There's a decent chance tomorrow's game is rained out. Some rain this weekend too vs. Utah Valley State. The wolverines have had a rough start, but also have had a tough schedule.

Sac State has had a rough start with the bats. Their bullpen has struggled horribly. What's even worse for them is Sunday starter Austin Roberts left after 2 innings against UOP. His exit did not coincide with being struck with a ball or a poor performance, so that's potentially something that could break their season. The impact immediately, if it's more than a blister, is that the 4th starter may pitch on Sunday making tomorrow a bullpen game if it happens.

It occurs to me that competition for roster spots will be unusually tough next year. With Trautner, Torres, and Spezia not making the team there are three roster spots that won't be vacated by graduating seniors. If I'm correct the only seniors this year are Brown, Hannah, Briggs, Van Blake, Kelly, and Lyford (depending on which roster you believe). The game program had Lyford as a redshirt junior, but the online roster listed him as a senior. If he graduated HS in '14 he'd be a 5th year senior unless he did something to stop the eligibility clock, like taking a year off before enrolling in college or getting a 6th year from the NCAA. 5 or 6 roster spots opening and 7 recruits listed here + there will be more. Competition is good, but so far no one has played poorly to make those roster decisions easier. The BW games will help some.

On the subject of fast starts I took a look at Northern Colorado's schedule. The way theirs is set up they might go 0- 13 to start the year. Next they travel to Phoenix for 4 games to play- the University of Washington. Then they host the North Dakota State for 4 and travel to Creighton for 2. Their first win of the year might be against Division II Colorado State- Pueblo. Mercifully their conference schedule opens against Chicago State at home.

North Dakota State was barely above .500 last year, but they looked tough when I saw them. Their shortstop, Bennett Hostetler, hit two homeruns from the leadoff spot on Saturday. He barely hit .220, with 1 HR all of last year- as a regular. Sac State won the other two games 2- 1 and 8- 3. The hornets' bats woke up in game 3. Sac State's weekend rotation is as sharp as ever. For the weekend they only allowed four earned runs (3 of them on Saturday) in 18 innings, with only 3 walks against 27 strikeouts. However, the bullpen surrendered 9 earned runs in 9 innings pitched.

Humorous note:NDSU's second starter is named Max Loven, pronounced in the most humorous way you can imagine. His parents didn't do him any favors though. Good pitcher though- pitched six shutout innings, allowing only 2 hits and a walk.

Thanks ! My knowledge of Aggie baseball is just from seeing a lot of games, whereas ProAggieGuy has a lot of insider knowledge it would seem and he sees a lot of games + practices. If I see as many games as I plan to this year I'll break 200 Aggie games attended (not all at Dobbins Stadium) in early 2020. Add that to all the other games I've seen over the years and I'm over 600 total. If I assign an average value of 2.5 hrs to each game that's over 2 entire months of my life I've spent watching baseball at the ballpark. Food for thought.

Lights would be nice for a reason we haven't really discussed much- the flexibility of practice schedules. I would go to fewer games, unless the night games were only on Tuesdays and Fridays. That's how Santa Clara handles it, with 6 pm games on Fridays, 1 pm on Saturdays, and noon on games on Sundays. I think that's a good arrangement for fans. Even the major leagues have Saturday day games, but the Sacramento River Cats have not gotten the memo.

What was really interesting was how the Aggies scored their runs today. I remember checking the Gametracker and seeing they were up 8- 0, but with only 7 hits, none of which were homeruns. Aparently N. Colorado gave them a few free runs via the bases loaded walk and hit by pitch.

You can tell I didn't go today because Chris Brown pitched so well. With the exception of his win vs. Irvine last year he typically does not pitch well when I attend. I must jinx him. I think I may have. been a good luck charm for Daniel Descalso though. He hit 3 hr's in the 4 games I attended in 2007, and only 1 the rest of the season. That included his 2 HR, 7 RBI, 3 error game against Northridge. Then I met him before a Sacramento + Memphis AAA game + he went 4 for 5, was summoned by St. Louis not long thereafter. Something funny- he told me he didn't know that at the time only 1 UC Davis alumnus (Steve Brown) had ever made it to the major leagues. Now, of course there are five. I'm not old enough to have seen Brown play for UCD, but I've seen the other 4.

