Gabe Manzanares + Dalton Turay: Two Ballers, One Backfield

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 thereGabe's winding path: one season at Wesleyan University, a D3 program in Middletown, Connecticut, then a year at City College before landing at DavisGrowing 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 MississippiThe San Francisco connection to current Baltimore Raven Teddye Buchanan, and how few players from the city break through at the highest levelLife 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 JanuaryThe 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 practiceOptimism about the running back room, the program's trajectory, and continuing to raise the barA debate over the best play of Gabe's career, and Dalton's honest admission about how many blocks he actually missed on itGuests: Gabe Manzanares and Dalton Turay (former UC Davis running backs)Recorded at the UC Davis football golf tournament.