Especially since Irvine -- whom we beat by 19 twice -- was 2 points and a questionable foul away from upsetting Louisville in the Ro64. Gotta think that Corey and/or the battalion of 3-pt threats could have clutched that one out in the same situation.

Also slight correction, it was Fullerton that beat Irvine, not Riverside. That's scary because CSUF just pulled a Cal Poly and beat the #1 team two games in a row, and are now in the hunt along with LBSU.

Aggies can clinch by winning out and would possibly get the title by losing one game that isn't to Irvine. If Aggies lose to Irvine they'd have to win everything else and UCI would probably have to pick up another loss, and even then LBSU or CSUF could take it. All other scenarios are too complex to pull from the top of my head.

In other words, just win baby.

Re: seeding, following MWC basketball this year has made me conscious of how poorly implemented the BWC tournament is.

SDSU struggling to get up to 3rd and avoiding falling to 6th at all costs feels way more critical to tournament success than UCD getting 1st instead of 2nd seed. No byes all but guarantees that even as #1 you'll see a team that can beat you before the tournament championship game. Could happen to the Ags even in the first round if Cal Poly is 7th.

Tough loss. Gave me flashbacks to the NDSU game(s). We still hold the tiebreaker over UCI but basically have to win out now.

I was actually hanging out with another UC Davis grad tonightt and she gave me a look of confusion when I asked her if she wanted to catch the end of the game. The athletics culture at Davis still has a ways to go.

Just learned that they'll be distributing student tickets ahead of time at the MU. First time I've ever heard of them doing this.

Campus Rec, because it's part of the ARC. The upper concourse is set up for badminton and ping pong during the day if I remember right from the one time I rented equipment. Also it's used for career fairs, student design showcases, high school cheerleading competitions, and pretty much any event that needs a huge floor space.

Good to hear Onyebalu is getting minutes; he'll be the only senior guard on the roster (and last remaining player who had minutes during the breakthrough season) next year. Unless Les has a redshirt or a new recruit in the wings I'd think he'd be first off the bench since Schneider, Hennings, and Printup are the only other three we've seen get reps.

In regards to the how-the-grants-work question, my understanding from having gone through the Financial Aid process recently is that the University gets from the federal government an 'Expected Family Contribution,' a number that indicates how much you're able to pay based on your tax returns. It's up to the university to subtract that number from cost of attendance and give you the rest of the amount, but it frequently doesn't go all the way, hence loans.

What I'm guessing they're doing is calculating the football recruits' EFCs, determining what grant they would get if they were a normal student, then applying a partial athletic scholarship to perfectly cover the remaining difference until the football player is only on the hook for the EFC, which can be close to zero. If the scholarship goes above that difference then it has to start cutting into the grant instead of the EFC.

From the UC Davis Scholarships website:

All UC Davis and outside agency/private scholarships are posted to the recipient’s UC Davis student account. When credited, the scholarship will first cover any unmet need; then, it will replace a student’s Self-Help expectation, followed by loans and Work Study. Grants and other gift aid will be reduced last, if necessary. Scholarships will be divided and disbursed evenly over fall, winter, and spring quarters, unless otherwise specified by the scholarship terms.

So it looks like they're treating an athletic scholarship as they would any other merit scholarship. Smart, but also kind of violates the spirit of the rules, which is to stop rich schools from crushing smaller schools -- I can't imagine Weber State or Northern Colorado have as robust need-based programs as UCD does, so this kind of adaptability might be more difficult for them.

Any way to build some sort of permanent seating structure on the north end, with a gap underneath for concessions? The roll-away bleachers waste a lot of space by eliminating all the space beneath them, but apparently Campus Rec doesn't need that end of the Pavilion because they got along fine with the bookstore there. So less of a need for new seats to be temporary I would think.

Might be a hard sell to higher-ups to put in new seats at the Pavilion that in previous years would have remained empty for most of the season. Of course, if you want to be big-time then you have to start thinking big-time.

