I was on the baseball team with Moroski back in the late 70s. We just straggled onto the field after classes/labs and I’d was quite low key. Some guys did extra work and games were against far western conference foes and other close northern/central California colleges. I think the furthest trip was Reno. So not a big stretch to do football and baseball back then.

Was MM the best athlete on campus?

The Analyst has a updated preseason ranking of FCS teams where Davis is ranked 15th.
Of the 14 teams ranked higher, Davis plays four of them, Montana State, Sac, Idaho and Mercer and they also play 18th ranked Southern Utah. Throw in Washington and that is a challenging schedule.
This is a hard year to forecast, all the FCS teams have significant player turnover.

https://theanalyst.com/2025/05/fcs-football-preseason-top-25-rankings-2025

Hard to say. Rich Martini was also on that baseball squad and played football and landed with the Raiders for a couple of years. Martini was a wide receiver and fast. Stole a lot of bases. As I recall, Moroski was also a pretty good basketball player (we played basketball instead of baseball practice when raining - we had some pretty good BB players. Those were the days of Audwin Thomas, who was the basketball teams best player.

3 new ags in this article: https://herosports.com/best-2025-fcs-to-fcs-transfers-bzbz/

I see two, impressive, and one for Sac.

The third is in honorable mention.
Derrell Porter (DL) Dartmouth to UC Davis

Looks like the roster is updated with freshman and transfers, can't wait for the season!

Some very interesting additions. Notably it looks like we snagged a Davis native in AJ Hasson. He started off at Washington State and hit the transfer portal, but last I saw he had committed to Wake Forest. Big time add for the OL.

Eli Simonson is on the roster. The o-line returns all starters except Mirabella,, and he only started 7 games.

Hasson followed his HC to Wake. That’s a good get. If healthy he can plug in anywhere.

I see Nava is listed as a grad student. Good to see experience on the o-line. Hasson looks like a great addition.

The only question regarding returning o-line starters is whether David Main is recovered from leg injury suffered in playoffs.

Hasson: 6'4", 307#, perfect.

Nava is one of those JC players who got extra eligibility following a court case that the NCAA couldn’t count non NCAA years against a olayers eligibility. Remains to be seen what that means in future years but for this year juco players who were on their last year now have another year.

Looks like we brought in a legit punter! That's more exciting than it should be ;)

where did you see that? i'm not seeing the 2025 roster online.

looks like they took the 2025 roster down. Anyways, this was the punter they had listed: https://247sports.com/player/dylan-mauro-46154632/

Punting was a glaring weak spot for most of last year so hopefully that will be rectified. Field position is a big deal.

https://masseyratings.com/cf2025/8200

Massey has us going 9-3 (6-2 Big Sky) with loses to @ UW, @ Idaho, and @ Montana State.

I'd take this in a "rebuild/reload" year.

I’d take 9-3 also, but i don’t think Idaho will beat them.
Idaho has new head coach, their transfer losses exceed their additions. According to HeroSports seventeen Idaho players have transferred to the FBS, including seven to New Mexico.
Pre season these algorithms are too influenced by last years performance. Look at what they project for Sac, 5 wins.

totally agree on too much influence from last year’s performance.

With all the new size/talent alone Sac might win a couple more games than that, regardless of the coaching.

Porter Connors on this list: https://herosports.com/fcs-football-top-returning-2025-linebackers-bzbz/

Good for Fish.

I though he got hurt in the Sac game?

My memory failed me.

Why would they take the roster down? I checked a few Big Sky teams sites and they all had a 2025 roster.
I assume the roster was taken down because it listed someone who wasn’t correct, or at least was undecided.
First guess was AJ Hasson, but he is also mentioned as committed to Davis on 247.com.
https://247sports.com/player/aj-hasson-46136486/

They continue to have difficulty in giving recognition to Eli Simonson. They finally have credited him starting in the 11 games in 2023, where before they said he didn’t play, but he is the only Davis All Big Sky Second Team player where that is not mentioned in his bio. If he is coming back they should promote a player who starts 25 straight games and gets all conference recognition.

There was a player listed on the 2025 roster who is now committed elsewhere although it is not Hasson. It was a long snapper, Jacob Poff, who is now committed to to App State.

A former player for Montana, Samuel Akem, has a podcast where he listed the teams in the big sky by strength of schedule using won-loss records of opponents, Davis was 9th, Montana 10th. So that sounds comparable.
However. Davis plays a team from a power 4 conference, Montana doesn’t have any FBS opponent. Davis plays 4 FCS playoff teams, Montana 2, Davis has 5 home games, Montana 7. Montana has a D2 opponent Davis doesn’t.

actually, Montana has EIGHT home games (all of their OOC games). The advantage of selling out at 24000 stadium with dozens of luxury suites!