I always have to temper my enthusiasm when the Aggies win their opening series. They slaughtered Bakersfield the first two games last year + CSUB was a pretty midlling team in the WAC, just like Northern Colorado was. In 2013 the Aggies won 3 of 4 from Washington + only wound up with what, 19 wins ? But then again they won both of their decisions against Texas State to begin 2015, a winning season, so there's that. I'm cautiously optimistic since they won a series from a team that beat them last year.

Interestingly enough CSUB won a close neutral- site game against Cal to open the season. The golden bears did what Wile E. Coyote failed at so many times and absolutely destroyed the roadrunners in a 4- game series last year. I mention that because I saw the Sunday game. It was a huge mismatch.

On a slightly- related note I did see Sac State play last night (did a triple- header of baseball spectating). North Dakota State beat them 9- 1. The Aggies did well to schedule Sac Stateearly in the season. They look like they're still pretty tentative on offense + figuring out their bullpen roles. For 3+ innings the Bisons' fielders didn't have to move because the Hornets either walked or struck out in every single at- bat. They have a good rotation-three draft- worthy starters- and a good closer, but the rest of the staff is an unknown. The bullpen coughed up six runs last night. The Aggies may face freshman Connor Sparks. He's a pretty big deal, a 6'6, 228 righty from Canada who's already been drafted. Generally speaking Sac State doesn't redshirt many players that are on the roster, unless it's due to injury or transfer rules, so Sparks will probably pitch this year.

Good to hear that Sasaki will be back soon. I'm assuming Brown will start today then ? I wonder who will go against Nevada ? My guess would be one of the freshmen, either Spillane or Lemos ? Justin Smith started too in the fall, but I thought he was in the late- inning relief mix. I still have no clue who the closer is. Moffitt and Lyford got the bulk of the relief innings yesterday, but they're left- handers. Wieser closed out game 2, but it was not s save situation. Ouellette has velocity but he hasn't pitched to opposing college hitters yet, except for a few innings during the summer.

It's tough, but the cuts pretty much had to be on the pitching staff. There are 17 of them on the current roster, and that's not counting potential 2 way players, like Ouellette and Peng. Technically there's 21 if you count Briggs + Van Blake, although I don't see them taking the mound.

Of course not all of those pitchers will play in 2019. If I had to guess I think they may redshirt
Johnson, Jordan, and Wesolowsky. I seem to recall Jordan + Johnson having the DL notation next to their names on the fall ball world series roster. If I remember correctly Jordan missed part of his HS senior season with injury. I've come to understand that that roster notation didn't necessarily mean they were injured, just that they weren't available. Wesolowsky doesn't appear to have gotten very many innings in HS, so they might want him to sit out a year + stretch him out a bit, although the Perfect Game website indicate that there were a lot of schools interested in him. Wesolowsky's pretty tall, must have a pretty "projectable" arm. Spillane supposedly was one of the more effective pitchers + Lemos' being a lefty mean they should get innings this year.

I'm guessing our primary bullpen arms will be:

Justin Smith-Jr
Wyatt Tucker- Jr
Jake Spillane- Fr.
Nathan Lemos- Fr (LHP)
Brock Moffitt- So (LHP)
Steve Ouellette- Jr
Andres Lara- Jr

They do this every year. I'm used to it. It's rare to see it up before opening day. It'll be some subset of those players I listed in my roster guess thread. I listed just about everyone on the fall ball roster. Unless somebody walked on after the world series, shouldn't be any surprises I don't think.

I looked at both Sac State and UCD's stats from 2018 to see what factors (aside from competition strength)the 17 win differential could be based on. It was pretty interesting.

UCD had only 1 fewer hit than the hornets but out- batted them .278 to .259 (CSUS played more games)

Sac State hit twice as many homeruns and stole almost 30 more bases.

One thing I did not expect to find was that their fielding percentages were very similar (less than 1% difference), meaning UCD was better than what I witnessed when I saw them play the first 2 of the 4 games I saw in 2018, and that what they did against UCSB and UCI was closer to the norm, fielding wise.

Sac State caught more than 1/3 of runners trying to steal, while UCD caught a little more than 20% (11 caught stealing total)

So what does this tell me ? That Sac State is more successful at manufacturing runs once they get someone on base and their pitchers and catchers are better at keeping baserunners honest. They are also smarter basestealers. Those are all things I've witnessed to be true over the years.

