Davis has an assistant “offensive” coach who was the OC at Willamette last year. If Hawkins took play calling away from Mike Cody he probably gave it to Trey Shimbakuro. I doubt he took it over himself. My feeling is that Cody was overtasked being the o-line coach and the offensive coordinator. O- line is a lot of people to coach, and we didnt have an additional assistant coach for that.
Buchanan is a standout athlete on his NFL style tests, so i think he’s got a legitimate shot at the pros.

I don’t recall players getting the senior day treatment with remaining eligibility that have returned, but thats not something I’ve looked into, just my impression.
Teddye is the same class as Larison, neither redshirted, their freshman year was the free covid year.
Both can graduate and try their luck elsewhere, college or pro.

We throw short over the middle on a crossing pattern all the time, usually the pass is broken up.

Teddye Buchanan is graduating, so I assume he is gone, So that is the entire starting linebacker group, plus reserves Frazier and Mouisset

The Big Sky stuck with four teams in playoffs while the MVFC has six, This despite the Big Sky being unusually deep this year.

The primary reason Davis isn’t a playoff team is the offense scored 14 points less per game in 2023 than it did in 2022, with about the same level of talent on offense. Coincidently we changed offensive coordinators and the QB coach. Our run game looked improved this year. We all remember games where Gilliam was held to low yardage, average per carry, and where third and 4 had to be a passing down against good teams. That wasn't the case this year but the passing game regressed tremendously. Until the last winning streak they moved the ball but couldn’t score many points. That is largely on the coaches as is the ineffectiveness in the second half on offense,

The bashing Hastings on interceptions is overdone, He had 7 interceptions in conference play, only the two Montana schools had fewer than 6. He had three in one game, the last of which was after the game was decided.

Common Opponents
Texas A&M Commerce.
Northern Arizona
Idaho State
Montana
Cal Poly

Sac 4 wins and 1 loss Davis 3 wins and 2 losses.

If the score was more one sided Davis could conceivably have knocked Sac out, but with just a ten point margin I don’t think they will. So either Davis is the fifth team or left out. If they are left out it might be a result of aomething as small as the “garbage time” TD Sac got.

Was Teddye BUCHANAN honored as a senior pre game? I think i head that on the pregame radio show.

The statistic that stands out when looking at Sac and Davis in conference games is that Sac gives up an average of 437 yards per game and Davis 319. Davis holds teams to 5 points less than Sac does, .
On offense Davis and Sac gain 418 and 412 yards respectively, but Sac scores 5 points per game more, approximately 30 vs 25.
Sac has been out-gained by conference opponents, Davis out gained conference opponents by 100 yards per game.
Sacs star linebacker didn’t play last week, and Davis didn’t have Chubba or Rex Connors.

I think Larison would not be invited to college all star games because he has remaining eligibility.
I hope he stays, but if he leaves I think that he would be better off turning pro than going to some other college team, particularly if he can graduate in this, his fourth year. I think he’s shown he’s a player and the NFL would probably draft him according to how he does in work outs anyway.

Larison is a better athlete than Doss and Ulonzo from a size, speed perspective. The NFL will have medical reports and the results of combine workouts to assess that injury.. They won’t be scared away by a injury that caused him to miss two games if he is sound, which he very likely is since he just rushed for 268 yards.
His speed in the 40 and his size is average for running backs at the NFL combine. But he’s not just an athlete, he is a player with the skills to play running back, good vision, patience, agility, and hands.

I think you are living in the past, when all applicants submitted SAT scores, now the academic requirements are just GPA, and completing 15 academic courses. Its not like the old days when to get into UC schools you were essentially in the top 1/8th of students, now its maybe the top half since a B is an average grade and a student is UC eligible with a 3.0. I know athletes weren’t held to a particularily high SAT, but now if they have poor scores no one knows.
The fact that some athletes don’t qualify is offset by the fact that some athletes don’t like dumb classmates, Smart people want to be around smart people,

Bearden played nose tackle 30% of the snaps

That makes sense if you are not already on their radar, which I think isn’t the case. He is not like Doss, with borderline speed for his position. Lan has good size 207lbs and speed 4.49, great agility and instincts, is a proven receiver. The one thing that could keep him from being drafted would be injury.

4.49. Doss reportedly 4.56. Larison has qualities as a player that transcend speed alone.

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Why doesn’t he just turn pro? His class is graduating this year. Why go play for another college at all? He has shown his ability, why risk injury?

They are a long way from Lake Tahoe and the Golden Gate Bridge, the Davis local attractions.
The Davis is tough to qualify excuse doesn’t hold up like it used to. Need a B average at a time that a B average is average. If your counselor got you to take the right classes you more than likely qualify,

[ Foster was a coach at Davis when Hawkins played there.