How long has it been since a Hornet and an Aggie were picked in same draft? If you count Skatt and Teddye (I would), there might be 2 Hornets and 2 Aggies taken in this one...

I'm rooting for Sac State. It will be super entertaining, and the rising tide will float all ships. Whatever positive momentum they get will motivate the Davis admin to step up investment/focus on football, and we'll just get more credibility as we perennially beat them ;)

@fugawe09@agalum In this case I was making a pun based on the wording of the article title.

We are better than this

Sure beat sac state athletic give day of $81,833

Good one, had to laugh.

Plough gives recognition to three new corners,Ty Richardson, Trey Carr, and new freshman Drew Cofield, two young defensive linemen, Reyne Mayo and Jake Williams, and a redshirt freshman offensive tackle David Portesano, three fast but smallish receivers, Stacey Dobbins, Zach Jones and Sam Gbatu one of whom, Zach Jones, hasn’t seen much action yet.
It's encouraging that guys in position of need seem to be doing well.

this probably nets $50-70k per year. The gift is invested and the proceeds are split 3 ways - the annual payout, reinvesting to grow the principal relative to inflation, and a cut off the top to pay the people in the fundraising department. Endowed professorships start at $1.5 to $3M so this seems in the ballpark.

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.

Bear Tenney a TE from Utah has committed to Sac. Tenny was a highly recruited player out of high school. He had 39 FBS offers which included most of the big Power 4 teams. He originally committed to Nebraska on April 24, 2024 and decommitted in November. He committed to Utah in December and enrolled in school there in January, 2025. He then entered the portal on April 16 and committed to Sac on April 21.

This is extreme, but,...at the present trajectory, and with no guardrails.....it feels like we are headed for a completely different college sports landscape within the next 5-10 years (?) *corrected per DrMike*:

DI - "Power 4" ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, and SEC (professional 'collegiate' athletes)
DII - Everyone else (scholarship / non-scholarship athletes)
DIII - Everyone who was DII

This would be near-destruction of traditional college athletics for the sake of the 4-conference-revenue-machine....unless someone steps in and does something

from what I read, 4th degree assault in Washington is unwanted contact that does not result in injury. So was it street brawl? Or merely incidental contact during a verbal dispute? I mean, a lot of spandex-clad cyclists are big time Karens about sharing the road so maybe we don’t know what happened. While I want to respect innocent until proven otherwise - and realize the wheels of justice often turn slower than the next athletic season arrives - this is an unhealthy pattern of bringing in guys with baggage. It’s not like these are nonsense charges like noise violations or public urination.

Les definitely has his positives, but we are still a middling program and his record here sounds like it is breakeven. We were strong for a few years in a row a couple times but he could not take that success and create a more consistent winning program. All the while other Big West times blew us by like CSUN coming out of the cellar to pass us by and UCSD coming out of DII to blow right by us. I thought I heard that our total athletic budget is one of the highest in the nation for a school at the FCS football level. So, it seems we have a competitive budget.

Hawkins was a good guy and had success, but Plough seems to have brought new energy to the program. Maybe the basketball program could find some new energy in a new coach.

It's a sad state of affairs. The line between student-athlete and professional keeps getting blurred, and it makes it difficult for me to want to support NCAA sports teams (well, ones that would be affected by NIL anyway) .

I already shred any letters UCD Athletics sends me asking for money because I don't support NIL payments, FBS aspirations, or any of the student-athlete-only programs. It's not making a difference, but not contributing to causes I don't agree with makes a difference to me. Everyone else can just continue to do what they've been doing.

If people were actually that concerned about the state of the NCAA they could vote with their wallets in a similar fashion, but they won't. The lure of nationally-televised football and basketball is too great.

This article in the current state and possible chaos facing the NCAA was in Mercury News this morning. Wilner was the expert on the PAC12; now mainly focuses on the NCAA in general with some emphasis on the west coast teams. Who knows where things are going!

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/college/how-even-more-chaos-could-be-coming-to-college-sports-analysis/

Andrej Stojaković has entered the portal from Cal. He's 6'7 and averaged 17.9 ppg last season. He has entered with a "Do Not Contact Tag" which means this:

A "do not contact" tag in the NCAA transfer portal means a player entering the portal is not open to random calls or messages from coaches. It essentially allows the player (or their representatives) to control who they communicate with, giving them more control over the recruitment process. This tag often, but not always, indicates the player has a preferred destination in mind or is managing their recruitment through an agent.

It sure would be great if he contacted the Aggies!