The Enterprise has published the second part of the two part series on Sandy Simpson:

But before that 2010-11 season began, Simpson had announced he was stepping down. Sure, he’d stick around the athletic department at UCD, overseeing five sports and continuing to teach in the classroom. But the official version of why Sandy was leaving was that he wanted to spend more time with his wife Chris and their three children.

Insiders knew there was another reason that Simpson bid adieu …

“At the time, I was thinking I’d stay maybe one more year or so,” Simpson tells The Enterprise. “But I was afraid Jen was going to get away. She was becoming a very hot commodity.”

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/simpson-knew-ucd-program-was-in-good-hands/

In other Big West news Max Hazzard of UC Irvine will be a graduate transfer at Arizona this fall. That's a big loss for the Anteaters.

https://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcats/basketball/arizona-wildcats-land-uc-irvine-guard-max-hazzard-as-graduate/article_a6605762-65e9-11e9-9651-2ff5c55f428c.html

The Aggies improve to 35-8 with a 9-4 win over Pacific today. The Ags will take a 6 game winning streak into the huge 3 game series with Fullerton at home this weekend.

He's very athletic and quite a leaper. I'm looking forward to seeing him in an Aggie uniform/

I'd settle for someone like Chima who wasn't that tall but could leap out of the gym, was powerful as a bull and had a nose for the ball.

There is no doubt that big money is a big problem in the NCAA and we see the unfair biases that help keep the status quo of the elite programs all the time. This kind of unfair behavior is pervasive throughout our culture as a whole where the scales of justice are weighted heavily in favor of those who are ultra wealthy and powerful. It's nothing new, it's just very discouraging that it has carried over to "amateur college athletics" as well.

However, I do not agree that UCD should not have gone to D1. With a university of our stature and prestige I believe that our athletics should reflect the same high ideals, competence and recognition that the university as a whole has attained. Many of our sports are having very good success at the D1 level currently and all of our sports as a whole are on the rise. We may never have the kind of success, recognition and financial success that many of the power conference schools have. However, we are progressing nicely with a model of D1 athletics that is based on a solid foundation of ethical behavior and high academic standards and that's something to be very proud of.

I think they have a good chance at getting to 40 wins. They just swept a 3 game series this weekend at Riverside and are now in second place a game and a half behind Fullerton with a 3 game home series with the Titans coming up beginning on April 27th.

Filkins is an impressive athlete. He has speed and incredible open field running. We'd be very fortunate to land him.

Great story.

Why am I not surprised that Carolina cheated knowingly with the fake classes gets a slap on the wrist and Poly gets pounced upon for an honest, accounting error? The NCAA and the big time cheaters should be ashamed of this sham. But, hey, the rich and powerful can afford to be above the law...

This is over and done but I recently saw this tweet from Kevin Blue regarding his thoughts on why the Ags ended up a 15 seed and sent to Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Tournament:

The battle for the Big West title is going to be a dogfight. The Ags are currently sitting in third place 2 games behind Hawai'i. The Rainbow Wahine are on a roll having won 6 straight and the Ags will face them on the island in their final series. The current 31-8 record is impressive but I hope we take care of business in the conference and bring home the Big West title.

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The Ags have had an offer out to David Skogman a 6' 10 stretch center from Wisconsin for a long time. There is virtually no chance that we will be able to sign him since he now has offers from several high majors and reportedly really liked his visit to Texas Tech who has offered him also.

Anyway, his basketball career nearly ended last summer during an AAU tournament when he collapsed from sudden cardiac arrest. He underwent heart surgery and has since recovered and is playing at a high level again. Scary event for this young man who had no history of heart problems in his family, was a fit athlete and the doctors still couldn't pinpoint the reason for his heart attack even after surgery.

https://www.prephoops.com/2018/10/high-majors-flocking-to-see-skogman/

Like movie said, "A dagger to the heart"...

A perfect game and a no hitter and the season isn't over yet. Pretty impressive!