Good for him. I like the simple old school uniforms!

Your knowledge is greater than mine, but it is my understanding that boats and oars are very expensive and can make a huge difference. My hat is off to all club athletes because they really have to have that extra desire. Kudos to your son for such a high placing on the erg score, he must be very powerful and extremely fit.

ICA used to have a strong ICA team but the crew team was cut along with men's swimming and men's wrestling in 2010. Sac state still sponsors crew as a variety sport. I assume with scholarships and more equipment than a club team could muster. It is not a fair competition to compare our crew team with the Sac state team.

Two other points about crew. First how did the did the UCD men do? Second over the week-end a UCD male rower Seth Well was inducted into the CAL Aggie Hall of Fame, even though he was a club athlete. Seth was inducted as a legacy person for making the Rio Olympic Games in the 4 person boat. My wife thought he should not be included but I think he was a great addition as a legacy winner.

Movie lover-
Yes the stadium has new turf.

Butt as I understand it turf has 2 issues for soccer players First the ball plays so much faster than regular grass and this affects the game. Second is the amount of running that the players will do in a game. Football players run from 1-1.5 in the game. In soccer the run between 5 to 7 in regulation. With a high percentage of games going into overtime you can tack on 1 to 2.5 miles more. This running takes a toll on the soccer players.

Talking to players in 2018-19 they told me how hard the turf was on their body. At least 2 of them had suffered knee injuries playing club when they were in high school on turf. Not sure what the stress or the injury rate of playing on turf is compared to grass. Playing at night allows working folks a chance to get to a week-day game.

Good crowd last night. I know that most of the players on both sides have spent a good chunk of pre-college days playing on turf, both sides seemed to have trouble with how fast turf played compared to grass. I felt as if the Age had a bit more trouble on some key plays during the game. But as they say it was the same surface for both sides. In the end close game, wish more shots were taken on frame as fan from both sides. I feel as if the Ags are going to make the conference tourney and could do very well.

Aggies win the Big West -CC tourney., going 4-0. Very nice snap back from a poor showing last week-end. The schedule has nothing but tough games for the next 6 weeks, On this Friday they play the Beach in Long Beach which is a re-match of the tourney championship. For the Age it is a great chance to get some ownership on the Beach--Go AGS!!!

It is so hard to keep coming back in Volleyball, but the team has grit. Coach Connor talks about how the team learns as the match occurs and then finds their flow and starts to win games. The hard part of being done is that if you have lulls the other team can win the match. They have been done0-2 twice in conference with their back to a cliff and have battled back. Good luck going forward thiey have a long season still.

Watching the game on MY 58 Larison seemed like a man playing against boys. Tough break for him and the Aggies on his injury. I have been pondering a few questions about the injury occurring: These included fatigue , a huge factore; since it appeared to have happened on the way down? Was I overworked at that moment and needed more rest?

I loosely follow the 49ers and it seemed that Shannon so far has developed a more downhill run scheme in this short season rather than the zone blocking speeding horizontal game looking for the gap to gash.This might be due to all the injuries the 49ers have suffered on wide run plays.

Football, even at the FCS level, is a collision sport but teams should be looking at how they can lessen the chance of putting their players into harm's way. My thoughts are that Larison was fatigued and was injured on the way down from the poor replays that I saw on TV. Should Larison have asked for a blow, should the strength coach who was on the sideline intervene, should the OC or Hawk pull him for a bit. I am not sure, but I hope moving forward the teams work on this.

As for Larison I wish him the best moving forward, he was a treat to watch on Saturday.

Tough week-end for the Age. I am sure that the LB game is one that they feel should have been closer and perhaps gone differently. This is a good time to realize that everyone in the top 15 deserves respect otherwise you are going to lose. Looking at their schedule they have no easy wins slated. It is time to get focused for 4 quarters of intense play in every game. School starts this week and that will demand more time and energy from the players. Again I am still hopeful that the Aggies can win the first Big West Men's Conference title.

