Program held an open summer workout today for some supporters (not sure how I made the cut). NCAA limits them to 1 hour on the court, 4 days a week. They follow that with weights and then summer school. 14 guys practiced today - the transfer from CSUN is getting his certificate tomorrow from the school, and will be allowed to practice after that.

lots of very spirited one-on-one, two-on-two, three-on-two drills on both defense and offense. Stokes really looks much stronger this year, and his jumper is much improved. Chappell looks bigger, and still has the smooth stroke. Omer's game took another jump!

Hard to get a read on the new guys except that we are MUCH bigger and MUCH longer than in the past. The big guys all can run, and most have nice shots - modern players. Noble does NOT look or play like a freshman. He's a real physical presence.

Game times are still TBA, and sounds like that won't change for a few weeks.

Looking at the list, makes me NOT want to make the jump up to FBS until we are really, really, really ready with respect to facilities, fan support, players, and money. Feels like we just got to the top level of FCS and I would like to enjoy it for a few years.

Sac State was somewhat correct when they stated "FBS or Bust." For them, my guess is that it will be FBS AND Bust."

One week away from football- weeeeeee.

I spent a bunch of time in Portland in the 90s, it was great. My girlfriend while at Davis was from Northwest Portland. Great coffee shops, record stores, restaurants, live music all within walking distance of where she lived. I hope the city is recovering for everyone who lives there.

Providence Park seems like a cool spot. A few years back Oregon State played some games there, seemed like a great atmosphere. I thought about making the trek from Boise to check out a game but it didn't work out. It's probably unlikely but if Portland State ever plays in Providence Park against Davis, I'll make the trip.

And Elliott Smith was great, saw him once at the El Rey Theater in LA but never in Portland. I still listen to his music often.

Did some digging and this is our schedule so far. Please let me know if I missed anything or made an error:

- Mon., Nov 2 - North Alabama (HOME)
- Thurs., Nov 5 - Menlo (HOME)
- Wed., Nov 11 - Incarnate Word (HOME)
- Sat., Nov 14 - Sac St (AWAY)
- Tues., Nov 17 - Alabama St (HOME)
- Wed, Nov 25 - Omaha (Resort World Classic) (NEUTRAL)
- Thurs., Nov 26 - Jacksonville St (Resort World Classic) (NEUTRAL)
- Fri., Nov 27 - University of the Pacific (Resort World Classic) (NEUTRAL)
- Tues., Dec 1 - Portland (HOME)
- Thurs., Dec 3 - North Dakota St (AWAY)
- Mon., Dec 14 - Cal Baptist (HOME)
- Thurs., Dec 17 - Idaho St (HOME)
- Tues., Dec 22 - Seattle University (AWAY)
- Mon., Dec 28 - Pacific Union College (HOME)
- Sat., Jan 2 - Grand Canyon (HOME)
- Tues., Jan 5 - Hawai'i (HOME)
- Sat., Jan 9 - New Mexico (AWAY)
- Tues., Jan 12 - Wyoming (AWAY)
- Sat., Jan 16 - San Jose St (HOME)
- Tues., Jan 19 - UNLV (HOME)
- Sat., Jan 23 - UTEP (AWAY)
- Tues., Jan 26 - *Not playing*
- Sat., Jan 30 - Hawai'i (AWAY)
- Tues., Feb 2 - Nevada (HOME)
- Sat., Feb 6 - Air Force (HOME)
- Tues., Feb 9 - San Jose St (AWAY)
- Sat., Feb 13 - UTEP (HOME)
- Tues., Feb 16 - Nevada (AWAY)
- Sat., Feb 20 - Air Force (AWAY)
- Tues., Feb 23 - Wyoming (HOME)
- Sat., Feb 27 - New Mexico (HOME)
- Tues., Mar 2 - UNLV (AWAY)
- Sat., Mar 6 - Grand Canyon (AWAY)

The English Championship is something like the 6th best soccer league in the world. I went to a Championship game (Watford) a few months ago and the season ticket holders sitting with me were complaining how hard it was to get promoted into the Premier League. Hopefully the Wrexham show along with Ted Lasso are helping build US appreciation for how storied and exciting even non-Premiership football is in the UK, and how big of a deal it is for players like Max to get significant time there.

In terms of ambiance and attendance, it definitely felt like my experiences at MLS games. Very "big time" (just not Manchester/Arsenal big) and not comparable to minor leagues in US sports. So it's awesome for Max to have a chance to build some brand recognition as a starter and hopefully star.

My wife and I are taking a woodworking class that is on the PSU gameday so we'll miss the game live. I won't be checking scores or looking at posts on the forum so I can watch the game on replay once it's over without knowing the outcome.

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The Mountain West conference's direct-to-consumer streaming platform, MW+, costs $79.99 annually or $10.99 monthly.

A limited-time early adopter promotion reduces the annual price to $67.99 (15% off) through September.

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Be sure to select UC Davis as your team when you sign up. I think some of the proceeds will benefit the Aggies then.

The Band-uh! used the horse/wheat CA as one of many bass drum head decorations, back in the day....

Thanks! Its been so fun getting the kids settled here. There is so much to do, you forget you moved here and don't have to do everything all at once! I've never met Joe but I've been to the Twin Lotus Thai, great place. My plans are to creat a "California themed" jazz bar out here. It will be funded by my California burrito and tacos by day, Jazz at night. The good news is there is zero competition for Mexican food in this market. Once set up I plan to get local artists from the state and elsewhere for nightly performances. I'd love to have your kid come out for a couple shows :)

Rota is west of the Gib. Costa de Playa vs Costa del Sol.

