what did they do to promote? That’s a crazy big crowd. I’d like us to have a giant BBQ for students to get them out there. Not enough diehards over here to fill up the stadium for a spring game without doing something special

that is surprising. He would have been their primary scorer next season.

I wonder if he consulted Bryce Pope on this decision?

Football ended up way ahead of the others with around 250 donors and a total of $84. I think they marketed a bit differently this year, focusing on younger alum and with lower challenge levels.

It seems like the most appropriate matchup for the national championship in this day of NIL and rampant transfers would have been Auburn v Houston - two coaches with very checkered backgrounds when it comes to NCAA violations

I guess I just realized that his brother is the ci-leader of the Sac12?

Or is it the Sacdependent?

he really doesn’t say anything, does he?

Are they expecting channel 40 to pay big bucks to broadcast games, or a national syndicate?

I guess Tamba is taking advantage of that ‘JC doesn’t count’ ruling? He’s played 3 years of D1 basketball sandwiched around a year at JC.

If you get a kid who started in 20-21 (COVID), took a redshirt, injured, two years at JC….. he could be 27 or so in his ‘senior’ year!

agree. Caleb Fuller left as a grad transfer a couple years back - another one that would have been nice to have for a last year. Caleb, interestingly, was at senior night this year with Leo’s family .

I would think Pablo could get into grad school - he was one of our district all-academic picks. Problem is that business management is one of few (only?) that has a masters program. That’s where Rocek ended up.

I didn’t realize he had another year. He went through senior night; maybe a return like Rocek?

maybe the hope is to fill in their schedule with rest of the Pac 8 and integrate into that conference at some point.

Assuming that conference exists in 2-3 years. Same as us assuming the MWC exists when we’re ready.

In the current state of college football, trying to guess the landscape in 2-3 years seems difficult. The power 4 has taken over.

This is a confusing move unless there’s some plan to slide into a conference after the next (inevitable) conference shakeup. They join UConn, UMASS and Notre Dame as FBS independents. I don’t see any of those three traveling to Sac. Maybe a home/home with some MWC teams, but scheduling once conference okay starts seems challenging!

Probably the cheapest way to go FBS - leave the other sports in a ‘FCS’ (lower mid-major) conference, although there doesn’t seem to be a TV revenue stream to offset costs.

Can’t imagine selling a fee increase to students to pay for this!

Can’t imagine the donors who pledged that $50M NIL money had this in mind.

plus Bibby comes with some baggage from his high school coaching a career. Didn’t end well.

it’s an interim position - one year only.

besides Manjon, what contributor have we lost over the years?

Beasley left but that was an unusual case - left to join his brother.

Sac didn't fire their coach in order to bring in a former high school coach (granted, a well known name in Sac); their coach left and and was replaced by an 'interim' coach for a year.

I'd imagine that a portion of those 2000 are players that may have been 'encouraged' by their coaches to seek another school.

interesting to see Purdue on the list - they currently have zero transfers on their roster from what I read.

I think it’s the 20-21 COVID year.

I endorse this move!!

agree. I think we had a good time last year.