Riveraggie', Coaches need to get to the recruits, and rankings help. Higher rankings help with the screening process that the families use. UCD is not sexy and usually it is an up-hill battle when recruited are looking at the UC's. Just a quick search today for 22-23. My point is that we are not in the top 3rd. Better rankings will help in the screening process for the ICA programs.
UC Ranked US News Global Ranking T.H.E. World Rankings
UC Berkeley 1 4 8
UC Los Angeles 2 14 21
UC San Diego 3 20 32
UC Santa Barbara 4 67 64
UC Davis 5 73 63
UC Irvine 6 84 95
UC Santa Cruz 7 105 192
UC Riverside 8 186 251-300
UC Merced 9 673 301-350

For many families of athletes rankings are important. In many sports the athletes that are being recruited and brought on campus are 15 or 16 year olds or even younger. Folks tend to lean into rankings as they are quick and easy. In the Big West some of the rankings that are out there have us behind every UC in the Big West--UCSB, UCI and UCSD. If you talk to many CA high school students and their families they would put us behind those other schools. I take rankings with a grain of salt but this is good news for UCD's ICA sports.

Ags lose today vs #2 UCLA 16-7. It is hard to be as sharp as they were on Friday against the Bears. UCLA great front-line 7 but the back-ups might be better than the Bears.

Having 3 games in 3 days will help the Aggies at the Big West tourney where that might be the road to the title and a NCAA berth.

Friday and Saturday were good as the Ags, can gear up for the first Men's Big West polo title.

Went to the game. Age up after the first quarter. In the second with all knotted at 6 and CAL scored a heart breaker that slid in with 1 second to go to give the halftime lead 7-6.

Ags had a good number of breaks go their way but hung with CAL which last week-end kick the snot of USC 12-5 in LA. CAL was resting a superstar but the AGS went toe to toe with them. The AGS getting closer to being a top tier team. This year in the Big West the AGS will have a much more competitive league and I believe that the conference games will be very tough and they need to be ready.

In the end the AG upset crumbled with failing to convert on 2 6 on 4 power plays and in the late 3rd and 4th quarter sloppy passing. BUT they played hard and are a legit top 6 team that on any given day at the pool can pull off a win.

NCagalum. I was at the game also though I did not compete in the run-pass-punt comp. My favorite Stanford connection during that period was Plunkett to Randy Vataha.
As for the Juice he was my favorite player of the 70's with the Bills. I would have been so excited to have his autograph. On a Christmas Eve I was driving to my parents and he came on the radio and was very nice. At that time his favorite Christmas Carol was Nat King Cole's Christmas song. Funny how strong those memories are for me as an old man.
As for that game I remember my father talking about how important the kicking game is in football. I hope you had a great day then.

The FCS and DII and DIII still have regional qualities. A region wants to know that it is important enough to have some teams in the ranking. The thought being that it helps retain interest in the local team and the regional league. When you have play-offs that are large the cream rises, so I just take early rankings and regional basis with a grain of salt.

Aggiefinn2. I agree those are great sports cheap and at the high levels very skilled.

BaseballAtDobbins. My daughters were not teased but verbally accosted outside the stadium. I have been to hundreds of games and 50 or so venues it was by far the ugliest scene I have ever witnessed.

BlueGoldAg, Thanks for sharing.

I follow the thinking that in football emotion has limits and a staff with better plans and coaching will over time beat emotional based teams.

The transfer portal can give but it can take away quickly. Bandwagon teams might fall quickly. The crazy part isI might be all wrong. As a player or a parent I would gravitate toward the more process focused teams and coaches but I do not know.

The loss of regionalism for NCAA football and sports will also play a huge factor in player development. Not sure how teams and players that have crazy travel schedules will improve in season and during their career.

It is truly wild, and new times in the NCAA landscape

AggieFInn2. I think that is a big stretch and would be hard to find a case. NCAA sports are big business and Cal's and Stanford woes are partially to be blamed on themselves. They failed to find a positive future for their departments. What does anyone else think?