Who is the QB whisperer? Plough? Was someone the QB position coach?

Noa Masui has been out essentially since the Cal game in 2022. He made a couple of appearances at end of seasom in 2022, and had a tackle. Didn’t participate in a game in 2023.
Bearden would be a sixth year player, and would probably be a starter if he came back.
Both are examples of why it would be good to have a roster to show who is coming back. Either of those players might just call it a career.

Just have a spring roster, everyone could have used their phone, and costs virtually nothing.

Hope they release a spring roster online prior to end of spring practice.
Plough said on the Hawaii basketball game last week that confirmed Zach Kennedy was on the team. He listed Mateo Perez, Winston Williams as having had a “great camp”.

One of these players qualified because the team mapped his name to the wrong number and hence messed up the team statistics.

Big Sky Fall All-Academic recipients:
Markeece Alexander
Teddye Buchanan
Jeremiah Chukwudobe
Angelo Genetti
Jacob Horne
Luke Roncevich
Semaj Verner

To be eligible, a student-athlete must have met and/or exceeded the following minimum requirements: 1) Participated in at least half of the team's competitions; 2) Achieved a 3.2 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at the conclusion of the most recently completed term; 3) Completed at least one academic term at his/her current Big Sky institution.

The UC Davis football X account has a video of a pass completion thrown by #11. #11 last year belonged to Mitchell Dixon. I don’t know if he is wearing the number, but it might mean he has switched back from TE.

He was most recently the OC at Willamette. He has a QB technique video on the internet. He is likely who is the acting QB coach now.
The tight end coach Taylor Chapatte, and the running back coach have also been QB coaches elsewhere. Taylor Chapatte coached QBs at University of San Diego, Kevin Burke at D3 Mount Union.

If you sit in on the QB room meetings report who the coach is. i think Plough will be spread thin if he is the head coach, OC and QB coach. That would be a good question over coffee.

Yes it is hard but they pretend to do it.
If missing players was the extent of their failure it is excusable, but once they have players in their database, the minimum they should do is match the signees to schools and they didn’t do that.

247 Sports is so bad at rating these players, they should stop trying.
Example: Kyle Hill is listed on their site as 6’4” 180lb. No stars. Offered by Fresno State and San Jose State. He weighs 215 or 220 on other sources which is consistent with the offers he had. Missed his entire junior season, so that probably comtributes to 247 not rating him hightly.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2023/11/24/xavier-prep-football-star-kyle-hill-commits-to-uc-davis/71693244007/

They purport to rank every player with a numerical score.
They have some of our signees scored but not credited to Davis.
They are still adding people.

They think Jalen Harris is the top recruit ever, even better than a safety we had who never saw playing time.

Luca and Grant are listed as outside linebackers. Cloyd’s status I don’t know. He was said to be a junior last year.

Porter Connors is a stud. Cloyd is a veteran. Luca Sarac has started at the Rush position when they don’t start five DBs. Grant Garretson Is a JC transfer from last year who is a senior and is big. There will be some lower classman who hasn’t played much that will get a chance. They likely won’t be as tough to run up the middle against as last year, and we also lost two big nose guards.

With Kennedy, 2024 defense will have a two 6 year and a 5 year player as returning starters on the line. Toki started three games,.That is probably the most veteran defensive line in school history.
All the starting linebackers graduated, Eaton, Tattersall, Buchanan, and frequently used Frazier and Mouiset. That is a lot to lose at one level of the defense. They return Cloyd and Porter Connors.
The defensive secondary starters all return.
They will need some contributors from the new recruits, particularly at linebacker.
They are going to be a smaller defense.

Very shifty though. His twitter page says
“ 208LB 4.5 (40) going to shock lots of people this year !”

. Apparently.

The Davis Enterprise described Carter Vargas’s weight at 160, which is 40lbs under his weight on recruiting sites, or his signing day weight on UCD. While he is definitely elusive he isn’t small.

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/offense-is-the-aggie-football-theme-on-nli-day/article_f6aa4eba-c62b-11ee-8f3e-fbcdb4087c1b.html

Ask about the QB coach too, whether Plough plans to coach the QBs.
Just seems like being a position coach as well as OC and HC is too much.

Eight guys had FBS offers, and according to CA Forevers list, we lost very few to FCS teams, only two to league rivals. A very successful recruiting effort. Nicely spread over all positions except tight end.

I think Jalen Harris will be more of a CJ Hutton role. If you look down the road a year we lose Larison, Tompkins, and Hutton. Even Perez is listed as a junior in 2023 but thats is not his eligibility status.