It would appear that as of that post Sac State HADNOT been in touch with Stoney.

(Assignment: use HADNOT in a sentence. Ignore other potential pronunciations).

People are getting swindled at the new A's games, moreso than fans at any other MLB ballpark. You get all of the same things at a River Cats game (not the food or beer) for a fraction of the price. And people say, "I can see stars like Aaron Judge now" BFD, you can see stars when they're in college or the minors. And if they wanted to see Judge so badly they could've just seen him play against the A's in Oakland. Looking back, it would've been cheaper to see him there than in Sutter Health Park if you consider the savings on gas only partially offsets the increase in ticket prices. Early April Fools prank on Sacramento.

The author of this article has a very strange sense of humor. Haha guys, I tricked you with fake stadium news !

I knew something was fishy when they mentioned building the stadium near Raley Field. For one thing it hasn't been called Raley Field since before the pandemic. A Sac Bee person writing a serious article would call it Sutter Health Park. They are sticklers about calling Sac-area things by the proper names, if nothing else. Of less importance is there's basically nowhere to put a stadium that size, not even if you demolished SHP.

Speaking of jokes involving Sutter Health Park, the A's lost 18-3 in their West Sacramento opener to the Chicago Cubs. It was so bad that Cubs' catcher- Carson Kelly-went went 4 for 4 with a homerun and 5 runs batted in. He is a notoriously weak hitter (.226 career batting average in over 1600 career at bats). The A's pitched their reserve catcher in the 9th and he did better than their real pitchers, even struck a guy out (although that was a Cubs relief pitcher batting for some weird reason). The people who paid $200 for "Senate" seats (normally $30-ish for River Cats games) or over $70 to sit on the wet grass certainly were pranked !

Although the program is in need of a shake-up, I don't think that needs to involve a new coach.

It seems like more of a recruiting issue. From the 2023-24 team they lost Kane Milling and Elijah Pepper. They didn't even come close to replacing even Milling offensively with any, or a collection of,the new players. They just spread the shooting opportunities around to existing players like Tamba and DeBruhl. The 2024-25 team was a shell of the previous year's even before it played a game. And the 2025-26 will be a weaker shell of this year's team, unless it brings in some dynamic new talent

How do they fix recruiting ? That's above my pay grade, but I think there's something wrong if UCD is pinning it's hopes of rebounding (pun intended) on which players they can get out of the transfer portal. UCD is not getting top players from there for the most part (TY Johnson being a rare exception). The rest of the portal is like the $5 DVD bin that Wal-Mart used to have. One also has to consider that many of the players entering due to lack of playing time aren't playing at their initial colleges because they're just not that good in the first place.

I will say that Les' retention of HS recruits needs to improve. If players are leaving after their freshmen or redshirt freshmen years, it often has to do with lack of playing time. If they're not playing it's because the coach thinks they're not ready for bigger roles. This is a big problem with younger people. They get bored, they feel under-appreciated, they say f#$% this, and they leave. It's tougher for them for them to fully buy into the idea that they will have to earn their roles and playing time over 1 or 2 seasons.

If the freshmen in Les' judgment aren't ready for significant playing time there's no merit in just giving it to them. That makes the team worse. What can he and his staff do ? Aside from doing a better job of evaluating the players they want to recruit (so that they have more than just benchwarmers when they get to UCD) I don't have a solution.

I don't think Les needs to go; he and his staff just need to do a better job at recruiting.

Oh no ! How will the Aggies replace 10 pts ?

It's ok. You set the bar pretty high with your initial response time, and how you quickly swoop in to "defend" everyone from movielover whenever he posts. Who the hell cares what his beliefs are ? You do, apparently. That gave the impression that you do indeed live online. Apologies. Good luck on your quest to defend a message board from the right wing. Be well.

From the articles I browsed on the subject Utah Valley has received but not yet formally accepted an offer to join the Big West.

No need for this one either.

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Good hire. That should help the attendance in the new gym. So when UCD and Sac State play each other now it will be a match-up of coaches who played guard for the Kings in different decades.

Hopefully he will be good for recruiting more talented relatively local players. The basketball team relies too heavily on foreign players and transfers, so it's difficult for them to carry success into multiple seasons. And nothing against the foreign players, but no one can deny the game is different outside of the U.S.- some different rules + the strength of competition isn't as good. Evaluating them as potential U.S. players while they're playing international competition has its limits.

Now their best player this year-Jacob Holt- happens to be both Canadian and a transfer, but he actually got decent playing time at Santa Clara before transferring. This makes him an outlier. They currently do need to get a bunch of transfers because Sac State is a commuter school + that doesn't make it stand out to potential recruits. One CSU or another. Why Sacramento over say- Fresno if you know little about one or the other ? Hopefully Bibby can change that.

I totally forgot they played yesterday. Lost in the 13th inning when Carter Delaney balked in the winning run. Otherwise he did a great job-he was in his SIXTH inning of relief. He almost pitched as long as the starting pitcher.

They get today off before facing Nevada. Not much of a rest at all.

Depends on the size of the debt. If trimming Olympic sports doesn't make a real dent then the more expensive sports would be cut. Also please consider that cuts to Olympic sports would have to be done surgically so as to comply with Title IX.

Current grip is just fine. Thank you for your concern.

I'm allowed to speculate about what the future may hold. There are possible outcomes in the future where a move to FBS winds up being a bad idea and the university loses hundreds of millions of dollars, later having to make huge cuts to athletics. I don't want it to happen, but it could. And if football hypothetically gets the axe to stop the bleeding the football stadium would be almost completely. useless. Sinking a huge commitment into football is not always a good idea. Can you honestly tell me that CAL's athletic dept would be worse off now had they simply just demolished their football stadium and cut the program years ago. when it was determined massive renovations were needed? But people can be fanatics about tradition, even to the point of financial irresponsibilty, so there you go.

