Per footballscoop.com and coachingsearch.com Cha'pelle Brown, who has coached secondary at NAU the last 2 seasons, will be joining Hawkins' staff as the defensive backs coach. Played at Colorado (under Hawkins) and was also a graduate assistant there as well as at the University of Oregon.

Does this put Coach Nurse on the speculated out list?

(Y) You know it! Btw 6th, I'm really digging the blog posts. Definitely brings something new to AST. Keep up the awesome work!

Here's the release on Coach Jerry Brady.

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/122116aaa.html

Yep, his only knock that I see is his speed. He isn't slow by any means, but doesn't have that top notch speed necessary for the tip top level. He runs a 4.6 40 by the way. If he was slightly faster he would have way more offers and he already has several FBS offers as it stands. With his size and hands though, he could be a real factor at the FCS level.

New offer!

WR Gavin Reinwald out of Elk Grove. GO AGS! Not the fastest kid we've offered but he is big, strong, and has quite the set of hands on him.

Yeah he played like 7 games (injury I assume) and still ended up with 130 tackles or something like that.

LB Bryan Rayas, the player we were talking about on page 1 of this thread and weren't sure if he was offered or not, has updated his twitter and IG accounts to include "UC Davis future". I'm willing, at this point, willing to call that an offer AND commitment (I can always change it if necessary). That gives us 2 LB commits and both of them put up huge numbers last season.

Confirmed OUT:
- Coach Daft
- Coach Watts
- Coach Chapin

Speculated OUT:
- Coach Haines

Outside of that I haven't heard anything one way or another on the other guys. I do have theories about who is going to stay and leave, but I'm going to keep that to myself as it is just theory.

(Y) lol

Yeah I know. I mean, I'm just assuming that he has been let go if the two new guys are covering the linebackers. Unless he is getting moved to a different position, I think it's likely that he won't be back.

I'm thinking that's a solid no

New offer out on QB Jalani Eason! GO AGS! Definitely looks like Hawk is going after highly mobile QBs with this offer and the offer to Crawford.

Looks like Coach Jackson will be coaching inside linebackers (from article), while Coach Brady will be coaching outside linebackers (from twitter). I assume this means that Coach Haines, who coached linebackers as a whole, was let go. How common is it to have different coaches for OLB and ILB?

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/122016aac.html

Does this mean we're gonna get new uniforms without the awkward 2 font UCDAVIS?

I also love the script Davis helmets. Wouldn't mind seeing them going forward.

Maybe I'm just seeing ghosts of athletic departments past. I could totally see that happening under the last couple administrations.

I kinda like it. Is that going to be a permanent font or was that just for this poster?

That could be, but who is still coaching this season who has connections to Hawk in the past? I use that as a standard as all of the other coaches that he has hired have seemed to have worked with him before.

Official schedule released and it's not an easy one.

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/121916aad.html

Wholeheartedly agree. This should be on the top of his checklist. I'm assuming that Hawk has some sort of vision for the offense (and the team in general) and is going for guys that will help make that vision happen, as opposed to hiring guys that will come up with a plan on their own. That way Hawk can still, at this point in time, go after recruits he thinks will mesh well with whatever coordinator he does hire. I think we are also going to be aided this year by going after JUCO and transfer guys, I know we have a handful of offers out to some of them and there is quite a bit of activity on twitter between them and the staff. There is also one guy who is committed to an FBS school that I think we have a chance of flipping (I wouldn't get hopes up, but I think it's a possibility).