Micheal Vick + PAC?= 0
Sac State please get your act together you are embarrassing yourself.

Amazing how almost all of their team is a transfer. I wonder if this is the future of college athletics. No commitment to your schools or your team mates just I guess for the NIL and ASU is not a very highly rated institution. 121 vrs 33 UC davis and ASU gets UCIs best player and UCI is just below UCDavis in the rankings. So these athletes not not care at all about academic issues, just what they might get in NIL down the line. I findall,of this very depressing.
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IMHO I don’t think the administration intends to rely on the students for attendance support or even to increase under this new move. What they believe (hopefully) is that these new far more well known and attractive teams will attract folks from sac, woodland, Vacaville, Fairfield and even the east bay and that they will have an impact on attendance. UC Davis students will be UC Davis students no matter what you do. I have been to many cal and Stanford games where the student section is devoid of students. So this is not a davis thing it’s a student thing. And, when you really think about it, not a bad thing. As a parent I would like my kids studying before quitting that and going to the game. Again, IMHO"………

Yes this is a stunning move. How Rocko kept this under wraps is incredibly impressive. I do have a couple of thoughts: I think it is clear that the AD and the chancellor have agreed that the football program needs to move up to the FBS level. There has been a lot of talk on this forum about the lack of attendance at games by both students and the community. Why? Because of the lack of interest in the competition. What California kid really cares about Eastern Washington or most other Big Sky teams? Few. Same with regular fans. Much more interesting would be say UNLV, Hawaii or Air Force. So very good move.
Next: what to do with Sac state?
I don’t think we or the MWC should just freeze them out. They are our immediate rivals. I also don’t think Rocko just blindsided them.but I think they did themselves no favors with their announcement (in fairness read Sac Bee) early on that they were going to join the PAC? When at the end their football program crashed. At this point their credibility is basically gone.
We are the only Program who could have any effect in getting sac into the MWC. I say we try.
Lastly, I really don’t think funding for the stadium upgrades will be that difficult. Funders and the wealthy like to do big stuff. This is big stuff. And we have the folks out there who can do it.
Happy day for Aggie Fans all over!

The future is now:

“NEW OPENING!

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Division 1 successful athletic coaching experience
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Just hope we can hang onto Meyer. Cal just might to try pick him off like with Tedeye. Certainly did work for them getting Tedeye.

Maybe sac has reached the point of no return on this scatterbrained idea that they are ready for the “BIG TIME” and the FBS. All or much of which is probably the result of the local media (Read sac bee) pushing the sac president and the ad to go public on the whole idea. All of which was a pipe dream as was/is the idea that sac was/is going to build a new stadium in the first place. So all the happy excitement that this caused was crushed by one very bad football season and someone had to take the blame: Andy Thompson. Absolutely no class in this move at all. My worry for sac is: what very smart coach would want this job?

Most likely Thompson got a hefty raise. Also Stanford provides housing for faculty and coaches and/or a$3000 per month housing stipend. Stanford used to give the head football coach his own on campus house back in the day. My very first job: parking cars at Stanford football games. Got into 4th quarter FREE!

I find it very difficult to sign on to espn2 and I have an espn account. Won’t take my password. Have to get a special sign in code emailed to me and it rarely comes and when it does I am timed out. WTF is going on?

His dad Bo.was an absolute stud. If the son is anything close he will be the real deal.

Handle the NILs. New job nowadays.

I’m no expert but I think Stanford football is very unforgiving of its coaches. So I think Troy has big issues as to his future there.

The action clips on Wrighster are very good. Never saw any on Harper. Or the others. Wrighster could add a dimension that we have not seen for a long time. QB with speed and mobility.

Yes totally agree with you on that one you can’t rest on your laurels until the last play is played.
On another note someone before me wrote that the NFL teams now mostly views RBs as lost leaders due to high rate of injuries and missed time on the field. So RBs are not highly regarded or drafted. Christian McCafferty is a case study. MVP last season and now he is just recovering from his bilateral Achilles injuries and not doing well. LL is also a case study in that he is a proven RB but also a very skilled receiver. Would he be drafted as a backup RB or WR? I would think the Niners and Seahawks are watching him. Very closely. Former sac RB Skattabo close behind, but a very different player speed wise.

If memory serves, when the BB stadium was built they had the presence of mind to install conduit for future stadium lighting. But and it is a big but, this was a mostly voluntary construction project, so who knows if those conduits meet present standards and codes or can still work. If this is yes, it could save a lot of money. But my gut says no. You construction guys know this much better than I do. Thoughts?

Let’s not get carried away with this. One game at a time…….

Who is lans agent going forward. I think someone posted this but I lost it.

Heard the same stuff from my sac contacts. The kid will definitely transfer out. With all that eligibility left he would be a great catch for a lower level FBS team. $100,000 nil would seal the deal.

Miss the game. Any way to get the replay?

I don’t know about doing this tailgate in the sac parking lot. It is huge and dark. Last time I was there we had some aggressive sac guys confronting us. Bottle’s thrown (not at us but near). All in all very bad juju. Sac campus not a very cool place at night. Very different vibes there. Just be aware of where you are and keep your phone handy! 911!