I think the biggest difference in Texas weather compared to here is the humidity level. The humidity is much, much higher in Texas. The heat in Texas is sweltering whereas here the heat is dry. The heat here is certainly hot but it's more tolerable and less dangerous than the muggy heat in Texas. I grew up in the midwest and I know what that muggy weather feels like and I'll take being baked rather than being steamed anytime!

Cal, Stanford and Southern Methodist have joined the ACC.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/38304694/sources-acc-votes-invite-stanford-cal-smu

"I thought our defense played great," said Aggie head coach Dan Hawkins.

"I knew we'd play well because we've been practicing well. We didn't punt all night, which is always a good sign. It's always great to get a win, but it's never as clean as you like. Overall, though, I was pleased."

Added Hawkins, "It's great to get that first win under your belt. Now we have to go home and get ready because the mountain is only going to get steeper."

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/football-aggies-mess-with-texas-a-m-commerce-for-dominating-win/article_a60e5b82-4858-11ee-859a-1fd0a242b5ed.html

The Ags lost to the Portland Pilots 1-0 in rainy Portland. The Aggies (3-2) return home to play Loyola Marymount on Sunday, September 2nd.

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!