"...the right place, the right time, the right fit..."

Folks, we've got ourselves the right coach. This is about to get very exciting!

Go Ags!!

Welcome to the boards Fiat Lux! Here's the link to the entire press conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=433FO2DQV-I

The entire press conference is now posted on youtube including the section that got cut out when the live feed went down. Go to the 14:36 mark to watch Hexter introduce Hawkins and the first few minutes of Hawkin's comments that we missed on the live stream. Hawk got really choked up talking about first coming to UCD as a student and what the experience of Aggie football has meant to him. He truly loves UC Davis and Aggie football.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=433FO2DQV-I

Wow..energetic, passionate, spontaneous, progressive...Hawk will bring a big dose of momentum to the program that's for sure! He's opinionated and confident and isn't afraid to "tell like he sees it."

He can be fiery and I'm sure he'll ruffle some feathers at times along the way when his passion gets the better of him, but I think he just might be the jolt of energy we need to break out of the lethargy and shake up the status quo in order to get Aggie football back on the fast track to national significance once again.

Crap...wouldn't you know it...the live stream died >:o

Welcome back to the forum oldaggie72!

Congratulations to Kevin Blue as well! Blue gets it; he took the time when he was first hired to explore the unique values and history of Aggie Athletics. He learned about Jim Sochor and listened to his family, current and past coaches, and many others and came to understand what Aggie Pride is all about. You can see that he valued the input of former coaches and players in advising him about choosing a new coach.

Blue is a very impressive young man. I hope he sticks around long enough to see the program return to greatness.

ESPN just broke the story also:

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18160026/uc-davis-aggies-tap-alumnus-dan-hawkins-head-coachalso:

Great write up, 6th. Hawk is coming home!

Nice 6th! And high five CA Forever...great job scooping this for us!

Damn..I go away from the forum for a couple of hours to watch some basketball, check back in and BOOM!...BIG BREAKING NEWS...feels like I'm the last one to the party! Wow...Blue is not wasting any time getting things done.

I'm excited! We get a former Aggie who transformed Boise to greatness. Welcome home Hawk!!

Interesting...nice find PA.

It did seem like the Aggies were standing around flat-footed on quite a few of the offensive boards the Pride got. Bertsch is very quick on her spin moves to the basket with the ball but she doesn't react that quickly to the ball coming off the rim. Nina Bessolo is quick and long and seems to have a nose for the ball. She's learning quickly and I think we'll see more and more of her as she gets more experience at the college level. That should help us on the boards.

Even some of the smaller Hofstra players were aggressively getting rebounds in a crowd under the basket. The whole team needs to work on blocking out and making it a goal to be more aggressive and determined rebounding. Whenever I whine about Aggie BB teams getting hammered on the boards, Aggie6thman always reminds me that rebounding is "all heart and hard work." Just gotta get the work done.

For the most part, yes...

No kidding...could our inflated egos survive a Slac State alum as our head coach? We might need some group therapy to come to peace with that! ;)

The Lady Ags suffered their first loss of the season falling to Hofstra 64-60. The Pride exposed the Achilles heel of the Aggies by out rebounding them by 15 boards 47-32 of which 19 were offensive rebounds that led to 18 second chance points. The Ags have decent size but lack quickness and aggressiveness on the boards and it cost them the game today.

Up 58-54 with 4 minutes to go the Ags had a chance to go up by 6 or 7 but couldn't score and turned the ball over at the 2:33 mark before Epps hit a 3 to make it 58-57. With the score 62-60 Morgan Bertsch made a beautiful spin move to shake her defender but missed the wide open layup .

This was a winnable game for the Aggies. Jen Gross will need to find a way for the Ags to be more competitive on the boards or they will lose more games like this.

The Ags return to the Pavilion Friday for a 7 pm game with San Diego State followed by a trip to The Farm to face the Cardinal at 2 pm on Sunday.

Go Ags!

The Ags are locked in a tight battle with Hofstra and take a 33-30 lead into halftime. They started off the game with some hot shooting but went stone cold in the last 5 minutes of the half and the Pride crept back in it.
The Aggies have decent size but they continue a concerning trend of poor rebounding. The Pride are pounding the Ags on the boards 25-15 and have scored 14 second chance points.

Welcome to the forum, SlimKim!

The 39th Great Alaska Shootout is over and it well may be the last one ever for what was once one of the premier college basketball tournaments of all.

Championship: Iona 75 Nevada 73 - Jon Severe hit a layup with 1 second left to win the titile for the Gaels.

3rd/5th place: Buffalo 74 Weber State 72 - The Bulls prevailed in a closely fought game.

4t/6th place: Oakland 79 Aggies 66 - The Ags hung tough but lost in a game that was closer than the final score.

7th/8th place: Alaska Anchorage 74 Drake 69 - The D2 Seawolves gave the hometown fans something to cheer about.

Chima Moneke was named to the All Tournament Team.

Congrats to Chima!