Morgan just joined Athinaikos AS Vurona. I'm curious with the news of the WNBA adding three expansion teams over the next few years if that will be her opportunity.

Ex UC Davis Aggie soccer player Max Arfsten scores his first international goal, also had an assist, and named player of the match during the US Gold Cup Quarter final win. Also the announcer stated that he was an ex UC Davis players on national TV.

https://x.com/usmntonly/status/1939478080659292499

This conversation going over QBs of the last 50 years, and just scratching the surface, would be impossible at most schools. My time at Davis the QBs were Biggs and Speck. I wish i could see a program from that era. If I recall correctly, on Biggs’ Boardwalk Bowl team, one offensive lineman weighed about 210 or 215 lbs and trained by swimming, rather than weights. When playing teams like Massachusetts and Boise that lack if size largely precluded running the ball but the QB put up big numbers.Speck threw for over 400 yards against Boise, and Davis lost a close one simply because they couldn’t get a pass rush against a line that was near 300lbs. I think the Boise QB went on to play in Canada. Davis vs Goliath games.

Moroski was injured before the Poly gsme in 78. It was regionally televised on ABC. Someone started in his place but was ineffective and they brought Johnny Lu in. He led a comeback win. I believe that was his only action that year. In 79, Matt Weinrich started with John as a backup (my frosh season). I’m pretty sure Lucido never started that season but I could be wrong - I only suited up for 4 varsity games (after playing a Friday night Frosh game ).

OB redshirted that year, and took over in 80.

3 star DB, Niles Davis, commits to UC Davis! GO AGS!

HUGE COMMIT! 3 star DB/WR Chaz Gilbreath commits to the Ags! Had numerous FBS offers including Boise State, BYU, UNLV, etc. GO AGS!

Scott March one was awesome! Keep up the great work!

Highest ranked Davis recruit ever according to 247sports site, and one of two 2026 recruits in the top four.
I’m not counting Jalen Harris, who never enrolled.

3 star DL Corbin Wade commits to the Ags! Held a handful of FBS offers.

it reminds me of the episode of the office where Oscar tells Michael he needs to declare bankruptcy.

‘I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!!!’

‘Uh, Michael, there’s a little more to it than that’

from reddit: While Sacramento State was yelling about how they're a lock for the Pac-12, Davis quietly announced they were moving from the Big West to the Mountain West as a non-football member in 2026, but the agreement includes that the Mountain West has to give priority to UC Davis before inviting another FCS school. So Davis is still a football affiliate in the Big Sky, but everyone knows that they have one foot out the door

this is exactly what I am talking about, I think these moves from davis and the big sky are correlated despite sac decisions seeming to push everything.

Scott Marsh is our guest. Out to subscribers NOW!

3 star DL Benjamin Honebein commits to the Ags! GO AGS!

Fascinating....the difference in management styles between the UCD and Sac State Athletic Departments.

The bluster and hubris has made for some great entertainment.

Per instagram 3 star WR Jackson Fay has committed to UC Davis over an offer from Sac State! GO AGS!

They have put the 2025 Roster back up on the web site.

I don’t see what has changed since it was there last.
Good news is that Davis’ entire starting OL for games 6-12 returns. This includes tackles All Big Sky second team Eli Simonson, and honorable mention Ernesto Nava. Good depth too, including RS Freshman transfer Hasson. None of the FCS previews considered that the entire line returns, Sports Illustrated said Davis returned 4 “contributors” which means players that played 180 plays or so.

The roster inexplicably doesn’t list the year players graduated from high school, which makes their eligibility hard to decipher. In most but not all cases, players who came to Davis as freshmen are listed according to their academic class, not their eligibility. Players who started elsewhere are mostly listed by eligibility. But they are inconsistent even in that,

Scott Marsch is our next guest this Friday. Hopefully to be released next week. Then in July we will start ramping up more.

How has this group devolved in to insults, either toward sac state, or eachother. This group is wearing me down to the point I don't get much enjoyment out of it lately. Grow up.

I got to know one of the parents a bit last season and talked often when we ran across each other at games. At Vegas, we were talking about the season and how early injuries (Borra and Roberson) effected the team and may have led to the late season collapse. He was saying his son felt Roberson was a ‘GameChanger’.

Hope for this sake (and ours!) he gets healthy and has a chance to show his potential

UC Davis News just published a very heartwarming story about one former Aggie student, Ron Austin, who is now graduating after 47 years absence from college. Those who recall Ron Austin will be showing their age probably, but will remember him as an outstanding running back for the Aggies. I would say one of the best players UC Davis ever put on the field. Ron left Davis in the seventies thinking he had a degree but he did not; having a few units short he returned to UC Davis recently to complete his degree. Which he did. And will graduate with the class of 2025 next weekend. Congratulations Ron Austin!

