The divorce? The lease? Can’t be that they weren’t making money. Is there any hope someone else could take it over. So sad. Bob D. Never got on this. Bet he will new.

And now we learn that she is a celebrity as well playing herself in the award winning movie “Coach, the Movie.” Her life story is truly remarkable as reported by the UC Davis Athletics website yesterday. The movie is basically the story of how she obtained her “A” coaching license by overcoming amazing odds and outright discrimination by US Soccer. This is a very charismatic person and we are lucky to get her. AD Blue is to be commended for landing her.

Kudos to Aggie Erinn Beattie for placing fifth in the NCAA Championships heptathlon event. This grueling event is something most sane people or sane athletes would not even attempt. I love these athletes who put so much on the line here and I doubt they really even get full schollies to reach this point. Anyway, hope the best for the talented and beautiful Erinn (yes, she could be model!- but won’t). She’s a world class athlete.

Don’t forget Sanders. She didn’t play much last year, but when she did she did well for a Frosh player. I think the freshman 15 caught up with her a bit and slowed her down. She will be fitter next year. She showed she can bring the ball the up the court very well. I think she made the only 3 she attempted. I will never second guess Jen, but maybe a RS year for her? She also is a very good rebounder. I think we are good at the 4-5. Trpcic and Hall/Bessolo/Song?

I have no problems with the back court next year. Sanders will be trimmer and faster , Trepcic will be a force to be reckoned with. Wings in good shape. Post: lets see with Stobbart I think we are in good shape there as well. The new bigs should probably RS this year to be an incredibly strong team in 2020. IMHO. Jen will stay as well. She is a force to be reckoned with Nationally. Blue knows this as do all of us. But she is loved here. I think it would take a lot to get her to move.

Just a suggestion, but if you have some time to spare some boring afternoon like me today, check out the videos of new QB recruit Trent Tompkins. Now I am fully aware of the false hype that Maxi-preps and others do for players, but if you go the the UC Davis Football Roster site and then go to Tompkins and go to his bio you will get a much different view (“Passportsplayas TV”). At the start this is not good for Trent. He is sacked. He is roughed up big time. But he perseveres. Definitely not the perfect player. But then as the season progresses against some very, very tough teams he show his stuff. Good footwork, deception, quickness, ability to run the football and a great passing arm, in a very unconventional form, as he does not need the balls stitches to throw the football. Which, of course, drives the coaches crazy. And, there is more good stuff about how the college player rating system is so weird, i.e. if he were 1-2” inches taller, based on his national stats he would have been a 5 star recruit. Reminds me of that short kid named Peterson. Or that short kid Kahari. Good job by the Aggies to land this kid. I think we got a true stud here.

Sac’s baseball program is going great. Multi 30 win seasons; this year 40. Regionals winner. A vastly better program than we have going now. Time for AD Blue to pick up Aggie baseball with some facilities and program improvements. We have done WSB And WFH improvements which is a great accomplishment, but we need Aggie baseball to rise up. We used to be a great BB school, now not so. Much. Why?

Wow, WNBA pays less than what Morgan could have earned as a starting biomedical engineer. Median BME starting salary: $53,800. WNBA: $49,440. Where ever Morgan goes she will do very well. Love that gal. Morgan just don't get too chummy with Vladimir.

