I'm with Dr. Mike on this (for what my opinion may be worth.) In the first place this is a fan site for Aggie fans. As I noted earlier, 'a good rule of thumb is don't talk religion or politics.'

I think discussion of the pandemic would be better held on a dedicated thread (or threads?) in the OT Board area:

1. We can usually talk about our common interest, the Aggies, without bristling feathers over views that cross the line into politics, etc.

2. If people want to talk about the pandemic, it is hard to do that here as there are threads in probably each of the sports sub-categories that have dipped into that. Better to put them all in one place. I would think the "OT Board" is a good place for that.

This pandemic will probably be the major event of most of our lives...as our parents or grandparents had WWII. I don't want to down play it, and I think it is appropriate it...but an OT Board is a better place than a football, basketball, baseball or Other Sport sub-board.

Having said that, wash your hands.

I'm just taking a shot here, but we know that events like Picnic Day are planned long in advance. Even moving it a few weeks takes a lot of planning. If we look back 3,4,5 weeks ago, who ever thought we'd be where we are today? Say the school moves it 5 weeks, and then 3 or 4 weeks from now things haven't changed, or are worse, so they are faced with moving it again. And, with the current state of affairs, who is around over the next couple of weeks to do all the "stuff" that has to be done to make the move?

Sometimes you just bite the bullet.

Again, just my two cents (which according to my banker is now only one cent.)

The Bee story on Picnic Day closure:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article241203121.html

This is a good time to remember the old adage, "don't discuss politics or religion."

I thought we'd be down a bit this year, but she did the job! Let's keep it our little secret.

Being the clumsy oaf that I am I have never figured out gymnastics, but I have admired it from a safe distance. While there is truly a lot of athleticism involved it is always a little hard to follow sports that rely on judgements rather than speed, distance, goals scored....(gymnastics, figure skating, diving, synchronized swimming....)

Having that as a background, I always wonder how gymnasts can compete for an hour or so, and in the end the winner is decided by something like .650 points. Then again in the Winter Olympic sledding events the participants race down a groove of ice several times and in the end the difference between a gold medal and no medal may be a couple of nano-seconds.

With that, Happy Daylight Savings Time! I lose an hour and I waste my time on thoughts like this.

Aggies defeated Sac in gymnastics tonight, winning every event, in route to a final score of 194.875 to 194.225. Running score is now 35-17.5. Next event is beach volleyball at a meet in San Jose on March 21st.

One of those days for the Aggie women. Golf finished 5th in their own tournament with 918 storkes while Sac finished 2nd with 897. Ags had a terrible second round, but to be fair Sac beat Davis in each of the three rounds. In softball Sac won 4-1. Running score is now UCD 32.5, CSUS 17.5. Next event is gymnastics this Saturday evening.

GO AGS!

Aggie women golfers are in fourth with 619 strokes after 36 holes in the first day of their own Gunrock Classic at Del Paso Country Club in Sacramento. Sac is in second with a score of 609. Windy weather was a factor as the Ag were the leaders after the first round, but struggled in the second. Action concludes with 18 holes tomorrow.

Also tomorrow the women host Sac in the home leg of this year’s softball competition.

Go Ags!

Got it, hope it didn't look like I was detracting from your point. Good to see that the Spartans respect the Ags. My point was that SJSU is an up and down team, as well as "on any given Saturday..."

Would love to see Davis beat them this fall, and point out to SC fans, (and detractors,) that the Trojans just paid alot for what looks like weaker competition, all for the sake of a label....then again things like pre-season previews are all just "what looks like."

(I bet last year both Arkansas and Army had their San Jose State game in the guaranteed column.)

Sac defeated the Aggies, 4-3, in a softball game at Sacramento today. Running score is now UCD 32.5, Sac 12.5. Next event is women's golf at the Gunrock Invitational to be played this coming Monday and Tuesday, March 2-3, at Del Paso CC in Sacramento. That will be the first of two women's golf meetings this season.

