Question: why does the winters Buckhorn grill support the sac state hornets and not the Aggies? . They are a long time YOLO county fixture and always at the Davis Farmers Market and doing great work there. And, why does it matter? It shows that fhe Aggie brand is not working even In our home in yolo county. Not a good look. Rocko might need to step in here.

they are no longer in Winters, correct? Looks like they have several Sac locations now (also Folsom and Rocklin).

l think the grill locations are the same company (also the meat co in esparto) as the steakhouse in winters.

I do not want to have to boycott the Winters Buckhorn if we can avoid it. The several hundred dollars I spend there once every year would be better invested elsewhere if they're supporting the chumps across the Causeway. What a great place to watch Sac State vs. Buffalo in some MACtion on a Tuesday night :down: Rocco needs to get to the bottom of this. Even if we can flip the Winters location and plant a flag there on Saturdays, it will be a small victory for Aggie Pride. Otherwise, spread the word and boycott!

Maybe reach out to the equestrian parents to lead the boycott. They do a pretty good job of being loud and annoying.

Spit my water out on that one :rofl:

We’re at 196 donors for roughly $64k - and give day officially starts tomorrow.

100k+ now

Where is the link to donate to the football team specifically?

First link posted in the thread.

I got it. Made my donation.

I think 350 is a safe bet at this point. Could raise $200k by the end of the day.

Sort of like the wine event, folks didn’t jump on board until late.

I worry about basketball donations. The hype for football is immeasurable (and we haven't even joined the MW for football) while basketball is at 20k coming into its first MW season.

5 more donors to unlock another $25k.

Aggie Athletics sets a new record for donations on Give Day:

UC Davis Athletics delivered a record-setting Give Day in 2026, raising $652,122 from 1,817 donors in support of its student-athletes, programs and key department initiatives.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2026/4/20/uc-davis-athletics-marks-record-setting-give-day-2026.aspx

Give Day football fundraising from across the causeway:

Football has raised $3,700 from 20 gifts!

uhhh I am beginning to really worry if they dont get some huge corporate/tribal donor this is going to crash even worse than thought.

i worry the same about us, especially for basketball.

That tiny number of donations and the small dollar amount raised makes me wonder where the money is really coming from over at Sac State to fund their FBS football program.

I'll go out on a limb to predict the Flying Insects go 2-10 in year one of FBS/MACtion. Wins over Mississippi Valley and UMass.

CSUS is funding NIL with the president’s discretionary budget. It’s not clear that the CSU System actually knows this is happening.

I think the strategy there was manifesting the money needed to field an FBS program vs. actually having it..

Haven't Cal and UCLA routed tens of millions to ICA?

Berkeley, UCLA and Davis have absolutely spent tens of millions on ICA. What Sac is doing here is different. They are redirecting university funds to a third party that is contracting with football and basketball players.

UCLA institutional support for athletics in each the last few years was 30 million. UCLA had a deficit despite getting 60 million from the Big 10, and 13 million in donations.
Davis reportedly received 5 million in institutional support for athletics.

to be fair to UCLA they also have to give CAL 10 million a year because their move to the BIG10 monetarily hurt CAL. Most schools are ok with running a small deficit for sports because at the end of the day, college sports is just advertising for the university. Many schools are fighting for out of state enrollment. People can hate on SAC state all they want, but right now they have national media attention. I doubt they build a stadium with their own money. I predict they become tenants of the new soccer stadium being built. Teams aren’t funding the majority of NIL from everyday give day donations, they get them from Whales. And the amount of NIL needed to compete in the MAC, the lowest of the G6 conferences, is nowhere near the amount needed to compete in the BIG10 or ACC.

It’s no different than Davis getting large donations to fund the athletic facilities renovations. Large usually unannounced donations.

Thirty years ago I was told that the typical breakdown was one third large donors, one third medium, one third small, and raise 30% of the monies in the 'quiet phase' before announcing a campaign.

With new hedge fund and other fortunes, that may have changed a little. I was told one benefactor funded our field hockey facility, and monies to the baseball stadium diminished in value as campus types drug their feet over Title IX, and construction costs exploded.