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  • Week 11: Eastern Washington @ Davis
    Memories of 2018 playoffs. When all is said and done, no matter how much the program improves, we don't have an answer for the fact that EB3 is a better athlete than pretty much anyone we can put on the field
  • Week 11: Eastern Washington @ Davis
    audio is out of spec on the PA and the graphics are consistently going off where they interrupt other things on the screen.

    We're one of the top STEM schools in the world and yet when anything is athletics related we just generally give off the vibe of being very mediocre at anything tech. It's befuddling.
  • Week 11: Eastern Washington @ Davis
    Actually OK with that drive because it completely flipped field position. Using TT as essentially a decoy to allow Hastings to run up the middle is a nice wrinkle, though it didn't do much. But that's the kind of adaptation we didn't see in previous seasons IMO
  • WBB: Saint Mary's (1-0) at UCD (1-0) 12 noon Saturday 11/13
    The season might still be okay but more games like these makes it more and more likely that this team's ceiling is getting a first round draw @ Stanford again
  • WBB: Academy of Art at UCD 6 pm Tuesday 11/09
    Really cool to have Nagel -- I'd argue one of the key players who built the juggernaut -- still involved and providing mentorship. I think Hall may be the only current player who saw the floor with the Splash Sisters? The seasons are blurring together, in a good way.
  • MBB: Aggies at William Jessop (Exhibition) 7:30 pm Saturday 10/30
    My WBB season ticket membership has not disappointed. I'm actually not entirely sure when was the last time I attended a home WBB game where UCD lost, might have been in Bertsch's first year or something

    Re: basketball streaming, all non-Hawaii MBB and WBB games will be on ESPN+ unless on a main ESPN network
    https://bigwest.org/news/2021/6/9/general-espn-plus-faq.aspx
  • On the right side of another upset...sort of
    The 2013 upset was actually one of the coolest sports games I've been to at Davis (in terms of product on the field, not the stadium experience at Aggie Stadium which was cavernous). It was a golden goal in extra time if memory serves.

    It's a pretty fun sport, but it is weird that UCD is one of the three or so west coast teams that have a team -- and apparently some investment, too, given the dedicated stadium
  • Excellent Video of All the Big Sky Football Stadiums
    They went from having arguably the best one to the worst when the Timbers and Thorns apparently kicked them out. Very unfortunate.
  • Week 8: UC Davis @ Cal Poly
    Technically yeah, I think it's fair to defend Hastings there because his incompletions and pick were situations where he wasn't in a position to succeed with his skillset. But I think you touched on a bigger problem that Hastings, while good, is not a modern college QB and he's sharing snaps with 2-3 guys who are (since Faulk is mobile as I recall).

    He can make it work like Maier did but he'll have to put up 2018-Maier kind of stats (throwing to pretty much the same receiver corps + Tompkins) to do so. So I guess I'm saying that it's not unreasonable to have higher expectations for him in terms of his passing stats and how he handles pressure in the pocket, because that's simply what's necessary for him to remain the starter in this offense
  • Week 8: UC Davis @ Cal Poly
    neither of these are the current "official" one, which was recreated a few years ago after the original was lost or damaged or something.

    Here's the one that started appearing a few years ago
    https://www.davisenterprise.com/files/2017/10/1029horseshoeW.jpg
  • Week 8: UC Davis @ Cal Poly
    Good we're already in 4th-quarter mode, we should start it before 4th quarter every game
  • Week 8: UC Davis @ Cal Poly
    nm apparently the refs didn't really know either
  • Week 8: UC Davis @ Cal Poly
    stream died on my, what was the flag?
  • Week 8: UC Davis @ Cal Poly
    Beautiful set of downs at tempo with the same TD play that got us on the board last week
  • Week 8: UC Davis @ Cal Poly
    Lol it's almost like Hawkins responded to them. Commentators cast doubt on the #10 ranking; Hawk immediately pulls out a trick play and then skewers them with Tompkins
  • Week 8: UC Davis @ Cal Poly
    Commentators are not complimentary about UCD's defense but they're actually doing pretty well, just not being given any breaks
  • Week 8: UC Davis @ Cal Poly
    TD GILLIAM!

    Good drive, took advantage of a favorable field situation, got the ball to the best runners and good things happened
  • Week 8: UC Davis @ Cal Poly
    Oof Castles ran into the concrete looks like, that could be really severe