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https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2025/4/14/football-aggies-prep-for-spring-game-set-for-april-26.aspx

Can you imagine if Sac State tried to do something on the scale of Picnic Day ? Where would they even put all the people ?

This isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. There's one glaring difference here-spring games are free, whereas playoff games are not. If you had told Hornet fans they had to buy a ticket to watch a practice game, 7,149 people would not have shown up. Also, optimism and interest may be artificially high due to the new coach. Time will tell.

Having said that, there definitely is less interest in UCD football.

I don't want to take anything away from the accomplishment though-that's an excellent crowd for a practice game..

Soory for the extra post. Somehow my 2nd post was duplicated.

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I think it's funny that the posters in the Wood Reddit discussion feel the need to share that they are alumni (even when they graduated), as if it makes the slightest bit of difference to him.

The-great-tostito would probably fit in well with the FBS-or-bust posters on this site.

The graduating seniors ceremony is meant to recognize the players who will no longer compete FOR THAT TEAM (and sometimes it doesn't even reflect that with complete accuracy). You get 5 years (and as we are very aware, student-athletes find ways to extend that) to use up 4 years of eligibility in a single sport, but you still can compete in a second sport after (or even with some overlap) if you are still pursuing a degree and haven't exhausted your eligibility in the 2nd sport. So if Prongos is still pursuing a degree he can certainly play football.

Good for him-maybe he'll get to play more than 10 minutes.

Mike Bibby is 46-not that young. Les is 61-far from being too old. Les may need to adjust his strategy, but I don't see a younger and less-experienced coach doing any better.

I think we need to ask and answer the question-

How much is barely making the NCAA tournament (at best) worth to UC Davis ? You can make all the recruiting + coaching changes you want but UCD will never make a serious run at an NCAA Division Imen's basketball title. Women's maybe. The idea that the team can systematically build a big winner by recruiting leading to winning then to better recruiting is nice in theory but every single coach in the nation already believes that. Making it happen despite yearly setbacks is another thing.

That was a pretty big win as Sac State had been playing well. They swept Abilene Christian (another good team) over the weekend in TX; UCD lost 3 of 4 in Abilene last year.

I like that the Aggies got opportumities for a lot of different players, but I don't completely like how they won it. What I mean is that weekend starter Noel Valdez threw the 1st 4 innings, while Sac threw a bunch of mostly little-used/ineffective relief pitchers. Then the Aggies used some of their big relief arms (Hippensteel, R. Barnes, Lerma) to close it out. Meek was the only little-used pitcher to appear in the game for UCD. Not exactly a level playing field if Davis is using their A and B pitchers and the other team is throwing their D/D- staff. It was like Sac viewed it as a practice game, while UCD's objective was to crush the Hornets at all costs.

If I remember correctly the last time these two teams played a weekend series was in 2011, which also makes it the last time they played all of their best against each other. Bragging rights are pretty meaningless when both teams don't field their best players. And the Causeway Cup is all about bragging rights, isn't it ?

Now Valdez is probably the best pitcher with a career 4-10 won-loss record in Aggie baseball history, but I don't like that they threw him in a mid-week game ahead of a conference series in which he'll probably start, even if it was for just 60 pitches. Coaches that do this kind of thing may use the reasoning that it was the pitcher's day to throw between starts anyway, but there's a pretty significant difference between throwing a bullpen session and facing opposing hitters. There's a greater chance of injury doing the latter-and then what happens to the weekend rotation ?

Oh well, I hate mid-week games anyway. They cut into the student-athletes' study time, and are less
convenient for fans to attend.

6'8 seems short, considering who his father is. Wasn't Shaq one of the Lakers players who called Bibby's team "Queens" ?

Of course they are making a mistake. However, I only care to the extent that the mistake doesn't eventually result in a state government bailout of Sac State.

They just hired a director of operations back in August. His last employer was Sonoma State. Dude know how to pick them.

This is not really a surprise. They cut their baseball program at least a year ago. Academy of Art is just a tall building in SF. They don't even have their own athletic fields. I understand they originally saw athletics as a vehicle for bringing in artistically and athletically-gifted students who might pass them by without the opportunities to play sports. One could say UCD does something similar (only not so much about art) when it invests in sports that bring in little to nothing.

:lol: The way you put things sometimes. This is both gross and sarcastic at the same time.

As an alternative they could still demolish Hornet Stadium + go play their home games in Oakland. I heard this rumor they have an old, crappy empty stadium there which will feel like home to Hornet fans, even an upgrade. Sac State fans who don't want to drive there can take Amtrak. They will still outdraw the building's previous tenant.

They should tear down their death trap stadium +play all road games. Stadium construction issue resolved. If they absolutely must have a home game they can play Lincoln. Lincoln's fans would probably be ok with setting up lawn chairs around the field. Or play games at Chico State or Saint Mary's.. Both still have their football stadiums after all these years. There isn't crap to do in either place. Sac State would sell out every game.

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It would appear that as of that post Sac State HADNOT been in touch with Stoney.

(Assignment: use HADNOT in a sentence. Ignore other potential pronunciations).

People are getting swindled at the new A's games, moreso than fans at any other MLB ballpark. You get all of the same things at a River Cats game (not the food or beer) for a fraction of the price. And people say, "I can see stars like Aaron Judge now" BFD, you can see stars when they're in college or the minors. And if they wanted to see Judge so badly they could've just seen him play against the A's in Oakland. Looking back, it would've been cheaper to see him there than in Sutter Health Park if you consider the savings on gas only partially offsets the increase in ticket prices. Early April Fools prank on Sacramento.

The author of this article has a very strange sense of humor. Haha guys, I tricked you with fake stadium news !

I knew something was fishy when they mentioned building the stadium near Raley Field. For one thing it hasn't been called Raley Field since before the pandemic. A Sac Bee person writing a serious article would call it Sutter Health Park. They are sticklers about calling Sac-area things by the proper names, if nothing else. Of less importance is there's basically nowhere to put a stadium that size, not even if you demolished SHP.

Speaking of jokes involving Sutter Health Park, the A's lost 18-3 in their West Sacramento opener to the Chicago Cubs. It was so bad that Cubs' catcher- Carson Kelly-went went 4 for 4 with a homerun and 5 runs batted in. He is a notoriously weak hitter (.226 career batting average in over 1600 career at bats). The A's pitched their reserve catcher in the 9th and he did better than their real pitchers, even struck a guy out (although that was a Cubs relief pitcher batting for some weird reason). The people who paid $200 for "Senate" seats (normally $30-ish for River Cats games) or over $70 to sit on the wet grass certainly were pranked !