The remaining stats are more subjective than those. Homeruns are also a factor of the home ballpark + the skill of the opposing pitcher. I've seen windy days at Dobbins Stadium when the ball just carries and carries, but most days someone has to really wallop the ball to get it out of the park whereas I've seen some cheap ones at John Smith Field. In one game at Santa Clara in 2018 I probably saw more cheap homeruns than I have in all the D- 1 games I've seen at Dobbins Stadium combined. D2- different story.

UCD also doesn't have the benefit of playing teams like Chicago State, which is absolutely hapless away from home. I remember telling the Sac State student manager/staistics guy before the first game that first baseman Vinny Esposito (normally a power hitter but had 0 hr going into conf. play) was due + he was going to hit one that day. Esposito hit 2, and after the first one the stats guy walked into the stands and gave me a fist bump. Not only that, but freshman shortstop Keith Torres hit his first in the same game + the reserve catcher, who rarely even hit the ball out of the infield, just missed his first.

Chicago State is just really bad on the road. Due to the WAC mercy rule they don't play 9 innings a lot of the time. I believe the 2018 series with SAC only lasted a total of 21 innings. When they play at home they can steal some wins from better teams. Chicago State kind of reminded of that book I read in elementary school- "Sideways Stories from Wayside School". There's one kid in the class who, due to not following the classroom rules, gets sent home early on the kindergarten bus every day. He yearns to know what happens in class after lunch, but can never make himself behave. Being on the losing end of a mercy rule game has to be the mental equivalent to a player/coach of being sent home on the kindergarten bus I'm guessing.

Of course, the mercy rule would help UCD on those days when the pitching is just awful. Tougher to lose 16- 2.

Upon reviewing the roster I uncovered some additional players that may make the team, but didn't make my projected roster, mainly because there's little to no information on them online.

I believe outfielder Alec Smith (whom I saw play in both games) may be returning outfielder Matt Smith (whom I did not see play in 2018). Why he would be going by Alec I can only guess. Maybe it's his middle/given name. Or perhaps he wants to differentiate himself from Sac State's outfielder by the same name- I don't know. I do know that the only baseball- playing Alec Smith I can locate online would've graduated from Cal Poly a couple years ago.

A couple more junior college starting pitchers- Nick Johnson and Alexis Miranda. Johnson, I believe, pitched at West Valley College in the Bay Area, while Miranda was a starter at L.A. Pierce College (where Daniel Barraza also pitched before coming to UCD). I don't believe either is in the running for a rotation spot), but they may be in the bullpen.

JC transfer pitchers typically do not become starters immediately for UCD. The only recent exceptions I can think of are Trevor Fox and Jeff Reekers (both 2007- 8). I've long believed the UCD coaching staff has preferred to have JC transfers pitch in relief, probably because they don't have as many years to work with them. Also, the elite JC pitchers get drafted or recruited by teams like Fullerton/Long Beach so they probably can find more arms with greater potential at the HS level. There's also the academic factor. I believe that's why UCD has never had repeat winning seasons at the D- I level. When they have several key seniors graduate (which is every year) they can't replace them easily through transfers, as other teams can.

Interesting side note. When Joe Biagini (a transfer himself)was at UCD he barely pitched. When he did it was in short relief. After he was drafted the Giants made him a starter. Food for thought.

A few more freshman pitchers as well. Matt Mascio and Jaskiret Singh (both of whom appear to have redshirted in 2018), as well as Ryan Sutter,. I saw both Mascio and Sutter pitch in the fall games. They combined for three scoreless innings.

And lastly there's Conner Longrie, a true freshman outfielder that started both games. Looked like a pretty decent hitter. In the press release about the schedule Vaughn did mention there's a battle for outfield spots. Since Lara wasn't even swinging a bat when I saw him Longrie may be in the mix for a reserve spot, although I still think the starters will be Kelly, Mook, and Morrison.

So there are some potential changes to the roster. I'm pretty sure I got at least 27 of the 35 man roster right.

