Spent 2 years at Sac.

Nah, this is the usual time for the PWOs to start landing. Far fewer opportunities left for walk ons with the big guys using most of their 105 roster spots on scholarship players.

He jumped in expecting high D1 interest and I’m not sure why. Decent player with one career int (interestingly tossed by Caden) but not real athletic and only one year as a starter. Lack of interest from Eck is also telling.

Meanwhile there’s an army of swimmers, golfers and basketball players from around the globe on scholarship. Football and basketball being charged OOS tuition is such a bush move by Gary and just reinforces the lack of weight Rocko carries with Mrak.

Washington State football NIL is in the $5m range. Kirby is in the $2m range as HC. The new TV contract won’t cover those two line items let alone the full football budget.

Tom Brady’s group. They specialize in shopping guys who are not yet in the portal, enticing them into the portal with inflated estimates and then skimming 20% or more off the top.

This was the weekend for the portal crew to visit their top target since these spots fill up quickly. Sounds like Marion got to the family with some of his usual nonsense. CU has a rising soph qb that was a huge recruit and played fairly well last year.

Need a longer FS to match up with the bigger guys over the middle. The young guys are pretty slight and none over 5’10. Put on the wishlist with a TE, another TE (or big receiver with some position versatility), a big back to rotate with Fish, and a QB.

Must have a dog allergy.

Sub 50% completion percentage with two int against a bad team doesn’t fit my definition of fine.

Played in four games this year before taking a redshirt. One of the better back end guys in the Big Sky but not super twitchy. Nice of him to use Meyer in the post.

Highly unlikely.

How does moving into a league with Nevada and San Jose State open up Davis to the country? The MWC tv partners are Fox and CBS, with most of the televised games in the late window on FS1 and CBSSN. Nobody watches those networks. Meanwhile ESPN has shifted the Big Sky into the old P12 after dark window (along with west coast home games in the B12 and ACC). Davis was on ESPN three times this year, with two home games, and would be in a less advantageous media slot in the MWC.

That is the profile. More of these to come.

The kids understand the deal. It’s not like guys are leaving to play at sac state for 15k.

lol, no. Without Pinnick this was a .500 team at best. Without Vargas they made a deep playoff run.

UCLA isn’t really the profile except for the Jayce Smalley type of grad transfer. Those kids are on rev share. The good ones will get rev share elsewhere. Those that can’t get a new deal are generally not good enough or driven enough to play at Davis, either. The good fits have been the kids from academic minded lower level schools and Cali kids from other FCS programs. Expect that to remain the case going forward.

Davis is pretty honest with guys so odds are if you are in the portal you have made your decision. Some of these kids are being offered more dough than their parents/guardians have made over the course of their entire lives. In a lot of these situations it’s not the kid making the call.

There are plenty of receivers in the Big Sky that are fast and talented enough and over 6’0 tall. They need to a couple guys with a catch radius to minimize the degree of difficulty for the QB.

Cal and Stanford will wind up back aligned with UCLA, Arizona, ASU, Utah, Colorado, Oregon State, and Washington State for football. The real interesting thing will be the next rung down, the Fresno/Boise/SDSU types, and whether the Montana’s and Dakota’s level up to that world.