Category: UC Davis Aggies
Southern Utah eyes shifting Big Sky Conference
So, where does Southern Utah University go from here?
On Tuesday, the Thunderbirds were left without a viable football league when it was announced that UC Davis and Cal Poly will take their programs to the Big Sky Conference.
Montana athletic director Jim O’Day praised the Big Sky’s decision to add UC Davis and Cal Poly as football-playing members.
“You bring two great academic institutions who do things the right way who are great fits for the league,” he said.
One problem.
The Big Sky’s expansion leaves the Great West Conference with only three football schools: Southern Utah, South Dakota and North Dakota.
- 575 words - Great West Conference, Big Sky Conference, Montana Grizzlies, North Dakota Fightin' Sioux, South Dakota Coyotes, Montana State Bobcats, Sacramento State Hornets, Portland State Vikings, Cal Poly Mustangs, UC Davis Aggies, Southern Utah Thunderbirds, Texas State Bobcats, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners Great West nears end as schools shift plans
The end is near for the Great West Football Conference, which learned Tuesday that next season will be the last in the league for two of its five members.
UC Davis and Cal Poly, charter members of the seven-year-old FCS conference, announced they were leaving the Great West to join the Big Sky Conference starting with the 2012 season.
That exodus means that the University of South Dakota, North Dakota and Southern Utah will have to find new homes for their football programs or play independent schedules after next season.
- 462 words - Great West Conference, North Dakota Fightin' Sioux, South Dakota Coyotes, Cal Poly Mustangs, UC Davis Aggies, Southern Utah Thunderbirds Big Sky Adds UC Davis, Cal Poly to Football Lineup
The Big Sky Conference is proud to announce that the University of California, Davis and Cal Poly have accepted invitations to join the league as affiliate members in the sport of football.
Invitations of affiliate membership were extended by Big Sky Conference Commissioner Doug Fullerton with approval of the Presidents’ Council and accepted by both universities late last week.
- 1088 words - Big Sky Conference, Cal Poly Mustangs, UC Davis Aggies WAC has big decision ahead to replace Boise
With Boise State defecting from the WAC to the Mountain West starting in 2011, it will be interesting to see what WAC officials try to do.
Football is what made Boise State the program it is today. The Broncos also won WAC championships in gymnastics and women’s tennis, and were usually in the upper half of the standings in men’s tennis, women’s basketball and women’s soccer. Their presence will be missed.
Football drives the bus; pays for a lot of other programs. Boise State traveled well, especially for football.
College football: An early look at replacements for Boise State
Current WAC membership
Here’s what the WAC’s membership will look like in 2011-12 if it doesn’t add additional institutions.
» Fresno State
» Hawaii
» Idaho
» Louisiana Tech
» Nevada
» New Mexico State
» San Jose State
» Utah State
Leading Off: Sac State could become involved in conference shake-ups
Sacramento State athletic director Terry Wanless knows how far-reaching this college conference shake-up could be.
“This domino run could be quite big,” he said Monday. “Schools not even noted as athletic powers could be involved in an indirect way.”
This includes Sac State, which was mentioned as a possible member of the Western Athletic Conference at the WAC meetings last month.
UC Davis students protest anticipated sports team cuts
Several hundred student athletes and their supporters marched across UC Davis on Friday, trying to save four or five men’s and women’s teams from the budget ax.
It’s not clear exactly which teams are on the chopping block, but members of the rowing, swimming and diving, and water polo teams are among those feeling the heat.
“I’ve heard we’re being cut because of our lack of revenue, but we’re students first, athletes second,” said Robyn Bryson, one of 45 rowers.
Around Alamo: A Golden UCD Player
For one young man, perseverance and character have proven to be the keys to his success. Chris Carter, 22, a 2005 graduate of San Ramon Valley High School, remembers falling in love with football at a very young age.
UC Davis Announces 2010 Schedule
Aggies to play five home games in upcoming season
A historic matchup with Cal to open the season, a regional visit to San Jose State, five home games and another challenging Great West Conference schedule, highlight the 2010 UC Davis football schedule announced on Friday.
Former UC Davis QB Petersen and former coach Patterson lead unbeaten FBS teams
Boise State head football coach Chris Petersen was a record-setting quarterback for UC Davis in 1986, the same year that current TCU head coach Gary Patterson was an assistant on the defensive side of the ball. They have both enjoyed impressive coaching careers while leading their respective schools into elite status in college football.
