Whoa! Thank you.

Nevada scored or threw pick?

Definately agree it’s a better fit, but not as good of a conference without UCSD and UCI.

This sucks for Sac.

This may be my fault. I called my Sac State grad brother in law to rub in SDSU game.

This is an over simplification of a complex issue. Historically, minorities have been underrepresented and of course that needs to be addressed. Ignorance, hatred, institutional racism, and bigotry are the problems. But labeling this “whiteness” is counter productive and needlessly divisive.
Surprisingly, compared to the state population, caucasians are actually underrepresented in both the CSU and the UC systems.

Interesting to read that Ole Miss is still recruiting McDonald despite his verbal. This is a great coup and pick up for Sac, but they need to continue to recruit this kid until December.
I am a huge skeptic about what Sac is trying to do with FBS, but even I must admit they are getting some positive results in the short-term.

Same Brewster whose Gophers lost twice to Junior Varsity teams from North Dakota State?

The comment about “not making the travel work” is absolutely ridiculous.

I have to think this is not a surprise to Woods or the Sac administration. If they were truly blind sided by this, they either bought into their own hype, were too naive to run a D1 athletics program, just plain stupid, or all of the above. If they were serious about FBS, from the start this was a hastily contrived and poorly executed plan. Just track the narrative:
PAC 12 membership gave way to FBS independent which gave way to FCS independent in a Olympic sport conference their rivals just upgraded from.
New stadium gave way to renovated stadium which gave way to renovated bathrooms.
These “facilities renovations” are small capital projects for a mid-sized college and calling them “phases” is just showmanship. I do not think Dr. Woods is stupid, but I do think this was never a serious plan.
All this may very well get them an FCS championship with players and a coach who were brought in on promises of an FBS transition and new facilities. That is if they can keep their “student athletes” out of trouble. I could sit here and say I wish Sac the best and hope they find their footing, but it would be a lie. In order to gain attention, they sold their plan on smoke & mirrors and outright lies. This allowed them to attract a group of highly athletic players as hired guns, disregarding and standards of academics and integrity.

They are taking the 4-3-2-1 approach to recruiting:
4 previous colleges
3 star rating
2.0 GPA
1 felony conviction

*Before you get all over me about GPA: I know. It’s a joke.

If the waiver is denied, are they above the scholarship limit for FCS and Big Sky?

And yet Sac thinks they can go the other way.

I agree about the need to improve the program. My point is that while Sac is making a lot of noise, it may just be noise.

A well known Bay Area QB’s kid played football at my son’s high school. When we did not start, he transferred to another high school. Apples do not always land at the base of the tree.
If I am correct, Shaq’s kid average less that 7 ppg more than I did last year.

It is amazing what a college athletic program can accomplish when they are not concerned with…you know…college.

Same as football: Sac is very likely to surpass us in performance on the field/court (Not courtroom.) in the short-term by prioritizing flash and form. How this works is if they can generate enough revenue to do actual facilities upgrades to create a sustained recruiting and donor base. Have gone through the recruiting process recently with my kids, facilities are huge factors in decisions. Sac’s facilities suck compared to most FCS/mid-majors and it takes big money and time to address that.

Sac was FCS (I-AA) and UCD was D2 when I was there. Even though they were a step up divisionally, the result was usually the same: Happy Aggies and sad Hornets.
Remember they had a solid 12+ year head start on us moving to FCS.

They need to, but will not, bring back some restrictions on transferring. At least in the past we pretended that players were actual students, but now the NCAA does not even attempt to hide it.
Playing at two schools I can understand, but 3, 4, or 5?

What a joke.
Win all the games you want because next year they mean nothing.
Seriously, zero integrity.