Taking it a bit further, yesterday's article highlighting the collaboration with the Master of Management clearly demonstrated how that has benefitted both Athletics and the GSM in the short-term. In the longterm, as student-athlete graduates of the MM program go out in the world and have success, they potentially become significant donors.

Connections to other campus programs, like the Tahoe Environmental Research Center, also have the potential to be mutually beneficial. These can only increase support for Athletics within the campus community. The alternate uniforms and the Tahoe-themed games will be very visible reminders of that connection, and good publicity for TERC. Maybe other campus programs or departments will start thinking about how similarly connecting with Athletics could be beneficial to them.

I definitely like them and the video is very cool also! Love seeing that we used the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center boat. I think we'll see the football team keep the classic blue and gold uniforms as well for some games.

Next they can call the blue-grey uniform Bodega blue.

I like the Tahoe link.

I like them

I see these alternate uniforms as a frill at best and at worst against one of our campus goals of sustainability. We touted ourselves as a global leader in sustainability. Alternative uniforms do NOT meet the concept of sustainability.
For the department spending resources including time takes away from being focused on the athlete’s sport (craft) For the athletic department in general I see resources being taken away from supporting the athletes. Please do Not tell me that these uniforms are going to create positive revenue by selling them to the public.

Looks like Aggie athletics is going to be rocking new alt uniforms this season with a Tahoe partnership. Turquoise/sky blue is coming to UC Davis.

I can't see why they wouldn't mention it. Even though it's unspoken, it's pretty obvious what the MWC and UCD are trying to do. It would almost be weirder if the coaches didn't say anything about it. Parents and players will want to know what the program will look like in the next 4-5 years.

The question is not whether the MWC and UCD see a football fit, it's when.

Mockery? Why UC Davis is less 90 minutes away from the smallest mountain range in the world.

It's huge. When I walked around in the neighborhood , I could still see it from 5-6 blocks away in any direction I went.

A tip for anyone going to the game-: you can save on parking by taking public transit; Seattle's is very good. The lightrail drops you off across the street. Hope you like escalators.

The Seattle Mariners are on the road the day before + after the football game but on 9/8 they host the St. Louis Cardinals. On 9/7 the Seahawks host the 49ers in a day game, so you can get your sports fix if you're one of those Aggie fans who has seemingly unlimited free time and funds to make these trips.

Lightrail goes to both the Mariners' and Seahawks' stadiums (same stop). There's a few blocks to walk, but just follow the long line of people and you should pass Ken Griffey Jr. on a warehouse wall along the way.

you know it’s kind of funny, I may well have learned more about life from working at Sodexo, taking Spiridakis’ ancient history classes, and playing in the Aggie Band than I did from my major classes. It’s part of what I fear may be lost in the world of online college. I ended up being at different times a project manager and operations manager in the hospitality/sports/entertainment space and I think those experiences helped guide how I (try to) approach people and situations.

One of my most amusing memories was that Chancellor Vanderhoef didn’t actually enjoy wine as much as politically he was supposed to. He used to have us hide a case of light beer and pour it in a white wine glass so nobody would be the wiser.

I've been in the process of moving so here's a big offer dump! GO AGS!

LB Zachary Kleppin

ATH Marcus Mcgeilberry

DL Mikhal Johnson

DB Cole Ibriani

DL Sam Haener

LB Donnie Vercher III

ATH Chaz Gilbreath

Most definitely reading into it too deeply but having multiple davis football coaches repost the Gloria Nevarez (mw commissioner) visiting davis post on their accounts commenting about how awesome davis is makes me wonder if they tell recruits the mw is in sight for fb.

back in the day one of my campus jobs was working in catering so I saw a lot of these events in a little different way. The food is forgettable. I looked up the current menu and they have certainly renamed everything with farm-to-table sounding names but it is the same basic items - choice of airline chicken breast, beef tri-tip, salmon, or vegan mushroom/tofu grey matter served with a variety of salads/cooked vegetables and rice/pasta. A plated meal starts at $40 per plate but easily much more than that with linen, china, dessert, coffee, wine, etc.

I will say though, it was a job where I learned a lot about people, processes, and the science of getting passable meals to hundreds of people in a compressed time. And I learned how to back a box truck down the serpentine loading dock ramp at the Pavilion with just mirrors!

They should invite Cal State San Bernadino so people can get CSUSB and UCSB confused.

Great interview. Thanks!

Plough clearly explained the Davis approach of recruiting primarily outstanding high school players and keeping them in the program until they graduate versus going after big numbers of transfers each year. Sac State's approach is the exact opposite currently and they have brought in what must be one of the largest numbers of transfers ever seen by an FCS school. This would be a perfect time for you to interview their new head coach, Brennan Marion, where you could compare the pros and cons of these two entirely different approaches to recruiting.

We usually do a summer series of interviews on my ESPN MT radio show featuring head football coaches from around the Big Sky Conference. I'll repurpose many of those into videos touching on the off-season, recruiting in the modern era and more.

Here's our interview with Tim Plough