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MOBILE, Ala. - The University of South Alabama football team concluded its inaugural season with a perfect 7-0 mark while outscoring the opposition 321-41. Accomplishing a similar feat in the program’s second year won’t be an easy task.
The Jaguars will face 10 four-year institutions, including four already at or transitioning to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (formerly NCAA Division I-AA), as part of their 2010 schedule announced by USA Director of Athletics Dr. Joel Erdmann Monday.
- 847 words - UC Davis Aggies, Nicholls State Colonels, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals, South Alabama Jaguars UC Davis football will be tested immediately
Bob Biggs knows what his UC Davis football team is up against.
He knows it opens its season Sept. 5 at Western Athletic Conference member Fresno State. He knows a week later it hosts a Montana team that advanced to the Football Championship Subdivision title game last season. He knows it travels to Idaho three weeks after that to face Boise State, ranked No. 16 in the USA Today preseason coaches’ poll.
That doesn’t mean he’s thinking about it.
“In some years,” the 17th-year head coach said, “I think we’ve been too caught up in (the schedule). I felt like as a coaching staff, and maybe as players, that we were looking too much at who we were playing. We didn’t focus on the process as much as we could have.”
The Aggies, who opened camp Tuesday at Howard Field, are focusing on that process now.
Aggies' Buckley Named Head Coach At Pacific University
Assistant head football coach for UC Davis to build NCAA Div. III program that begins play in 2010.
FOREST GROVE, Ore. - Pacific University took the first step in the construction of its new football program Friday, announcing the hiring of Keith Buckley as the Boxers’ head coach in a press conference at the Multnomah Athletic Club.
Buckley arrives at Pacific after four seasons as part of the staff at UC Davis, including the last two years as the assistant head coach. The hiring comes two months after Pacific’s Board of Trustees voted in favor of addition of the program to the University’s current offering of 20 intercollegiate athletics programs. The Boxers are scheduled to take the field for a full varsity schedule in the fall of 2010.
At Last, a Big Game to Rile Delaware
Proximity, history could charge UD-DSU meetings.
The University of Delaware and Delaware State University have some catching up to do.
Football rivalries don’t form overnight. But UD and DSU already have many of the ingredients to make this one special.
On Tuesday, the schools announced their first regular-season meeting will take place Sept. 19, followed by three annual games beginning in 2012.
2008 Great West Fall All-Academic Honors Announced
The Great West Conference has awarded Academic All-Conference honors since the league began with just football members in 2004, but in this first year as an all-sport league, those individuals who compete in leaguesponsored sports are going to be added to the list, commissioner Ed Grom said today as fall sports honorees are released today.
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UNI’s Kurt Warner, TSU’s Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, and Hofstra’s Willie Colon expected to start.
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NEW HAVEN, CT – Two wide receivers headline the Walter Camp Football Foundation 2008 Football Championship Subdivision All-America team. The team was selected by the head coaches and sports information directors of the Football Championship Subdivision schools and certified by UHY Advisors, a New Haven-based accounting firm.
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Dropped back as the deep man in coverage, Cal Poly safety David Fullerton watched the ball tip off a receiver’s hands and float in the air for a second as he swooped in for the interception.
The junior returned the pickoff 38 yards for a touchdown on what was essentially the game-clinching play of a 51-28 win over UC Davis on Saturday. On Sunday, Fullerton was named Great West Football Conference Defensive Player of the Week.
Nate Thellen Shines for Northeastern
BROCKTON - Nate Thellen of Brockton had a game to remember when the Northeastern University football team played its home opener last Saturday.
The sophomore free safety intercepted three passes, returning one 92 yards for a touchdown, as the Huskies broke into the win column with a 27-10 victory over the University of California-Davis.
O'Sullivan's path to top built upon doggedness
SANTA CLARA – See if this sounds familiar: Three quarterbacks vie to be the starter. No one emerges immediately. But in the end, a dark horse named J.T. O’Sullivan charges from the back of the pack and wins the job.
While that seems to be how the 49ers’ quarterback race is playing out – O’Sullivan makes his second consecutive exhibition start tonight against Green Bay – it also was the scenario at UC Davis nearly a decade ago.
In the spring of 1999, the Aggies sought a replacement for quarterback Kevin Daft, who had left for the NFL. The candidates included: Bryan Paul, a transfer from Washington; Ken Kearns, Daft’s primary backup; and O’Sullivan, a lightly recruited redshirt sophomore from Jesuit High School who had thrown just five mop-up passes the year before.
O’Sullivan started the competition as No. 3. Friend and teammate Charley Enos, however, remembers the quarterback’s determination not to end up there.
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