Here is an article from The State Hornet about each of the ten starters that have said they are entering the portal:

https://statehornet.com/2025/12/sacramento-state-football-college-transfer-portal-brennan-marion-luke-wood/

Sac hires a new Associate Athletic Director who is known for his fundraising success:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Veteran college athletics administrator Michael Izzi has been named the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Development at Sacramento State, it was announced by Director of Athletics Mark Orr.

In his role, Izzi will work collaboratively with University Advancement and oversee all fundraising activities for Intercollegiate Athletics.

"To have someone with Michael's experience in college athletics join our department is exciting," Orr said. "His proven record of success in fundraising, program development, and team building makes him an exceptional addition to our athletics leadership team."

Izzi brings over 30 years of leadership experience in collegiate athletics, development, and strategic advancement. His distinguished career includes serving as Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at both UC Irvine and Cal State Northridge, as well as Senior Associate Athletic Director at Stanford University, where he helped raise over $300 million in athletics gifts.

Whole article here: https://hornetsports.com/news/2025/12/16/general-izzi-joins-staff-as-senior-associate-athletics-director-for-development.aspx

why would they want someone who can help raise funds? I thought sac was flushed with cash and had millions of NIL money. lol.

Sac has a new grad transfer, a DE / LB @ 6'3", 235# Josh Cashiola.

2025 injury shortened. In 2024 Totaled 23 tackles, including five for loss and four sacks.
Led the team with three forced fumbles with two at East Texas A&M and one at NAU.

Coach Alonzo Carter: "... we gonna kill California" [in recruiting].

UTRGV!

Now they only need 7 more games...they're on a roll...and 4 of the 5 games they have now are JV teams as Dr Wood would say. FBS or Bust in 2026 was what they were selling...looks more like Bust so far to me...

Must have dropped the "date to be determined" game against Lamar.

But they have that season finale rivalry game against Southern Utah.

This is incredible. Sac is now playing the big boys. Scheduling a team that literally started sponsoring a football team a year ago, going to Fresno, paying Youngstown from Ohio to come to Sac, playing Maine and the 2017 Big Sky champions SUU is some high-caliber stuff. Leaving the Big Sky without an FBS invite/conformation of FBS independence acceptance was a stroke of genius by Luke Wood and company!

In all seriousness this is crazy, especially when Wood said a few months ago now, that in 2 weeks he would have conference news. The goal post never stops moving. I am surprised they wouldn't pay low tier FBS schools to at least have some resemblance of an FBS schedule (considering Wood from the get go said they will 100% be playing an FBS schedule in 2026), but instead are playing mediocre fcs schools that no one in CA knows about.

According to his further comment I guess Lamar isn't gone, just TBD and not listed.

Just saw Lamar’s schedule. Sac ain’t on it. Yikes. Still 5 games.

The schedule is 12 games. It's done. It's not announced because different conferences announcing schedules at different times. It is not a "FBS schedule" as promised.

you’ll excuse us if we view this with a bit of skepticism. Your track record on proclamations hasn’t been great

Dr. Wood's*

i guess i missed the part that said 'According to Dr. Wood.....'

reminds me of a great classic from the Simpson's :

Marge : "Homer, that's the worst thing you have ever done!"
Homer : "You say that so often that it's lost all meaning."

For the moment, and i DO hope you guys get 12 games, I'll file it under the posts about the certainty of the Pac12 offer, the FBS acceptance, the MAC offer, , the construction kickoff of the on-campus stadium, the Cal Expo stadium in 2026.

Wait, are you a Davis or Sac State grad?

I'll file it under the posts about the certainty of the Pac12 offer, the FBS acceptance, the MAC offer, , the construction kickoff of the on-campus stadium, the Cal Expo stadium in 2026. — DrMike

A hard-hitter classic from the Dr.