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I like cheering against Sac State but the "state school" chant we go against them and Poly IS stupid because we are a public school and the whole UC vs CSU rivalry is silly.

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Agreed. It's my phone. It has the worst autocorrect ever! I fixed it ty.

Things were much clearer before the California State Colleges started calling themselves California State Universities. Sacramento State is a perfectly good college,

I say that as a person who has taken more classes at state colleges than at UC, the two are not the same, although they have been converging with UC dropping SAT requirement.

FWIW, Ivies and others bringing back the SAT.

I moved my post to the Sacramento State thread:

I've been following TBM_JY on Twitter. He said the following three tweets about Sacramento State:

https://twitter.com/TBM_JY/status/1873793803418755204

It’s not a questions of “if”
@sacstate
goes to FBS, it is a question of “when” & “where”.
I do not believe the
@MountainWest
or
@pac12
are viable options right now, HOWEVER could another G6 conference be interested?

Adding time zones is important!

https://www.twitter.com/TBM_JY/status/1873798084133785800

I agree.
It’s either CUSA or SB if they are to get an offer.
“Waiting” is not a good strategy in conference realignment. Kill or be killed.

https://twitter.com/TBM_JY/status/1873802764561899542

With MWC adding UC Davis, there is Almost no chance they add Sac St right now.
PAC has gone on record that they are not interested. I don’t believe everything they say to the press, but I do believe this

Brennan Marion has been on a recruiting stampede. 247 Sports is currently showing 23 high school commits and 24 transfers. This is an astonishing number of commits and it makes one wonder what is going to happen to many of the players on the team who played for Andy Thompson and still have eligibility left.

It now appears that Marion will be letting players go to make space for his new recruits. This is starting to look very similar to what Deon Sanders did at Colorado when he became the head coach there and then immediately cut a whole lot of the current players to make room for all the players he was bringing in.

https://247sports.com/college/sacramento-state/season/2025-football/commits/

What's the legality of committing schollie money to a player, and then yanking it? He hasn't even seen one workout.

Weren't the HS players inked before he joined Sac?

“ What's the legality of committing schollie money to a player, and then yanking it? ”
Ditto. I have the same question.

Up until this fall, players who sign an NLI also had to sign a one year financial aid offer, They just changed that to eliminate the one year, so conceivably it could be shorter or longer beginning this year. Players now have to sign agreements listing everything they are being offered; financial aid, NIL money, loaner car etc.
I think the schools obligations don’t extend to four to six years

New staffs come in and cut guys immediately. Even happening with hs players that just set foot on campus.

But what about guys who signed 4 - 5 year deals?

I know the reality is that coaches have ways to move players / push them out, and students who think they can play don't want to be black balled.

Financial aid agreement used to be for maximum one year, maybe still are I don’t know.

More Sac players are announcing that they have been let go by Marion. Some of their fans on their football forum are shocked at about a few of them. Recent cuts include Dev Gandy, Darren Gandy, Phoenix Rose and Xander Chisolm. Dev Gandy has now been picked up by Incarnate Word.

https://bigskyfans.com/threads/2025-offseason-portal-tracker.29969/page-11

Former Texas and Alabama WR, Agiye Hall, who was ranked as the #1 WR in the country by 247 Sports out of high school has committed to Sac State. Hall was arrested for drug trafficking charges in July of 2023 and was previously kicked off from Texas after being arrested for criminal mischief. He was set to enroll at Central Florida prior to his commitment to Sac State.

https://www.si.com/college/texas/news/former-texas-and-alabama-wr-agiye-hall-please-no-contest-to-drug-trafficking-charge-01j44vybgj4k

Man, not a great look for Sac bringing in such a troubled player. Clearly talented, hope he cleans it up and doesn't jeopardize his freedom or worse.

Dude got buster for some weed. Oh well. Marion recruited him at Texas, obviously has hope and believes he deserves a second chance. If he can make it to the season, gonna be pretty wild to have a #1 WR recruit in the BSC for a year at least!

The word "some" is doing some heavy lifting there. It was 40 pounds of weed.

That being said, I don't particularly care about weed all that much. Also got suspended from Bama for a violation of team rules and from Texas for damaging a parking boot.

Obviously we only know about what's been reported but I don't have much of an issue giving this kid a chance and keeping him on a short leash. If it had been harder drugs and assaulting a woman, that would be a different story.

looks like 3rd or ? chance. I have to chuckle when I see the word “committed” in all caps for dudes who have been at two or three schools. Sort of like a guy “committing” to his third or fourth marriage.

Agiye 4 years out of high school, and he has caught 10 passes.

That's roughly $40,000 at wholesale level (distribution). Cartel connections?

lol. Weed is legal in many states. And you don't straight extrapolate $ per pound. Still a lot, though.

Say what you want but that recruiting class seems more exciting than what we’ve seen coming off of a playoff season…

Wish we were poaching power 5 talent and talent with 4 or 5 stars…

What's happening at Davis is pretty unique. These guys are buying into a culture and system 100%, and actually sticking around to see it through. It seems there is a real and deep attachment to the program and people.
Developing high character, 0-2 star guys like the Gilliam, Doss, Teddye, Connors, Larison etc. over 4-5 years seems more appealing to me long-term.

It'll be a tall task for Sac to get all these guys on the same page and performing as a unit in a really short amount of time. Taylor seemed to have this going and in the beginning stages. I guess this is where Marrion shows how good he is at this thing.... A master-class in motivation and leadership. It can be done.

They will all leave the next year.

Sac State actually has a tough schedule in 2025. Some of their recent seasons have been cupcakes like their 12-0 year.

Is their schedule that tough? They get South Dakota St and Nevada. But in conference they miss Montana St and NAU, and they get both Montana and Idaho at home. I mean, who knows who will actually be good next year so we'll see.

2022 when they went undefeated they also missed Montana St (No.4) but they got Weber, Idaho, Montana and UC Davis and they won at 6-5 Northern Iowa and beat Colorado St by 31.

2021 was softer since they missed Montana St and EWU (both finished top-10).

I guess I just compare schedules to our 2022 team (faced the 1, 2 and 4 seeded playoff teams plus and Idaho team who made the playoffs and Cal) or our 2019 team (faced the 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 seeded teams, playoff teams in San Diego and North Dakota, and Cal). So everything is relative.