Parkside is kind of interesting place. Has this national park them going on but markets itself as a UFC/football bar. From what I've seen, it isn't a big supporter of Aggie sports.

There is a good burger joint, Outpost Burger, that shares the patio with Parkside, so you can order online from Outpost and walk across the patio to pick up and eat it at Parkside.

yeah that’s exactly our issue. We’re due for a remodel in a year or two so we’ll have to get it updated at that point.

We just bought a Kia Sportage hybrid (not plug in). We have some electrical issues in our house so a plug in didn’t make sense. But we like the hybrid so far! Next time we’ll hopefully make the jump to full electric with our next purchase.

in for $25. Thanks for keeping this site running!

This is the best site that I know of. But they don’t really cover Davis that well. https://www.verbalcommits.com/schools/uc-davis

In the Mountain West official notice, there is the following line:

"With the move to Mountain West, UC Davis has committed to continuing to invest in its basketball program, which will parallel its new conference brethren."
https://themw.com/news/2024/12/10/mountain-west-welcomes-uc-davis/

So definitely an increase in basketball recruiting budgets.

Personally I'm psyched about it, mostly from a men's basketball perspective. Can't wait to welcome UNLV, Nevada, SJST, CGU to the RecHall/Arc/Pavilion/U each year. I would think attendance would ramp up. I would also hope that the recruiting budget will increase.

I'm guessing that the MW wants UCD football too, but we probably need to show that we can move to FBS before that agreement can be made.

2026 basketball conference would be:
New Mexico
Nevada
UNLV
Air Force
Wyoming
San Jose St
UTEP
Hawaii
Grand Canyon
UC Davis

Pretty competitive league.

Still in Big Sky for now, but this seems to be a step towards maybe moving the football program to the MW too.

In Men's basketball, MW has traditionally been a step up from BW, but of course, that includes teams like San Diego St that are moving out of the MW.

I just saw this. Wow!

no doubt. I see a lot of quotes from players saying that the reason they came to Davis, and/or stayed here, is because Les knows what it takes to play in the NBA and they want learn from him. As for Sevilla, he’s starting to remind me of Stephan Gonzalez. Gonzo had a little more size, and developed a better interior game (not just a spot up shooter), and was a higher recruit, going to St Mary’s before transferring, but Connor’s game has taken huge steps in such a short amount of time. It’ll be really interesting to see how his game continues to develop.

Good point. I guess it takes a certain type of player to not go somewhere that is solely one on one or screen and rolls all day long, but rather ball movement, cutting, sharing. And you’re going to find a bunch of time on the bench if you miss your defensive assignment.

Les runs a very complex offense and defense, and it usually takes months for the players to all learn the schemes and become comfortable. Last year the out of conference games were rough, then the Big West games were like a different team. Not sure we’ve seen the best yet from this team, but it’s clear they are starting to put it all together. Go Ags!

I’m doing the general admission thing too. The rest of the family has prior obligations.

Take a few minutes to listen to our newest defensive lineman's recruiting journey.
Sounds like a lot of his offers (Notre Dame, Miami, others) dried up because he's only 6'0"
instead of 6'3". Came down to UCD and New Mexico State.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt03TBqTnVk

my understanding is that with byes and the number of teams in the conference and when the BW tournament has to start by, the regular season would have started the week before new years, when no students would be around. Instead, they schedule those two games before winter break so more people could attend.

frustrating to watch