+1. Missing our DE / edge rusher / veteran team leader was huge. Too much after losing the Connors.

Getting 1,000 alums to kick in $1,000 is one big step. Heck, even 800.

A simple step is student marketing, where we seem lost. How obtuse are we not being able to get the word out when we have a classic college campus?

New premium seating, boxes, event space. Win-win-win. Would love to see the cost of the new addition suspended over the current press box, to a tear down and 100% new structure from ground floor up. Could it be built in nine months?

Most people I've chatted with don't even bring up D1 and DII. They mention big programs, and less well known. Most people know the big schools.

And lose hundreds of millions like UCLA and Cal? Pile up debt, lower academic standards? No thank you. Nobody knows what will happen in 5 years, we're on a good path, not like the Stingers down 'leaders'.

Young coaches are in the wings, Cody Hawkins one example. I'm OK if FBS poaches 1-2 players per year, that's reality.

That wouldn't stop their President.

How is marketing for basketball?

NDSU drops out, we could add Sac?

How are we ready to move to FBS? Please, think rationally.

Cal has a yearly $30 million deficit and $400 million in debt. UCLA is bleeding hundreds of millions, and is tied to the Rose Bowl for decades. Sac State is scrambling. Even powerful no-competition NDSU has empty seats as fans stay away for multiple reasons.

You want to toss all that to play UNLV and some magical hope that 10,000 people will cross the Causeway to watch the Hornets rival? So we get plastered in FBS and told we have to raise hundreds of millions more to compete?

Why the rush? We can have continued success and stability in the FCS while FBS rents players by the year. Things will be tumultuous for probably five years or more. We'll lose a marquee player or two every other year. We can graduate players, compete for championships, add an ocassional new opponent pre-season and build our new expansion.

How about FCS programs sign multi-year deals w players? They're unproven and unwanted by the big schools, FCS takes a risk and develops them, and then they get poached? Makes no sense. FCS programs have the costs of players who don't pan out.

And they passed over two coordinators on staff who are alums. Pease and Cooper.

- never a head coach
- never a coordinator

Don't programs learn? Have position coaches ever succeeded as HC?

Sac up to an 8-game schedule, and their coach is grabbing FBS and JC guys.

"Miami true freshman safety transfer Amari Wallace signed with Sac today . 4-star recruit.c

"Overall, Meyer made 10 of his 14 field goal attempts and 36 of his 38 extra-point attempts. Two of his misses came in the 30-39-yard range.

"Meyer was rated as a five-star prospect out of high school by Chris Sailer Kicking and was ranked as the No. 13 kicker in the class by the organization."

"The University of North Alabama (UNA) Lions football team has scheduled a game against the Sacramento State Hornets on October 10, 2026."

I figured maybe the FBS comment was old tape?

Sac State athletics land a five-year, $7.5 Million partnership with Wilton Rancheria and and Sky River Casino.

It supposedly goes towards football and basketball, and also Native American studies.

In the TV clip, at the end Dr. Wood says a big announcement is coming regarding football.

https://youtu.be/v6ykU6Vwne0?si=AAbL5RD1y8iLoizl

https://hornetsports.com/news/2026/1/31/general-sacramento-state-wilton-rancheria-and-sky-river-casino-announce-historic-7-5-million-multi-year-partnership.aspx

Related: do we still have men's and women's polo?

Didn't we win some national titles in the 80s?

If we were the Crushers, maybe we rotate logos... Merlots, Cabs, Zins...

His choice is rational, he might bounce next year, too. He may have a possible CFL career if the long shot NFL doesn't work.

Coach Sochor helped tab and nurture Plough for the future. I hope we have some young coaches in mind for the future, Cody Hawkins might be one.