Wow, UC Davis is a top five Open Access University in the country. This is a metric that should be much more important than 'top university' which, of course is Harvard or Princeton et. Al. Because it is a measure of what the future will offer in terms of the democratic quality of our leaders to come. We need the smartest and the best leaders no matter from what economic or ethnic background or this country's in for a dim future. Finally, a good article from the bee (source: NYT).

Excellent story and we need more of them. Not as good as youtube video of the seniors though which was absolutely over the top great entertainment. Who gets the credit for that amazing video?

Would love to the gals do this too! Great morale and spirit booster.

Thanks CA. Also, the star system obviously cannot predict: loss of desire to play- Dunham and injuries: Trombetta. But, both were fun were very good and fun to watch while they lasted.

Have we recently signed a 3 star? I believe Dunham and Trombetta were 3 stars; I cannot think of anyone else.

i recall scott barry like it was yesterday. great book. hope its the first of many more. i know much more in the the tank for scott.

Why can't we fund this team to the next level? We are certainly good enough

The Bee has a disfunctional almost paranoid relationship with UC Davis. Bee loves the Medical Campus in Sac (but rarely reports on it) but viscerally hates both the UC Davis Campus and the City of Davis. Why, because Davis and UC Davis are virtually Cities on the Hill compared to Sac. Davis with its vibrant downtown and beautiful neighborhoods (yes, and middle class!) are in a class by themselves in the valley. San Francisco has no undergrad UC campuses, but regularly applauds it neighbor UC's in Berkeley, Santa Cruz, and even sometimes UC Davis. There Bee wants UCD to invest in Sac? Let it start retuning its negative coverage on the city of Davis and their campus before that is even considered. IMHO

Being a total Morgan Bertch fan from Sonoma County where she's from I will say that taking her talents from WBB to the high jump is very rare. The high jump (as in all jumping sports) is risky and dangerous. I don't think most college coaches would allow her near a the jumping pit for fear of injury and damage to WBB team. So hats off to Jen Gross and staff for letting Morgan do her thing. She's the total package athlete and super student in biomedical engineering (and damn good looking). For the world record the women's HJ is amoung the longest lasting records in the sport: 6'10 by Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria in 1987 at age 22. Stefka: 5'11" 132.

We still need a very quick guard to fill out this team.

Sorry, is he coming or not as I cant see any real announcement.

Do all other BW MBB stadiums have lights? Do cal and Stanford have lights? Frankly, I would. Not go to an aggies night game on the weekend because. . . It would be an issue with a significant other; and I really doubt that a night MBB game would be top of the list for a big date in davis for lots of reasons . Most students would not sit out there in the night cold and watch the slow progress of a MBB game; much better a game in the sun! Lights, not a real good point to advance Aggie MBB. Clubhouse: maybe. . . .IMO

I recall a few years back (when we still lived in Davis) walking behind a group of Long Beach State baseball fans in town after a game saying: "Wow, actually a great downtown? I love this place. Why aren't they better?" I have no answer to that very good question.

I loved Swim as a coach. Upbeat and very competitive. But, this program is now in very bad shape. I will not blame the coaches, however we were much better some years back for unknown reasons. I think this program has to be on Blues front burner for fixing. Big west is a VERY BIG MBB league and we are struggling and, frankly, look very weak and unfocused in recent play. Way too many errors lately and poor strategy led to defeats that should not have happened. Cal Poly (who we measure ourselves against) is doing much, much better in all the sports we both play. If CP can do football and all the rest, why cant we? Good luck Dr. Blue.

Shouldn't we put together a fund raiser to try and bring his folks to davis for a couple of weeks next season? Maybe some sort of web funding thing. . . I think it would pull a lot of support. Better ask China if he is OK with it first.

CIRCLE CA THAT IS

NOTED THAT MBB HAS BROUGHT BACK THE CIRCLE C LOGO ON THEIR CAPS OR DID I MISS THIS BEFORE

What is a preferred walk on

No rumor only because of geography and travel teams.

Very impressed with the 3 recruits, especially stoddard. Still think 1 addition of an athletic and quick back court slasher could make us better against LBS and UCSB.