Davis hasn't played hardly any of the new MWC teams over the last decade; Wyoming (lost) and Nevada (won) were the two that jumped out in my quick scan of past recentish results. Based on last-year's NCAA NET rating, WBB will probably be mid-pack in the MWC. That said, NET rating had Davis behind several BW teams that they beat head-to-head, so.... who knows.

Eye test when i was at SDSU led me to be convinced that Gross's stellar teams of the era would easily be competitive in the MWC. I remember my student who was on the WBB team was quite grumpy about losing to Morgan Bertsch and the Ags

Cutting through the BS of Sac State Administrators and local politicians re: stadium chimera.

Been several decades since I've been to Hornet Stadium on campus there, but why can't they just sit tight, raise less money than all the BS, pipe dream ideas they have, and renovate/improve that joint to an acceptable level? Just curious why they're so eager to move when all the video clips I've seen show pretty solid looking attendance on campus.

feels like admin using Sac St. as a vessel to improve personal resume to climb ladder to next gig. a stepping stone. if you deeply care about something, you aren't reckless with it's survival chances. luckily, it seems the Davis team cares

But good news for the Hornets; the NCAA has removed the two year ban on post season play for teams moving to FBS. Six wins and they could be bowl bound this December. Then the big bowl money comes rolling in.

The games the MAC are tied to like the Mrytle Beach Bowl and Boca Raton bowl have payouts of $500,000, $450,000, numbers like that. Hardly gamechanging money.in today's college football.

I do have an acquaintance who is very close to the administration at Sac, an enthusiastic Dr. Wood KoolAid consumer. They tell me that the plan is to hold on until they can attempt to move into the downtown soccer stadium, but that is not even a layup for them. Overall, trying to expand more towards that part of town where they have some sort of auxiliary campus tied to some tech money. You guys in the area will know better about that than I do. What jumped out to me was the uncertainty about being able to get into the soccer venue.

So.....after all that....playing at Hornet Stadium in September? lol

TBH the Sac / SDSU situations further my feeling that Big Sky football is just fine for Davis for the foreseeable future.

Responding (respectfully) to part of Aggie 69’s post last week (“That Luke wood has so bamboozled …the students is just beyond belief”). Actually, the students (and faculty and staff) are extremely concerned and upset about Luke Wood’s FBS push. On-campus polls, surveys, forums and protests, while revealing nothing against Football, have included repeated pleas for our administration to fund the essentials first (offering basic courses, fixing crumbling infrastructure, hiring/retaining qualified faculty) and almost universal disdain for Wood’s agenda and methods.

The fact that all the controversy has failed to result in any journalistic judgement or CSU intervention is indeed puzzling. Some of it may be uncertainty about the finances. Despite incredible Football and Basketball expenditures (in a Chronicle interview last summer Brennan Marion marveled at how much Wood and Orr were willing to spend: “I kept asking and they kept saying yes”), there’s been no audit or detailed accounting. Where is the money coming from? In the March NY Times article about the MAC move, Sac State CFO Rose McAuliffe said the University has been preparing; “We’ve been saving for the last couple of years.” She did not detail the source for these savings.

On campus (and also at the Bee), hopes that CSU Chancellor Mildred Garcia would step in have fizzled. As Wood moved forward, Garcia response was to approve raises for CSU Presidents. Garcia's recent claim that the campus community shares Wood's vision was met with disgust and incredulity (see https://www.reddit.com/r/CSUS/comments/1ueoxgt/president_woods_evaluation_results_released/).

But it is certain that the students (and faculty and staff) feel betrayed, even those of us (like myself) who love college sports. Wood raised Fees, in part to support a new stadium, over strong objections from the students. He chose the Alternative Consultation Process; no student-wide vote, but instead required meetings with the students to discuss possible fee increases. Wood appeared only briefly at those meetings. He made introductory remarks and then left before the students could voice their objections to him. While the objections (per documentable reporting) were strong and prevelant, Wood has never acknowledged them. A standard response of his to questions about student obections is "I heard support". Once Wood raised the fees, he then (to tamp down journalists’ questions and suggest on-campus enthusiasm for FBS) told the public that the students “voted” for the fee increases.

Furthermore when the students pleaded with Wood to roll back his fee increases so that more of their money could go to campus basics like academics, Wood claimed he could not do so, trotting out his highly deceptive “separate funding streams” talking point, as in “academics and athletics are funded from different pots, and money cannot be moved from one pot to another”. That’s rubbish. Clear CSU Policy gives Wood full power to reduce Category II fees. The students could then use that money to support an Academic Access Fee (common at other CSUs). So money Wood is planning to take from student pockets to fund help his stadium and athletics push very easily could go where the students and campus want and need it to go. Wood’s other response to students’ pleas has been to suggest that the students impose additional fee increases on themselves to pay for courses and other basics.