They are taking the 4-3-2-1 approach to recruiting:
4 previous colleges
3 star rating
2.0 GPA
1 felony conviction

*Before you get all over me about GPA: I know. It’s a joke.

Probably not a coincidence that the two programs moving to the MW had good recruiting classes

Goes to show how those removed from the Sacramento area really have no clue how far sacst really is from making that move. Just because I "really want something" doesn't make me "ready" for it.

First of all, UC Davis alumni never need a reason to make fun of Sac State, just like Sac State fans never need a reason to make crude, profanity-laden t-shirts referencing deviant activity with or without barn animals. The two schools did not sign a binding "play nice" agreement, so the Causeway Classic crowd can always count on a melange of violent drunks, sewer rats, attention junkies, and self-righteous "Well, I never !!!!!" types (mostly Aggie fans in that group).

I never had a problem with rival jostling. Its great for the sport.

Second, it has already been established that several posters (including myself) believe that they are engaging in reckless activities that can endanger the health of their athletic programs and possibly the school itself. Nobody's budging off that viewpoint, just as you aren't changing your mind about it being
great.


I appreciate the sentiment behind your comment—but I must respectfully challenge its core assumptions.

First, let’s talk about arrogance, because it’s the silent killer in both academia and athletics. It’s the belief that past methods are always superior, that prestige alone shields an institution from stagnation. UC Davis did become a renowned academic institution through rigor and discipline, yes—but also through risk-taking, innovation, and bold vision. Great science doesn’t just follow a manual; it pushes boundaries. And if we’re being honest, so should our athletics programs.

Winning matters. Not because donors demand trophies or because fans crave ego boosts, but because competition at its core is about striving for excellence. Athletics isn’t a side activity—it’s a proving ground. It teaches resilience, teamwork, and ambition in ways no lecture hall can replicate. To dismiss winning as a tertiary concern in collegiate sports is to miss the point entirely. No student-athlete trains day in and day out to provide alumni with a "decent experience." They train to win. And we, as alumni and fans, owe it to them to support that mindset.

As for UC Davis—yes, it’s a respected institution. But have you seen downtown Davis lately? It’s a ghost town. If the university wants to be a catalyst for regional vibrancy, it can’t just rely on lab work and modest sports success. It needs energy. It needs foot traffic. It needs something that draws people in beyond the walls of the classroom. A more competitive athletics program does exactly that. You can look to places like Boise, Eugene, or even Fresno to see how this works when done well.

And this talk of moving to the Mountain West? That’s not recklessness—that’s strategic evolution. It’s about aligning with peers who compete seriously, who draw attention, revenue, and yes, community engagement. The irony is that UC Davis, for all its careful planning, is at risk of becoming a brilliant institution with a quiet campus and an empty downtown.

Change is hard. But in sports—and in science—the institutions that thrive are the ones that know when it’s time to step forward. Sacramento State is doing that. And I, for one, respect it.

And speaking of Storage Wars (You can blame Fugawe09 for introducing the show to a Sac State discussion), Sac State wishes it were Renè, the 300 lb German man with a busty wife who makes a spectacle of dropping thousands at each auction and rubbing people's faces in it. Perhaps they aspire to take a "big boobs" approach to things by hiring Mike Bibby (Wonder if any Lakers ever called him Mike Booby ?) and bringing in Radio Shaq.

Renè actually is successful, so he can be an a-hole to his competitors if he wants. Until this experiment actually works Luke Wood is no better than Justin, the smug twit who thinks he'is smarter than the veteran buyers because he can unload cheap locker crap using his phone. It's nothing for UCD to copy

I'm sorry I honestly don't know what any of this means. You have storage with wars or something?

And look, if you're excited about what Sac State does and you want to check it out, you don't need to frame it as "UCD needs to do this". You can go without judgment (because few people would pay any mind to it anyway), enjoy all the Sac State, UCD, whatever college games you want. You're an adult. You graduated. You are a free agent fan. Even if you got a Gunrock tattoo you are not compelled to follow UCD and UCD alone for the rest of your life. You could open your hypothetical Davis sports bar + put a dozen hornet bobbleads on the front counter if you want. No patrons will give you grief until after they've had a few, and by then they've served their purpose anyway.

