I think he meant the beginning of construction will begin in 2026 or 2027. But even then he is now starting his back track of doing phase 1 of lights/bathroom this year and next phase “most likely” next year. In reality he probably has $0 for it yet and hopes to build some excitement with all his propaganda, move to FBS, and hoping for a good 1st year of Marion. I doubt they will have the funda to officially start phase 2 before 2027

Some snippets from the Reddit page.
- seems that most student disapprove the new athletic fees. He also sort of admits to some of his previous lies including no conference showing real interest in adding them, and he is now giving updated timeline for “stadium”.

I agree. There is no true analogy to what is happening now. The college football world seems to be evolving so fast the past 1-2 years.
I just posted it since it was something posted on YouTube related to this subject.

you are right a few years was wrong. I don’t know about what was happening 30 years ago. But I was referring to their athletic dept woes in 2003 - 2006 (which is around 20 years so maybe you were referring to then as well). But they gambled on theirselves then and it worked out. Hopefully it does again. We do hope they succeed and that we continue our rivalry. I hope they do find a home within the PAC or MW. I and many other just voice our concerns and many including myself do not fully trust Dr Wood who seems to always make it about him self and would respond and argue with random people in X.

it won’t. Many schools including sac and our own school/UCD made it clear that athletic funding will be completely separate from general funding. So if sac did happen to fail, they still have their new student athletic fees to fall back to, but would have to trim cost down such as cutting football completely along with some other programs. Many state CA schools are already trimming their athletic costs/programs this year. Sac almost cut football a few years ago but were able to make it work and are now gambling big. We will see if it pays out. “FBS or bust”

I could see them adding a larger 2nd deck ~7k on the east side of UCD Health stadium, then adding a smaller 2nd deck/luxury section of ~2.5k seats with a lounge/food area and luxury boxes/press box above that on west side. Then they will fill one end zone(north) with seats and leave the south with grass. This will give capacity around 22k and they can add seats to other endzone in future if necessary. I see a total build out of being closer to 25-27k. Our own AD mentioned that the previous 30k was the old number so I doubt we will do that especially since there is no min capacity anymore.
The luxury section and boxes is what will bring in $
I can also dream of them putting a canvas partial roof for shade but I doubt that.

My concern is that Dr. wood is doing this to boost his image with goal of jumping ship to a bigger school in a few years and then leave the sac state athletic dept in debt.
He always makes every announcement about him and puts himself front and center when it is the job of others such as the AD.

I 100% agree.

Another style over substance move. I would have preferred he get at least a year of D2 HC or D1 assistant coach experience first. Especially after being fired from his previous High school position for some concerning allegations. Sac state just hired him for the name and show.

The Big Mountain Podcast today had a short discussion on UC Davis and its Mountain West agreement. Podcast episode below. They will post their interview with AD DeLuca on Thursday.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sdX0C-DAxGs

https://x.com/TBM_JY/status/1904385967047188873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1904385967047188873%7Ctwgr%5E254561f2aeebe98a1ed7ca29266a55f0089554d5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FTBM_JY%2Fstatus%2F1904385967047188873

https://x.com/TBM_JY/status/1904385967047188873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1904385967047188873%7Ctwgr%5E254561f2aeebe98a1ed7ca29266a55f0089554d5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FTBM_JY%2Fstatus%2F1904385967047188873

you are correct. I updated it to say “the previous coach…”

I am looking forward to joining the mountain west. They currently get much more respect than the Big west in basketball (much less than power 4, but more than big west). They will lose some power with the loss of SDSU, CSU, USU, and BSU to PAC but they will gain GCU and the WCC will become much weaker with losing Gonzaga and possibly st. Mary’s.