Justin Clymo, who was a manager on the '95-'96 and '96-'97 basketball teams and a student assistant coach on the '97-'98 national championship team has been awarded the 2024 Athletic Director of the Year award by the California State Athletic Directors Association. Justin is currently the AD at the Stevenson School in Pebble Beach.
Same here. I always believed that the moment that TVD retired, that it was Coach Gross' job for the taking. No knock on Coach Paye; she's got a very high ceiling AND her Stanford roots run very, very deep (born at Stanford hospital, brother was a 2-sport star for The Cardinal, walked on and won the point guard job for TVD, etc., etc., ...
No head coaching experience but the athletic department may see this as the safe and obvious choice - keep continuity, keep the recruits, and someone who can easily lean on TVD for advice.
I believe that the players should have freedom of choice and have the right to transfer but, along with the lure of NIL money, the "rich are getting richer" in D1 basketball. More and more, programs like the Big West schools are seeing many of their best players leave for "greener pastures" each year and,
consequently, the smaller, mid-major schools are forced to rebuild year after year. I think it's ruining the ability of smaller conferences like the Big West to grow and become more competitive at the national level.
College football has FBS, FCS, D2 and D3 levels of competitiveness and national championship tournaments at each of these levels. I'm ready for college basketball to have the same kind of structure. Players want to compete in the post-season and have a chance to play in a national championship tournament. This kind of competitive structure helps the smaller programs retain their players and build fan support. Just look at what schools like North and South Dakota State and the the Montanas have built at the FCS football level.
Football has the longest history of success and has the most fan support at Davis and is still growing. Each season, Aggie football has a goal of getting into the post-season playoffs and chance of playing competitively for a national championship. I think it's time for D1 basketball to have a similar structure as D1 football has with an additional level equivalent to what the FCS is in football. Then we would have a national championship tournament for mid-major programs and something for those schools and their fans to really look forward to each year.
Maybe noted wine aficionado and UCD Viticulture executive board member Dwayne Wade can get his former teammate's son--rumored to also be in the portal--to come to Davis...
A co-worker of mine knows this kid who seems to have received an offer from UCD. Looks like he also has offers from San Jose, Nevada, Wyoming and Washington St.
A bit late here but... we went up to the NCAAs in Spokane to see my wife's St Marys team. Sadly, the mighty Gaels lost but we still had a great time.
We were there for a true March Madness experience when Yale beat Auburn. Everyone in the arena except Auburn fans started going nuts for Yale- it was wild. Also a great story about Yale's band not being able to make the trip so the University of Idaho's band learned the Yale songs and went to support the team.
I get that college sports are changing big time, in many ways not for the better. But there are still great underdog stories and fun times out there.
In women’s golf CSUS finished 4th of 21 teams in the Fresno State Classic with a three round score of 881. UCD finished 13th with a score of 896.
In baseball today the Ags hung on in the ninth to preserve a 3-2 victory over Sac. When was the last time we beat them in baseball twice in a season?
The golf event snuck up on me, so I have re-tweaked, yet again, the running score. I have it now as UCD 40.84, CSUS 20 if you don’t count the odd fall golf event, UCD 42.51, CSUS 18.34 if you do. There is still one unknown out there. The softball game which was canceled due to weather on February 29th has not been rescheduled. If that game is not rescheduled then CSUS gets another 2.5 points.
Next scheduled event is men’s golf at the El Macero Classic on April 12-14.