If I had known I would have gone there and picked up a piece of the bleachers. Would have made a nice bench for the yard and definitely a conversation starter. Are both sides gone? Don’t they need some for T&F?

Are the Toomey bleaches gone?

SLO, I am not either. The Ags have fought over the years with this new CP threat:”Oh, Gosh we have to deal with CPs option again!” We are about 50-50, over the years, but I always loved the new interesting look of the CP team when they came to Davis. I am an historical guy. Your offense is a direct decedent of the original Red Sanders offense; them Tommy Prothroes, then the other guys went to the “Wildcat” or other derivatives, but your style of offense still harkens back to a great time of college footbal when smaller guys could still win big games. Good luck next weekend..

SLO, For the record- we also have only 4 OL players at 6’5” or above. I don’t really know what the relevance of this point is. Could you explain?

There may be an interesting story behind the Poly situation. It’s history. I believe this all went back to the Tommy Prothro era at Oregon State. The single wing T formation. 2 tight ends, a QB, a wing back, and a tail back. One outside reliever. Power plays into the line. It works very well for awhile. Tommy then moved to UCLA and took this offense with him to a higher level. Sometimes they even used the unbalanced line! I recall the way UCLA circled out of the huddle like a dance team to the line of scrimmage. Very impressive. Then the opponents figured out that this was not a good way to score a lot of points. The defense was the way to defeat this type of offense. Hold the middle of the line. That will do it. It is not a good passing offense, so pack the line of scrimmage and let them try and throw if they are behind. But, i love history, so i love the Poly scheme and I love Tim Walsh as do so many UC Davis people do. Go Poly!

And one other very important fact. We have no newspaper or major news support in the greater metro sacramento region. The Bee is editorially opposed to supporting either UC Davis or the City of Davis. In my email communications with a former editor of the Bee, she said as follows: you have your own PR and we will not add to that. We are the “watch dog” to UC Davis, not a lap dog. Look, the Bee sees all things Davis as a threat to Sacramento. Only a big effort by our new Chancellor May has any chance of fixing this otherwise indelible problem.

Josh Kelley had big night for UCLA- 124 yards- last night. Too bad we let that one get away.

I love what bob dunning is doing here. Maybe he is way over the top on the FBS thing, but look at the responses and interest he has brought to the program just with these posts! Keep it up bob!

Zythe, i think my point has already been made by other smarter people. But my point is that this would have to be a unanimous vote or near unanimous vote. Why would Cal who has many, many alumni and Cal students in and from the Sacramento area vote to allow us into their FBS geo- dominant area? Absolutely no reason to do this. Bottle line: Cal would lose money and Cal is on life support as it is.

Bob makes some very good points. But, I think we need to have some winning seasons before we go boldly there. Then there’s the question of what conference we go to. Some of the Mountain West teams are not really that good or as prestigious as some Big Sky schools. PAC 13? Not in our lifetime. Cal would veto any such move. Where else?

Just curious was there anything in the Bee about UC Davis or Sac about the last games? I’m only an epaper person and nothing there, except that a third string Alabama player had a hangnail. Probably out for the season. Pathetic. . . .

Movie, maybe a little picky on the watering thing. I worry about my plant too. But, the Thomas run to my mind was the exceptional play of the game. He has been hobbled with an ankle. I hope 2 weeks off will help. Great game by the Ags! I see a renewed athleticism on our team.

Zythe interesting but sometimes too much can be. . . Well too much and not really all that cool either. Hope we never go down that path.

Yes and the idea was that they could go to on line versions of their papers and do OK. But, they aren’t OK; they’re are terrible because they are attempting to still save money by cutting staff and using poor IT people so their papers are almost useless. The Bee is basically aa AP news outlet. It covers high school football fairly well, but thats it locally. Oh yes, there’s the Bees fetish about “local craft beers” and it does cover the Kings well, but I am simply not interested. The Enterprise covers no national news (which is fine with me) and is OK locally, but its IT is terrible. I can never log in because it wont take my password. You have to call in and get a temporary one. I will not be renewing my subscriptions to either newspaper.

Not that it is really is surprising anymore, but no story in the eBeeversion for either us or Slac. Print?

I watched on PAC 12 TV. Comments were very fair and even some times complementary to UC Davis. They did say at one point that the Stanford D line was significantly bigger than our “typical FCS sized line”. Several were even “NFL size”. Very difficult to run against those guys.

No, it very simple. The image is: We have a person (an Aggie) following a plow horse (Gunrock) plowing a field of wine and then cannabis. Everyone is very happy. Gunrock takes one too many bites of weed and then want s back into the barn and leaves Aggie in the field. The Aggie is dumbfounded as his horse has left him in the middle of the cannabis field. With nothing to eat he tries some of the weed all around him. He then becomes very befuddled and sees visions of an angry Indian through the field of cannabis coming towards him. He panics and runs. The Indian is carrying a tree as a weapon! The Aggie faints. He wakes up to see Chief Lightfoot dancing next to him. Chief says, they got rid of me as an Indian. You get rid of that damn smelly horse and we are good. The Aggie says “never” and the Chief beats the Aggie to a pulp with the tree. Sorry, no good ending here. . . . Stanford 45, Aggies 7. Hope I’m wrong.

Movie, i am actually old enough to remember back when the Stanford Indian mascot would come out under the scoreboard to do a war dance after a Stanford touchdown. His name was Timm Williams, aka Prince Lightfoot, but he was a real Indian. He was In authentic dress. Not the Florida state Seminoles or the Washington Redskin Indians who were/are completely phony Indians. Chief Lightfoot was gone in 1972. My first job (age 15) was to park cars at the Stanford football games (circa 1959-60. Then after the first quarter we were let in to the south end zone free. My whole family were Stanford fans all the way. Now, having had some better education at a “relatively good” university. I have shifted my allegiance totally to my university who has a totally non-Indian horse mascot named “Gunrock”. He was trained to fight Indians, but never fired a shot in anger towards our Nativre American brothers. So now: It’s Gunrock versus the Tree. Who would not pick a great horse over a tree?

So no love?

I was at the Stanford game 13 years ago and my memory of that game has stuck in my mind ever since. It was a ridiculously late afternoon game and hot even for Palo Alto. I parked my car in the “woods of eucalyptus trees” that is Stanford ‘s parking lot in the daylight (later i could hardly find my car when the game was over because it was so pitch dark). Anyway, back to the game. I thought Stanford was going to win. They stopped our running game. Our passing game was off. Then something happened that is what makes people always say “on any given day. . .anything can happen in sports” and they did. We punted to Stanford and the returner muffed the ball on about his 20 yard line and we recovered. The tide and emotion turned and we pulled out a win. Before that game it was also said “we would get crushed”. Well, we didn’t get crushed. Hawk will play the video of that game to the team as a reminder of what can happen “any day” in football and we will see what happens next Saturday (if you go to the game make sure you remember where you parked your car in the Stanford forest!).