Is this ranking from 247? It seems to be from Sidelines, whoever that is.

I’ve seen rankings in past years that rank by number and types of schools offering scholarships. I think that has more validity. For example Sac has a 3 * qb, but only Sac offered him a scholarship. Davis has a 3 * qb, who had multiple offers, including from Arizona, Their QB is a passer, but is only 5’11.

How do they determine this? They don’t say.
They have 15 players a five of whom are upper class-men from JC or other colleges, red shirt juniors and seniors.
The difference between their recruits and Davis’ seems to be the number of transfers.
Sac has always relied on transfers, which means they have large recruiting classes because the players have less remaining eligibility.

Tompkins and Larison will be sixth and fifth year players respectively, Ward is doing to be a fifth year player if he comes back, which might be questionable as why have a fifth year player on scholarship who has never had a carry. Two other guys are walkons, who haven’t shown much. That’s not much depth, and what depth they have is in its final year.

We only have three that have shown anything, four if we consider Tompkins.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Shanbour moves to Cal to rejoin the offensive coordinator there, for whom he coached QBs at North Texas.

Montana signed a guy named Tommy Running Rabbit.

Plough in a interview with Fox40 on the day of his press conference said they have an OC “in place”, with “Aggie ties”

Daft shared the OC job with Plough in 2012 and was the OC under Gould for Gould’s entire 2013-2016. So he has a lot of Aggie ties, as hall of fame player and on two coaching staffs for five years as OC. My guess is it isn’t him because he is so high profile, but just a guess. On paper he is a perfect candidate if he and Plough share same philosophy.

Did you see his name on the initial release? Do they still fax the NLI forms in?

Could be. It is someone currently employed who wants to finish a commitment. Either keeping it secret because of a bowl game, recruiting period, or like you suggest NFL.

He had been recruited by the QB coach, who he said he had a good relationship with. . Kid had a lot of offers.

UCDavis.com is really a poorly managed site, You can’t even navigate to the signing day roster from the home page, they just show their press release, that they stealth edit.

That is a FCS rule, not a Davis innovation.

The changed the story on the UCDavis.com site from 11 signees to multiple. Which means 10 i think

Yeah, but was he in 2023? He walked on at Nebraska, never played so likely wasn’t on scholarship there. Might have transferred here for a chance to play and earn a scholarship.

Number 70, who started every game at left tackle but was never listed as participating.
A transfer from Nebraska, Eli Simonson.

No way they don’t have some available.
Who among the 18 seniors and grad players exiting from last years team wasn’t on scholarship? Then we add Maae, Buchanan, and probably Kennedy. And then a few guys will not be back of their own volition, because they’ve chosen to move on either because they didn’t play, injury or maybe they just a ready for the next phase of life.
I’m sure they would give a ischolarship to the mysterious left tackle, he who can’t be named, if they hadn’t already. Maybe Shamburger was a walk on, but I doubt it. They have to have a half dozen or so scholarships available.

They use the roster bio page as the skeleton on the signing page, but that doesn’t list players weight. Its always been inconvenient that you have to go to the roster list to see that and these guys aren’t listed there, so all we know about these guys from the site is their name school and height.

11 signees
https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2023/12/20/football-aggies-ink-11-newcomers-in-early-signing-period.aspx

They sure got the press release out quick.
Seven guys listed in CA Forever’s list at the top of this discussion as having FBS offers.
Class seems targeted to positions where we lost the most to graduation and transfer.
They should still have some room for transfers or later commits.

Don’t put too much stock in the roster weights. I notice they rarely update them, and there is often comments by coaches or other indications that suggest the player has a different weight. If Castles says he gained 20 lbs. thats a different story.