This is a 6 pm PT game, Toke. You can edit your the title of your post by by clicking on the 3 dots at the bottom of your post and then click on the pencil.

I don't see a romp either but it could happen if Sac can't slow down the Jacks' running game. Sac is quicker defensively than us and are fundamentally sound in their tackling so that should help. Sac's offense is nicely balanced and they can be dangerous with the run and the pass. They won't throw 6 picks either. This game may come down to who gets the breaks and takes advantage of mistakes.

Is it hearsay if Movie spoke directly with "former parents and players?" I do not think it is to far a stretch to think that any devoutly religious coach might blur the boundaries, intentional or not, when it comes to keeping their personal, religious beliefs clearly separate from the team culture that they truly believe is best the team based upon their devout beliefs. My mistake is that I spoke too soon without knowing more about the factuality of these statements. I've deleted my post at this point.

I get that, Mike, and I certainly don't want this to get blown out of proportion based upon hearsay. That's why I have asked Movie the follow up questions about his statements. I think you make a good point though and, in thinking it over further, I will tap my own breaks and delete my post.

I'd like to think you're right and this would not slip by the AD if it were in fact happening. However, I am concerned. Too often, my own experiences with people, who are devoutly religious and believe that spreading "the truth" is part of their responsibility in life, does push a button for me so perhaps I responded too quickly to this.

Movie, can you please clarify how you got this information? Is this is first hand information that came from speaking directly with "former parents and players." Also, how long ago did you hear this?

Deleted post.

Is Les still having a preacher give pregame sermons?

Is this hearsay or do you know this to be a fact? What's your source?

Post-game coaching comments:

“This is an incredible moment for our program,” said third-year Urban Knights head coach Scott Waterman. “To be honest, you don’t go into these games expecting to come out on top. You come for the experience of playing against a very good basketball team and learning from it, but this is a testament to our kids and what we’re trying to do here. We worked very hard today.”

“I thought the last two days of practice were great, but we didn’t bring that onto the court today,” Les said.

“We have to solve that riddle. I’m a big believer in how you practice is how you will play in the game, but that isn’t happening and we have to use the games we have left before conference starts to change our approach and compete at the level we’re capable of.”

“We have to get back to playing Aggie basketball and that starts on the defensive end of the floor,” Les noted.

“We need to decide how and when we’re going to come out of this hole we’ve dug for ourselves. It’s not going to just magically happen. Three weeks ago, we left Utah State feeling pretty good about ourselves,” Les added in reference to UCD’s 72-69 season-opening win over the USU Aggies, the only loss Utah State has suffered this season.

“I told the kids we need to come back tomorrow with a sense of purpose, a sense of urgency and a sense of identity. I believe in this group and we as coaches will do everything we can to make them better. This is too good of a basketball team to not be playing at a higher level.”

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/basketball-uc-davis-cant-solve-riddle-in-non-conference-game/

I actually feel sorry for our kids. They were playing hard today and, honestly, AoA was just the better team on this occasion. When we did have some nice ball movement, we couldn't buy a shot. Les tried a lot of different combinations but nothing was working. I thought the Ags were pressing and it was making things worse. I'm sure Les has been reading them the riot act and now they're feeling the pressure. Tough time for the program.

To add a little perspective to this embarrassment here's what the Academy of Art has done so far this year:

Beat SF State 77-73
Beat Sonoma State 78-74 (OT)
Lost to Chico State 71-61
Lost to Stanislaus State 68-59
Beat St Martin's 90-78
Beat UCD 79-60

So by comparative scores we should be able to beat St Martin's in a close game... :chin:

The following information is from:

COLLEGE BASKETBALL OCTOBER 24, 2019

College Basketball Coaching Salary and Buyout Database for 2019-20 Season. It has Jim Les ranked as the 78th highest paid coach in D1 basketball as of the date of the article. Russell Turner of Irvine is ranked as #74 at $449,000.

78. Jim Les – UC Davis

Total Compensation: $403,333

Additional Compensation: Negotiable stipend for supervising a camp; coach is permitted to allocate the proceeds from the camps

Notes: $350,000 in base salary, $53,333 in deferred compensation in the form of a retention bonus to be paid on October 1 if coach is still at school, school hasn’t committed a major NCAA infraction, program’s multi-year APR score is at least 943 and program generated at least $300,000 from guarantee games the previous season.

Max Bonus: $192,500

Buyout if Fired Without Cause: Roughly $1,078,000 (including 2019-20 compensation) – 100% of remaining $350,000 for this season, 80% of the next year’s $350,000, 60% of 2021-22’s $370,000, 40% of 2022-23’s $370,000, 20% of 2023-24’s $390,000

Buyout if Coach Terminates Contract: $150,000

Contract Term Ends: June 30, 2024

https://watchstadium.com/college-basketball-coaching-salary-and-buyout-database-for-2019-20-season-10-24-2019/

Well, we should have stayed home and watched the 49ers. We left the game with 5 minutes to go and the game was out of reach.

No doubt that this is the low point of the Jim Les era at UC Davis. I think Les is a good coach of the game and he's respected and well connected among college basketball coaches. However, I don't think he's a particularly good recruiter. Remember, this is the team that he and his staff have assembled and put on the floor. I don't question the players will to win or play hard. I think it's more a question of not having the level of overall talent that's needed to be consistently successful at this level.

Jim expects his teams to win with hard effort and aggressiveness and I think they do play hard but you can't win on effort and aggressiveness alone. The game is also about quickness, length and pure basketball skills. Perennially, the best teams in the Big West like Irvine and Santa Barbara have several impact players like that on their teams each year as does Hawaii. We've had some players like that too but not very often: Corey Hawkins, Chima Moneke and TJ Shorts come to mind. These are players who can take over the game with their overall basketball abilities. Other teams in the Big West are getting impact players much more often than us and the best teams have some on their teams each year and that's about recruiting.

Now down 20 with 10:53 to go 60-40.

We are currently playing the worst basketball of any team in the BW Conference from what I’ve seen so far this season.

This doesn’t seem to be an anomaly…just awful basketball. Brace yourself for a very long season if this continues…

Behind 38-26 at the half.

Down 12. Totally out played on both ends of the floor. 12 TO’s already.

Yes, I'd like to see some much better shooting from the perimeter and better offensive ball movement all around. I think 4-0 was a real possibility also. We played pretty good basketball against Utah State and EWU but started poorly against both Pepperdine and Sac. We're not the kind of offensive team that is going to come back from 12-15 point deficits very often.

By the way, our loses don't look so good: Pepperdine is now 2-6 for the season and Sac (3-3) just got drilled at Arizona 105-59.

That's got to be a misprint.