Sports are unlike most UC activities in having clear deliverables understandable to the public at large. I think the difference in transparency minimizes the fairness and fiduciary concerns.

Why the reference to “intermediary as supervisor” who is that in this case?

Seems like many if not most football assistant jobs go to someone with prior ties to the head coach, not necessarily the “best candidate”. I think many if not most assistant jobs are filled without a “search”. The head coach has freedom to hire who he wants to work with knowing that his job is ultimately on the line. Whether his son is the offensive coordinator or someone else is, Dan Hawkins still bears responsibility for how the offense performs.

This isn’t like the Colorado situation where Dan is alleged to have called inappropriate plays to benefit his son’s stats and the team blew a big lead. I can’t think of an analogous situation in their current roles.

Considering how long a an assistant coach usually hangs around aren’t they all interim?
I know nothing about Cody Hawkins personality and personality
is a big factor. But playing and coaching under his dad isn’t a negative in my opinion. Cody was an outstanding high school player, a two time state most valuable player when mot playing for his dad.
No one understands his dads coaching philosophy better than Cody does. We’re unlikely to find someone who is more knowledgeable about the current offense than Cody since he.s been coaching in it. I hope he does great.

I don’t follow Weber closely but I notice that their QB Constantine is transferring to Rice. Still rank them #1 ?

It must be confusing having two coaches named Cody and two coaches named Hawkins; someone needs a pseudonym.

It would be nice if we had a accomplished receiver among the coaches. We have some great athletes who might need some individual skill coaching among the wide receivers.

I think if you look at it objectively Cody is well qualified for the job. Cody also performed well as a player, and was qualified to play at that level. The controversy stemmed largely from play calling that was perceived to be influenced by a desire for Cody to look good that ended up costing the team. True or not, I don’t think that dynamic is at play in this situation.

Seems like the easiest part is to put teams in the correct conference. Maybe since we have the oddity that we are in another conference for basketball that screws up their sort.

How lame it is that 24/7 class rankings still has UC Davis in the Great West.
National Rank
140
Prev. Year: 135
Next Year: N/A
G-West Rank
2
Prev. Year: 1

I think it’s really impressive to see the list of schools in the committed elsewhere list on page 1 of this thread. They’re all FBS except two lost to Cal Poly, one Ivy, and one to Azusa Pacific. We don’t lose many recruits to peer programs, a trend which is now pretty established for the Hawkins era.

It may be that the uncertainty of playing this spring creates uncertainty for how many scholarships will be available. Maybe that will become clearer by the regular signing date.

What’s the status of playing the Big Sky season this spring? Heard nothing for a while. It’d be great to see some of the guys from last years class, and with the short season they could play in two thirds of the games and still red shirt

In 2018 we signed seven guys on the regular February signing day, including Jake Parks. So sometimes outstanding guys are available who might have been hoping for an offer that didn’t come through.

I know this is just early signees, but it’s odd having so few “skill position” players. When have we ever recruited no QBs or WRs? Not that we lack at those positions.
Just three or maybe four offensive players total today

Is it possible that any of this years class enrolls and plays this spring? JC transfers seem likely but even high school students often have enough credits to graduate prior to final semester.

My dad was in high school when the war started, played a season of JC basketball in 42, got drafted in 43, learned to drive a tank destroyer in North Africa in 43 then spent six months in combat or hospital in France before spending two months as a POW in Germany. He left the Army as a sergeant shortly before his 21st birthday and played another season of basketball at the JC.

What’s the eligibility rule for situations like this? A conference can’t have some team’s players using up a season of eligibility while others bank everyone for next year; it’s not a level playing field. All one way or the other. If a team chooses not to play the five year clock should still apply.

Page one of this thread had them both saying they committed on Twitter, which prompted Dr Mike’s reference to a beer and a dog

Thanks

Contrary to popular belief there are aspects of life that are not within our power to change. People get sick and die. My brother died in Denmark of cancer during the start of this epidemic, I think they would have maybe been willing to try a little more to save him except for the Covid appearance. My wife died here in the states, and her care was also disrupted by the Covid shutdown.

There are many reasons people die and many ways those causes of death might be impacted.
A recent study indicated that if everyone drank two cups of coffee a day, hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved each year. Yet somehow there is no mass hysteria mandating coffee consumption.

We now know COVID isn’t going to kill 99.4% of the people who get it, it’s time to stop treating it as the apocalypse.