maybe the hope is to fill in their schedule with rest of the Pac 8 and integrate into that conference at some point.

Assuming that conference exists in 2-3 years. Same as us assuming the MWC exists when we’re ready.

In the current state of college football, trying to guess the landscape in 2-3 years seems difficult. The power 4 has taken over.

This is a confusing move unless there’s some plan to slide into a conference after the next (inevitable) conference shakeup. They join UConn, UMASS and Notre Dame as FBS independents. I don’t see any of those three traveling to Sac. Maybe a home/home with some MWC teams, but scheduling once conference okay starts seems challenging!

Probably the cheapest way to go FBS - leave the other sports in a ‘FCS’ (lower mid-major) conference, although there doesn’t seem to be a TV revenue stream to offset costs.

Can’t imagine selling a fee increase to students to pay for this!

Can’t imagine the donors who pledged that $50M NIL money had this in mind.

plus Bibby comes with some baggage from his high school coaching a career. Didn’t end well.

it’s an interim position - one year only.

besides Manjon, what contributor have we lost over the years?

Beasley left but that was an unusual case - left to join his brother.

Sac didn't fire their coach in order to bring in a former high school coach (granted, a well known name in Sac); their coach left and and was replaced by an 'interim' coach for a year.

I'd imagine that a portion of those 2000 are players that may have been 'encouraged' by their coaches to seek another school.

interesting to see Purdue on the list - they currently have zero transfers on their roster from what I read.

I think it’s the 20-21 COVID year.

I endorse this move!!

agree. I think we had a good time last year.

if memory serves, it wasnt much of a ‘game’ last year.

he’s post COVID. 20 plus games at Cal over 2 seasons in addition to his 3 full seasons. Bizarre

how can Devin Askew still be eligible. One season at Kentucky, one at Texas, 2 years at Cal and one at Long Beach. That’s kind of ridiculous. Following the ex-Ag Mikey Henn career path.

irvine has been the standard to shoot for in the conference for awhile. They haven’t been dependent on transfers, rather getting good recruits and keeping them in the program. At the home game vs them I was looking at the game program hoping to see 5 senior starters; unfortunately, they have key returners (although Tillis and Bent will be tough to replace). They seem to be able to win with different offensive styles and their defense never seems to take a night off.

he’s finished. He was named all-academic WCC as a graduate student. Bright kid

I would imagine they’ll have their eyes on past recruits that slipped away who aren’t happy in their current spot. Robby Beasley fit that criteria.

A 100% Roberson would be a delayed impact transfer.

Two of our OOC opponents are playing today. Norfolk St is a 16 seed getting crushed by Florida. Grand Canyon got beat bad by Maryland.

One might infer that the level of compliance at Stanford is higher than his previous stops

Back to SJS - they have a NET ranking of 175 and get a bid AND a home game. CSUN was something like 105 and gave to play at a good Stanford team?