My guess Meyer and Porter Connors are inside linebackers and hence in a different room and the players Cloyd mentioned are outside linebackers in the same room as Cloyd. Team has a ton of outside linebackers.

Cloyd’s comments about Blake Antzoulatos going to be great player for us, added to David Meyer who is a proven player plus the guys already here alleviates a lot of concern about the losses at linebacker.
I’m expecting Porter Connors to have a big year.

Not to mention that they put guys that never played in it and didn’t update it during the season to reflect guys who did play.
By the way, they used to put the game notes, which contain the “depth chart” into the schedule, then last year they started putting them into the “media cener”. I went to look at last seasons game notes, only to find they’ve purged the ones from 2023. There is nowhere else besides the game notes where they list who started the games last season. Starters don’t appear in the team stats. The game notes was also a place where you could see what position a player started at for example that Rex Connors was a boundary safety as opposed to a field safety, etc.

The lack of mention of underclassmen in these previews is noteworthy because it seemed to be good recruiting classes. The running back preview mentioned everyone in the room and Fisher clearly will get some playing time, but thats about it. The other previews and camp reports hardly mention underclassmen.
Perhaps they’ll release a real depth chart prior to the Cal game.

Some schools have column headings like Experience where they list years in the program. Others use Academic Year, and others use Eligibility year, which was our default until they gave up last year. The Davis site actually uses a mix. Grant Harper is entering his fifth academeic year but is listed as a junior. No consistency.

Part of the general failure in maintaining the roster is that they have abandoned trying to track player’s eligibility. It is not that hard to know that freshmen who play in 4 or less games are redshirt freshmen in year 2, but you’ll notice all of last years freshmen are now sophomores even if they saw no action. Perez played in 3 games his freshmen year, and only four last year.

Perez is not a senior in terms of eligibility. He is a red shirt junior.
I bet if they petitioned they could get another year after that as he only played in four games last season.

Regarding Paul Shelton's comments about the offense, he indicated.that the two returning tackles seemed established but that they had competition in the interior line. This surprised me some because I expected Povey to be established at center after starting there all.last.season but he said they had young guys competing there. The young.guy he mentioned was someone who saw no action last year likely a walkon.

Why don't they give each position coach 5 minutes for these videos? For some reason they make them the length of a top 40 song and split it between two coaches.

The video discusses 3 players, Why do they make these so short? Someone besides the three starters will be impact players, and deserve a mention.

I'm hoping the team gets back to averaging about 40 points like we did in 2022.
They don't have to recreate the 2018 offense to be successful.

In 2022 Hastings was an all conference QB for a team that scored 40+ points a game, so you wouldnkt think the move to make is to bring in someone.
This year Hastings is coming off a less impressive year and Hastings will be gone next year. Even if they leave Hastings as number 1, they should work someone else in situationally if they think he’s got ability.
Our Freshmen and redshirt freshmen probably have more talent than JC QBs unless they are in JC due to academics.

Nice video. Apparently part one of a series.
Davis has rare continuity of the football program for 50+ years, I hope Plough has enough success to stay here a long time.
The test for Plough is to show he can have a productive offense without a pro level QB, which had as an offensive coordinator at NAU and his last stop here. He went to Boise before the Hunter Rodigues, Hastings, Tompkins year. What would he have done with that crew in 2021? Not that the 2021 spring and fall team was bad, the Tulsa game was amazing, but it was a different offense adapted to the personnel.

My comment on the preview of offensive lineman last season was meant to convey that they shouldn’t do the previews to early in training camp because they don’t have much to say about the newcomers. What is the rush?
Apparently the NCAA keeps the stats and they have yet to fix the stats issues from last year. They burned the redshirt year of two of our top freshmen last year with a game I don’t think they played in,

Isn’t it a little much to expect a player to have a “understanding of the playbook” on day 1 of camp? This is in relation to Carter Vargas. I think its foolish to even publish a position preview at the start of camp, give the new players a bit of time before talking about them. Last year in the offensive line preview they didn’t mention a guy who started the first game.

Jalen Harris is not on the roster, the page for him was deleted.
According to 247 he was our top recruit ever, not that that means much.

They didn’t really burn Jordan Fisher’s redshirt year last year did they??
His fifth game is listed as Northern Arizona where he had no attempts, no receptions. i think the stats are wrong.

Gadget players like Carson Crawford and a host of other high school quarterbacks

What device do you use?
If you have an apple iPhone or iPad it has Apple Pocasts already installed.
If you have a non apple device then you can install the Spotify app.
If either of those apps are installed you can search for the podcast by putting UC Davis Football podcast.
Spotify app for me on a Kindle Fire is both video and audio.

Great to hear your opinions about the last few years.
I hope the listeners caught the distinction that there was only one medical student playing football
[simultaneously. Has anyone else done that ever? The extra Covid year might make it more possible for someone else.
Davis had two football players go on to Medical School in the early 2000 if I recall the time frame correctly both playing defensive line, one to UCSF and one to UCLA. Their playing years overlapped and the first was an inspiration to the second.