Not when you’re insulated financially because your supporters don’t actually support you with money. Plough has talked about this publicly.

Your response to the Yolo poster kinda sinks your viewpoint. USC’s athletic department is funded by donors, sponsors, the media deal, and people that attend games. UCD’s athletic department is funded by current students and the central campus. There is an obvious difference between those two stakeholder groups. Fox and people that donate north of $1m per year to SC football decided that game would not be played. At Davis, as an alum you are obviously entitled to an opinion but until your opinion is shared by a stakeholder group that moves the needle financially, it really doesn’t matter.

Very few programs even in the Power 4 are headed to 105. Davis getting to 85 is possible by increasing to the new caps at softball, w soccer, w hoops, etc.

They plan to have a plan but the reality is they have no money. They have done this multiple times over the years with stadium and arena ideas.

Neither of them have any money.

Paid attendance at ucd has been in the range of 5k in a good year. The total attendance is juiced by the students the first two weeks of class. They don’t contribute to the gate and nobody is really counting. 11k is generous as max capacity within the fences. There’s no way 14.5 is a real number.

Fresno State is gone. The MWC without Fresno and Boise is essentially the Big Sky and the media deal will reflect that reality. For Davis to move to the new MWC and be marginally competitive in football would require at least $50m of capital expenditures plus an increase of $10m per year to the football budget. $10m per year is more than 2x the annual ticket, sponsorship and donor contributions for the entire athletic department. Good luck.

Couldn’t agree more. So many missed opportunities. Instead of acting like adults and providing some leadership to course-correct, Mrak Hall always defaults to forming a cancel committee. The current bunch of administrators was born on third base (thanks to funding levels) and acts like they hit a triple. A lot of good things that separated the campus from many peers have been lost due to mismanagement.

The same level of effort goes into the media releases. Very little pride, zero accountability and no vision.

That attendance figure includes 4,000 of his imaginary friends.

Gathering wins? This isn’t the Oregon trail. How about we stop throwing across our body into traffic, put our hat on forward and tell the kids we’ll see them when the workday is complete? The defense has kept this team alive. The hc needs to stop patting himself on the back and provide the offense some direction. Every time Hastings takes more than 3 seconds to throw the ball the entire offensive staff owes the D 20 push ups.

Great game by the D

Cal wasn’t close in the second half. A lot of teams play close games. Who else has only had two backs with carries in the fourth quarter of week 3?

Only two backs have carries on the year. Staff seems unprepared on offense.

He should have 3 of them today. Lan made a crazy catch on the TD.

Doesn’t seem like Plough has a very good handle on his offensive personnel.

Or the head coach’s acumen.

What’s worse between Hastings and these uniforms? Did someone forget to order the gold helmets this year?

My point exactly.

Boise supports that program. The Davis community won’t even support a decent restaurant.