There's a reason that Yolo County has very low numbers and I experienced it personally a couple of days ago. I went to a Home Depot that's on Power Inn Road in Sacramento and it was extremely crowded with very few parking spaces available. I was shocked when I went inside. Around 70% of the customers and 50% of the staff were not wearing masks. The store was not monitoring the number of people allowed inside so social distancing was a joke. Most of the customers could have cared less.

Later that day I went to the Home Depot in West Sacramento. There was a line to get in and everyone was staying at least 6 feet apart. Only a couple of people in line were not wearing a mask including the guy in front of me. When he got to the entrance the Home Depot employee, who was monitoring the number of people allowed into the store, told him he could not enter without a mask and showed him a box of them. He took one and started to walk into the store and the employee told him he had to put it on first so he finally did. Inside it was orderly and uncrowded and 6 foot spaces were marked off for checkout lines.

The difference in safety between these two stores was like night and day. The Power Inn store is in Sacramento County and the West Sacramento store is in Yolo County and there are strict safety rules in place in Yolo County. What was discouraging to me is that the majority of people who were in the Sacramento store could have cared less about being safe. In Yolo County, however, you had no choice but to be safe if you wanted to enter the store.

This experience tells me that many, many people really aren't concerned about the virus. I could care less if they were to simply get sick themselves and not spread it to others because of their ignorance and arrogance but it doesn't work that way. Their selfishness and carelessness could make others sick which could possibly even cost someone their life. Believe me, the herd instinct is alive and well, unfortunately.

Agree...we lost a lot of firepower from the perimeter including the best 3 point shooter in the nation. I wonder who will step up as our deep threats?

Thanks, Mike, I'd never heard of these podcasts before.

Two new commits:

Christian Anigwe 6'9 190 PF transferring from San Jose State. He started 30 games last year and averaged 23.2 minutes per game. He shot 43% from the field, 5.2 ppg, 5.3 rpg and had 34 blocks on the season. It appears that he will have two years of eligibility left and may or may not have to sit out a year depending upon what the NCAA is doing with the new transfer rules.






Ran-Andre Pehka 6'3 PG from Estonia. He averaged 8.4 ppg and 2.6 assists per game in the FIBA European Under 18 Championships last year.

I think you're right about all the challenges getting fully funded. It looks like Aggie Athletics raised $205,018 from 819 gifts and the university as a whole raised $2,524,639 from 3,375 gifts. I think that's actually pretty good given all current shutdown and so many people and businesses being hurt by the pandemic.

We donated to those emergency funds also. We split our annual Team Aggie donations between the Emergency Fund for Student Athletes that are experiencing hardships from the Covid-19 pandemic, Men's and Women's Basketball and the Aggie Pride Football Challenges.

We have also been donating to various other organizations that we enjoy who have been hammered by the shutdown such as the Crocker Art Museum, the Ashland Shakespeare Festival and the Sacramento B Street Theater. We are also contributing to the Sacramento Foodbank. Lots of organizations and people are hurting desperately. We're spending a lot less since we are not going out at all so we figure we can afford to help out as best we can. I hope others will do the same.

Great, they can use all the help they can get. :up:

It's great to hear about these recruits but I think there is a good possibility that we may not have any fall sports this year. I'll be completely bonkers by then....

The talent that Jen Gross is bringing into this program is amazing. It's so exciting seeing this program continue to grow.

You only need to look at what the early, smart and aggressive action that Governor Newsom and Mayor London Breed took to see how effective it has been to saving lives in California. The Bay Area was an early hotspot in the nation and the shutdown of 6 counties early on has worked remarkably well. There have only been 12 deaths in San Francisco to date because of the early shutdown order. Lives have been saved by smart people who respected the knowledge and advice of disease experts and medical professionals.

The following video is nearly a month old and thousands of people have died since then. It shows the arrogance and incompetence with which Trump and his administration have mismanaged this tragic pandemic. Thousands of deaths and massive suffering could have been prevented if they had listened to the experts back in January about the impending risk of the emerging virus and acted quickly But, then again, given what we've seen in the last 3 1/2 years, I'm not surprised...remember he was telling his base at a rally that the Democrats were fear mongering about the virus and it was a hoax...

Great! He's pretty agile and shoots with either hand. He also had offers from Mercer, Towson and Oral Roberts.

QB & TE U!

We have no idea how many cases are out there because of the extreme shortage of reliable tests available. We're making progress but we got way behind early at the national level when the writing was on the wall. We are fortunate here in California to have a governor who took aggressive, measured action early as did our own UCD alum and San Francisco mayor, London Breed. Their decisive action early on has saved lives in California and slowed the rate of infection dramatically.

The human toll is not just how many cases and deaths there are but also the emotional toll this thing is taking on our health care workers and first responders. They are working grueling hours sometimes without good protective equipment and they are caring for a lot of people who are deathly ill and dying alone because their families can't be with them. My niece is an ER nurse in Colorado and she got infected and has recovered and hopes to be back on the job soon. I have another niece who is an anesthesiologist in Virginia and they had to resort to making some protective equipment from plastic sheeting. The psychological toll on our health care workers and first responders will continue to mount as the pandemic continues. They are our heroes and warriors in every sense of the word.

Absolutely, for now everyone needs to heed the stay at home orders and do everything they can to stay healthy and try to slow the spread of this deadly disease. Covid 19 is no joke...most of the deaths are from the elderly but perfectly healthy younger people are dying too and struggling to breathe is an awful way to die.

Time will tell but I think there's a very good possibility that the fall and winter sports may be in jeopardy as well. I'm sure the university will take any and all precautionary measures as long as there's no vaccine and people are still getting infected.

No way can any large events be scheduled in early summer because they would stand a very good chance of being cancelled again even if the rate of infection curve gets dramatically leveled The number of cases are expected to fall and rise sharply until there is an effective vaccine widely available to the world community. This is going to be a roller-coaster ride in all likelihood for a long while.

Or a beer and a dog...

Good news for NCAA baseball players: