Taylor took a sizable pay cut to come to Sacramento State, where his base annual pay is $242,000. That’s about $1.7 million through the duration of his seven-year contract. Taylor’s 2018 base salary at Utah was $525,000, plus a bonus of $87,500, a total about 2½ times his annual take at Sacramento State, where he is the highest-paid coach.

“It’s never been about the money for me,” says Taylor, who will earn a bonus if the Hornets win the conference title. “It’s about believing in where I am and being challenged. My goal when I left Folsom High School was to one day be a head coach, and this is a great opportunity. They’re paying me well. This is where I want to be.”

https://www.csus.edu/sacstatemagazine/2019/05/terms-of-endearment.html

Post-game quotes from the Enterprise article:

“The coaches put us in good position to make plays all night long,” said Aggie quarterback Miles Hastings, who turned in his fifth straight lights-out performance by hitting 16 of 19 passes for 206 yards.

“The offensive line did a great job of opening holes for our run game and when I did drop back, they gave me a lot of time to throw,” Hastings added. “I’m happy to hand the ball off when we can run like that.”

“The fast start really helps, but we’re a good football team and we expect to start that way,” said Aggie head coach Dan Hawkins.

“We’ve been on a five-game playoff run with one more to go, so we have to win it to stay in it. But it’s not really so much about winning as it is about playing well and that’s what we did tonight. We were very efficient on offense and we didn’t turn the ball over. Any time you can do that, you’re going to be successful.”

“We knew they had been a strong second-half team,” Hawkins said of the Vandals. “We knew it, but we didn’t do anything about it. For a while there in the third quarter they were blowing through us pretty good, but then our score knocked them off schedule a bit.”

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/football-aggies-win-fifth-in-a-row/

I'm really proud of this team and the coaching staff at how they continued to stay focused and get better after a very tough, disappointing start to the season. Those 4 tough losses to good teams plus several key injuries could have sunk our season but they stayed the course and have put themselves in a position to potentially do something very special: spoil Sac's undefeated season and punch their ticket to the playoffs. Go Ags!

The only way to slow down hot 3 point shooting team is to make sure those shots are contested and not open looks. If the team still makes the contested shots, that's just great 3 point shooting. LMU got too many open looks tonight.

Yes, I wonder just how good Irvine might be after beating Oregon.

It seems to be a trademark for the Aggies that we are pretty good at PG and SG but rarely have a big post or power forwards who are equally as good. That's generally where good teams take advantage of us.

Ags fall 85-75. Pepper goes off for 32 points but the Aggie defense did not travel with them tonight. I'm sure Les will not be happy with his team giving up 85 points. As good as we looked against Cal, we have been just mediocre the last 2 games.

This one is slipping away fast. Down 13 with 7:40 to go. 74-61 LMU.

Montana State 72 Cal Poly 28 - Final

Ags cut the lead to 4 and then can't get closer...trail 57-49 with 13:13 to go.

Eli is streaking and when he gets on a heater good things can happen!

Pepper brings the Ags to within 4 at 45-41 with at the 16:43 mark.

Wow...talk about a program that has fallen on hard times...I feel for the Mustangs...

We won't win playing the way we did in the first half.

Ags trail 40-31 at the half.

The Ags fell behind 11-0 to start the game and have been trying catch up since then. The story so far is that we are getting pounded on the boards 25-18 and Anigwe picked up 2 fouls in just 7 minutes and had to sit. The Lions are physical inside and we're getting pushed around and giving up too many 2nd and 3rd chance points. I'm sure Les will be stressing defense and rebounding with his team at the half. No Adebayo tonight either.

We're in big trouble...the momentum has shifted 100%...

I really don't like it when we go conservative and totally predictable. The Vandals are fired up now and their offense is starting to click.

You know the Vandals are going to come out in the second fired up. The Ags need to keep their foot on the gas and play hard for another 30 minutes.

Total yards: Ags 291 Vandals 157
Passing: Ags 84 Vandals 83
Rushing: Ags 207 Vandals 74
Hastings 6-8 for 84
Gilliam 19 rushes for 138