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  • 2023 Preseason FCS Football Polls
    Looking at some of these teams web sites and press about their spring sessions highlights again that Davis sports information is really deficient.
    Davis still doesn’t have the 2022 season in the player profiles.
    They don't have the players class listed on the basis of eligibility. They list all of last years freshmen as sophomores for example. Few of those guys played more than 4 games.
    I think Davis is a better team than New Hampshire for example, but given that there is no press coverage, no spring media coverage, and a poorly updated web site, I'm not surprised people have forgotten that Davis was the sixth highest rated team in FCS using Sagarin’s methodology. ( I’m not saying Davis was the 6th best team but it’s a good guide to what a betting line would be) New Hampshire by contrast wasn't top 25, and if we had a game with them at end of last season we would have been favored by two touchdowns.
  • 2023 Preseason FCS Football Polls

    Since the list is in inverse order what does ahead of mean?

    I think Davis is lower than it should be, i don't see Davis is not ahead of Weber, and Idaho is too high.
  • 2023 Season Preview
    Tompkins was listed as a wide receiver in the tests. He’s as fast as Larison for 10 yards but not for 40. He ranked best in the agility and L drill of any of our players and 1st and 2nd in those tests for any wide receiver in whatever database of results they have. I think he can be a good wide receiver. I hope they keep the wildcat and run it sometime by with Tompkins on the field with no player substitution.
    Teddy is the best athlete if you factor in his size. Impressive jump numbers for a guy weighing 239#.
  • 2023 Season Preview
    The press secretary.
  • 2023 Season Preview
    Last year we had a lot of depth at tight end, and Gale was probably in there only when we had multiple tight ends. We started some games with two tight ends and played three quite a bit. With less depth at tight end will they still use as many multiple tight end plays? Probably dependent on how deep we turn out to be at wide receiver. Can Gale handle the other responsibilities at tight end well enough to be out there when we play a single tight end? Not saying he can’t, and maybe our new offensive coordinator, a former tight end, loves multiple tight end plays.
  • 2023 Season Preview
    Chaz Davis is in the mix too.
    I bet one of the JC Transfer tight ends gets playing time. Gale is light for a tight end, as are most the returning TE. Evan Bearden will likely be a tight end, but he’s never caught a pass, playing quite a bit as a blocker two years ago.
  • 2023 Season Preview
    The table is truncated but if you go to the twitter page you can see CJ Hutton and Trent Tompkins. Trent is not that fast in the 40 but has the best agility score and L-drill score of any of our players.
  • 2023 Season Preview
    We only have a 39% chance if winning at Weber, a team whose QB transferred, and also lost 3 transfers to BYU?
    I think our team looks solid. Lost some good players but have a guys with experience for every spot. Biggest question mark possibly tight end and receivers because we lost some good ones, but we return quite a few as well.
  • 2023 Season Preview
    How do we interpret this? Have many players on other teams been tested? Seems unlikely that we have two linebackers tied for first in the agility test.
    Teddye Buchanan really impresses in these tests and he weighs 239 lbs.
  • New Rule Changes for Football
    I don't have an opinion on the rule. Drives will use more clock, and that assists offenses that aspire to minimize the opponents possessions by dominating time of possession. May be small effect, we’ll see.
  • New Rule Changes for Football
    Now long drives can eat up more clock. Eventually a team will use up 15 minutes on a possession the current longest drive record is 14min 26 sec.
  • The UC Davis Football Draft/UDFA Thread
    I’m just talking FCS football and offensive linemen being 6’3”, where anyone would have to say Amoah was a standout. Remember when Poly changed from the triple option there was discussion of their tackles being to short for a more pass oriented offense, and they were 6’3” if I recall correctly.
  • The UC Davis Football Draft/UDFA Thread
    Nick Amoah started every game for us at left tackle was first team all conference, made some all American FCS teams, signed with the Bears and yet some people still think 6’3” is too short for playing offensive tackle at this level on a team that runs a balanced offense.
  • The UC Davis Football Draft/UDFA Thread
    I see that a former tight end at the University of San Diego, Dalton Kincaid, transferred to Utah and was taken in the first round. That is even better than Joshua Kelley did a few years ago starting at Davis without a full scholarship and then going in the fourth round after transferring to UCLA. I’m sure there will be a lot of players tempted to try, but the extra year gave a lot of the recent transfers more remaining eligibility, so they won’t be as attractive to the FBS teams. I think we wont see as many graduate student transfers, as those years get used up.
    Transferring up and getting drafted happens but I bet it is a low probability event. College recruiting seems to identify the top players better than it did a few decades back.
  • “New” FCS football conference
    Pretty competitive conference, I think they deserve an automatic bid. We played a few of those teams.
  • 2023 Season Preview
    They ended winter practice March 4th. They don't generate any stories about the team during the off season anymore. They do have a couple of press releases, but there is no news in them.
  • 2023 Week 1: UC Davis @ Texas A&M Commerce
    Did anyone comment that their next game after Davis is Sac State in Sacramento? Pretty tough scheduling for them, since they have some usually strong teams in conference as well.
  • 2023 Week 1: UC Davis @ Texas A&M Commerce
    The 2021 Tulsa game started at 6:30 and the temperature was 93 degrees. The Aggie fitness was really a high point of that game as we dominated at the end of the game.
    The time currently listed on the Texas A&M Commerce site is 6:00 PM.
  • 2023 Season Preview
    Poerio was discussed in the Aggie Pro Day article, which says last year was his last season, even though he still has a year of eligibility left, so he’s moving on.

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