It’s no different than Davis getting large donations to fund the athletic facilities renovations. Large usually unannounced donations.

to be fair to UCLA they also have to give CAL 10 million a year because their move to the BIG10 monetarily hurt CAL. Most schools are ok with running a small deficit for sports because at the end of the day, college sports is just advertising for the university. Many schools are fighting for out of state enrollment. People can hate on SAC state all they want, but right now they have national media attention. I doubt they build a stadium with their own money. I predict they become tenants of the new soccer stadium being built. Teams aren’t funding the majority of NIL from everyday give day donations, they get them from Whales. And the amount of NIL needed to compete in the MAC, the lowest of the G6 conferences, is nowhere near the amount needed to compete in the BIG10 or ACC.

First link posted in the thread.

thanks for update.

I still don’t see give day advertised on UC Davis Athletics/ Football X(Twitter) or Instagram pages. I do see the Golf tournament that is on 4/28 (and when you look at the tickets page everything is crossed out). I don’t understand how Davis expects to compete in the NIL era if they don’t even push to get donations. 60k is on the table. It is FREE to post on IG and Twitter. Less than one week left until the end of the campaign. A lot needs to be addressed program wise before they can compete D1 Mountain West. More than just upgrading the stadium.

293 gifts to complete $60,000 challenges (two $25k challenges that need 350 total gifts and $10k challenge that needs 100 total gifts.)

Only 7 Days Left

I think this would be best answered by the vets of this message board. I just joined this year. I haven’t paid attention to any football fundraising until this year.

$5,000 challenge completed.
43 more gifts to complete $10,000 challenge.

I also notice Davis does a bad job at advertising and promoting…

We don’t know.

Four more donations to unlock $5000 challenge.

$3500 challenge completed. 13 more donors to compete $5000 challenge.

Makes zero sense.

I don’t understand why UC Davis Athletics or UC Davis football team doesn’t have this link posted on their Twitter or IG pages.

https://giveto.ucdavis.edu/schools/UniversityofCaliforniaDavis/give-day-2026/pages/athletics/football/?a=1

Here is a link. The original link still works. Maybe try another browser.

Cal social media team has been on it. Obviously due to Tosh Lupoi and increased budget. Davis needs to up their social media game as well.

yes you can donate anonymously. I just donated. I hope they advertise this well. A thread should be made for this

I like the cows a lot, I visited the cows often. That being said I actually think if the team should align themselves with any animal it should be the horses. I like horses a lot too. I also like the Maggie the Aggie entrance for the football team. (They should add some pyrotechnics too and have the band line up on the field). I just don’t see any reason to object to cow stuff when it’s an agricultural school.

Second, grass is best, I’m against turf football fields. The practice field is grass so the game surface should be grass. Again, this being an agricultural school, why do we not have natural grass.

I don’t see why they can’t do a white helmet but make the CA logo cow print. Davis has Tahoe unis… idk who thought that was a great idea.

Anyone planning on going?