I believe that UCD is fully funded for baseball scholarships, but that's just speculation on my part. Seems like every time I read an online newspaper article about a recruit they're mentioning him getting a baseball scholarship. Also every year they seem to have a couple of players who are on the roster but don't play. You don't have to be on the roster to redshirt (Gedestad as an example), but you do if you're on a baseball scholarship. So if you're not on scholarship + you're not going to play (due to injury or whatever) it makes no sense to give you a roster spot for the year. Yet in 2016 UCD had 3 pitchers on the roster who never threw a pitch that year (Austin Amante, Jed Moscot, and Orlando Razo) + they knew in advance wouldn't play. All 3 were likely on scholarship as three mediocre walk- ons would have better than nothing if money wasn't a factor. Just speculating though.

The NCAA has some screwy rules for baseball scholarships. The minimum you can get if you get anything at all is 25%. Well, that doesn't go equally into 11.7. Why 11.7 and not 12 ? How much is 30 percent of the tuition + books @UCD ? Not much unless you're the parent of a UCD student. So to reach 11.7 you have to have 1 or 2 odd ones at least that aren't a multiple of 25.

Other things that are screwy. You can have 35 players but only 27 scholarship players. And because UCD is right around the roster limit it means at least 6- 8 players each year aren't even getting so much as textbook assistance unless it's on a separate academic scholarship. Makes me wonder if perhaps this is part of the reason Sac State usually features a small roster around 26 or 27. To keep costs down perhaps they limit the roster to scholarship players only. Surely they have 7- 8 good players in the fall that they could use, even just as reserves.

Also strange is the way NCAA baseball scholarships aren't guaranteed for all 4 years. You may enter getting a full ride but by your junior or senior year you might be getting less or nothing. My understanding is that with basketball it's usually a full and stays a full unless you don't keep your grades at a satisfactory level or you get put on some sort of disciplinary action.

I could probably write a book on this, but to put it simply I think it's at least partially money- related. I've long thought UCD baseball was a labor of love for the coaches, players, fans,and alumni donors, but that the university wasn't financially supporting it adequately. Case in point- I don't think the coaching staff is getting the budget to travel to see these players. I thought I had read an article written by Jared Sasaki saying Vaughn had flown out to see him pitch during the recruiting process. I wonder how many flights, hotels, and rental cars they can squeeze into the budget though. Sometimes the coaches probably have to pay their own way.

I've already heard the reason they rarely have an out- of- state recruit is that the university doesn't want to be on the hook for financial aid dollars helping a student- athlete not pay what is supposed to be extra revenue in the UC coffers. Now basketball has out- of- state (and foreign) recruits but the team is smaller + bring back a higher percentage of the program costs back in ticket revenue + merchandise. I imagine the actual ticket revenue from a UCD baseball game probably covers the cost of the baseballs used and the concession stand workers' wages. Just a guess

As far as starting pitching is concerned I think both teams are using a 4- man rotation. I only know some of the 8 options from twitter or what I've seen:Chris Brown, Blake Hannah (#1's), Jake Spillane (#2), Brett Erwin, and Justin Smith (#4's) Haven't heard about Jared Sasaki. When I go tomorrow I assume I'll see each team's #3 starter, and those I'm drawing a blank on. Trautner ? Moffitt ? Wieser ? If it goes 7 I'll know all 8.

Given the exhibition nature of the game it seemed relaxed but competitive at the same time. Vollmer threw a couple of blue runners out at 2nd, but the baserunning, aside from Mook, seemed a bit lackadaisical on the Blue side. I'm wondering if Denholm isn't injured again. Both middle infield pairs (Jalen Smith- Kyler Arenado and Van Blake- Murray) looked good. Whoever was playing RF for gold made a great diving catch.

Ouellette and Gedestad were at first, same as last year. Don't know if that will continue if the former pitches frequently. Wouldn't be surprised if they tried Myers or Peng there to get their bats in the lineup.

Porter looked comfortable at third, but he's a bit different from most Aggie infield recruits in that he split his time at different positions last year. Most Aggie third basemen come in as shortstops, as do many of their first basemen

I'm not sure where some of these new players fit exactly. There were about 45 players on the roster and the limit is 35 for opening day so it stands to reason some won't make the cut.

Something interesting I hadn't seen before. When the pitcher was warming up each half inning Alejandro Lara, who didn't play, stood in the batter's box + took pitches. I'm assuming this is to better simulate the strike zone. We won't see this during regular games.

Some thoughts.

Clearly most of the players look a little rusty. That's to be expected in November.

Tanner Murray's bat is in mid- season form though.

Nathan Peng has some real power. He went hitless, but he smashed a foul ball that flew backwards over the press box and landed on the bathroom roof.

