The NCAA needs to get over themselves and their false rhetoric of purity, wasting resources on a blip this small, meanwhile business as usual at the SEC and ACC. The rules are so obscure, convoluted, and result in such disparate consequences, you’d think they were written by the postmaster general.

There’s a second athletics style guide that lists C-Horse as a secondary mark. Looks like they are trying to keep athletics and academic branding separate. Not even the same shades of blue and gold. https://marketingtoolbox.ucdavis.edu/visual-identity/athletics-style-guide.html

And like that, the wheels just fell off the wagon. Too bad to see the AAF meltdown. It was a fun league. I still think there is an appetite for minor league professional football in some markets but as we’ve seen here, maybe not financially viable on its own without an NFL tie-in.

how are athletic scholarships funded? Is it taxpayers, donors, student fees, or other sources? I guess the question is whether the people footing the bill are aware and/or bothered by this.

Up until a few months ago the wife of the owner of the Grad was on city council, so I doubt they’re getting screwed over.

so what you’re saying is that Title IX is more likely to provide for a third gender curling team than an American tennis team. I’m curious what the money flow is in tennis. Got to be some incentive for offshoring the talent. With the NCAA, the buck always stops with, well, whoever has the most bucks.

Free parking is also available in Lot 56, located behind the facility's scoreboard. — agalum

Don't overlook this favor. TAPS typically "taps" until 10pm on Fridays, so thank whoever shoe'd away the parking vultures looking to exact their $50 of revenge.

I agree with you, 69, but I wouldn't want to use "foreign-born" too loosely. Certainly there are many individuals who were born abroad but have lived in the US a substantial portion of their life and consider the US "home." Very different from somebody who considers themselves another country "home," comes here for college and then intends to go back to said country, as would appear to be the case with many tennis players. You could justify some academic scholarships from the latter bucket with goals of diversity and academic cross-pollination. For athletic scholarships? Seems like a win at any cost move. Maybe you could make a case for a revenue producing team that there's return on investment (although I think there is too much of a profit drive in collegiate sports anyway). But for a non-revenue team, I can't see the upside for the taxpayers. It's not like a tennis conference championship has a lot of publicity value. In my opinion, state universities have a duty first and foremost to residents of said state so the proportion of scholarships to foreign exchange students shouldn't be higher in any one sport than it is in the university as a whole.

I don’t follow baseball one bit so I didn’t initially see the Reds similarity but I get your point and it’s a fair one.

whoa, easy there with the Band-uh!... there's tradition to uphold. :wink:

In all seriousness though, UC Davis did not have an official logo until 1999, when the C-Horse logo was introduced and the blue and gold were defined as specific hues. This was a committee project with students, staff, and a marketing company. It was consistent with the times. Photoshop and large format digital printers were becoming a thing so everyone wanted complex logos with shadows, gradients, etc.

For the 90 years or so before that, there were various iterations of CA logos, what I will call the "Block CA" with the A in the middle of the C, the "Interlocked CA" where the bottom of the C formed the cross of the A, the "Horse and Wheat CA" with a horse head and wheat stalk in the middle of the C and a small A in the open part of the C, and the "Lemon CA." The script "Davis" and "UCD" in block letters were also common. What did most of these have in common? They were easy for a non-artist to replicate by hand, whether stitching on a uniform or painting on a milk can.

Fast forward to today, logos once again need to be simple and speak for themselves without a caption, because they are seen most frequently on social media on 5" phone screens. I'm sure the powers that be realized the C-Horse was too complicated in tiny form and not widely recognized. There is also a trend among universities to brand their academics and athletics separately. So in the last few years (timing seemed to be about when Learfield got involved), athletics developed their own logo package with UC Davis in the "Invader" font (you could buy it for yourself if ya really want) as the primary mark and both the Lemon CA and C-Horse as secondary marks, although notice that athletics has modified the C-Horse to be a darker blue and less yellowy gold.

Here's several of the old logos seen together in an Enterprise photo


I'm partial to the Block CA, but I'm cool with the Lemon CA too. They have that timeless, needs no introduction look.

"contingent on EWU's background check"... Really? Why bother? Since they are OK with felony beat downs in fast food parking lots and all.

7 stories in the back butting up to Sycamore Lane Apartments, more like 3 along the Russell frontage. 894 beds plus 150,000 SF retail/restaurants. Only 694 parking spaces total, so have fun with that.

Davis seriously needs more reasonably priced housing. I’d assume this will be luxury pricing but hopefully helps take the upward pressure off the prices of dumps elsewhere in town. Plenty of slumlords getting top dollar because supply and demand are out of whack.

The proposed plan would bulldoze the U-Mall property entirely except for Trader Joe’s and Arco, to be replaced by a 7 story complex with apartments, retail/dining and a parking structure. If all comes to fruition, it’s possible the Grad could lease a space in the new complex but the renderings look more yuppie upscale so I’m betting the rent per square foot ain’t gonna be what it is today. Maybe the Grad moves to a new location? Lots of open real estate downtown and at Davis Commons. Doubt real estate developers or city council care if students support or oppose this.

https://cityofdavis.org/city-hall/community-development-and-sustainability/development-projects/university-mall-redevelopment

I guess they don’t practice in swimsuits...

one article mentioned he broke his neck in 2 places in a D2 playoff game in 1993 and that he ultimately left the NFL because of recurring dizzy spells and headaches.

The article linked isnt entirely clear in timeline. He actually died back in September. The “new” news is a report confirming that he did in fact have CTE, a diagnosis which can only be confirmed by autopsy. The family business did $50 million last year so I think they are financially secure on a personal level but the obit mentioned donations to Boston University Concussion Legacy Foundation for CTE research.

the university website says 6000 expected, which would be the pavilion I think. TAPS is suspending all parking fees and offering complimentary valet parking for students and staff at Mondavi because the lots near the pavilion will be reserved for the event.

From what has come out so far, it sounds like this guy was a nutcase ready to pop and maybe the officer was wrong place/wrong time in so much as he could have gone after any of us walking down the street. A reminder that crazy people live everywhere, even in nice places where “this sort of thing doesn’t happen,” and that some crazy people are high functioning. They’re not all muttering to themselves in a park. Thank goodness the state took away his AR15 in November; this could have been even worse. Right now, the correct thing is to mourn the loss of this young woman (and for the people who knew him, the shooter as well), but certainly the Davis community over the coming weeks and months will see localized discussion of the quagmire of whether the solution is ultimately needing more guns or fewer guns. Hopefully doesn’t get ugly. In the meantime it makes me think of some individuals I know. Indivuals who have some sort of screw loose that I can’t put my finger on, people that I wouldn’t be surprised to see on the 10:00 news but so far haven’t done anything specific worthy of reporting. Not sure what to do with those types.

probably the same article mentioned the stadium was built in only 10 weeks and was intended to be temporary while Anderson was working a deal for a football stadium adjacent to Arco Arena and the never-finished baseball stadium.

I remember being at a causeway game where one of the stairways collapsed and someone fell a couple stories. The guy spent months in a body cast. I think he was actually a lawyer so I’m sure he got paid. Those kind of erector set bleachers are usually for short term event use, not to be left for 25+ years