Commerce Texas, with a student population of 12,000 in a rural town of under 10,000 you can imagine the students dominate the town, a quarter of the residents are between age of 18-24. Back in the 70s Davis was limited to 18,000 students so as to not overwhelm the town of somewhere around 30,000 residents.

it will be interesting to see if they can sustain that without the strong start to the season.
The team has markedly less publicity on their web site than they had prior to the pandemic. One can glean from the team’s twitter account that there is some kind of practice going on but is this spring practice? Or just some organized workouts? I think the team needs to publicize itself because of the lack of media exposure in their market.

Story can’t figure out if they are football or soccer.
I think the story was written by artificial intelligence.

https://sportsnewest.com/2022/02/23/it-helps-being-the-camels-inside-college-footballs-most-unlikely-recruiting-success-story/

Almost all doctors have some speciality, and they’ve missed out on a lot of pay getting their training, but that wasn’t my initial point. My point was that a family with the primary earner being a young professional may have may have financial incentives to leave California. I’m stunned that that seems hard to believe. There are lots of jobs which don’t pay more in California and lots of states where the taxes and cost of living are less. Tennessee happens to be one where doctors make as much or more money on average, cost of living is 18% less and they don’t make the doctor work for more than a month to pay their state taxes.

According to zip recruiter the average MD salary in Tennessee is greater than California.

The era of people making more money in California is in the past.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-Physician-Salary-by-State

Also an Orthopedic surgeon makes a lot more than an Obstetrician.

I have a daughter graduated UCLA med. First thing after medical school a five year residency at approximately $59,000 a year at a major midwestern university, a peer institution with Davis, but in a larger metropolitan area.
After residency which is where MDs learn their specialty they then can make significant income but they have spent four years in medical school racking up debt, and three to five years in residency making a token salary. But they have a large debt that isn’t tax deductible, and states like California tax them like they are the “rich” and they have no retirement vesting, probably no house equity, California has a large population of poor people which means doctors who serve a cross section of the population have a lot of patients with Medicaid which doesn’t pay well. The cost of living here is high, and medical salaries are not correspondingly high. So moving out of state might make sense.

Roster listed Jacob Thomas as an assistant coach for the offensive line although he was hired last winter as a quality control assistant; we had two seasons last year so apparently he earned a promotion.

Looks a lot less like a rebuilding year with Gilliam and Babb.

What is the rule on players participating in spring practice, do they have to be enrolled?
I assume spring practice is in the spring quarter this year. It would be a plus if the transfer QB and other transfers are in spring practice,.

I’m not saying why they left.
I’m just saying that for young doctors who maybe came out here to do a lowly paid residency or fellowship, who are in their thirties and whose debt may exceed their assets, California is not a good place to try to make up for getting that late start in building wealth.

Young MD probably has substantial student debt and can probably make as much money elsewhere as in Sacramento.
You might not but a lot of people would move for a $20 000 increase in take home pay.

So part of the continuing California brain drain. No state income taxes in Tennessee.

Given that he came from HS football, where he was a coordinator prior to coming here, with the idea of moving into college coaching, it seems like a retrograde move considering he was making moves up the ranks.
We have had a lot of coaching turnover, there is always some but this much seems unusual.
Most departures were clearly driven by better opportunities, but since 2019 we have changed offensive coordinator, QB coach, tight end coach, receiver coach, offensive line coach,
On defense it’s not quite as much turnover but a new defensive coordinator, and a departed defensive line coach with other coaches shifting roles. I likely missed some.

I noticed on the roster from the fall that Jalon Jackson, a 247 three star from the class of 21 who initially signed a NLI with San Diego last winter is listed. 6’2” wide receiver. That’s another talented recruit we haven’t seen yet. Flew in under the radar.

Agree with all your comments except we don’t have anything to go by in judging the 2021 class as none of them played. The 2020 class had twenty recruits and a lot of impact. Hopefully the 2021 class not getting on the field was just due to depth. Looked good on paper but a smaller group.

The 6’4” tall wide receiver from Redlands Laviel Pickett doesn’t appear to have run track, but played football basketball and baseball. A recruiting site says he signed with Davis to play baseball. I can see how he didn’t have time for track.

https://www.fieldlevel.com/app/commitments/laviel.pickett/baseball

Probably learned something during his year at cal. Went through spring camp as well as the fall, so that’s a lot of coaching

looks from the highlights that Kraut is good as a ball carrier, as is Hutton. One of the other guys might be the deep threat.

I hope they give him a shot at receiver

Did Hawkins indicate that Kraut will be a receiver?

Apparently they moved Deng to another position and opened up the inside linebacker spot for Tattersall, but he couldn’t hold on to the job. Had decent stats though. When he lost the job they first moved a former safety into the position, which maybe indicated they wanted more speed on defense or pass coverage. In our situation, I think we can use a little more size at inside linebacker. The way the tackling rules are these days, it’s hard to bring backs down. I suspect he has decent speed. Maybe he thought he wouldn’t get another opportunity to start there and since he could graduate, it was time to look for a better situation.