This whole mismanaged, hyperbolic, football pipe dream is an absolute disaster for Sac State football. Dr Wood and his cohorts are the arsonists that that started the fire that burned the program to the ground. I feel bad for all the players that bought into Marion's charisma and took the bait of his "one year can change your life" mantra only to now be left on a rudderless ship.

Marion has worked at 10 different programs since 2015:

2026 Colorado - Offensive Coordinator
2025 Sacramento State – Head Coach
2023-24 UNLV – Offensive Coordinator, Quarterbacks
2022 Texas – Passing Game Coordinator, Wide Receivers
2021 Pittsburgh – Wide Receivers
2020 Hawai’i – Wide Receivers
2019 William & Mary – Offensive Coordinator, Quarterbacks
2017-18 Howard – Offensive Coordinator, Quarterbacks
2016 Oklahoma Baptist – Running Backs
2015 Arizona State – Offensive Quality Control Assistant

"One year can change your life job!"

Some of these kids uprooted their lives and moved across the country for this guy! What a shame.

Acronyms are sometimes challenging.

Most of them likely got paid to do it. Hopefully Plough can use this as an example to convince guys to stay at Davis.

If they can't get Taylor within a couple weeks, Sac might have to give it to Kris Richardson. He's a Hornet at this point, and he's there now. It might keep some current players and commits around to field a team and fill the schedule next year.
They really don't have time to mess around.

I would be very surprised if it were Taylor or Richardson - that seems completely out of the current playbook of the President.

Marion, Bibby (currently 4-6, 1-6 vs D1 competition) seem to be the model - press worthy ‘names’

Sadly for CSUS, you are right.

What name would want them now?

Barnum? He's pretty down-and-out at the moment.

I’d assume that people have been cracking Barnum and Bailey jokes his whole life such that he might avoid clown shows, which this most certainly is.

JaMarcus Shephard WR coach from Alabama took that job

“ Some of these kids uprooted their lives and moved across the country for this guy! What a shame.”

Yes, what it boils down to is the kids are the real victims in this.

I wonder what the process is in the CSU system to fire their president? In our system the academic senate calls the shots. Do they have a similar group or is it left to their board of trustees? Like Dr. Mike said, Orr seems like a good guy. If Woods stays Orr will be the next one to set sails.

Didn't the president recently get a raise?

I think you’re correct. I forgot about that. Maybe it was across all campuses and not based on merit?

quite frankly, both Wood brothers are a bad deal for all taxpayers, whether you care about Sac State athletics or not.

The challenge with Dr. Wood is that he has not been hired or retained based on academic merit or administrative performance. He was hired for other reasons, and those other reasons become very litigious when it comes time to plunge the toilet that has overfloweth with crap.

Mr. Orr appears to use the sane criteria.

I don’t think recent hires were Orr’s decision.

(New department hires seem to follow an unlikely trend.)

I think Orr is just Wood’s elf (Hornet?) on a shelf. Doesn’t do much other than get moved from shelf to shelf with a plastic smile and a note pinned to his shirt.

Maybe Ron Gould would work? And then opponents would only need to learn to defend 50 yard field goal attempts.

I like the new Cal coach, dude is a riot

Very good football coach to boot

Cal fans were hurt by him a few years ago when he poached some recruits on the way out.

Now this is a wild move I didn’t see coming.

Bobby Hauck retires:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02uZz1FokNzfmk77aqMTHCY913pzH3hM4CdoNKqZbFqgpQhehU6oKfP3To9xYPuTgzl&id=100064683403509

I think part of the reason he decided to retire was the pending leadership change at the University. I could never figure out why the AD or president didn’t put a stop to his petulant press conferences in which he belittled the local media. I guess he won enough games that it didn’t matter but it was a bad look for the university. Man, what a difference in PR between him and Plough (and Hawkins). The timing was such that any preferential outside hires were pretty much off the table as I am sure the blue-chip ones would have been snatched up. They hired from within which isn’t bad, but it seems to be sort of the plug the dike hire. Don’t know the guy so should reserve my opinion.

Bobby Hauck goes to Illinois as the DC

douche comes to mind.

Dude complains about literally everything under the sun about cfb... and then joins a coaching stuff in the conference that actively is ruining the college football he misses.