With the exception of one guy who weight 330+ Sac’s O-line is comparable in size to Davis’, a few pounds either way.
Here are some Davis returning offensive linemen with the height and.weight, just guys that started at least a game for us. Our offense had some good stats last year, for sacs allowed, and yards per carry..
LT Simonson 6’6” 295
LG Souriolle 6’3” 295
C Povey 6’3” 284
RG Main 6’4” 270
RT. Nava, 6’4” 295,

Davis has to hope the relatively high turnover at Cal results in some missed assignments.
Tulsa had had a good season the prior year, but some of their DBs had transferred, some starters were suspended due to an altercation in their bowl game the prior year, and they had incoming transfers who seemed to be of the same quality, but were new playing in the system and with each other.
The Tulsa coach said Davis showed them some “looks that they hadn’t seen”. Davis out played Tulsa in the 4th quarter and put the game away with a sustained drive.
The formula for success is to have some new wrinkles, be better prepared for an opening game, better conditioned and have some luck.

Hasting is here for his sixth year, Harper his fifth, and Harper has had almost no playing time.
Ingrassia is a walk-on, and I’m guessing not on scholarship. Rasor has been here one season, and Wrighster and Pinnick are incoming freshmen.
Numerically heavy due to COVID extra year but functionally light, in that there is no experienced backup. That reflects no QB scholarship recruits from 2021 & 2022

In case anyone is interested David Collins, Director of Sports Communications indicated by email that the issue I brought to his attention of Eli Simonson not being credited with playing despite has been passed along to the NCAA, and is expected to be corrected soon.
He says the NCAA manages the stats.

Rex Connors named seventh best returning safety in one Hero Sports list.
https://herosports.com/fcs-football-top-returning-2024-safeties-bzbz/

Rex only played in seven games last year, so his stats dropped off, or he would likely be higher.

With 6 three star QBs, they will have the raw material to develop some good QBs. They’ll have three of them on this Fall’s team. I guess it will be a team effort coaching these guys.
How did Rasor, who wears, #2 look in the Spring?. I’m encouraged that #2 was the second QB to play, so perhaps second on the depth chart.

I see we only had one QB recruit in the three years prior to these two. I believe David Rasor was the only QB not a walk on in those recruiting classes and they have had him for only one season.

Treynor’s father Cameron played in the NFL, mom was a two sport player at University of Washington and a strength and conditioning coach. Brother is an redshirt freshman offensive lineman with U. of Washington.
That makes two 3 star QB commits for 2025 with fathers who played in NFL.

In 2018 yes.
In 2010 Mike Moroski was the offensive coordinator, but I think Plough was involved with play calling.
Correction: Plough was the pass game coordinator in 2010, but not calling plays until 2011.

Two winnable games for the FCS team. I know that economics drives the choice of opponents, and its a good thing that we seem to be past scheduling two FBS games, but ideally our one FBS game would be against lower tier FBS teams, like these two.

https://x.com/UCDfootball/status/1800355316942704830/photo/1

Interesting that JT O’Sullivan, Khark Jones Scott Barry and Bob Biggs were coaching at the Davis QB camp.

Not yet. It would be easy enough to just move Rocevic’s stats to Simonson, but the source error is in all the game box scores, the team stats, and the Big Sky Stats, which will never be corrected.
They owe the kid some recognition. It could be like they did with Shamburger, recognize him on Twitter, and give him a scholarship if he doesn’t have one. It is actually a good story to promote, someone moving 1500 miles for a chance to play and then starting. Who knows, maybe someone else from Nebraska might take I-80 west.

Dr. Mike it is automated but they have poor data entry, or don’t use the official roster to match names and numbers.

They have Jordan Fisher and Izaiah Souriolle both listed as playing in five games, Fisher’s alleged fifth game had no carries. I don’t think they would burn those two’s redshirt status in a game against Northern Arizona and then not play them again.

The error where Eli Simonson, the transfer from Nebraska gets no credit for playing despite starting every game is because the stat keepers use an erroneous roster to match names to numbers, they have #70 assigned to Luke Roncevic, Luke has a different number.
It is beyond belief that they could go a whole season crediting a defensive lineman who likely didn’t even travel as starting every game as an offensive lineman, and then awarding the guy who didn’t play an All Big Sky Academic award that has a qualification that the recipient played in half the teams games. I exchanged emails with Dr. Collins who is listed as director of athletics communication for FB on the issue of Eli Simonson’s name not being associated with #70 in the box scores stats or players bio statistics. That was a month ago. They could troubleshoot this issue with a simple question for the offensive line coach.

i don’t know who keeps stats, but they are not up to the challenge.
Any one know whose responsibility that is?

Hero Sports rated Josh Gale as the #12 returning FCS tight end
https://herosports.com/fcs-football-top-returning-2024-tight-ends-bzbz/

Hutton, Gbatu, Tompkins, Gale, Chaz Davis and Larison were our top six pass catchers, last season. All averaged over 10 yards a catch except Tompkins and Larison. One of the elements of our offense was unblocked screens or short dumpoffs to Tompkins in hopes he could do some magic.
In my opinion Tompkins best position is running back, but he is not needed there. Someone will emerge maybe the much touted freshman from last season, Robbie Mascheroni. Its no surprise when a freshman doesn’t play much.

Several weeks ago Hero Sports ranked Lan Larison as the best returning FCS running back.
Today, the UC Davis has a press release of Hero Sports naming Larison the Best Running Back in the Big Sky, logically enough.
The Davis site doesn’t include a list to the Hero Sports article but here it is:
https://herosports.com/fcs-best-returning-running-back-in-each-conference-bmbm/

We got two Sophomore starters last year who had simply been in the wrong level of play, a offensive tackle from Nebraska who didn’t get playing time as a walk-on there and a California kid who started for a D3 team in Kansas as a freshman and now he has a scholarship here.

Davis’ outbound transfers are an anomaly in that most have graduated. In a couple of years graduate transfers will be rare because players won’t have six or more years of eligibility like the ones in college in 2020. Other schools are losing dozens of players a year.
Incoming transfers have predominately been players seeking playing time, or a better environment. As long as the school and program fosters a good environment Davis should be a net winner,

At the very least they have to prepare someone as a backup and get them game experience. Hastings will be gone next year, and we have three three star recruited QBs as true freshmen and redshirt freshmen. Almost every program played their 2nd string QB more than Davis the last few years. Sac, Montana State, Montana, Idaho, Idaho State, Cal Poly, Cal, UCLA, virtually everyone plays their 2nd QBs. Our backup appeared in 2 games and threw 9 passes last year.