There's no membership disclosure on this site that states I have to be positive about potential future developments. If you don't like it I'm sure there's a rivetting discussion of sixth-year, third-string punters over on the football board that you will thoroughly enjoy.

Yes. If this whole FBS football thing ever materializes, blows up and the university has to cut football, soccer would probably move to Aggie Stadium, making the new soccer lights virtually useless, except maybe for practices. Imagine going from a lack of lights to having too many !!!

I'm only cautiously optimistic, as UCR is usually a bottom-feeder in the Big West. Still, they do need to beat these kinds of teams if they don't want to be bottom-feeders themselves. A good start. However, Hawaii is usually a buzzkill for their season.

It's a great sign of the depth on the team that Mark Wolbert is coming off the bench recently. He was a huge deal as a freshman, earning pro prospect talk but he's losing outfield time to Braydon Wooldridge, who prior to this season hit more like Wolbert is doing now ( .225 with only 3 extra-base hits.) Now Wooldridge may get drafted instead. If Wolbert doesn't start hitting like his old self soon he's going to be lucky to get a contract with the Yuba-Sutter High Wheelers at season's end. Forget the draft.

Non-conference was a mixed bag. They shouldn't have scheduled a trip to Omaha in March. That was short-sighted on the part of the scheduler. If they wanted to give the players a chance to see an empty CWS stadium they would never visit as players unless they transfer to much better programs, scheduling a tour would've been easier + cheaper. Shame on Creighton too-they should have come to Davis. Visiting Omaha in March- that's just cartoony Gunrock poop.

I still follow how the team is doing, but I don't plan on visiting Dobbins Stadium this season-lights or no lights.

Maybe hire Coach Gross coach the men's team ? Not a joke. She would do a great job. Outside of the box thinking. Then the women's team could hire someone from this message board since we're all experts here.

Have you been to a match ? If so, how was the experience ? I read online that Marya Welch Tennis Center uses some bleachers from Toomey Field so there's some fun nostalgia. Doesn't look like they sell tickets. I imagine they don't sell food + drinks ? I passed those courts so many times going to class but never stopped to watch.

Yeah, sometimes the things "advocates" say and do make me question their motivations.

This is going off-topic a lot but I just wanted to mention the topic of virtue signalling,.. And I was especially reminded of this with all the college protests about the events in Gaza. I don't believe ALL of those people illegally staying on campuses truly care about the Palestinians as much as they claim. They have a variety of motives.

Some of the college protesters no doubt are guys looking to hook up with other protesters by pretending to care with them. There's always some. Pretending to care about a particular woman's interests to get close to her is one of the oldest tricks in the book, so much so that the idea is in movies + television programs

I dated a young woman while a student at Davis who was one of those demanding UCD stop doing business with a particular entity. I told her plainly I thought the protest was stupid and why. She either didn't care or respected me for not kissing up to her + never mentioned protests again.

Some of the protesters are using anti-Israel sentiment as an opportunity to spew anti-semitic ideas they already had because they are anti-semites. Objectively no one in the U.S. who enjoys being alive should be anti-Israel. Against the killing of Gazans but not anti-Israel. Israel keeps tabs on terror groups in the Middle East to help deter terrorists- terrorists who want to kill us. We don't live in an impenetrable bubble, especially not with previously wide open borders.

Some people just love to rhetorically defend others when they know little to nothing about what's going on because caring sells.

And still others just use the situation as an excuse to break the law.

And I hate to say it but a lot of college students are just ignorant. They do some wonderful things with what they learn in classes, but when it comes to the world around them they often have completely wrong or overly simplistic views of things. This shows in how they think they have the right to tell their universities what to do with their investments. Universities actually are the ones investing in the students they admit. Tuition doesn't even come close to covering the costs of what resources students are given access to. Instead of being grateful for their opportunities many act like spoiled brats. Camp out in the quad and ditch classes ? Sure, not like the quad serves any other purpose, and mom and dad can just shell out for an extra semester/quarter to make up for classes flunked.

And I read about how work-study participants at Pomona College went on strike from their tour-giving responsibilities. What a racket-getting paid to walk around talking in places they already walk and talk anyway. No tours ? Oh no ! What will visiting families do ? It isn't as if visitors could just download a campus map, right ? They don't realize how little leverage they really have.

And so I really have to wonder how much those who hold themselves as advocates really care.

That figure sounds about right. I think over the years I have only had 1 co-worker who was transgender. Out in public I am not sure I have necessarily ever seen a trans person. Once in awhile I've seen people who appear to be men wearing women's clothing, but they may just like to dress that way, or they are pledging a fraternity. So very few, but seems like more because of how loud the advocates are.

I remember Regan. I think that's where they put us for a night at orientation. I just remember it being old and not as polished as the building I was in as a freshman. Maybe the closest thing on the inside looks-wise to the dorms you see in college-themed movies + shows.

I found when I visited UCD a year or two ago that Tercero was completely unrecognizable-there were no landmarks I could use to navigate on my walk at all.
Leach Hall (where I stayed as a continuing student) is gone + so are the Tercero dorm buildings. Think the DC is long-gone as well. But the 5-story Segundo buildings look the same as ever from the outside. There was no Primero which made the naming system weird. Don't know what happened to Cuarto-no reason to go over there ever as a non-student.