Dwight and Brock sit down at the UC Davis football golf tournament with two former Aggie running backs, Gabe Manzanares and Dalton Turay, to talk about their playing days, their roads to Davis, and why they keep coming back. The two were teammates in the 2013 and 2014 seasons, and the conversation moves from City College of San Francisco roots to family life, sales careers, and what has them excited heading into year three under the current staff.

It is a warm, funny catch up between guys who clearly still consider each other family, with a few self deprecating stories about who actually threw the key blocks back in the day.

Topics covered in this episode:

  • How Gabe transferred into Davis in 2013 from City College of San Francisco, a JuCo program that sent 16 players to the D1 level the year he left, and competing for a national championship there
  • Gabe's winding path: one season at Wesleyan University, a D3 program in Middletown, Connecticut, then a year at City College before landing at Davis
  • Growing up and playing football in San Francisco, the SI experience, and the Bruce Mahoney game, billed as the oldest high school rivalry west of the Mississippi
  • The San Francisco connection to current Baltimore Raven Teddye Buchanan, and how few players from the city break through at the highest level
  • Life after football: Dalton in sales in San Francisco raising two boys, Hank "the Tank" (3) and Aiden (8 months), and Gabe newly married to wife Rebecca as of January
  • The annual tradition of coming back to the golf tournament with the crew (Taylor Sloat, Corey Galindo, and the rest) and treating the commitment like showing up for practice
  • Optimism about the running back room, the program's trajectory, and continuing to raise the bar
  • A debate over the best play of Gabe's career, and Dalton's honest admission about how many blocks he actually missed on it

Guests: Gabe Manzanares and Dalton Turay (former UC Davis running backs)
Recorded at the UC Davis football golf tournament.

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