Gotta get my place up so I can get my UC Davis flag going and have a place for all Aggies to come watch Aggie sports out here in Spain. Once I get up and running I welcome all of you to visit!

Is this thread still about the upcoming game against PSU

As someone who lived in downtown Portland and now visits regularly, I will dispute that downtown is "dangerous" but I guess that depends on what you compare it to. If you are used to urban areas and keep your normal wits about you, you will be fine. I can't imagine the violent crime rate against tourists or normal people going out to dinner is much above zero. Yes your car might get broken into if you park on the street but I don't know if the risk is higher there than other west coast cities. If you are used to quaint suburbs, yes some of the street people can be disturbing but 99.9% of the time they don't pay any attention to you.

Portland recovered from COVID in terms of people returning, but it hasn't recovered the old downtown economic model. COVID accelerated several things that probably aren't going back:

Before COVID:

Office workers > lunch > shopping > happy hour > restaurants > downtown businesses

Now:

Remote/hybrid workers > fewer daily commuters > less weekday foot traffic > less demand for downtown retail/food/office space

As somebody who has lived in Portland- the downtown area can very very dangerous- especially near the bridge and the Portland sign area.

That city has a serious drug problem, and don't leave anything of value in your car if parking in most parts of Downtown. There's a lot to like about Portland, but the downtown area is dangerous and full of homeless.

Hillsboro- or anywhere west of the ridgeline is like a different place altogether and way safer and no bums.

Portland would be a great city if they could just crack down on the methed out bums.. but they don't so..

Powell's takes up an entire city block now. :strong: Just visited last week.

Downtown Portland looked fine to me--no weirder or dirtier or more dangerous than downtown Seattle (also visited on this trip). *shrug

I watched the last 20 minutes or so. I hate having to stream from my phone. Unless I'm missing something, I wasn't able to put the MW app on my tv. I know a lot of people here complained about ESPN+. But for those of us with kids and already have Disney+, it is so simple and cheap.

Defense was pretty dominant yesterday, Teeg Sloane was particularly impressive

Viva from Espana! After two decades of serving outside the US, it was hard for me and the family to settle back in the states. When i served in Spain the family really fell in love with the place. Once I retired we decided to sell it all and retire out here. We are in southern Spain in a small town called Rota. Plan is to open my jazz bar next year pending the wonderful Spanish beaucracy! Life out here is great. Great for raising a family and travel is amazing. Taking the kids to London in a couple weeks to watch Hamilton (front row seats are like $100). Guess how much the flights are? $130 total for five seats!! Crazy right? You should definetly make the. move to Ireland. I love it up there. Be Bold!!! Do not go gently into the night!

What's up Gabe! Kicking it off here in two weeks. Big Sky road game to open the year, stakes are high.

What is up my fellow Aggies! I've moved to Spain and really missing all the Davis football news. Great to have this board to catch up.

oh, that's from my past science days. its when management puts together is a team of specialists assembled to work on a specific goal or problem. just trying to add more layers to this planning process.

We don't know the circumstances so I'm not going to pass judgement. That's not making excuses for him; 2.0 should be easily attainable, especially with the guidance counseling and support services available to today's student-athlete. However, shit does happen. Let's just hope he figures it out, gets his degree, and plays out his eleigibility.

Maybe they should assemble it in North Dakota and ship it to Davis to save some costs..

You don't move people by being skinny - only Gandhi did that.

In fact, I think I just talked myself into going and getting a gyro right now. Lunch time.

They can grow fast if taken care of properly. Here is 13 and 1/2 years of growth for 1 of the healthy trees we have. If we had put 10 or 12, 3 tree clusters in that grass area just south of the stadium and properly cared for them it would look great right now. We do have 2 healthy redwoods so I guess that's a start.

Neither QB has taken meaningful snaps, zero for Kollock and a series for Cleeland. I don’t think there’s a difference in how a team will prepare for either one of them.

I was going to drop the three tree cluster knowledge on you but you got around to it, so you are absolutely a Redwood aficionado my man!

Great day out here.
A few notes (according to my interpretation of players’ numbers):

Porter on the field and playing
Rex not dressed
Winston not dressed, but doing drills
Cleeland is faster than I thought
#16 is lighting on KR.
WR Guess / Streets played a lot
Pickett made some nice grabs
Boogie Sylvester RB (from Weber) is a great addition
Big TE #0 got lots of reps
Fisher rested
Scott Nixon changed numbers to #9 made a great TD catch from Cleeland

To my eye, Cleeland looks like the guy based what everything looks like when he’s out there.

Yes, they can grow just fine in less than ideal places like Elk Grove or Davis but they need help- shade when the are young, plenty of water, and 3 tree clusters will help them grow better. I apologize for so many post about redwood trees in a football forum, I'm a redwood nerd-lol.

Thanks for y’all’s support. Lots of blood and sweat to get here. We will continue to put our best effort forward. The hope is to continue to provide great football coverage each week and add in more sports as funding and interest grows.

Hello everyone!

We are in the process of expanding our UC Davis football coverage. Working on an "Aggies Weekly" video podcast that would feature weekly interviews with Tim Plough, various assistant coaches & an Aggie player each week. If anyone is interested in connecting me with businesses who might want to support UC Davis football & the coverage of it, please let me know! I have a few connections down there, so want to create some affordable and beneficial packages to benefit everyone. We are considering a way to give part of the proceeds back to the NIL collective as well.

Here's our first of many hits. We will have our hit with Tim Plough from the Big Sky Kickoff soon.

Thanks for the engagement! Plough is the man and it's really fun covering UC Davis football.