Cal lost 5 RBs. What the heck is going on.

Cal fans (especially my old man) were worried every year Ott was at Cal that he'd transfer. Smart to earn his degree first.

I’m not trying to bag on sac state, I’m seriously not, but if the donations on give day for them stay this low… they may have a problem. Moving to FBS and all the buzz around and getting less than 4,000 dollars for both football and the stadium.

New home for the hornets?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/northern-california-casino-set-undergo-202141472.html

That would be such a bad move for them. Students would never show up. It is like 30-40 mins from downtown and more from J St.

They have talked about a baseball stadium to be built there and I don't see it. Baseball needs density. If Sacramento ever got an NFL team, sure I could see it working due to having most games on Sundays and tailgating but for college sports and most others, it would be a bad fit.

I never rule anything out but this is a different tribe. The Hard Rock Sac is affiliated with the Enterprise Rancheria, a Maidu tribe near Oroville, while it is the Wilton Rancheria, a Miwok tribe near Elk Grove, that owns Sac Republic and is publicly affiliated with Sac12 committee. I don’t know if these tribes coordinate, but in general more tribes are now using their casino money to invest in diversified businesses like sports, restaurants, and financial services that compliment gambling but have a geographic footprint beyond the reservation property.

Sac brings in yet another player with a troubled past. Diesel Gordon, a redshirt freshman safety from the U of Washington, was suspended during fall camp last year and again after 2 days of spring practice this year as a result of being arrested for alleged 4th degree assault.

After his upbeat beginning last spring, he was suspended in fall camp for breaking team rules, according to DeBoer, and he was banished once more at the beginning of this ongoing spring football practice.

In the latest episode, the 6-foot, 164-pound redshirt freshman from Arlington faces allegations of fourth-degree assault in an incident involving him and suspended running back Tybo Rogers and a cyclist in what was termed "road rage" in a Seattle police report. Rogers similarly has been charged with sexual assault and has been suspended a second time, if not a third time, from the team.

https://www.si.com/college/washington/huskies-diesel-gordon-enters-portal

Wow

Isn't Chris Peterson still very active there?

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.

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He already pled guilty, the case was from spring 2024. A few days in jail. Video of assault below, not sure if the main culprit is Gordon.

https://katu.com/news/local/video-shows-ex-uw-football-players-assaulting-bicyclist-road-rage-incident-crime-diesel-gordon-tylin-tybo-rogers-march-misdemeanor-jail-fine-community-service-seattle-university-of-washington-victim-criminal-investigation

ah got it, yeah this was no accidental contact, it was a stairwell beat down. There are situations in life that deserve second chances, this is not one of them. Totally irresponsible to bring someone like this into a program.

What a joke.
Win all the games you want because next year they mean nothing.
Seriously, zero integrity.

The video on YouTube of the assault has been viewed 1.5 million times and has nearly 11,000 comments most of which are highly critical of the lack of consequences for both players.

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.

I live in WA and that video was all over the news when it happened.

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.

Finally brought in a couple without records!

: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.

These guys are doing 6-7 years of college....

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

maybe they can get a couple transfers to knock off a bank or two!

:rofl: Oh man, thats really funny!!

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

They need to, but will not, bring back some restrictions on transferring. At least in the past we pretended that players were actual students, but now the NCAA does not even attempt to hide it.
Playing at two schools I can understand, but 3, 4, or 5?

You say Sac State athletics raised 81K, they say 333K. Can you please explain the difference?

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.

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

UCD total give day was over 4.5 million — Aggie Cisco

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

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?