The projects will be funded through philanthropic gifts, naming opportunities, corporate sponsorships, athletics department resources and, if needed, potential debt or the issuance of bonds.

Lets be honest here, Davis has been able to secure these donations often (new ag innovation center, Mondovi arts district, etc). The other difference is that these projects have already went through various university boards, facility/campus planning groups and detailed construction plans beyond like 4 renderings that sac state had for a single facility in that of a potential (not happening) on campus stadium. Davis has not to this point announced projects like this without knowledge of backing being in place to put these things into reality.

I feel like 2030 is a good assumption. I don't know if I would go that far considering this addition of suites will increase capacity (by a small margin) on top of the 17,000 if fire marshal is in a good mood (haha), and the addition of new hospitality spaces in concession and bathroom spaces which are already planned could easily be a infrastructural step to allow for additional seating bleachers to be added to the project/in another phase.

The choice to move golf and softball to south campus is interesting. Its easy to get there (a bike path under the highway separated from the road that I use almost daily).

I would assume (and this is pure assumption) but with the football stadium im assuming the plan is to build that side up, renovate and add onto the concession stuff on the other side (these things are finalized) and eventually add new bleacher seating to the visiting side (assumption considering that would be considerably cheaper than a new box side and would allow for quick addition with a football move to fbs).

Yes, the whole project is going to be in that span. From the Q&A section:

UC Davis is working on a multi‑phase schedule that aligns with athletic, academic, donor and infrastructure milestones. While specific start and completion dates will depend on fundraising, permitting, and logistics, the goal is to complete all aspects of the plan over a span of eight years.

$265 million in privately funded upgrades to their facilities through "Aggies Ascent" as the athletics department moves to the mountain west

They said 8 years for all projects which is an impressive timeline..

Yeah I am in the same boat. I think an addition to say the visiting side or the end zone would be a less substantial project when they eventually join the fbs. I also think generating revenue from the suites and club seating and then going on to add up to 25k would be a good plan. Its pretty certain that something like 18k-20k could already fit in the stadium with standing room (especially after the expansion considering we will have better bathroom and food facilities too.

The stuff for the basketball arena and baseball stadium blew my expectations out of the water. Both of those faculties look like legit power conferences facilities. I couldnt believe my eyes when I saw those renderings.

Holy sh*t the plans for the U center are WAY beyond what I would have expected.

now that they don’t have a seating requirement for FBS elevation and this suite section will add a decent amount of seats, I’d imagine they are thinking that this premium seating first, extra seating later would be an easy addition

Also insane upgrades across the board. Easily in step with every other mountain west program.

Wow. This is incredible in so many ways. Also, crazy to announce right before a sac state game against a school that seems to want to dos something like this…

https://x.com/ucdavismbb/status/1991015905669886017?s=46

:lol:

seemed good to me?

this is amazing. Please let’s make this a thing

First time since 1973 to beat them! MASSIVE win! I cant wait for these MW matchups! Great to restart a rivalry with NV

best win in a while.

So class got out early.. WOWZA!

I have class during the game but am SO curious how it goes! Big game against a future conference member.

Listen, I would like to play Sac year in and year out too, and I think Stetson is a goofy level of competition to be playing (with no regional relevancy), but it is not a UC Davis problem that Sac State left a conference that solidified the rivalry year in and year out without a plan to join a conference/scheduling agreement that would provide stability for future schedules. Davis had scheduling figured out and planning ahead while the Sac admin rushed to leave a conference and try to move up without any confirmation they would be able to fill out a schedule. Realistically Davis and Sac will probably both be in the FBS in the future, and maybe they can figure out scheduling in the future even if Sac is FBS and Davis is still FCS (like we did when Davis was d2 and Sac was d1-aa) but acting like its a Davis problem that Sac made rash decisions that screwed up their scheduling enough that they cant fill out a schedule in the next year doesn't make sense to me.