Sac State's bid for the Pac 12 Thread College sports is highly geographical. SacSt and Davis are both geographically in an isolated area within the US. If we work together similar to how many schools leverage geographical areas, both schools would improve faster than doing it alone. For some reason, there are Aggies who believe we are better than SAC in a strange elitism that make working with SACST somehow impossible. That is absurd.
You think Stanford, Cal, USC, and UCLA think we are on par with those schools? Of course not, they laugh at us. We need to build something just for the SAC area. A natural rival is rare in sports, but we have one. SDSU, Fresno St, Cal Poly, none have a geographical rival like we do.
Embrace it. Build it together. In the long run it will be very successful.