This is going to be a tough investigation for the attorney who takes on this task. Because there are many, many Banduh alums who will write about all the good things their band membership did for them personally. Yes, there will be some obviously who will write differently, but I think in the end the Band will come out of this OK. So no one was killed. Raped or beaten. Mostly hurt feelings, but thats not good either. We have to stop that.
But basically, my view is that college band controversies are actually very, very funny. Let’s take the Tree vs. the Cal Band. The Stanford Tree is universally regarded and hated as the worst mascot in the country, but Stanford students love their tree. The Cal Band hates the tree with a passion. I recall at Picnic Day not too long ago at the Battle of the Bands, the Tree got too hot and went to the van to remove the Tree suit. Cal BAND broke into the van and stole the Tree suit. Charges filed. No outcome.suspensions . Then at a later Cal event a very inebriated Tree intimidated and outraged Oski to the extend that Oski fake peed on the Tree. Turned out the Tree had a bottle of vodka inside her suit. Suspension. Later, the Tree with help from the Stanford Band attacked Oski and removed his head showing the face of the student. This was a gross violation of the 100 year old Cal rule that Oski was to be forever “unknown”. Suspensions again. Need i go on? This is not “kids will be kids” thing it is that some shy, insecure, but very artistically talented young adults go thru a late bonding and maturation process that draws them to something like the community of the Banduh. It is good for them. Fix it don't kill it.

The great bee of yore, investigational pioneers against the big banks and the big 5 railroads of the 1890’s, now frantically yipping at the heels of a nerd college band. Sad. Basically, what newspapers have to do now if they need a story (and they have a college close by) is go to the college newspaper, which the bee did. The Aggie did this not the poor bee. So sad, the Stanford band, the cal band, USC band, the Poly band, and then us. Yes, a minor nerd college band problem, but really “front page”? But fire the Banduh? no way. . . . .

Good to know. Based on his record, I bet he got some “encouragement” that things have to get better fast when he was given that extension. Well they didn’t in 2019. We will see what a fairly young team now can do for him next year. That said, we have been through these 4 year rotations with Vaughn before and they have really never paid off. One fact I did not note before is that after Peters got to UCLA the team batting average gained 41 points! Ours fell. We will see. . .

Well, if we are “fully funded” we are out of excuses* for being one of the weakest baseball teams in the BWC. I believe that Matt Vaughn has had one winning season in the past 5 years (2015) and was 46-67 before that (I dont have those individual season stats handy). Compared to the previous head coach, Rex Peters, this is not an admirable record for a head coach. Peters is now an assistant coach at UCLA which is the number 1 seed in its regionals. I have no idea where Vaughn is contract-wise, but it would seem a coaching review is probably definitely in order for this coach.
* i guess we can still blame lack of lighting for this situation, but its getting pretty weak at this point. Strange it is, as UC Davis has a great facility and used to field very good baseball teams.

I Get it. A bit more complicated than I thought. But the point that must be acknowledged is that the Band is still very popular with the students and the community. Didn’t BWC ban the band from away games because it was so formidable a foe in the opposition gym.? That’s big.

If they wanted to, the band could just start a petition signed by all who agree that this is all just a bunch of BS and let it go at that. Of course with a clear statement that it was not done with any coercion. Is this just too simple? Probably. . . . However, I do think that the Alumni may be a problem and they should just butt out of the bands activities. Why do they want to hang lout with a bunch of 18-20 year olds? A bit creepy don’t you think?

I must agree with 09’s account. The Aggie article was almost ridiculous in its effort to create a “dirty, prurient” story out of very little evidenced based facts. Of course, newspapers love this stuff. Nothing like “A Naked Van” story as a leader. It seems every college band in California is a potential great source for this kind of story. Kind of sad.

Wow. Megan Gustafson Big Ten player of the year and Morgan Bertch Big West player of the year both waived by the Dallas Wings. BGA is right on, too much completion at the WNBA level for these great players, especially when you try and move a 5 player to a 3 position they have never played in their entire careers. Dallas drafting moxie not so good????

TRK says yes!

good point! I think that is true.

Not only is he fast, he is the fastest Aggie ever in my memory. A 10.6 is NFL top 10 fast. I saw that he was a RS at NR. Does that means he’s OK for next year? Remember Renaldo Nehemiah? He did a WR 12.93 in the 110 meter HH. 49ers drafted him as a WR and he was OK mostly because he would make the D always put double coverage on him because of his speed. But he did catch some passes. Hopefully, Theo will do great as an Aggie.

So, how do we know that?