I think the team would probably not like me sharing the roster online but I will say that, but for a couple of players there wasn't much attrition from last year. That is to say almost all the players from last year with eligibilty remaining are back, at least for the pre- season. If I'm reading it roght it appears there are some key player injuries. You might have already guessed one of them from the lineups.

Erwin was pretty sharp. He just hit his pitch count. Justin Smith had a pretty rough first inning, but he really settled down

Kyler Arenado looked good at shortstop, made a couple nifty plays, although he did make an error that led to 2 gold runs.

What can you say about Ouellette ? He throws gas. He throws hard enough to get players to swing right through pitches out of the strike zone. Nice find by whoever the summer league coach was that let him try pitching. He bailed out Rodriguez with a double play grounder in the 7th when Blue had the bases loaded with the score 6- 5

I was just going over how the new players did this year in hs or junior college ball. I think we have a lot of room for optimism. Here are some summaries from info I obtained from Maxpreps.com and cccbca.com.

P/IF Nolan Meredith (Atascadero HS): had a great year on the mound as a starting pitcher. His batting average was kind of pedestrian for a hs player but he still came up with plenty of big hits, as evidenced by his 24 rbi- that would be a highly productive season for most college players playing in more games. Think he will probably be pitching in relief to begin his aggie career.

P Cade Wesolowsky (La Jolla Country Day School) He received a lot more innings this year than last and gave up quite a few runs, which I think you can just chalk up to having less experience. Still racked up plenty of strikeouts. They'll probably bring him along slowly in the bullpen like Ryan Rodriguez, who also didn't pitch a lot in HS. Looks like a low- risk/high reward reliever for the Aggies. Maybe a redshirt to start. They'll see how it goes.

C/P Nathan Peng (Saratoga HS). I thought he was a good recruit, but he had a monster season both on the mound and at the plate (batted over .500 with 12 homeruns according to Maxpreps). They are going to have a hard time deciding where he should play, but it's a good problem to have. Catcher is kind of crowded with Denholm and O'Boy, but there are opportunities at 1B/LF/DH. Maybe if he earns some starting pitching opportunities he'll bat for himself. They will find a spot for him in the lineup sooner than later.

P Jake Jordan (Elk Grove HS). He still did well as a reliever but didn't pitch as much this year. According to Maxpreps he also played football so maybe a football injury delayed his season ?

IF Jalen Smith (Stockdale HS). He continued to excel at hitting and baserunning, but what most impresses me was his defense. According to Maxpreps he only made 2 errors in 2018, which is outstanding for a middle infielder !

P Justin Smith (Yuba College). As I predicted last year Smith had a much better sophomore season, basically serving as Yuba's primary closer. Had more walks than you'd like but he was tough to hit. According to cccbca.com Smith only allowed 17 hits in 33 1/3 innings. Maybe Connor Loar's replacement ? Loar didn't have outstanding JC pitching stats either, and look what he did

P Wyatt Tucker (College of San Mateo). CSM moved him to the rotation full- time, but he only wound up with 2 decisions, as it looks like the starting pitchers may have been on fairly strict pitch counts. Even their top starting pitcher barely averaged 5 innings a start. Still did well, maybe a long reliever for the Aggies.

OF Cooper Morrison (Reedley College). He duplicated his outstanding freshman season. Not a big basestealer though. I see him possibly starting in right field (though he played center at Reedley) as I'd want to entrust center field at Dobbins stadium to the player with the most experience there- Garrett Kelly.

IF/OF Robbie Carling (Cabrillo College). Didn't have a great year at the plate for Cabrillo, but did very well in summer ball. As one of Tony Scifano's (and Tyler La Torre's as well for that matter) former players at SF State you know he's well- coached. Will probably be a super- utility player.

P Jake Spillane (Mission Viejo HS). A very successful starting pitcher through HS, he apparently threw a 70 pitch perfect game this year, amazing even for a 7 inning game. Sometimes I don't really know what to think about Aggie pitching recruits that get no mention in UCD baseball press releases. Some of them never even throw a pitch for UCD (Diego Fisher last year) Are they mainly late signs or walk- ons or does our sports info dept just not stay on top of it ? I don't know the answer, but he sounds like a great find for the program either way.

