sac State’s president is in sales and marketing. I’ve always like the Dilbert cartoon that likened marketing to “liquor and guessing” although Wood is more smooth smoke blowing. Davis has the better leader (Chancellor May) by far.

It’s not poaching when you bring in a bunch of players that have been cut from or kicked off their previous team. At least Santi Hall was on the roster for Causeway, most of these guys will not.

New stadium built and largest NIL fund in the country at any level, done and done!

https://x.com/joshuawoodsr/status/1877374971888193559

he's sounding more and more like a used car salesman

With bad grammar to boot. Must have BS’d his way through his PhD orals.

Shocked the world with announcement of renovations to start soon!

It seems like it's just in Sac's DNA to be loud and flashy when it comes to boasting about the future of their athletics. I remember when John Volek was their head coach and he said Sac was about to become "the Florida State of the west" and that they wouldn't be playing teams like Davis anymore once they became a major football power.

Check out the scoreboard in the video of the renovations that Sac plans to make at The Well...Sac 57 Aggies 36... :rofl:

not gonna lie, I know this may be a temporary stadium but I don’t really see how it’s that much better than the current stadium other than a few extra rows… I don’t really understand what’s taken them so long

his BA/MA from Sac State, PhD from Arizona State and was a professor at San Diego State. His major was Ethnic Studies and his thesis involved interviewing 28 college students where he identified themes such as focus, family, motivation, employment, attendance, and completing homework as important factors to success of minority students. I’m not saying social sciences are unimportant but come on the premise of this thesis is kind of like asking 28 people if the world is still round. How would that defense go any way other than golf clapping in an echo chamber? The Wood brothers seem like narcissistic self-promoters who thrive on suspense and drama. They have found a successful business model to peddle this, so good for them I suppose. Though it is probably more appropriate for Six Flags to tease next season’s new ride than a university president. His thin-on-specifics braggadocio reminds me of someone else. I bet I could draw him into a twitter debate on hand size.

I wonder if if a coincidence that this rash of BIG announcements are coming with the students on break? Seemed to be some pushback back in fall when they are taking new stadium/arena

And The Well will be taken over how frequently for ICA?

Did you expect a scholar as a Cal State University President? Not many hard science students at the school, maybe none.

Business: The most popular major, with 935 graduates
Psychology: 607 graduates
Criminal Justice and Safety Studies: 568 graduates
Communications: 448 graduates
Early Childhood Education: 436 graduates
Physical Education Teaching and Coaching: 301 graduates
Computer Science: 300 graduates
Biology: 294 graduates
Sociology: 273 graduates
Nursing: 196 graduates

I mean, in certain fields, if you want to be an elementary teacher, marriage therapist, or accountant, Sac State is a good school, perhaps more relevant than Davis. Social scientists can be scholars and I have every expectation that the leader of a CSU campus would be one. Not all scholars are good leaders (see Katehi) but this guy’s qualifications to lead a major university are squishy and I read his 23-point strategic plan and almost all of them are either DEI or athletics/fundraising related, with a few nonsense items like Combat U. His top priority academic plan is creating a “general studies” certificate.

As BlueGoldAg said previously, we’re fortunate to have Chancellor May. But to be fair, we also had Linda Katehi who did some positive things, but also made some decisions that were far more damaging to UCD’s reputation than anything Luke Wood has done so far. I see that fugawe09 just referenced this.

Davis campus leadership also was so sure that Bob Hamilton was over the hill that they pushed him out and, with poor due diligence, hired Lonnie Williams, who had falsified his resume. Williams was terminated after one season when players revolted.

Good for Sac that their president is interested in football, but is it a little odd he only tweets about football? Is anything else of note happening at the school?

A former Post makes reference to Linda Katehi and (to my reading) may allude to the famous “pepper spray incident” being a result of her poor decisions as chancellor. Just for the record and in fairness to katehi we should keep in mind that she was never alleged to have “ordered the spraying of pepper spray” it just happened on her watch so she was rather charged as a NEGLIGENT SUPERVISOR of the davis cops who pulled out the pepper spray. Big difference! I know, too long ago and maybe irrelevant now, but the poor woman still deserves respect and accuracy over this one of the most sordid and bad memory events in UC Davis history.

Katehi may have survived the pepper spray incident had she immediately emptied out UCDPD. It was the coverup. Remember the multimillion dollar consultant to scrub her personal image on Google? Aside from that, she also hired family members with reporting relationships that reeked of nepotism, moonlit on unapproved corporate boards and took kickbacks from a textbook publisher. An accomplished electrical engineer, promoted beyond her competence, who should have never been an administrator or manager.

You are correct in your reading of my post. I tried to point out positive and negative aspects of her time as chancellor without being specific. To those who think it inappropriate or were offended, I apologize.

Living in Davis then and now we followed the situation as closely as possible. My memory of immediate and subsequent reporting was Chancellor Katehi was present in whatever was used as the command center when the University police officer in charge called in to ask for direction. Versions of he chancellor’s response to the officer varied. She said she had forbade the use of force; others indicated she wanted the students removed. Obviously, the University police officer subsequently made a poor decision. But it was also obvious that the chancellor didn’t provide the leadership she could have. The subsequent attempt at whitewashing was another poor decision that reflected poorly on our campus.

setting aside the weird stuff, they are working a sizable satellite campus in Placer County with Sierra College and are leading a research group looking at AI uses in education. Not sure why he doesn’t talk about those things more.

It makes him look like a lightweight, a jock, a huckster. Given how young he is and the fact that he doesn’t come from a more traditional/rigorous academic background, I would think he would want to compensate some and act the part of senior, serious academic administrator a bit. He seems to see his job as mostly football and little else though.

Don't forget MMA.

Mrak Hall wanted to hire a black coach, so if I recall, they passed over candidates like Tex Winter to hire Lonnie Williams. Williams also challenged a student athlete to fight, and that SA happened to be a Kodak All American. If memory serves, The Aggie dug into this and it blew up in AD Jim Sochors tenure.

He went on to be a HC at junior college and DII programs.

sac is broken and he alone can fix it.

It makes sense to build our near Sierra College. The eastern suburbs have money and a growing population. Plus you can reach some adults who might not want a fully online experience but don't want to commute to J St. We did something similar with West Village on a smaller scale. It is all the more important for CSUs with service areas. It provides a better transfer experience.

I went to Chabot College in Hayward and there was a decent amount of money and programs used to funnel transfer students across town to CSU Easy Bay, about 10-15 minutes away by car or 40 mins by bus. Lots of adults going back to school like the convenience and some courses like science labs are better done in person.

I agree it makes good sense for CSU campuses to have satellite locations co-located with JCs to be more accessible. My point is it seems like immature leadership to consume all the oxygen in the room on Combat U, Sac12, and the plan to attract out of state students to pay for it while hardly promoting the real work that educators are doing.

Renovations, then 'build out'. Sounds like the current spot.