Another problem is the CSUS Administration (including College Deans, the Finance Office etc). No one seems willing to speak out or, in a few cases, even talk about the problems. A Bee reporter told me his interviewees did acknowledge how bad things are but then pulled back at the last minute and become unwilling to go on the record.

The new ASI officers give us some hope; the top criteria expressed by voting students was willingness to stand up to Wood. The new Provost gives us some hope. The departing Provost (a Wood hire, see https://www.reddit.com/r/CSUS/comments/1tu6x2y/cameron_out_as_provostwhat_happened/)
was highly unqualified; her previous experience was at a college with 19 Undergraduates (seriously!). Her replacement is a long-term CSUS Faculty member.

Just as I loved Moroski to Ellison, I love Sac State and want to see basics adequately funded.

Interesting take and reporting about the student body opposing Wood's agenda and what sounds like less than transparent ways... I scratched my head looking at the video that was posted, the on-campus stadium was generally packed for the games used in those clips. There's always been support there, but I think Sacramento in general is fed up with pipe dreams and promises when it comes to sports, and they might as well take the less expensive road here and improve what they have, where they have it.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaN7_P4jfB5/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

So what it looks like to me, with regard to the football stadium, is that they are preparing the way to add an upper deck on one side or the other. Probably the home side. I would add some sort of seating/beer & wine garden and a patio in one of the end zones as well. Maybe bump total capacity to 18k or so.

Where/what do you see? Yes, I agree that is probably the move they would do if I guessed. It would get us in line with SJSU, NDSU and Hawaii. I feel like this type of reno is something that would actually be able to get filled, give more revenue generation through beer/wine stuff, make the stadium feel more like a bowl and get us in line with quality of other MW stadiums.

I would love to see/get a "Mondavi family has donated $100 Million to UC Davis Athletics" when I wake up tomorrow upon joining the MW... but alas probably not lol

I was looking at the second to most recent post from that IG link that showed the facility renovations for soccer, softball, football T&F.

I signed up today so I would be eligible for the 20% discount. It looks like the cost will be $10.99 per month or $79.99 annually with a 20% discount available.

would be cool if they did sport or season specific packages

Here's the link to the MW+ streaming service where you can sign up to be eligible for the 20% discount when they start taking orders. It looks like the first event for the Aggies will be Women's Soccer at the Air Force Academy on September 24th. Games for Women's Soccer and Women's Volleyball and Men's Soccer are listed through November 19th.

https://watch.themw.com/uc-davis/?utm_medium=email&elq_cid=114790&ehash=7117502a313e7373ca6ac8c50f670759457d9820fe4a2f6331be4286b4f35a91&ra=uc-davis&elqTrackId=5B5F364B7B1BE4C7FAED783B3EF7FC9F&elq=ab7d4c7033da4a47af144ccdfec69d68&elqaid=435&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=336&elqak=8AF5AF57BC907649B4B57D86FB24955E4E64808B935D2EACC954CC3960C24AEEB73D

I joined MW+ today and was able to use the 15% discount. The total cost for an annual subscription with the discount was $67.99 plus a $6.80 service fee = $74.79.

The athletic departments communication speed is so strikingly slow sometimes it bothers me. Whether its getting the word out about free student tickets, putting out high quality promo videos quickly or changing the conference affiliation banners at the bottom of the website. I obviously am nitpicky but how does a casual fan notice things like this faster than the department?

they should probably remove the ECAC also?

Comments from Aggie RB commit, Eli Dukes, who chose the Aggies over Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale, Oregon State, California, Stanford, Princeton, Northern Arizona, and Navy.

“The trajectory of the program is what led me to commit to Davis! They're joining the FBS in 2029, with the chance of winning FCS national championships before then. As well as the plan they had for me, playing early and playing a big role early was also big for me. I love the coaches, the offense, and I think the program is going to make history, and I want to be a part of that.”

"They also showed how they are going to FBS in 2029 and joked about the Mountain West, even potentially the Pac-12. I was able to meet with running back Jordan Fisher, and it was great to pick his brain and hear his thoughts on the school and his goals.”

“Recruiting has been very good. I’ve talked to a lot of big schools, and there were a lot of other offers I haven’t even posted, mostly because I was happy with what I had and my options.”

Whole SI article here: https://www.si.com/college/fcs/big-sky/3-star-salinas-ca-rb-eli-dukes-commits-to-uc-davis-football

so we’re joining the FBS?! This is monumental news holy shit what

was this a leak? :lol:

Ya’ll think for sure we’ll be FBS in 2029?

There‘s been talks about moving up for some time:

the think they are right with 7/1/29 date to move up. But we will not have a 30k capacity by then. At this rate I hope to have the luxury boxes ready by then. Maybe we can fill one of the grass berms with seats quickly in 1 year but that would likely only add like ~4k seats. Truthfully I think we should have seated capacity at around 25k with additional capacity with the one grass berm/end.