , makes good decisions, not a bean counter . . . all this in a school that has had turbulence in the President's office and has a losing seasons for years . . . makes you think about could be !'

But it wasn't in the Enterprise when I looked earlier today.

movielover, you wrote this: '↪BlueGoldAg
Better than probably living in the middle of Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, or Eastern Washington. '

I disagree. I moved to 'the middle of Idaho' in '94. I love Davis, but I'm not moving back until I win the lottery. I can't afford it, and I love it out here. Don't dismiss those other places so easily. I live in a great community with affordable housing and outdoor opportunities ten minutes away. There are great places to live in Montana, Idaho, and Eastern Washington. I don't think it's a huge plus for assistant coaches to work 15 hour days and then have to drive to Woodland or Dixon because they can't afford to live in Davis. Just because we paid them peanuts when we were in school doesn't mean we should do that today.

This is great news. I can remember making him sandwiches at the Coffee House when he was a student. The next time I saw him after he left Davis was on the sidelines while his BSU teams beat the daylights out of Idaho. The Boise fans loved him, and he did a great job there, just like Peterson.

I still think it's an uphill battle. The Administration will have to come through with facility improvements; I don't know how much admission standards should change. If we do make changes, then we had better have proper academic support for students. I hope Blue makes this happen.

I think that '82 team was the best Aggie team I ever saw, and it's great to have one of those guys running our team now.

aggie6thman, take off the tin foil hat. Bruce knows Gould is done and he agrees in the article that this was the only outcome. If he didn't he wouldn't have written this:

'The 3-8 season — UC Davis’ sixth straight losing campaign — was unacceptable. Blue was forced to remove his football coach.'

If he was trying something as absurd as trying to help Gould get his job back, we'd see reasons for Blue to reverse the decision.

He's obviously humanizing Gould in this feature article, and there's nothing inappropriate about that. He likes and respects Gould, and there's nothing wrong with that either.

And Gould could legitimately offer the following reflections, and get buried for them:

-I was handcuffed by recruiting restrictions;
-We lack the facilities to attract the athletes who do qualify for admission;
-We don't have depth, of course I had to play my starters against Oregon. If I didn't and got my QB killed, those guys on the forum would rip me some more.

He's fired. Why bitch about an article that shows we showed a good man the door?

I'm with OldAggie on our talent level. My sample is only two games, Eastern Washington and Portland State, but I don't think we matched either of them in terms of talent, and we don't have their depth.

OldAggie's comment about the kid he's pushing towards Davis resonated with me. I got to know a former Idaho offensive lineman, played on our last bowl team with Mike Iupati. Smart kid, great young man from around Palo Alto. The Ags were interested, but he wanted to play at the highest level he could and came to Moscow. I don't know if any other FBS schools were interested in him. I think players want to play at the highest level they can, and want a shot at a bowl game. We can't offer that, so at least we need to offer high-quality facilities to attract athletes from our small pool of candidates.

And before someone says that perhaps my friend didn't value an education enough to go to Davis, he was working on his masters when he finished his football career, and then he got a law degree too.