I believe this is true, but don't have solid evidence. Even since I started going to Davis in 2012 the threshold for "sellout" seems to have gotten lower, from 6k+ to 5.5k or so. (Obviously they can tremendously tweak those numbers.)

5000, 6000, whatever. Just pack the Pavilion! Let's show everybody that we deserve this, as we always do on ESPN nights.

In the four years I was there, 4000 was a pretty strict ceiling for non-ESPN games. I think it got broken once for the regular-season finale against Irvine the title year and once for WBB vs UConn.

There's an ESPN wildcard opportunity coming up pretty soon, right? I'm assuming we get it easily because they seem to prefer us (perhaps as compensation for being left out of the socal ESPN3 package) and we're doing so well.

Was the seating only configured for lower bowl or were some of the upper bleachers out as well?

Didn't get to stream this game because I was at a different game but nice W, even if it sounds like it wasn't our slickest outing. It's an exciting time to be a UCD sports fan.

What a performance.

Are we an odd number year team?

I think we've had 6 helmet designs make an appearance over the last few years (including the three in the picture) but I thought some were just the plain gold helmets with stickers added, or repaints of previous helmets that have yet to make a reappearance.

What I remember: (* indicates I haven't seen it recently and assume it to be temp or phased out)

Gold horseshoe logo*
Gold block CA logo*
Blue numbered
Gold script 'Davis'
Mirror script 'Davis'
White horseshoe logo

Maybe it's because I'm not plugged in to our football history, but I think the new uniform combinations starting with the blue from the last few years look decent and could have a place in the rotation if used judiciously. If recruits like them then that's a bonus.

Obviously the Causeway/Horseshoe game and Homecoming should have the classic look, and I think the Davis script helmet works well for that. For the other games though -- particularly DII/nonconference games before school starts -- why not experiment? The team can wear whatever it wants if it wins games. Same way I feel towards the man bun vibe for Basketball.

All-white would be a nice look for away games and is something that's been requested by this forum for several years now. Saving the classic gold-white-gold look for a few away outings but allocating a few games for all-white and blue-white-white would be fine with me.

I'll be at the San Diego State game, barring some emergency.

I wonder if USD will be a home-and-home? Seeing the Ags in SD 2 years in a row would be pretty cool.

Agree on the script logo -- I'm fine with that, block CA, or the alt Gunrock logo that's just the horse's head. Anything else is really to small/complex to see from the stands.

Whoa. I thought UCD could probably clutch out a gritty, close win but nothing like this. What a way to take down Sac!

It speaks volumes about the esteem of international football competition that the staff of the World Cup Champions could be reassembled at a 3-9 college team.

I've been doing some reddit searches on Hawkins and the most common non-Cody complaint/description I've seen about him from Colorado fans is they felt his success at Boise State was largely due to Petersen's genius as a coordinator. This didn't particularly bother me because that kind of thing can always mean that he's good at identifying talent, delegating, and nurturing good ideas when he hears them.

And really so far that's all seemed to be the case with this staff -- he's pulling in veterans with a lot of experience and generally past histories of success on and off the field. If the criticism in regards to Coach Pete and BSU are true though then that implies to me that Speckman is going to have a lot of freedom to install the fly as little or much as he sees fit -- especially since it fits with Hawk's description of what he wanted to do on offense. Hopefully Hawk and/or Speckman have some wrinkles in mind to address the concerns with it, but honestly it looks to me that all the verbal evidence points to it being the scheme next year.

Also, why make Speckman OC and not announce it? Was Hawk holding out for a different coordinator that he couldn't sway over? Miscommunication with the marketing staff?

If I remember right, last year the game was ours to win until we choked away a lead by missing FTs, allowing the Bison to force OT with all the momentum.

I never heard of it being available, though that doesn't mean it wasn't.

Between the ARC and the outdoor courts by the water tower I would think there's enough recreational space to let Hickey be exclusively ICA.