Mikey Henn will be transferring to Cal Baptist. The Lancers are an up and coming DII program located in Riverside, CA, and play in the PacWest Conference. They have a very young roster, are coming off a 26-5 season and have transfers coming in from Portland and Santa Clara this year also. It has been rumored that they are interested in moving to D1 at some point and that they have interest in the Big West but the Big West has not shown any recent interest in expanding.

I expect that he will do very well at Cal Baptist and wish him good luck. Aggie fans are sorry to see him go.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/mikey-henn

Johnson played in 3 games last year as a freshman at Georgetown. He was 22 0f 41 passing for 188 yards and 3 INT's.

http://stats.washingtonpost.com/cfb/players.asp?id=270254

BaD, do you have a link that shows the fundraising amounts?

Outstanding! This should be mandatory viewing for all the UCD administrators, faculty and staff about the publicity power of great college athletics.

PA...I think this video deserves its own thread.

No matter how you cut it, it's still a thorough beat down! >:)

I think Gonzalez is a great addition for the Aggies. I know that Les tends to be guard heavy but Gonzalez appears to have the ability to be a proficient and prolific shooter. I remember Coach Les saying that something he learned from Kansas coach, Bill Self, was to never let your team become "guard poor." That said, I'd like to see us bring in a big, strong PF or C that will be able to fill the shoes of Chima after next year.

He's very agile for being 6'9 - 6'10 and moves his feet well on defense. He can also drive the ball to the hoop which is impressive for a player his size. I think Coach Les probably likes is ability to defend since he emphasizes defense first and foremost.

From a discussion about Russell on the Portland Pilots forum it seems that the Aggies recruited Russell out of high school as a preferred walk-on but he went to Portland on a scholarship. Then, after very limited minutes in his freshman year, it appears that the Portland coach decided that Russell no longer fit into his plans so Russell left for Casper College. He recently visited NAU and was offered and also made a visit to Hawaii before visiting UCD.

http://www.pilotnation.net/t5754-colin-russell-to-transfer

He looks to be quite agile for 6'9 and has nice post moves in the paint and is versatile with either hand. None of his highlights show him scoring from anywhere but in the paint though. On the down side, his FT shooting leaves a lot to be desired and, given that Garrison Goode is also poor from the line, the pair of them on the floor at the same time could leave a lot of points at the FT line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQF_qrZNXgM

I think that Mikey Henn is a significant loss for the Aggies. He's was big body with a good inside/outside game and he was a hard worker who wasn't afraid to mix it up inside. Hopefully, with two years of college basketball experience under his belt, Russell will come in as a mature player ready to give us some needed help in the paint and on the boards with Henn and Hewitt both leaving.

CAF, I think we should just make this the official 2018 FB recruiting thread and just let the thread I started fade away. You always do such a great job with staying on top of our football recruiting. (Y)

Thanks, CA Forever. (Y)

Here is the official announcement by the Athletics Department about Delveion Jackson signing with UCD:

Excerpt: “Delveion is a do-it-all type player,” said Centennial High School head coach Josh Apperspach. “He can score, pass and rebounds very well for a guard. The thing I love most about him is that he loves to play defense; he’s long, athletic and creates problems for teams. He will be a good fit at UC Davis.”

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/041317aaa.html

The bar is set very high for Aggie athletes in terms of personal character and academics, and Brynton is a prime example of of why it is so easy to be an Aggie sports fan. Thanks for posting this link, DrMike.

Wow, this is very surprising and disappointing news. He seems very gracious in his twitter announcement. I wonder why he has made this decision?

https://twitter.com/mikey_henn?lang=en

My understanding is that a "preferred walk on" player is guaranteed a position on the roster even though they were not given a scholarship whereas a "walk on" player has to go through tryouts in order to try and make the team. Both types of "walk ons" could eventually earn a scholarship.

New recruit (not sure if he has been listed here before):

Jake Dunniway QB 6'1 195 from St. Mary's of Stockton has accepted a preferred walk-on to the Aggies. This kid threw for 4066 yards and 48 TD's last year and was named All CIF San Joaquin Section Player of the Year and All NorCal All State. He had offers/interest from Cornell, Harvard, Yale and UCSD.

https://twitter.com/JakeDunni7

He sounds like a kid who totally flew under the radar and has a lot of potential:

http://www.recordnet.com/sports/20161206/rams-qb-flying-under-radar

It seems that Irvine HC, Russell Turner, gets his name tossed around quite a bit in the coaching, post-season merry-go-round. Some folks on the Big West Forums have speculated that he has interest from Akron, New Mexico and Florida Gulf Coast. Akron is a million dollar job.

Over the past few years there has been quite a bit of speculation about various schools joining the Big West. All of the following schools have been tossed around for discussion by Big West fans: UCSD, Grand Canyon, Denver, Seattle, CSU Bakersfield and Sac State. I've never read anything official from the Big West administration about future expansion. UCSD has been the most talked about by BW fans recently though.

Is there a source that you are referring to, 69aggie?

Coach Vaughn's take on the goofy umpiring from the Enterprise article:

Excerpt: “They told me the first-base umpire did not have a good look at the play because the stretch was towards him. That’s why they agreed to get together. One of the other umpires had our guy clearly off the base.

“My argument to that was … our catcher started jogging off the field when the first-base umpire called him out. Which means the second run scores when our catcher is trying to hustle back to catch a throw when he was ready to get off the field.”

The umpires told Vaughn that it didn’t matter. Vaughn said they told him: “In that situation, you have to play through.”

Furthermore, the umpires told Vaughn the second run home after the “third out” was going to score anyway. Vaughn didn’t agree…

“If we have a catcher there, we have that second runner dead to rights and we’re down one instead of two.”

http://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/crazy-ninth-inning-does-in-uc-davis-4-2/

Aggie recruit TJ Shorts from Saddleback College was named SoCal Player of the Year by Signal the Light Basketball:

"T.J Shorts (Saddleback) is our player of the year for Southern California for the 2016-2017 season."

https://twitter.com/sgnlthelgthoops

Shorts, a 5'10 PG recently had 33 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists as Saddleback won the Riverside Tournament. It looks like we might have two dynamos at PG next year with 5' 10 Shorts and 5'8 Hennings.

Seems to be the case! The part that seems so outrageous to me is that the runner scored from first with no Aggie player covering home because the Ags left the field after the first base ump had initially called the batter out for the 3rd out of the inning. How the heck can the umps allow the runner to score from first, after the apparent 3rd out was called at first, in a play that was so close that had to be discussed to be overturned?

If the batter had been initially called safe at first it seems likely that a play could have been made at the plate or the runner from first wouldn't have even tried to score, but the Ags had left the field thinking the inning was over. That's crazy!