I could not be more excited. From the wilds of sonoma she is the best,

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Dobbins is actually a very attractive baseball stadium. It was designed correctly from the start in terms of orientation to the southwest to the northeast to help prevent sun issues for the players. Stanfords sunken Diamond stadium on the other hand faces due south and is not properly positioned. This can create major sun issues for the defensive players. I grew up in Palo Alto and went to many games at the sunken Diamond. There were never many people at the games I went. Maybe 300 or so, but this was in The 60s/70s and Stanford did not have lights! Then Stanford started winning games in the ‘90s. They then learned that the NCAA rules were such that no team could host a regional if it did not have lights. Guess what. Stanford got lights dues to a $500,000 gift from a former player in the early ‘90s. So, yes. Lights matter in the game of baseball. I am told that once the lights went in at Stanford the attendance went up significantly. I am told that when Dobbins was built they had the foresight to install conduit for future lights. If true it would seem that we could get lighting pretty cheap. So, every college baseball stadium in Northern California, it seems, has lights except for UC Davis. If this is ok with our ICA people I think an explanation form the AD would be in order. IMHO

Speaking of the cows, are they staying forever in the middle of the campus? I love cows. I also happen to love pigs, but they were summarily kicked off campus years ago. I missed the poor guys. I thought it or they brought a much needed sense of a rural essence (?) to what is the best ag school in the world. The kids over on the quad never even knew about them. Emil Mark famously said that he loved his students for their intelligence, but much more for their humility and the ability to walk through cow/horse/whatever shit without fainting or having a nosebleed, girls included. Yes, the smell of cows sometimes wafts through the football field during games. Who cares? The opposition? Again, who cares! After all is said and done, we are Aggies and we don’t faint over some “bad smells”. So I say to the field hockey team, play on, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm on your face and hope the breezes from the cow sheds flow in to your opponents faces. Hey, it’s our secret weapon! Use it. (Modified Irish blessing??)

Well, I thought that the Bob Dunning article in the enterprise today about the lack of lighting at Dobbins stadium was right on. It really does not help one our major sports teams to be so lacking in competitive abilities not to have lights on such a beautiful baseball stadium. Which if you have any memory was basically first built by volunteers. Rocky was not the AD back in the days when this happened. Same thing with the soccer stadium which uses the same berm to the east for seating. So I give rocky a pass. But to see sac state and other programs be an able to do lights and we cannot is just frankly embarrassing. Rocky, please issue a statement on this issue!

She always could score. Her issue was defense against quality opponents. This was a great sign that this doubt has been resolved. Fabulous block because it was not just the typical jumper block, but a block that showed she was focused on wherever her opponent was coming from with the ball. Love Mo.
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Awesome interview of an amazing athlete and person. Does this mean she has made the Skys roster or has just been invited to camp?

Read the entire results sheet, and seems the teams had about equal first place/second place winners, but sac it appears has a much deeper team than the Aggies. Believe we also had some injuries or holdouts for the BW meet coming soon. For instance we have one of the top men’s pole vault guy on the coast and he didn’t even get to play. I have always hated the duel meet scoring system which awards the depth of the teams, I.e. 1st place gets 5 point, and the 2d and 3d combine for 5 as well. No, I am really not complaining that much, it’s just what has been in place for decades and I was good with it my own very old running days. My only issue is: do the Aggies invest as much as sac insofar as track and field are concerned? If not, I am really bothered by that. Track and field is a great Olympic sport and we don’t need to see it diminished.IMHO

Cost. MLBB bats cost $100-200.

Someone should tell the story about Rex Peters. How he came and coached the best few seasons the Aggies BB team ever experienced. His wife as I recall was the sister of then giants star something Snow and he actually wore Aggies shirts in the Giants dugout. All on TV! Man, this was fun, but over 20 years ago and probably before D1 times for the Aggies. The now unimportant question: why did he leave a head coaching position for an assistant position at UCLA? Might be an interesting question for our more senior members to address. In their leisure of course. I always thought he was a great guy.

Is our former head coach and I cannot remember his name there.

I checked out the box scores and to my dismay saw that the buckhorn in winters is a financial supporter of of sac state! For a business in Yolo county with all kinds of davis presence this really has to be a little hurtful. Still love their tri tip sandwich at the farmers market. But, hey, what is going on here.

Will someone please tell me how paying a football coach 3-5 million a year helps the higher education of our students. This is so ridiculous and I thought only the creepy southern schools did this nonsense. Yes, i realize that most of the money comes from “booster groups” so no “taxpayer funding involved” (yeah, sure got that BS”, ) but still, what a misuse of the higher education infrastructure of our country to do this stuff. does any of this big money go back in to the actual education of our kids?

Well, I will give you my brief views on this subject. I think Miles is going to bring more to the table next season at QB. With much more experience and confidence. WR will be very positive as well. OL also in good shape. I think RB is the real question here as we lost probably the best player at this position in Aggie history. It will be interesting to see how Chucwudoba and Larison match up against each other. Both very different style players but they are both very good. Larison just gets bigger every year now at 199. Then there is my favorite Tompkins, also known as the Magic Man. I say put him at WR and return man as the guy is big, fearless and scary and at wildcat. I leave the defense to my more informed people. Feeling good about next year.

Campbell was one hell of a recruiter. In two years He stocked his team with a lot of transfers, foreign players and out of state recruits and turned a three win team into a playoff contender. And that’s saying something given that sac state is not exactly a dream place for an elite basketball player. So how he did this is quite amazing. We know that hornets boosters provided the extra money to entice one football coach to sign on to the hornets staff, could they be giving out NIL money to players now? I really doubt that this is the case. But, I think that if the boosters are totally separate from the university they can do this legally. And i don’t think that an NIL deal has to be publicized or put on record as it’s considered an athlete’s personal and private matter. Still, many athletes choose to announce their NIL. Consider the Cavinder Twins (Fresno State transfers to Miami) On3 tracker values their NIL at$851K!) So congrats to Campbell for the new TCU job he certainly earned it and if he had some NIL money assistance he is just playing by the new NIL rules. Do any Aggie athletes get NIL money? Doubt we will ever see it or know it.

Magic is really an underused asset. But that he will do everything that will help the team

Don’t count out Larison he is a gamer. Both of these guys in the backfield would be very effective and do not forget magic! That guy is the stud of studs!

So the thinking is Carson camp will lead sac state to win the FCS championship? Nothing much on UCD except Hastings being pretty good. A lot of discussion on sac due to all the changes in the coaching situation. I think MSU is overall the best of the BS teams according to these guys. Sac did not play MSU last season and that helped them a lot in the rankings. Should be an interesting season to watch next season.

I may be wrong, but I think the field hockey facility was almost entirely built with donated funds from a very wealthy parent of a player. This was at the time when field hockey was being threatened with elimination as a sport on the west coast. Maybe we just need another wealthy doner to get this done. But I do agree, it would be great to see the team succeed and earn the money.

And probably the softball field would also then need lights per title IX? So yes, a bit more complex than it looks. I do think that lights would help recruiting a lot.