Yes, bad time to tick off alums. They will be needed to try and save some of their revered sports teams due to budget deficits. NY times article says just the stadium deficit (400M!) could be the death knell for some teams. Plus, 120M in ongoing operating budget deficit. Wow! Think we have problems? Not like this. . .

Z. One question: why would we do this? See possible new Davis recruiting Flyer: "Dear UC Davis freshman: sorry, but if you thought you were going to a university at the best college town in the nation, forget that. Now classes will begin in downtown Sactown, home to druggies, prostitution, needle exchanges, and drunks ion the K street mall. Z do you have a conflict on interest on this issue: what is the benefit to UC Davis on this. Have y ou any experience on the mean streets of sactown?

Sorry to follow my own post, but I cannot stand by for the hypocritical and self serving statements by the bee's editorial just posted minutes ago. After almost 6 years of extremely negative coverage by the bee regarding UC Davis (remember "pepper spray") and virtually zero coverage of the many positive accomplishments at UC Davis for years, and then, of course, the undoing of Ketahi in large part due to the bee. Today we have the bee saying that katehi may have "made some dumb decisions" BUT had some great ideas: move UC Davis to sac. Build a downtown classroom building! We need smart young undergrads to help lift up sacramento and improve the economy! Sac needs HELP! And the new mayor steinberg enthusiastically signs on for this. This is so stupid, can you imagine recruiting bright new freshmen to the Davis campus and then telling them "well, you will have to go to sac for poly sci 1- no parking and don't walk K street after dark"? Absolutely crazy that napalitano actually says she wants the new Chancellor to focus on sac. I don't think the faculty will ever, ever sign on to this incredibly stupid and dumb idea.

I hope that this is just napalitano telling the bee board what it wants to hear. The bee is absolutely ga ga about the thought of UC Davis undergrads going to classs in sac and napalitano could see this clearly. Also, napalitano apparently has bought into the old idea (fantasy) the regents have had for decades that a major role of any davis chancellor should be political, i.e be the regents point guard with the state legislature. This has never worked and n ever will. Academics are just not good with politicians. Yes, the bee wants a davis chancellor thats best for sacramento. We want a chancellor thats b est for UC Davis.

B, I totally agree. But the fact is the Lady Ags are a bad rebounding team and you simp[ly cannot win a lot in the BW w/o rebounding skills. It seems that skill is 50% ability 50% mental toughness. I think we lack the latter. My idea: have Coach Speckman speak to the team. See if that won't motivate them!

Although most of the faculty supported katehi thru the chaos of last year, her decision to create a "Third Campus" ("World Food Center") in the Sacramento rail yards was in no way supported by the faculty and was a very bad idea for many reasons. First, it was a sign that katehi would fold under the immense and relentless pressure of the Sac Bee (who actually seriously wanted under graduate classes in sacramento) and the Rail yard developers to do their bidding when there was no benefit whatsoever to the Davis Campus and would only put money in their pockets. Second, it was a sign that katehi was "out of control" and doing something without any consideration of what the campus actually needed as opposed to what sacramento people wanted. It will be up to the new chancellor as to what happens to the "World Food Center" but my guess is that this is is a dead concept insofar as sacramento is concerned. UC Davis is UC Davis, not UC Sacramento which Sacramento and the BEE would delay love to have.

Yes, and the current horse/horseshoe logo on a baseball cap looks ludicrous and hardly even fits on the front of our caps. Shame on whoever came up with this idea. CA forever! Keep it simple!

I think we know who it will be and it wont be a he. Just think of the most respected and liked woman UC Davis faculty member and you will know who the next chancellor will be.

I remember many, many years back when ham had the same problem. Somehow he got this contraption into hickey that made the team jump up for the ball on a rim that was higher than regulation and maybe the ball was somehow attached to the backboard. I have no idea how it worked and never saw it actually used, but it was there in the corner. We use to look at it during IM games. Rebounds are a real mentality issue I guess. Still, ladies look OK To me.

Sorry to follow my own thread but the actual job recruiting title is: "Assistant Director of Athletics for Communications and Public Relations"- a far cry from "Athletic performance", but an area we need help with. Is there another job out there that I missed?

N. You need to be much more specific when you make these points. Yes, we lost TG and she was great. I don't see any other vacancies. Are you including coaches? We are way ahead of the pack with our women's sport coaches being women. If you are talking about racial diversity i think you should just say so. Maybe there is a conversation to be made there. See above: Associate Athletic DIrector of
Athletic Performance. This is a work in progress.

Yes, the horse thing was a good idea but the complicated design was horrible. Just too, too much. Not good and I don't think anyone ever really liked it at all. The best are simple and clear: no. 1. the tree- stanford; next: cal- cal; next nothing without just the first letter of the school on the cap. I Loved the CA cap and will always have one. I bet blue has figured this out already.

M- brother-in-law does not dispute. Believes they just kept their home in boise and were there from time to time. Boulder not that far from boise. I have no doubt his family will move to davis.

maybe somewhat of a minor relevent point, but (if true) according to my brother-in-law who lives in boise and who absolutely loves hawkins, his entire family never moved to boulder when he took the cu job, but stayed in boise because they loved the town so much. apparently, they still live there now. again, if true, this may not have sat well with the true believers of cu. recall that tumey never moved to davis during his tenure and that was not at all condoned by the aggie community. now, BIL admits this is mainly based on grocery store sightings of the wife and family and hearsay, but may have some truth to it. hawkings was and still is revered in boise, so why move? hope he moves to davis! BIL is a UCD grad. . . . .but adds: "boulder is a lot more like davis that boise!" is that trouble? I don't think so as hawkins knows davis and is a cali guy.