I wouldn't mind if UCD and Sac State even just stopped playing each other in all sports (assuming no future common conference membership). The temptations to save on travel costs and fill the football stadium once a year are too great to make this happen. It would be nice to get rid of the toxic nastiness around the Causeway Classic. That is a tradition that doesn't need to continue, but people will insist on it sticking around because of history. Maybe this will happen organically if Sac State finds a way to FBS or their current effort fails. bankrupts the athletics dept.

Actually I think they will continue to play each other in Big West men's soccer, right? Well, get rid of it in football, basketball, softball, women's soccer, and baseball at least. It would be nearly impossible to avoid Sac State in gymnastics, track and golf. (Golf is not a real team sport so it should just be cut) If it's a money issue finding a new opponent, just play 1 fewer contest

The next time one of you guys makes a remark about the length of my posts I will refer you to this topic thread, to remind you I'm not the only one. Yeah, sorry-just can't do max. three word reactions to every single football play like some of you because absolutely no one else is watching the game . The reminder may not be necessary though, as half of us will probably be pushing up the daisies before the topic's run its course at this rate. By then Aggie Sports Talk will be mostly ads in Vietnamese about how to properly clean office light fixtures.

I don't agree with the way Sac State is doing things, but I do know they need to do something, so it's good that they at least recognize it. As it stands Sac State is a junior college with more rigorous classes (I'm assuming)and a bigger parking lot. It needs something to set it apart in order to stop being a nothing university. Its selling point right now is that it is located in Sacramento and there are college degree-seeking people in Sacramento. In that sense it is the university equivalent of Denny's, a location of which is just a couple of blocks away if memory serves.

As TrainingRm67 has reminded us, the CSU's primarily exist to serve the communities where they are located, as opposed to private schools, which exist to serve the people who have the wherewithal to purchase exclusivity. For example, Sonoma State, a public school, serves people who like to pay way too much for housing near wine (OMG WINE!!!!!!), but who care way too much or not at all about sports. By canceling sports it is serving its community.

I just wanted to dump on SSU for a moment. Anyway, if Sac State decides to deviate from the CSU model it can have negative consquences. I'm not going to get into the consequences because someone else has/will.

@FullertonBaseballFanThat's disappointing. I was hoping with his coaching record he would be up for a head coaching position somewhere, but at least it's Division I job. He really turned around SF State baseball, which was no small task. Back in the common CCAA days the Golden Gators had a bad team that only seemed to put it together when they played UCD.

I don't think Schifano would have been an upgrade to Tommy Nicholson if the Aggies were in a position to make a coaching change.

I believe Nicholson advanced the program pretty close to its ceiling in 2024, and very few other coaches would have done better. Baseball is one of those D-I men's sports where a lot of potential recruits have serious designs on playing in the pros, not necessarily pursuing a four-year degree. Some go to junior colleges to get drafted early (Bryce Harper). UCD (in baseball) can't really get the athletics-first/only players some of the other Big West programs can and UCI/UCSB have location advantages when pursuing the academically-minded talent. This situation will not get better in the Mountain West.

With the elimination of their baseball program, SF State will likely fulfill its goal to remove the baseball field in favor of green space.

https://goldengatexpress.org/83963/sports/sf-state-to-remove-baseball-field-tennis-court/

Sac State should just cancel all the football nonsense. This is stupid. There is little merit in spending what will turn into hundreds of millions of dollars in the hopes of the football team someday generating enough revenue to justify the expenses.

It looks like they found him an extra year he didn't know about.

What I saw on UCSB's website was he played 2-3 games in 20-21 (COVID-19 season bonus ?), did not play in 21-22, and first played for UCD in 22-23.

Football isn't going anywhere at Cal Poly.

This is true. BOOM ! Tough Actin' Tinactin !

I think he was using sarcasm, friend.

deleted

deleted

deleted

deleted

deleted

deleted

deleted

deleted

deleted

deleted

deleted

deleted

deleted

deleted