From the Hornet forum:

According to documents obtained by The State Hornet, Sacramento State’s newly hired men’s basketball coach, Mike Bibby, is under contract until 2030 and will receive $300k per year. The 5-year deal includes multiple incentives and relocation assistance in the form of a $20k lump sum.

In the contract, Bibby will receive a supplemental talent fee of $150k, a vehicle stipend of $400/month and $15k if Sac State wins the Big Sky Conference championship.

https://bigskyfans.com/threads/2025-26-roster-and-coaches-updates.30065/

I'm sorry to see Clara Glad transfer out also. She improved greatly this past season and I think she would have seen significant minutes next season. Eastern Illinois is closer to home for her. I wish her the best.

This was posted by a member of the Hornet forum:

What a train wreck of a coaching staff. Not one coach has college coaching experience. It is a collection of Bibby’s friends. Most of them worked on the same high school coaching staff were he got his only coaching experience. How can you name someone an associate head coach when they pretty much have no coaching experience. Guess it makes sense when the head coach has no experience. Of course one of them is his son. As for the roster our one returner is getting a fifth year because of the ruling that if you played at a junior college you get an extra year of eligibility for next year only. At best he is a rotational player on any other Big Sky team. Our first signee happens to be Shaq’s son who was not good enough to start for two lower level teams. Our second signee happens to be the son of another former NBA player who was a walk on at his last program and didn’t get in a game. There were a few players from last years team that an experienced coach would have wanted to keep but they were all asked to go in the portal. Not holding out much hope for Hornet’s basketball.

https://bigskyfans.com/threads/2025-26-roster-and-coaches-updates.30065/#post-285286

I wonder if Sac is receiving a significant amount of NIL money from donors not listed in their Give Day total and whether or not their transfers are receiving significant NIL money from those donors?

UCD total give day was over 4.5 million — Aggie Cisco

Wow...that's an amazing amount of donations!

I just noticed that verbalcommits.com is showing that Leo DeBruhl has entered the portal as well.

I don't get it either.

I believe there are lawsuits against the NCAA trying to toss the limits on the number of years of eligibility an athlete has as well as a lawsuit trying to repeal the NCAA rule that does not permit an athlete to play at more than one school during the same season. Big money, greed, lawyers and agents is the new normal in college athletics...

The $333,600 is the total amount that Sac raised from all the Give Day donations to the school. $81,833 was the portion of that total that was specifically donated for their athletics.

Marion is bringing in the beef now:

Jordan Herman 6'8 370 OT transfer from Charlotte and previously Florida.
Nick Booker-Brown 6'1 265 DL transfer from USTA and previously NC State
Malik Tullis 5'11 291 DL transfer from Eastern Michigan
Donovan Haslam 6'4 332 OL transfer from Austin Peay

:rofl: Oh man, thats really funny!!

:lol: I'm sure that Hornet fans are excited about the level of athletic talent that Marion is bringing in but it remains to be seen if he can create a supportive, cohesive, team chemistry with so many new players coming in from so many different schools including several players that have have been booted out for behavior problems and/or criminal offenses.

Marion continues to mine the portal for highly rated players. Sam Adams ll, a RB from the U of Washington, has committed to Sac. Adams had 41 P4 offers out of high school including the very top P4 schools. He has been at UW for 5 years already but did not play in the first 2 years. A lot of current Sac players have been transferring out lately to make room for all these new recruits.

Yes, according to verbalcommits.com . I thought he was out of eligibility. The portal closes today also. Not sure if the following applies to Borra:

Francesco Borra is the 6th Aggie to enter the portal. He was injured and missed the entire 2024-25 season.

Bear Tenney a TE from Utah has committed to Sac. Tenny was a highly recruited player out of high school. He had 39 FBS offers which included most of the big Power 4 teams. He originally committed to Nebraska on April 24, 2024 and decommitted in November. He committed to Utah in December and enrolled in school there in January, 2025. He then entered the portal on April 16 and committed to Sac on April 21.

The video on YouTube of the assault has been viewed 1.5 million times and has nearly 11,000 comments most of which are highly critical of the lack of consequences for both players.

Sac brings in yet another player with a troubled past. Diesel Gordon, a redshirt freshman safety from the U of Washington, was suspended during fall camp last year and again after 2 days of spring practice this year as a result of being arrested for alleged 4th degree assault.

After his upbeat beginning last spring, he was suspended in fall camp for breaking team rules, according to DeBoer, and he was banished once more at the beginning of this ongoing spring football practice.

In the latest episode, the 6-foot, 164-pound redshirt freshman from Arlington faces allegations of fourth-degree assault in an incident involving him and suspended running back Tybo Rogers and a cyclist in what was termed "road rage" in a Seattle police report. Rogers similarly has been charged with sexual assault and has been suspended a second time, if not a third time, from the team.

https://www.si.com/college/washington/huskies-diesel-gordon-enters-portal

What a mess...