exactly. The blue bloods of the Big 10 and SEC are trying to consolidate power and TV rights to push the ACC and Big 12 to the side, let alone leave any crumbs for the G5 conferences. They don’t want more mouths to feed and they don’t want anyone outside their club to be more competitive than planned. My guess is that eventually there may be a secondary playoff tournament akin to the NIT if there isn’t a more dramatic split in divisions.

Was listening to their afternoon guy who was at touting the stadium while the engineer was bringing up a lot of the head scratching questions we have. Engineer is Kyle Ledbetter who is an Aggie graduate so he got labeled a ‘hater’.

I guess my question is what’s the expected lifetime of this stadium? The original on campus vision seemed on the smaller size of FBS but looked like a ‘long term’ home. This looks and feels like a temporary home, until they can’t build a permanent one. I can’t imagine a long term FBS vision is a one sided stadium. Unless you’re San Jose State.

Pretty ridiculous (and long) puff piece in the Chronicle today

What did it have say?

Wood has big dreams, has raised tens of millions of dollars, will build a beautiful new stadium on campus ... er at Cal Expo, and there is no way this will all fail spectacularly. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/sacramento-state-football-sports-20824108.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL3Nwb3J0cy9jb2xsZWdlL2FydGljbGUvc2FjcmFtZW50by1zdGF0ZS1mb290YmFsbC1zcG9ydHMtMjA4MjQxMDgucGhw&time=MTc1NjU5NTU4OTgxOA%3D%3D&rid=MTkyODBlNDgtMmJhYi00ODdjLTkyZWEtZjM2ZDc5NTFjNzIw&sharecount=MA%3D%3D

Stepping up your athletic program should be an scross-the-board effort. It is not just one or two sports, but all of the sports that would face tougher competition, even in a diluted Pac-X conference. This past weekend Sac's men's cross country team finished 7th of 14 teams in a meet at USF. Their women finished 6th of 13 at the same event. Nothing spectacular there, however those were the best perfomances by Hornet teams over the past weekend. Football is 0-1 after losing to South Dakota State, 20-3, (in a game that was not nearly as close as the score indicated). Volleyball is 0-3 after finishing last in their own tournament. Against three opponents they won a total of two sets. Men's soccer lost to Santa Clara, 3-0, and is currenty 0-3-1. Women's soccer lost to Fresno State, 2-0, but is currently the winningest team at Sac with a 2-3 record. It is early in the season and things can certainly get better. They can't get much worse.

https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/2025/sep/02/santoro-pack-must-shut-down-sac-states-tough-guy-act/

This Nevada guy goes off on Sac State. Fun read.

Going to be quite the pissing contest between these two this week in the media.
Sac State is despondent. Nevada has lost 32-39 games.............and Lake Tahoe apparently.

Marion’s making $750,000? Holy smoke!

Surprisingly I haven't seen a big follow up in the Chronicle on how Sac did with their $4 million FBS team vs a JV FCS team. I wonder if they had a game.

Why can I not see an Aggie podcast without paying Spotify? Or X?

$750,000 BASE SALARY. That doesn’t talk about incentives, “moving allowances”, and things of that nature.

Oh boy............A lot of the comments are about Wood trolling his own team. He needs to chill.

Just wow ...

Well, one thing for sure, the man is consistent in his hyperbole...

Oregon State is the only current school in the Pac-12 with a women's gymnastics team. Boise State and Utah State each have women's gymnstics and will join the Pac-12 in 2026. The Pac-12 has now added Southern Utah as an affiliate member in women's gymnastics in 2026-27 year. Much can change in the current chaos that is conference realignment, but as of now Sac is not even an affiilate member in the Pac-12 while Southern Utah is.

That's gotta sting.

Sac State is in less demand than the vegetarian platter at Texas Roadhouse.

Texas Roadhouse is a solid deal.

I almost feel bad posting this short video. Ouch.

https://youtube.com/shorts/4G6qkDLKQYM?si=hB-Vq7TxVCyr8_3M

Why did he ditch the cowboy hat?

Does anyone have a future schedule update for Sacramento State for the 2026-2027 season? I'm curious what their schedule would look like after transitioning to FBS.

He didn't completely ditch the cowboy hat. He just didn't have it on all of the time. I saw him with a light colored one when they showed him on the sidelines at one point.

He wore the cowboy hat the beginning of the game and took it off in middle of 2nd qr about the time they started to improve. Maybe the hat is bad luck.

theres a thread on the Sac board with speculation/wishes based on who might have open dates. @Kadeezy suggested closing the season at Alabama.

There are a lot of things working against them to get a full schedule together for 2026 and beyond. It will be interesting to watch at least.

how close is too close for a workplace photo? Just saying, can’t see both hands on either one of them.

Senator Ashby should use a spell checker before she makes a public post on social media also.

Marion mentioned sideline issues during the Mercyhurst game….with some guys b*tching and complaining. He’s “moved on” from some players (not sure of this is temporary or permanent).
I thought Rashida got concussed at Nevada and that’s why he was out last week (?) But it’s sounding like he’s been benched in favor of Williams, who’s looked good.

This stuff isn't shocking. Bringing in 70+ guys all at once (a lot of them 2nd and 3rd chance guys) from all over the country based on only short conversations and review of highlights is a risky endeavor.