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

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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.

Looks like the rumor is that sac state is going to hire Michigan assistant coach Justin Joyner after the tournament. He is a Bay Area native, UCSB MBB captain/alum, and his wife was the “previous”(correction by LeFan) women’s soccer coach at UCD.
Seems like a smart choice for sac to hire this local up and coming coach. I’m slightly jealous of this hire, he seems like a promising coach.

I like coach Les. But I feel we need to move on to a young energetic coach, who can better connect with the next generation of players, and can push a more proactive and aggressive style of play.

It was announced today at the end of todays podcast on “the Big Mountain Podcast” that AD Rocko DeLuca will have an interview with them next week discussing UC Davis’s future in the MW and the future of football.

Todays episode/podcast:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5RvmOB3VnlI&t=31s

Link to the general Big Mountain Podcast:
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCtwIR_2IJq3tLPVsL2-i96Q

I do recommend subscribing to them. They focus on the Mountain West, Big10, and PAC.

Worst 2nd half ever so far.
I’m sorry but I think it’s time to move on from coach Les.

another unofficial visit from local kids with no intention to go there, the visit was done as a favor just like last week. And then they do a photo shoot for their propaganda team to spread it everywhere.

I agree it is sad that he and his chosen committee ignored the students/protesters concerns to push his agenda to spend their money only so he can be a more famous face and be on tv which he loves to be. He is hoping the PAC buys into their bluffs of big money and the “new” stadium.