Oops...I corrected it. Thanks.

From Bob Dunning at the Davis Enterprise:

Hawkins and the Aggies were scheduled for a 1 p.m. Wednesday charter flight from Sacramento to Dallas, where the team will overnight before bussing to Commerce for Thursday night's season opener against Texas A&M-Commerce.

Game time is 7 p.m. (5 p.m. PDT) at 11,582-seat Hawkins Field at Memorial Stadium on the A&M campus.

No, the field is not named for the Aggie head coach. It bears the name of Ernest Hawkins, a legendary figure in
Commerce history.

The Aggies began "fall" camp for the 2023 season on July 31 and Hawkins noted that his players are anxious for the season to start with an interesting non-conference game against the Commerce Lions of the Southland Conference.

The Aggies and Lions have met twice, both resulting in lopsided wins for UCD. In 1998 the Aggies took a 34-10 road win, then blasted the Lions, 36-0, the next year on Toomey Field.

The Lions won an NCAA Division II national championship in 2017, then in 2022 moved up to the Football Championship subdivision where the Aggies reside, finishing 5-6 overall and 3-3 in league play in their inaugural FCS season.

Whole article here: https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/bob-dunning-aggies-football-ready-to-go/article_017da7d2-46d5-11ee-b4c4-ebaa43b0844e.html

My wife and I will be at a concert in Berkeley tonight so we won't be able to watch game live. I'll try to follow along by sneaking a peak at this thread occasionally and maybe Live Stats as well. So, post up often. I think we'll be able to watch the replay on ESPN+ tomorrow. Go Ags!

University Credit Union Center

Women's Volleyball • Men's & Women's Basketball • Women’s Gymnastics

Thanks to a 10-year partnership between UC Davis and University Credit Union, the home court advantage for the university’s men’s and women’s basketball, women’s volleyball, and women’s gymnastics teams was renamed the University Credit Union Center in July of 2021.

Formerly known as Recreation Hall and The Pavilion, the arena seats 6,003 for basketball games and continues to rank as one of the largest on-campus basketball facilities in Northern California. The arena opened to the sport in the 1977-78 season and has been home to all the excitement of Aggie basketball since that time.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/facilities/university-credit-union-center/5

Damn, what a tough ride the NFL has been for Keelan. Maybe someone else will pick him up...??

What a wonderful press conference by Hawk. The players are so fortunate to have a coach that promotes the Hero's Journey type of culture.

:lol: That was a pretty funny auto-correct typo that I didn't catch! No wonder the Aggies won the tournament!

The Aggies won the Holstein Classic Tournament with their win over OSU. Here's how the 4 teams finished:

1. Aggies (2-0-0)
2. CSUN (0-0-2)
3. OSU (0-1-1, took 3rd via goal differential over Dayton).
4. Dayton (0-1-1)

2023 Wolstein Classic All-Tournament Team

UC Davis – 20- Ethan Heard
UC Davis – 12-Sean Bilter
UC Davis – 1-Charles Janssen
UC Davis – 15-Cason Goodman
CSUN – 8-Levin Gerhardt
CSUN – 11-Jamar Ricketts
CSUN – 28-Robert Kaemmerer
Ohio State – 2-Michael Adedokun
Ohio State – 8-Laurence Wootton
Dayton – 4-Hjalti Sigurdsson
Dayton – 19-Casper Svendby

https://ohiostatebuckeyes.com/news/2023/8/27/mens-soccer-buckeyes-fall-in-wolstein-classic-final-to-uc-davis-2-1

Good for him! My in-laws are big Packer fans so I hope he does really well!

Football in Texas is right up there with religion on the hierarchy of popularity and importance. I think TAMC is a program with big ambitions and that they are probably under quite a bit of pressure to grow into an FCS power quickly. They'll be fired up for the Aggies and I expect that they will have a big, boisterous crowd behind them. They'd like nothing better than to start the season off with a win over a "left coast school."

The box score for the OSU game shows that the Buckeyes outshot the Ags 20-5 with 8 shots on goal to the Ags 5. OSU also had 13 corners and the Ags only had 1. So it appears that OSU dominated the action but soccer is a game where the only thing that truly counts is putting the ball in the net more than the opponent.

Good day for Aggie soccer: the women beat USF 3-1 and the men took down Ohio State 2-1.

The Aggies took down another major program today with a win over North Carolina 3-1 (26-24, 13-25, 25-17, 25-18) in Tucson. The Ags rallied back from a 19-12 deficit in the first game and a set point by UNC before winning the first set .

We were hoping to attend but couldn't make it. Was there a good turnout?
I've always been impressed with how bright and articulate the Aggie athletes are whenever you hear them speak so I'm not surprised that the coaches are impressive as well. Being an Aggie means being a scholar-baller...the way it should be in college athletics!

Excellent article: "College Football Is Eating Its Institutions Alive:"

Excerpt:

And while the NCAA is flawed—hugely, hilariously flawed—and was in desperate need of reform, it was still the closest thing college football had to an overarching authority. When it checked out, that vacuum launched an arms race among athletic directors, conference commissioners and television executives to fight for every scrap of revenue—and to destroy anyone who stood in their way.

That’s why Oklahoma’s now in the SEC, Arizona is in the Big 12, Washington’s now in the Big Ten and the Pac-12 is dead. Every college football decision has been made with solely short-term interests—rather than what’s good for the sport, and higher education in general—in mind. No one’s minding the store. So everyone’s pulling up and selling anything not nailed down.

This is bad enough for college football which is going to look up in 10 years and realize almost everything people loved about it is now gone. But it’s also bigger than college football. If you care about other collegiate sports, or just “college” as a concept—you need to know: there is collateral damage everywhere.

First off, what may make sense for college football television contracts—the reason all this realignment is happening in the first place—is generally a disaster for every other collegiate non-revenue sport. (A non-revenue sport is one that doesn’t make money for the university but is an essential part of the collegiate experience regardless—generally speaking, it’s every sport but football and occasionally men’s college basketball).

Whole article here: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/opinions/college-football-conferences-realignment-pac-12-acc-sec-big-12-leitch/index.html

Ooof...a temperature of 101 will feel even hotter when you add in the high humidity that is typical of Texas. Conditioning and team depth will play a big role in that kind of sweltering weather.

You should be able to do it on an iPad.

1. If you want to post a YouTube video, click on "share" directly below the video and then click on "Copy." That will copy the video link to your iPad.

2. Then to post the video in the AST forum, click on the movie camera icon first. That will open an "Insert Media" box. Then paste the YouTube link you're copied to your iPad into the "Insert Media" box and then click on "GO." That will paste the link into your post and, when you post your comment, the YouTube video will open in your post.

Hope this helps.