Equestrian doesn’t travel with their horses. Home team provides them free of charge. Now the quality of the horses is subject to valid questions. No one would doubt that UC Davis horses would be top of the iine, but some of these other teams I simply don’t know. Who else has a world class vet school looking over their horses?
Nonetheless, I think the elimination of the sport was a wise move. Yes, a large travel team, zero or very little fan support and a ton of vet care and farrier work was not a good selling point. A very expensive sport indeed.
I think if the administration is to be faulted for anything it would be why this sport was fielded in the first place. I don’t think they actually thought about it that much, though the rumor was that Stanford or maybe Poly would field a team if Davis did, since they have all the facilities in place to do so and the wealthy rider parents to help fund the entire process. Didn’t happen.
Rocko, go to court and take your punches, bit l think you should prevail.

Wow. That is an amazing recovery even for a 22 or something young man. Probably indicates an incredible state of fitness prior to the injury and a very determined athlete who wants back in the game ASAP.

These people have money and they are used to getting their way. They will not go away easily. But, eventually they will. Sad for all involved. Even the horses!

Where is all this information coming from. Not that I care if it all good. Love those kids so much!

Bria Shine would have been a big help with Norris but she transferred to riverside for whatever reason. Hope she does well there

I never saw what exactly Rex’s injury was. I guess medical details of a players injury are sometimes now considered to be confidential which is fine with me. But if it was a ACL injury we would be lucky to see him play next season if at all. Forget when he was hurt. ACL rehabilitation one year +/-?

Yes I did (Now retired) and I guess yes they can hopefully. Thanks movie you seem to be the other person on this thread who actually cares about this issue. We care about the kids, not so much about the program. Hey, they could get the decision in their favor and then go into the portal. A decision I would not like. Wouldn’t expect this from these great kids.

After extensive research I can find no evidence that UC Davis has filed any formal complaint in court against the NCAA regarding the Conners brothers eligibility. Does anyone have any information on this that I may have missed? In any event the parties appear to be in serious negotiations at present. This is important because if negotiations fail the Conners, (As many of you have predicted) the university has a very limited ability to have the case heard before spring practice. The dockets of all possible courts where the case could be heard are crowed and slow. I would think if the Conners miss spring practice they are likely done with college football no matter how this case is resolved ultimately.

So we do the west side improvements for shade for the patrons, but nought for the players? I say we do both, grass and shade. I really do agree if UC Davis can’t grow a healthy turf football field who the hell can?
One question. Do any D1 football teams play on natural turf now?

Would going to natural turf help with the stadium temperature?

7:30 start time possible? I doubt the kids would mind that much.

Why can’t we just schedule night games for august and September? I think we have started to do this. A lot cheaper than some have proposed.

Sorry, I hate Facebook

I don’t use Facebook. Is there any other way to watch the last zoom?

I’m curious where do you get this info? Has UC Davis filed a formal complaint with a court regarding this issue. Was the argument made to a judge or just to the NCAA? Isn’t it highly doubtful the NCAA will back down even with the best of arguments?

Is this kid any relation to the other Jake locker that is rather well known?

We’re their situations very different from the Conners?

I guess the media folks had a brief hiccup today when at around 11:45 they released the “febuary 5, 2026” recruiting class list. Before they quickly realized that they had screwed up and took it down I was able to only read that is is 20 freshman and 10 grad transfers. So no new news there, but still a pretty funny development and apparently no big changes.

But not an official announcement from WSU. Or am I missing something?

Yeah, but if he got the NIL offer that he was happy with and that he accepted it directly from the collective, he did not need his agent to get this done and it would be unethical for the agent to even ask for his percentage (Usually 5-20%). Although some unscrupulous agents have been caught trying to do just that. Hey, I’m just trying to figure out why no announcement. Just a theory. Boring Saturday!