I guess we are opting in.

Per Team Aggie Insider news letter:

A note from Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca

With graduation just around the corner, we are sending off our seniors into the world and already looking forward to the fall. As we plan for the continued growth of UC Davis Athletics, I want to provide some updates to you, our valued stakeholders. As you may have seen in the news, the House v. NCAA settlement has been approved and will bring significant changes to the structure of college athletics. While much of the national conversation is centered on high-revenue programs, I want to take a moment to share what this means for UC Davis—and how we’ve been preparing.

After thoughtful review, we plan to opt in to the revenue-sharing model beginning with the 2026–27 academic year. This timeline gives us the opportunity to continue building the financial and operational foundation necessary to deliver a system that reflects our values and long-term aspirations.

While the settlement sets an initial national cap of $20.5 million per institution, that figure is based on commercial revenue models that don’t align with programs at our level of competition. Our focus is on developing a sustainable plan that allows us to support student-athletes in a way that’s consistent with peer institutions in the West—particularly as we look toward future competition in the Mountain West. The extent to which we can do this will depend on growing our base of support and continuing the work already underway:

Restructuring our annual fund to drive broader, long-term philanthropic engagement and increased investment in NIL.

Expanding sport-specific and unrestricted giving through targeted campaigns and storytelling.

Creating new ticket programs focused on expanding our group of season ticket holders and driving attendance from the community.

Identifying new coaching and program endowments to strengthen stability and competitiveness.

Investing in student-athlete services through IGNITE and additional life skills, academic, and career development resources.

Enhancing our NIL strategy to increase clarity, community support, and third-party opportunities for student-athletes.

In addition, student-athletes will continue to participate in third-party NIL agreements with businesses and organizations, supported by a new national clearinghouse for transparency and oversight. This remains a vital area of opportunity, and we’ll continue to help our student-athletes develop the skills and relationships needed for meaningful and lasting success.

These are significant changes, but we’re not starting from scratch. We’ve taken proactive steps to prepare, and with your continued support, I’m confident we will navigate this transition in a way that upholds our mission and strengthens the student-athlete experience. We will be communicating more around our annual fund efforts later this summer but please do not hesitate to reach out directly to me or Chief Development Officer, Liz Gullett, emartinatucdavisdotedu, with any questions about what I have outlined above.

Thank you for all you do. We look forward to raising the bar for UC Davis Athletics and upholding Aggie Pride—together.

With gratitude and Go Ags!

-Rocko

3⭐️ DB 5’11”

Good pick up. Good size, 6’5” 250 lbs.
had offers from UNLV, Nevada, Navy, Idaho, NAU, Cal Poly, Montana state.

They need 8 “full” members by the 2026 season. But most FBS schools are already in a conference and their current conference require a 1 year notice for them to leave. So like the current 5 MW schools will have to submit their exits soon. If they wait till after 6/1 their exit fees increases. This is what we did with Big West, we submitted our exit and will play the final year in Big West for our non football sports this coming year/season and then join mountain west in 2026.

the wood misinformation team keeps mucking up the waters by pushing the 30-35 mil number out to media but then whispering that it is just promises of money and that it is that total OVER 10 years. Also the fact that some of that was contingent on PAC membership. I am sure they got some now and are betting on themselves with coach marion and these 1 year rentals all of which will be gone after a year. I worry what will happen to their program after they and Marion leave for greater $. Hopefully it works out but it is a big gamble, especially doing it by independent route

sham list! How is sac not #1 with all their hype and players avg 5.1 ppg and having more felonies Than point avg. lol.
Joking aside. Hoping that we soon start going up the list once we go to MW and fulfill the promises to increase funds toward M and W BB.
At the moment UCI, UCSD, UCSB, UCR have an advantage in BB over us, since they don’t have football siphoning a large chunk of their athletic budget.

Mikey Williams Avg 5.1 ppg @ UCF, Watch out. Sac might go into double figures per game with this line up! Even if they don’t win we will sure hear about how cool they are on social media. Lol.
Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill. Their social teams sure knows how to leak insignificant info and make it sound impressive. They even hype up their “new”. BB facility in the recent press releases.
Sac state is like a used cars salesman.
We will see how Bibby and the team does. Hopefully they do okay.

while true it is not fully accurate on how to get the funding, some is true. It isn’t fair to point any opposing view as fictional just because you don’t agree with it.
Some of the concerns raised were valid and some of the things mentioned were true. Such as students not voting for increased student fees for athletics and how they asked the committee to approve the loan and fees before they announce the known academic shortfall/cuts when those same $/athletic fees could have gone towards academic/university things if they proposed it for that instead. Now that it is approved they can’t simply re allocate the funds already collected for this year but the students/committee can also easily vote to cancel the athletics fees for future years.
You got to admit that Dr wood and his brother had been a bit sneaky on passing things through at the local/university level, and also leaking “positive” info to press/social medial while also sweeping any negatives views and info.
We all (including myself) want sac to succeed athletically AND academically, and are concerned about the current approach

yeah. That’s typically what it is done for, hence curry and Trae doing the same. Shaq wants to help his son while also building up his resume to possibly be mama GM in the future. Who knows. Sac does a lot of things I do not recommend (mostly financially) but they are very media savvy and are recruiting better because most recruits and people in X are impressed since they do any real background research.

it is mostly a figurehead position in college basketball at the moment, like Trae young as Oklahoma GM, and Curry at Davidson. Shaq sure is busy with being an analyst, sheriff, and now GM. Lol.

#3. Go Lan. Go Ags. I think he will do well with the Pats. I wished my 49ers signed him.

yes. Some of it is that it’s in NIL. But I see many of their new transfers came from questionable past and are taking a little less now and being told to go to sac to rehab their image and improve their NIL next year and leave. Their coach has hinted as much in previous interviews.
Sac state is now 2nd chance U with rental players(not students) will stay only 1 year.
I don’t not like that college football is becoming the NFL with less regulation and kids changing schools yearly.

Exactly, this means that UCD athletics alone has consistently raised more than the whole sac state university for their “give day”. So much for their big deep pocketed donors/sponsors tripping over themselves to give sac state football their Money.

UCD total give day was almost 4.5 million

https://giveto.ucdavis.edu/give-day-2025

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

agree. I respect coach Les and think he is a great guy. But we need some change and excitement in MBB.

if true. Then kudos to sac. Glad they are building some excitement. Hopefully they continue to succeed and not fumble at the end.

No pics of 7k, so probably didn’t happen. Their propaganda team likely counted every person who went to campus that day including people going to class/etc.