The return match of the home and away softball competition will be Tueday, March 3rd, in Davis.

The return match of the home and away gymnastics competition will be Friday, March 7th, in Sacramento.

7.5 points up for grabs next week.

Go Ags!

SJSU is an up and down team from year to year. Big road wins over Arkansas and Army last year were high points for the program, and they were competitive in their conference games. An Aggie win over the Spartans would be a real nice touch in any year, but it would be nice to beat them this coming year and then send a thank you note to the folks in Troy. And wouldn't the folks in Westwood and South Bend throw a couple of jabs at SC?

Go Ags!

This is all about labels. SJSU is D-1, FBS. UCD is D-1, FCS. USC faithful simply cannot bear the thought that they might have played an FCS school and the only two FBS schools that had never scheduled down are UCLA and Notre Dame.

Back in the Pete Carroll era I had family reasons to follow USC football. At one point there was a big chat-room banter that followed the USC vs LSU poll ratings. LSU and SEC fans pooh-poohed Pac 12 football and boasted that the only conference that really played football was the SEC. SC fans countered that SEC schools peppered their non-conference schedules with FCS/D1AA schools, and quite frankly, weak ones at that. They weren't scheduling the North Dakota States, James Madisons, etc. I think there were about five FBS schools at the time that had never scheduled FCS/1AA schools. Now it's down to three. This is a game of chicken and the first one to flinch loses. That's even tougher with the rivalries inherent in USC, UCLA, and Notre Dame.

Dunning's remarks about Ohio State, Michigan, Clemson, Oklahoma are good as far as they go, but if I recall when the UCD at USC game was announced USC claimed there were no FBS schools with an open date on Sept. 4, 2021. SJSU only became available when Clemson and Georgia scheduled a neutral site game and bought off their previously scheduled opponents. USC pounced on SJSU's availability. One wonders if someone at SJSU saw USC's need for an FBS opponent as leverage and squeezed some more money out of the deal.

Part of this, and something the new AD at SC mentioned earlier this year, was that USC had been adamant about playing home games. With the new PAC-12 scheduling, combined with an intersectional rivalry with UND, they are guaranteed 5 home games a year. WIth ten given games every season they now have two games to play with. They were unwilling to schedule teams home-and-away and insisted on home games with no reciprocal away game. A lot of teams balked at that. That "policy" will probably be changed.

Purely my $.02. I have no leads into the USC thought process.

Per this article USC is paying them $1.1M to play. And as already reported Georgia is paying them $1.8 not to play. $2.9M total for the weekend for the Spartans.

https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/02/22/san-jose-state-taking-home-nearly-3-million-for-swapping-usc-with-georgia-in-2021/

"So removing us from the schedule cost $C about $2.6 Million?"

Or, as they call it at USC, "petty cash."

A couple of million dollars and a relatively good season last year should quiet rumors of the San Jose State football program's impending death.

It's official, or as official as these things can be, SC has added SJSU to its 2021 schedule.
https://usctrojans.com/news/2020/2/20/usc-trojans-football-future-schedules-san-jose-state-sdsu-spartans-uc-davis-aggies-2021.aspx

"The Spartans will receive a $1.8 million cancellation fee from Georgia plus their new guarantee from USC, which will likely be similar."

LA Times is reporting that USC might be trying to schedule San Jose State. Spartans were supposed to travel to Georgia, but Georgia and Clemson have agreed to a neutral site game that weekend, resulting in Georgia canceling their game with SJSU.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/story/2020-02-19/usc-cancels-2021-matchup-in-football-with-uc-davis


And the Clemson v Georgia game also freed up Wyoming which had been scheduled to play Clemson. The Cowboys schedule now shows a game against Montana State for that date.

IF UNLV isn’t the undisclosed team that USC is trying to pick up for that date.

Yep, but there were protests about moving to D-I, and before that merging the NCAC into the CCAA because the CCAA played basketball on school nights, and....

Heck, having athletes that can find the classroom sets UCD apart from some places....