You're right, I was getting my restaurants mixed up.

Plough gives a talk on his upbringing, history with football, relationships with Bob Biggs and Jim Sochor...and the importance of being in Davis.

https://youtu.be/iEDOBUy2Q20?si=vBXx8XVvSZb0JD-z

Finding out Caffe Italia is closing! That's so sad, had a buddy who used to waiter there. He's a P.E. now for Caltrans. Great place for Saturday morning breakfast.

Nice to hear, the brains are still on the field.

My Dad played in the early '70's, and having met most of his teammates, have to say there are some impressive resumes, one retired at 50 as the Director of Engineering for Sun Microsystems, did analysis on the Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo program. One retired as CEO ( I believe ) of National Semiconductor, another is a certified Pulmonary Physician at Mass General and is on the staff at the Harvard Medical School... smart guys. When they get together at a game, it's literally khaki shorts, flip flops, a UC Davis Hawai'ian shirt, a beer and bitching about 2-a-days in August way back in '70. Ha ha ha

Nice, keep on that release schedule guys. Listeners will stay with you

Well, here's a topic, as a lot of the board is giving updates on it already - looks like Davis landed 7 solid transfers from the old Pac 12 and from the Mountain West...as well as Cal Poly's top tackler in 2022 and 2023. Is this the Plough effect? Flood the recruiting zone, make yourself known to the top FCS talent.

No coincidence, the guy's going to play here if he measures up, plain an simple...and yes, looks like Plough knows him and has total confidence in his ability to get open and make plays.

Ott was a big problem last time we were there in 2022.

Best comment was in the opening lines: "July in Davis is miserable."

Truer words were never spoken. That whole month peaks at the 4th of July, then everybody melts for 3 months straight.

Spent many a summer there just working in the campus labs, or interning in Sacramento - my friends would bartend, so we'd go out quite a bit, try not to get too dehydrated, met a lot of graduate students during the summer, many of them internationals...great life stories from all of them. Remember spending a lot of summer days at the Grad in '06 and even in '10 watching World Cup matches. Brazil matches brought out the best looking ladies, but the Spanish knew their futbol, they were very game savvy.

Through all of it, very, very hot.

Every top level FCS program is going to have to be masters at dealing with the transfer of players - both outgoing and incoming. The incoming being on the coaching/recruiting staff in making phone calls and taking them from players around the country. There are so many players at the FBS level who want to come find a place to play every week, and have great skills...and there are players at the DII and DIII levels who have what it takes to compete at the FCS level.

Nice! One of my old mentors, a brilliant, gregarious, slender man from Manchester, England once told me, "Once you start in on something new...it's best to do just that, START. Then you solve one problem, then another, before you know it you've built a cathedral."

...and just give Plough his program to run as he sees fit.

Dare I say, we might start a Thread: "Topics the UCDFB Podcast should cover.."

Yes, please post any and everything you guys are up to. Fantastic, looking forward to it.

I just hope Tompkins can make it through 2024 with zero turnovers.

Aggies do not match up with Idaho State this season.

Hastings certainly has all those snaps that he has logged, and that experience is valuable.

About 6 weeks away everybody - have a feeling, depending on how the men handle Plough's installation this summer - the Aggies could really sprint ahead with some tremendous scheme looks. The question is who's going to sling it?

Okay, the goal is to score the first points ever vs. UCLA, ha ha ha

Competition is the American way!