NDSU has been winning for years, UCD is just now getting serious about football recently… trending upward. I’m a Cal football fan, look at what they are doing, a lot of positive momentum.

Idk why everyone is questioning attendance when Davis broke their attendance last season with 17k fans in attendance… In a 10k seat stadium… playing a FCS team. Attendance will be fine when the move up happens in a couple years. As long as the on field product is good, people will be interested. The admins still have work to do to make the game day experience and advertising up to par.

Anyone responding please add what needs to be done to make it work, not why it won’t work. We should always try to add what needs to be improved instead of why it won’t work. It’s fine to be realistic about things not being great now but the school is moving in the right direction.

This is a problem if correct, as the streaming revenue was supposed to go to the schools?

So what is UCD doing to maximize revenue????

https://youtu.be/zEvXGZgNcL8?si=kleAPrygqVRtyD6G

(Link to Big Mountain Podcast explaining MW media deal)

The right half looks pretty close to what is being worked on now…

This was the image the AD tweeted a couple of years ago. We’re currently working on the right half. I wonder if they’ll add boxes to the left side as well (under the second deck).

I don’t know why Davis doesn’t have a digital bill board on I80 to advertise. Could have one on both sides of the freeway.

Mountain West teams 2026 :Air Force, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming, North Dakota State, Northern Illinois.

Big Sky: Cal Poly, Eastern Washington, Idaho, Idaho State, Montana, Montana State, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado, Portland State, Southern Utah
Utah Tech, Weber State

All MW schools are bigger brands than the FCS schools. As I said sports are just entertainment at the end of the day. And people want to see big brand entertainment.

In the mountain west we can schedule up to 12 FBS teams ( maybe 1 or 2 FCS teams but gotta pay them to play). So not only will we play bigger brands in the Mountain West but we can schedule other teams too. Imagine hosting San Diego State or James Madison in Davis. Or Fresno State. People would come out to watch that.

1. They need to hire a local DJ to get a playlist together to get the music together. Have the band play between downs and music play during timeouts. Nor cal music
2. Get someone to lead the student section in chants.
3. Have the team runout to music and pyrotechnics. Maybe pyrotechnics from water tower after touchdowns and wins? Actually would be cool if a horse led the team out.
4. Have billboards for Davis sports around Fairfield up to Sac. Advertise on TV. Run Facebook/ IG and YouTube adds High school teams and pop warner teams should get tickets. Get young people excited about going to games. Again, the attendance won’t really skyrocket until football is moved to FBS. Only die hard fans care about FCS football. As you can see how bad attendance drops in the playoffs. Can’t depend on students to fill the stadium.
5. Get better food options. I like Woodstock’s but there needs to be more. When they expand the stadium they need to add permanent concession stand.
6. Update the stadium store. It is bad. (I see Davis had been upping their game on apparel tho. Need more alumni gear. I only buy sweatshirts if they’re embroidered. Screen printing is cheap)
7. Do some cool video board graphics

I’m sure many others will have other suggestions on what Davis can improve on their game day experience. It would be good for others to share their suggestions as reply.

Part of the reason that nobody goes to games is because the game day experience sucks and they don’t market sports well at all. Along with the fact FCS football isn’t going to be popular with the 49ers, Cal, Stanford all in the area playing big name football teams. At the end of the day sports is just entertainment and going to a Davis game is no where near entertaining. Whoever picks the music for the games should never do it again.

Also, another serious upgrade to the stadium would be ribbon video boards around the inside rim of the stadium. This is revenue producing as they can run advertisements during the game.

Gonna keep it real, if Davis gets the funds to upgrade the football stadium and doesn’t move to FBS, imma be pretty disinterested in watching Davis football. Especially knowing moving up to FBS is the goal and they have first dibs on moving up to the MWC for football.

No team will move to MW before Davis. It is in MW contract Davis has first consideration to move up to MW for football. Any other FCS team moving up to FBS/ MW will do so alongside Davis. ND State and Tarletan State and who are rumored to also move up with Davis.

In my opinion we have to move up to FBS to be competitive in football. We need the TV revenue. Donors will be more willing to donate to watch us play FBS level competition. The average person would be happy to go UC Davis Health Stadium to watch the football team play UNLV, San Jose State, Air Force, Hawaii, New Mexico over playing teams like Northern Colorado, Northern Arizona, and other directional schools. We don’t even have Sac State in conference anymore. THE BRAND MATTERS. Growth is uncomfortable.

Davis is in the #20 tv market in the USA, the biggest one without a pro football or FBS team. 15 years from now if Davis can be competitive, I could see the school pushing for P4 status… tv ratings talk. But it all starts with at least getting FBS, which Davis is looking to do. (Per the Big mountain Podcast, we’re looking at a 2029 move. https://x.com/tbm_jy/status/1890812691813400686?s=46 )

I don’t get how people can say “CAL thinks they’re better than us” but don’t want to move up. I’m ready to compete with CAL and UCLA. Indiana has shown us that any school can compete now. We have a wealthy alumni base. The school just needs to get them something to be excited about. And it starts with Football.

https://herosports.com/fcs-rocko-deluca-a-builder-in-more-ways-than-one-ksks/

Here is a great article about AD DeLuca and our move to the Mountain West.

I vote for an Ivy covering of the brick.

I am also for just calling the the the Davis Aggies, just as CAL is called the California Golden Bears, not the UC Berkeley Golden Bears. I think UCLA Bruins works because the whole name is an acronym, not an Acronym + Name. I like how CAL put UC Berkeley on the sideline Paint. UC Davis can do the same thing, just put University of California, Davis on the sideline paint.

Shout out to different opinions I’m just putting my thoughts and reasons out there.

The Aggies is a great name bc of the history. Winemakers… I don’t think a football team named the winemakers would get people excited to see the team play…

Nameplates are important because we are in the era of NIL. Players are individuals.

We should all look at CAL’s football program. They are about the be a top tier football program. They updated their uniforms. They improved their game day experience and social media presence. They hired a GM. Upgraded their coach (I don’t think Davis needs to upgrade the coach. Tim is good). Those are all things Davis can do to get more people to go to games. Look at Indiana. If big donors are excited about the team, the team can become very competitive in FBS.

UCLA?

my main gripe with the current uniforms are that there are no gold on the jerseys. The school colors are blue and gold not blue and white. I think the block gold numbers with the white/ blue number shadows would take the uniforms to the next level.