So after five years at 15 units a quarter someone has 225 units but still hasn’t exhausted his eligibility. He is now about 24 years old and doesn’t want to commit to several more years for graduate degree. What reward can he get for hanging around?

Which can you do in a year? Surprise me.

So we have something to offer the few students that earn a degree elsewhere or here in three years. Small pool to draw from.
If admissions are under the same rules as non athletes, it’s less likely that we can offer enrollment to someone for a couple of quarters that isn’t an academic waste of time. Unlike state colleges or out of state colleges, UCs don’t offer second batchelors degrees, vocational certificates or anything else to hang on the wall after a couple of quarters of work. Except a teaching credential or what?

There is a limit to how many undergraduate units are permitted.
Here is how it was historically:
If the student has graduated, they can’t enroll for a second Batchelor degree, that’s not permitted at UCs, State colleges it’s ok.

How many graduate programs do we have that can offer someone a useful credential in a year?
Probably not many aside from a teaching credential, but I don’t know.
I don’t think there is much of an incentive for someone to play another year after being here for 4 or 5 already.

Our schedule wasn’t that light, Tulsa ended up 6-6, San Diego 7-4. Except for Dixie a respectable out of conference slate. Our conference schedule included 3 of the 5 playoff teams, and Weber would likely have been in the playoffs instead of us if we hadn’t beaten them.

The thing that was light was our list of wins against the playoff level teams. We had the opportunity but couldn’t do it, and mostly looked like we weren’t competitive. We don’t match the physicality of playoff teams.

We’re going to miss Bryce Rodgers next year and we obviously had trouble when we played without Lamson, with the CalPoly’s little Elija Ponder looking like an unstoppable force running around our 6’8” replacement at tackle. That illustrates that our young linemen may not ready to step in.

I’d be interested to know how they called the snap. While several of the Sac defenders were looking for the play, I think there was an element of distraction. It would be cool if the QB yelling at the sidelines actually called the snap, as the defenders watching for the trick play probably were trying to not pay attention to him.

That bit of news regarding Rodrigues’ prior concussion or concussions is a pretty significant factor. Back in 72 or 73 the team had a fullback/tight end who was one of the stars of the team. He had to call it quits mid season after sustaining his sixth career concussion.

An atypically small class in 2020 and the 12 seniors and 1 graduate student who has exhausted eligibility should leave some room.
I hope that some of the HS class of 21 have talent that they haven’t had opportunity to show. Basically no playing time for that recruiting class

Nine days until early NLI day.

Temple is one school I can’t see why anyone would choose over us except to get away from home.

I expect that anytime a coach leaves for greener pastures his former employer doesn’t have to pay a buyout, is that not right?

I’m not sure the trick played fooled sac. They seemed to be on the lookout for the direct snap, several players pointing into the backfield. Maybe the timing, might have had a clever way of signaling the snap.

Hard to argue they’re wrong.

Smalley still has eligibility if he wants to use it.

Can’t fault anyone who has graduated from moving on.

Where did you see that? The box score on the team site lists him as punting. The box score has other errors though.

that year even with the narrow loss to a top FCS team we were 2-2 against ranked FCS teams and had a win over a Pac12 team. That was by a transitioning team, not eligible for the playoffs
In comparing teams I value most who did you beat rather than what the score was or who did you lose to. That year we defeated two ranked FCS opponents and the FBS team. No other team has done that that I can think of.

The 2005 team should be in there. Beat Stanford, and two ranked teams, #10 CalPoly and #17 North Dakota State. Lost to #7 New Hampshire in the final minute a team which went on to spend most the season ranked number 1.
They were only 6-5 but losses included two games by two point plus the four point New Hampshire defeat. Lost to Stephen Austin and #19 Eastern Washington.back to back on the road; tough schedule.

I think what started this sub thread was a reference harkening back to Hawkins saying this team had the best talent.
The 2018 team achieved more, I haven’t seen an opinion voiced that disagrees with that.
I think this team accomplished a lot by beating Weber and Tulsa, REMEBER Weber was a three time champion and their coach said this years recruiting class was best ever.
The spring team lost to Weber and beat no one of note.
The 2019 team beat no one of note.