Several good BW players who were in the portal have committed to new schools:

Myles Che - UC Irvine to UNLV
Nordin Kapic - UC San Diego to South Carolina
Joel Armotrading - UC Riverside to Nevada

Savion Red, 5'10 210 RB transfer from Nevada, has committed to Sac. Red was the Wolfpack's leading RB last season. Sac will be his 4th school after SMU, Texas and Nevada.

Red joined Nevada for the 2024 season and rushed for 687 yards on 119 carries, an average of 5.8 yards per carry. He scored eight touchdowns, which tied for a team high with Brendon Lewis. Red's rushing total led Nevada running backs with Lewis topping the team from the quarterback position with 775 yards. Red also caught 16 passes for 74 yards.

https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/reporters/savion-red-nevadas-leading-rb-rusher-last-season-to-enter-the-transfer-portal

Marion has added Jaden Rashada, 6'4 190 QB transfer from Georgia. You have to wonder what their excellent, current QB, Carson Conklin, is thinking about Marion bringing in Rashada.

Former Arizona State football quarterback Jaden Rashada has transferred schools again; this time from Georgia to Sacramento State.

The 2023 four-star high school product (all recruiting/transfer ratings and rankings are as of 247Sports) transferred to Georgia after one year with the Sun Devils. As a Sun Devil, Rashada played three games, completing 53.7% of his passes for 5.9 yards per pass. As a Bulldog, he did not see the field.

Rashada will have three years of eligibility with FCS Sac State. He commits to the Hornets after being rated a three-star transfer portal prospect, and ranked as the No. 17 quarterback in the transfer portal. This comes two years after he was ranked as the No. 6 high school quarterback prospect in the nation.

Sacramento State adds a quarterback in Rashada who has played for or committed to four Power 4 schools (Georgia, Arizona State, Florida, Miami) just a few weeks after they applied to move to the FBS level for the 2026 season.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/college/asu/2025/04/25/former-arizona-state-football-qb-jaden-rashada-transfers-from-georgia-sec-to-sacramento-state-fcs/83282383007/

I didn't know Bill but I saw him at the Aggie basketball games. Bob Dunning's tribute to him was remarkable and heartfelt. Bill certainly lived a full and gracious life while giving back to others and paying it forward to future generations which seems to be in short supply nowadays.

Put simply, Bill was one of the greatest human beings the Good Lord ever put on this earth and we were blessed beyond measure to have him in our midst for the last 55 years.

https://www.thewaryone.com/p/recalling-the-life-of-bill-roe-who

From the Hornet forum:

According to documents obtained by The State Hornet, Sacramento State’s newly hired men’s basketball coach, Mike Bibby, is under contract until 2030 and will receive $300k per year. The 5-year deal includes multiple incentives and relocation assistance in the form of a $20k lump sum.

In the contract, Bibby will receive a supplemental talent fee of $150k, a vehicle stipend of $400/month and $15k if Sac State wins the Big Sky Conference championship.

https://bigskyfans.com/threads/2025-26-roster-and-coaches-updates.30065/

I'm sorry to see Clara Glad transfer out also. She improved greatly this past season and I think she would have seen significant minutes next season. Eastern Illinois is closer to home for her. I wish her the best.

This was posted by a member of the Hornet forum:

What a train wreck of a coaching staff. Not one coach has college coaching experience. It is a collection of Bibby’s friends. Most of them worked on the same high school coaching staff were he got his only coaching experience. How can you name someone an associate head coach when they pretty much have no coaching experience. Guess it makes sense when the head coach has no experience. Of course one of them is his son. As for the roster our one returner is getting a fifth year because of the ruling that if you played at a junior college you get an extra year of eligibility for next year only. At best he is a rotational player on any other Big Sky team. Our first signee happens to be Shaq’s son who was not good enough to start for two lower level teams. Our second signee happens to be the son of another former NBA player who was a walk on at his last program and didn’t get in a game. There were a few players from last years team that an experienced coach would have wanted to keep but they were all asked to go in the portal. Not holding out much hope for Hornet’s basketball.

https://bigskyfans.com/threads/2025-26-roster-and-coaches-updates.30065/#post-285286

I wonder if Sac is receiving a significant amount of NIL money from donors not listed in their Give Day total and whether or not their transfers are receiving significant NIL money from those donors?

UCD total give day was over 4.5 million — Aggie Cisco

Wow...that's an amazing amount of donations!

I just noticed that verbalcommits.com is showing that Leo DeBruhl has entered the portal as well.

I don't get it either.

I believe there are lawsuits against the NCAA trying to toss the limits on the number of years of eligibility an athlete has as well as a lawsuit trying to repeal the NCAA rule that does not permit an athlete to play at more than one school during the same season. Big money, greed, lawyers and agents is the new normal in college athletics...

The $333,600 is the total amount that Sac raised from all the Give Day donations to the school. $81,833 was the portion of that total that was specifically donated for their athletics.

Marion is bringing in the beef now:

Jordan Herman 6'8 370 OT transfer from Charlotte and previously Florida.
Nick Booker-Brown 6'1 265 DL transfer from USTA and previously NC State
Malik Tullis 5'11 291 DL transfer from Eastern Michigan
Donovan Haslam 6'4 332 OL transfer from Austin Peay

:rofl: Oh man, thats really funny!!

:lol: I'm sure that Hornet fans are excited about the level of athletic talent that Marion is bringing in but it remains to be seen if he can create a supportive, cohesive, team chemistry with so many new players coming in from so many different schools including several players that have have been booted out for behavior problems and/or criminal offenses.

Marion continues to mine the portal for highly rated players. Sam Adams ll, a RB from the U of Washington, has committed to Sac. Adams had 41 P4 offers out of high school including the very top P4 schools. He has been at UW for 5 years already but did not play in the first 2 years. A lot of current Sac players have been transferring out lately to make room for all these new recruits.

Yes, according to verbalcommits.com . I thought he was out of eligibility. The portal closes today also. Not sure if the following applies to Borra:

Francesco Borra is the 6th Aggie to enter the portal. He was injured and missed the entire 2024-25 season.