OF/IF John Mook (Folsom Lake College). He's not a power hitter, but Mook destroyed opposing pitching this year, hitting over .400 in a tough hitter's league according to cccbca.com . He is a basestealer as well. He could be a similar player to Brett Morgan (Think his name was Brett Anyway) who was here 2010- 12. I could see the Aggies some days employing an outfield of Mook- Kelly- Morrison. from left to right and you would have above- average defense.

According to Bayareaworldseries.com and prepbaseballreports.com the Aggies have added 4 more HS players for this year that I missed:

IF Porter Slate from Petaluma HS. Looks like he has a lot of defensive experience all over the infield.

OF/1B Caleb Vice from Cardinal Newman HS. There was an online scouting report (don't see many available without a subscription service) praised his defense at first and his hitting potential.

P/1B Noah Pyles from Christian Brothers High School. A big (at least 6'7) right hander. They'll probably let him try both positions. If it doesn't work out on the pitching mound he's a big target for other infielders' throws. Funny thing. There's another Noah Pyles out there from Texas who pitches and plays first, and is similarly very tall.

P/1B Ryan Sutter from Serra HS. Serra is a really big name in HS baseball. Looks like Sutter primarily worked as a reliever, but he did start a few games. Given that's usually a very competitive team he probably would have had a bigger role with another team.One thing that really stood out in the Maxpreps stats was that he threw ONLYONE wild pitch in three years of varsity baseball combined. Must have excellent command. He'll be a Vaughn favorite.

I checked out Peccole Park while I was in Reno. Aside from having lights it's really not better than Dobbins Stadium.

got it. Thanks !

Just when I thought I was out they pull me back in.

I am semi- retired from social media, but I just happened to look up this information yesterday because I wondered the same thing.

Summer ball stats are a small sample + it's the trends that we can learn from. However, the most important thing is that the players get more experience. So just a quick fly- by:

Caleb van Blake has been holding his own with the bat in AK. Nothing to write home about, but he has hit a couple of bombs.

Can't find anything on Briggs. The Arroyo Seco Saints stats link brings you to a website for a different league.

Chris Brown and Alex Trautner have pitched well, mostly as starters, for the Humboldt Crabs, which are basically the small summer baseball league equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters. Jackson O'Boy is doing a decent job at the plate. Incoming transfer Wyatt Tucker is on that team as well. He's struggled a bit on the mound, but apparently he can hit a little.

Andres Lara has done well as a starting pitcher for Redding. The thing about Lara is he, like Joseph Torres, is an undersized pitcher. You don't hear about many successful 5'9 pitchers at the college level. Pitchers are usually taller. If he can get outs consistently. then that's not an issue. Pedro Martinez is barely taller than he is. Tim Collins is about 5'7 if you're being generous.

Steve Ouellette has done alright at the plate. He's also succesfully dabbled in pitching, mop- up work basically. Might as well see if he'd be any good as a reliever for the Aggies; they have plenty of infielders. Even if it's just mop- up work in blow- out games and he still plays in the infield.

Blake Hannah has been lights- out for the Chico Heat as a starter. ERA under 1.00 with a 5- 0 record last I checked.

No idea about Gedestad and Wieser. No stats on the Clarinda A's website. Clarinda lists Gedestad on the roster as "Gadastats".

Denholm has pretty much had a feast- or- famine season at the plate for Rochester (Northwoods). That was pretty much how it went last summer too- crush the ball or strike out. It's the reps that are important, not so much the batting average.

Moffitt, Myers, Sasaki, Rodriguez, and Murray were all in the Perfect Game league back east. Murray has carried over his solid hitting and has flashed some power. Moffitt has been roughed up a little, but it's a small sample. Myers was hitting very well but his season ended early- possible injury ? Sasaki has pitched well, not as well as Hannah, but it's relative to context- different leagues. Rodriguez has pitched very well as a late- inning reliever.

Garrett Kelly has played decently up in Canada. He's hit a couple of homeruns, but I'm surprised he hasn't really tried to swipe some bases.

The UCD baseball twitter references an incoming transfer named Robbie Carling who was the team MVP for the Humboldt B52's. That's encouraging because he did not hit well at Cabrillo College this year. His freshman season was better, and he spent that at San Francisco State, which is coached by Tony Schifano. I wouldn't say Schifano turned that program around because it wasn't terrible when he got there, but it has improved.