Ah, my dear Aggie comrade, spoken like a true disciple of measured thought and passive-aggressive grace. Somewhere between a chilled Chardonnay on the quad and a politely worded cease and desist letter from the alumni association, you’ve managed to capture the UC Davis spirit perfectly.

But allow me—channeling just a whiff of Robin Williams’s manic twinkle and a splash of Bowie glam from Ziggy Stardust’s secret tenure as a mid-major sports analyst (...if you were born after 1980 you might not get it...still you should listen to some Bowie)—to say this:

Look, I bleed blue and gold. If I stub my toe on a Davis sidewalk crack, it sings the fight song. My heart is shaped like the Shields Library. I once cried watching the band-uh do the halftime Moonwalk (okay, maybe that was a Bowie reference). The point is—my loyalty isn’t in question. I don’t want less Davis—I want More. Aggie. Greatness.

But hear me out: acknowledging Sac State is not heresy, it’s just observation. I don’t want to be Sac State. I want UC Davis to learn from the boldness, the risk-taking, the utter lack of fear in doing something new—even if it means ditching khaki academic orthodoxy for some black and green flair. I want us to win—not just in debates about water policy and plant genetics, but on the field, in the arena, and maybe—just maybe—in the hearts of fans who’d love to see Aggie Stadium packed to the eucalyptus trees.

Now, as for me being a “free agent fan”? Darling, if I’m a free agent, I’m LeBron in a Gunrock headband. Yes, I’ll drop in on a Hornets game. Yes, I’ll nod politely at Sac’s new uniforms like someone admiring an ex’s glow-up. But let’s not pretend I’m moving in with them. I’ll be back in Davis before curfew, probably dragging half of Sacramento with me to see what real agricultural pride cow tipping looks like.

And if I open a Davis sports bar...(Hey Dan, anytime time you want to lower sqft lease numbers!) it will be the coolest Aggie bar of all time. I might even call it the "Post-Grad."

So no hard feelings, my friend. I’m not here to tear Davis down. I’m here, in true Bowie fashion, to turn the volume up, paint a lightning bolt across our program, and say, “Let’s be bold, baby.” Because even a beloved institution needs a little stardust now and then.

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Marion will stay because Sac State is the top of the ladder. I mean look at the storied history, the rich alums, the stadium.

Yolo get some rest.

The time and environment of these sit down tests are often overlooked but can be very important. I was given the army OCS qualification test at the oakland army depot at 5 am in the morning before breakfast. Took the SAT after a 4 hour drive from my home to UC during an all day rain storm. I took the LSAT at 6pm on a Friday night after work all day at a service station in Chico. Barely made the mark on any one of the tests. I vote on the side of HS grades over the SAT

So I will tell you the tale of a one man uniform change, maybe the only one in Aggie history. And what it accomplished. The player was Khary Jones an Aggie player in the early 2000s. Early in the season (i dont remember which) Khary was our quarterback. Khary had painted his shoes gold. We were playing st Mary’s in one of the last games before they quit football. When he took the field the st Mary’s players were all over him with insults and taunts about his golden shoes. He was not at all distracted or visibly annoyed. He shredded the st. Marys defense with his passing and running. St Marys lost big that day and I don’t believe that it had nothing to do with their decision to eliminate football from their ICA program. Khary has gone onto a great football career up in Canada as a player and a coach.
I believe he was 17-4 winner for the Aggies. Not bad at all.
So lastly a comment about mobile quarterbacks. No one has mentioned Khary. He was extremely mobile and very successful. So was Chris Peterson and I don’t have to remind anyone that he was a great player. The addition of Pinnick as the Aggie quarterback is a huge plus for Aggie football next season IMHO.

We are back!

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Hero Sports is previewimg the top teams in the media poll, UC Davis is #11 ranked team in the media poll. and Hero Sports has previewed the top 3 so far, NDSU, Montana State and South Dakota State.
One element of the preview is listing the guys that had all conference recognition, including guys transferring in from other conferences.
NDSU and MSU have five, SDSU has 3 returning all conference players
Davis compares favorably with nine.
This is my list for Davis, any error is mine,

Defense five
Derrell Porter. DL Dartmouth. honorable mention
Jacob Psyk DL Harvard. 1st team
Khalani Riddick DB SEMO 1st team
Porter Connors LB. Davis. 2nd team
Rex Connors S. Davis. 1st team

Offense three
Winston Williams. TE. Davis 1st team
Eli Simonson OT Davis. 2nd team
Ernesto Nava OT Davis. honorable mention

Specialist one
Hunter Ridley. K. Davis. 2nd team