I guess it was already determined the goal was to kick a FG with 0 left. It worked, but doesn't feel good

" They're committing fewer stupid fouls than UCD and getting it to the units that seem to be doing well against the Aggie D. Neither their playcalling and execution are great, but they're what Tulsa needs

Frustrating that the things that Tulsa is most noticeably better at (to my untrained eye) are playcalling and execution -- the things we can actually control and (at least here) have been complaints for years

Insert yearly rant how it's inexcusable that Davis isn't the best-disciplined team on the field in every game

I think it'll end up like the other games we've had against middling FBS teams where they'll realize some of their units can beat ours but others won't -- like I remember how SDSU had to abandon the run and just try to get it to their best WRs and how SJSU was running the ball at the end well wen it was too little too late.

Tulsa has talent but I'm thinking they're not good enough that they can stomp a good FCS team at every aspect of the game.

I've made peace with our return team taking bonkers unnecessary risks. It wouldn't be UCD football without it at this point

Sack! Defense stepped up big when it mattered

Spring may have helped more than we even though. We looked like the higher-level team on that drive

There was a bonkers weekend where two of the 32 starting punters in the NFL were Davis guys who played when I was there (both Wadman and Schmidt).

Man we did a lot of punting before Hawkins

For what it's worth, Zaga has played in the title game twice since that, and in the 2020 season that didn't have a tourney there were likely going to be three mid-majors on the 1 or 2-lines (Dayton and SDSU were contenders)

Still obviously very rare, but it's not an absolute hopeless cause like if an FCS team entered the CFP

One of the best TV viewing experiences I've had for basketball in a while. Quality and pace of play, college-length halves, few commercials, few stoppages, etc.

I'm not sure free throws themselves were the differential but I think if France had just been hitting a few more then it could have been a different ballgame in terms of momentum and what was on the table for France to run the last few possessions.

something like that. Bundled with Disney+ and Hulu it's $14 which is a pretty good deal for that amount of content.

I personally like ESPN+ to catch a lot of FCS and mid-major games, but yeah for just Aggie ball it's a net sideways move for more money, most likely

Amazing and well-deserved.

Gonna be interesting to see who makes overtures to her in 2031 when she has a streak of 15 conference championships though

FCS facebook group seems to think EWU @ NDSU was more due to Fargo being selected as a site for several games than due to any particular seeding considerations

Not that you can really play the "what if" game, but it's interesting to note that Hawk would almost for sure be at .571 overall, .567 league had Cal Poly not cancelled the last game -- twice as many wins as Gould in the same timespan

His BEST year had the same record as Hawk's worst (2019) where the Ags still got to 5-7 when basically our whole schedule was FBS or playoff-bound teams

It might be a coach-by-coach basis how seriously they take aggregate stats; I remember a broadcaster saying that the Army coach has/had a glorified spreadsheet that determined what to do and when in terms of going for it, punting, etc. Then again, Army is built to perform exactly the same vs every team, unlike most squads.

I think it's a good point that we *shouldn't* be rebuilding from losing Doss by now, but honestly to my untrained eye we still are trying to find a way without the Maier->Doss connection.

Those two seemed exceptionally suited to hide the recurring weaknesses of this team: Predictable runs on first and second down that got nowhere? Doesn't matter, easy 9-yarder to Doss for 1st down anyway. Defense figures out exactly where the ball is going? No problem, Keelan makes the catch in triple coverage. Bad clock management? Less of an issue when the team can score in 40 seconds on 4 plays. Stupid penalty makes it first and 20? At least one of the next few plays is a completed pass to #3 to get half or more of that back.

2019 was an opportunity for basically the entire offense minus Doss (and TT) to demonstrate that it could execute the same system without him, and I'd call the result inconsistent at best. 2021 had some more new faces in the mix but pretty much exactly the same inconsistency, except defense and special teams made up for some of it IMO.

I wonder, is there a particular reason why it has to be unadorned chain link? Could they not put up even some simple coverings with the UC Davis wordmark or something that people could use as selfie backgrounds or whatever?

(I assume there's some cost to replace them if they get tattered in a storm, but we're talking some very small costs by university standards. Even just having something adorning it for basketball season and commencement week would be better)

I've seen some articles (since been lost on the web) that Japanese collegiate teams would call the three-QB formation the "Golden Dragonfly". American coaches scoffed at it during exhibition games, because the thinking was that replacing two skill players with QBs reduces the overall size and athleticism on the field. Ironically the Ags don't have much of that problem with Tompkins, Crawford, and HR on the field.

I've been curious whether Hawk knows about this piece of gridiron trivia or not -- he seems like the type that might especially since he has coaching experience in international competition.