And they thought all they had to do was cover Doss

well that stinks. I mean I always like listening to our broadcast team but I thought we'd moved beyond the era of untelevized games, especially against an FBS opponent

I was just chatting with someone about how sac State should take notes from schools like PSU San Diego who can put together really nice mid-sized arenas with enough admin support and will. If a D1 team is playing in an effective high school gym then something's really going wrong for the program

Is this game just simply not on TV?

I didn't fret a month ago when I assumed that there would be an announcement later for it getting streamed on Facebook or something, but with a week to go and seeing nothing I'm wondering if nothing is planned

Ezra Manjon is a PG and is listed on Verbalcommits. He's short-ish but looks like a decent scorer who can get to the rim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZtRlJeARIg&feature=youtu.be

GM3 is hard to figure out anything about from his recent twitter posts but going back through his posts I think this is Aaron Murphy, a 6'6" SF.
http://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/aaron-murphy/8A3GeEOZEeW-8KA2nzwbTA/default.htm

Conspiracy theory: two of the five rings he has on in the photo op are the WBB championship rings from the last two years.

Otherwise, it's hard to see how the D1-era rings add up to five. If postseason participation gets a ring, then there should be six.

I don't see how Coach Hawk couldn't spin the scrimmage into something positive unless it was a catastrophe, like an all-team brawl or something.

"Well, we've got some young guys still developing and some returnees who are a little rusty from summer but will be back to their old selves in no time" is realistically the worst thing anybody be willing to announce.

So I have to imagine that the blackout is just because Hawk doesn't feel like talking about it and is not something too bad.

I've always done LAY-high but there's no way that's right

Meanwhile on one of our opponents' Media Days, Bryce Love is getting flack for missing Stanford's for -- get this, going to class.

https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2018/07/27/stanford-bryce-love-ripped-skipping-media-day-to-attend-class

I could totally see this conflict happening to Aggies. Maybe it already has, and just wasn't publicized.

My Bay Area friends, including my old Davis roommate who's never been to a football game before, are all coming!

I don't think they care too much about the score (hopefully -- I've tried to be realistic with them) but the hype around Aggie sports is finally building to where they can't ignore it anymore.

Lol, I think I may have provided the tip for that.

There was a guy in the FCS Fans facebook group asking for people to talk about their school's traditions so he could write an article, so I wrote a comment about the Helmet Rule.

It looks like he just got most of the info from an article about Petersen from some years ago. Does anybody know if Hawk still enforces it? I thought I read that Gould didn't.

Long bomb, possibly TD, to Does on the first play if the season; calling it now. Gotta instill fear into those hotshot FBS DBs.

Incidentally it worked on a good SDSU defense and that first drive probably would have resulted in a score of it weren't for an unlikely tip to pick.

I love the smell of upsets in the morning

She's a biochemistry and molecular biology major; something tells me she isn't transferring to UC Davis just for basketball...


Which is great!

Wasn't the guy last year kind of a unique case? I remember someone saying he lives in La Mesa which is like five minutes away from SDSU

Although I agree that the #1 QB in a major city seems like the kinda guy who could get good offers later if he has a strong Senior season

sounds more like a Gould Game (TM).

If he's decently athletic it will be cool to see a guy with that kind of height in the Avery/Lawrence/Michael position.

I like the trend of getting children of pros. Probably means they had good mentorship when they were learning to play -- maybe we'll see an advantage in fundamentals?

The Raiders coach let go of the normal punter, Marquette King, a few weeks ago. As far as I know Wadman is currently the only punter on the roster and will be a camp leg at minimum. Since he's technically number one on the depth chart that means two of of 32 starting punters in the NFL right now are Aggies!

I'm not sure how much other UCD news we'll see in the draft since Doss is staying. At least two players UCD has played against recently -- Allen from Wyoming and Penny from SDSU -- were first-rounders.

For what it's worth, on the UC Davis subreddit I see more and more people complaining about a housing shortage since I graduated -- they're growing the university each year and while admin is somewhat keeping pace with freshman dorms, there hasn't been much housing growth for upperclassmen. As a result the private apartments are getting more competitive and more expensive.

So I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that the Sac campus might have housing. And I heard the idea was tossed around a few years ago in strategic planning meetings.

Ranked only behind the greatest tournament upset of all time and a 3OT game. That's some high praise.