I've never seen anything publicly that the MWC had officially reached out to Sac.

This was posted on the Sac Football Forum:

If going to the MWC meant keeping football at FCS level, then we would be golden.

Already in a FBS conference, and the NCAA wouldn’t have had an issue. Just upgrading the program to fit the MWC peer schools.

But we shunned the MWC because Wood was to rabid on PacX. Meanwhile the PacX just laughed.

If the BW is so great, why did Davis move away from that direction? They played chess while Wood played chutes and ladders.

Now Sac is in football hell. We only got $100,000 from BSC, but at least they had a trophy/ring to play for. As an Indy, no postseason, no trophy and only being paid half to play away FBS games.

What about this magical ‘26 schedule Orr had put together? Any contracts signed with FBS teams? More money lost. NIL gone, players gone, coach gone, pride comes before a fall and Sac State fell to the literal bottom.

https://bigskyfans.com/threads/the-pac-mwc-dominoes-begin-to-fall.29863/page-44

Click on Show more to see the entire statement:

I've been a member of AST since the early days when it began. We are, for the most part by far, a very considerate and friendly Aggie fan forum and I hope it stays that way and grows in popularity and participation. I think it's good for the Aggie fan base to have a supportive fan forum where fans can discuss Aggie Athletics.

I read the Sac forum because I'm interested in what's happening with our long time rival but I would never join and post over there. Some of their members get nasty with each other regularly and call each other out. Our forum administrators would not allow that kind of stuff here and I'm 100% in support of that.

Scheduling to date:

11/04 Cal Maritime at 6 pm
11/14 Sacramento State
11/18 at Nevada, The Acrisure Series
12/4 at Hawaii (Big West Bold Week)
11/21 at Colorado, The Acrisure Series
11/24 Louisiana, The Acrisure Series
12/17 Seattle
12/21 at Idaho State

Does an FCS Program Have One of the Deepest Backfields in the Country?

With the help of the transfer portal, one FCS program has assembled one of the deepest backfields in the country

By Mark Pszonak

There are plenty of deep backfields across the country, especially at the elite P4 programs who have a conveyor belt of impressive talent. However, when it comes to a mixture of talent, experience and production, one of the deepest is in the FCS.

Sacramento State has been an FCS recruiting juggernaut since the program hired Brennan Marion as their head coach on December 21st. The former UNLV offensive coordinator made numerous important additions through the transfer portal, which included a complete overhaul of the backfield.

First, one important member of the 2024 backfield does return, Curron Borders. After redshirting in 2023, Borders played in all 12 games last season, totaling 361 yards and one touchdown on the ground, while averaging 5.6 yards per carry.

Borders will face stiff competition during this off-season to attempt to earn playing time in 2025. First, two FBS transfers will try to make an immediate impact. Savion Red (Nevada) began his collegiate career at Texas before transferring to Nevada prior to the 2024 season. With the Wolf Pack, he rushed for 687 yards and a team leading eight touchdowns. The other FBS addition is Rodney Hammond Jr. (Pittsburgh), who in four seasons with the Panthers rushed for 1,546 yards and 14 touchdowns.

The most intriguing transfer addition by the Hornets may turn out to be Jamar Curtis (Lafayette). A two-time Walter Payton Award finalist, which is the FCS Heisman Trophy, Curtis rushed for 2,598 yards and 31 touchdowns over the last two seasons. On top of that he has added 49 receptions for 396 yards and three touchdowns.

How the Hornets will split the carries amongst Curtis, Hammond, Red and Borders is unclear at this point and likely will be a work in progress throughout summer camp and into the season. But this is a problem that many programs across the country would love to have. Splitting carries will keep the backfield fresh throughout the season, which should help make the Hornets a viable threat in the Big Sky Conference in 2025.

Since Coach Marion's hiring, Sacramento State has become one of the more polarizing programs in the country.

https://mikefarrellsports.com/college/does-an-fcs-program-sacramento-state-have-one-of-the-deepest-backfields-in-the-country

I think Roberson is probably done. He wasn't a great player at Cal, and now he has two years of rust on top of not-so-great. — yolohw

Les is well known for bringing in players that he feels are diamonds-in-the-rough and developing them. Quite a few of them became outstanding players under his coaching. I don't know if Roberson will be back or not but I do know that Les was high on his potential to be a solid contributor prior to tearing his ACL in a pick up game 2 years ago. I trust Les' eye for talent so I hope Roberson is able to return this year and that we get to finally see him in action.

The folks over on t he Big West Boards are saying that teams are signing 15 players this year to their rosters.

I love this and, yes, I remember Ron Austin well from watching him electrify Aggie fans at The Toom. Congratulations to him!

I saw a story on the national news last night about an 88 year old woman in Maine who just got to go through the 2025 Maine graduation ceremony to be given her degree that she had actually completed in 1959. She was prohibited from going through the graduation ceremony in 1959 because she and her husband had just found out that she was pregnant and pregnant women were not allowed to go through the graduation ceremonies. Thank God for the women's rights movement for eventually getting these kinds of misogynistic rules put behind us.

The Athletics Department just released a series of short videos highlighting each of the Assistant Football Coaches:

Amzil is a great recruit for the Aggies. I saw we had offered him back in mid-May and I watched some of his highlight videos and this kid can play! He is very versatile with good size and strength inside and a beautiful shot from beyond the arc. He had offers from South Carolina, Utah, Toledo and Wyoming also. This recruiting class is really impressive!

Sam Herder feels like the following schools are the most ready to move to FBS football:

1. Sac State
2. North Dakota State
3. Tarleton State
4. Montana along wirth Montana State
5. South Dakota State

He feels like UC Davis would move to the top of the list when considering their current facilities and the ability to expand them, their media market size, their funding ability and their academic reputation but he says they simply are not in a rush to make the jump. He feels like they are comfortable building their football program into an FCS power and will make a decision whether or not to move up if an offer comes and they feel ready to make the move at that time unlike many programs publicly push to move up and rush into making the move as soon as possible.

You can scroll to about the 32:50 mark to hear their discussion about the Aggies.

Lofty predictions from Dr. Woods brother, Joshua Woods:

Thanks for posting this, Mike. It sounds like Blue has a complicated task ahead for Canada Soccer in preparation for the 2026 World Cup. He accomplished so much here in a relatively short period of time as the AD for Aggie Athletics that I hove no doubt that he will be able to do the same with Canada Soccer. They've got the right man for the job.

That makes me wonder if Noudjihidi could end up with ICE problems since his home country of Chad is one of the countries included in Trump's recent travel bans. I'm assuming that since he has already been playing at a community college in Louisiana for 2 years, that the Chad travel ban would not affect him. I certainly hope that Suljanovic and Noudjihidi don't encounter any problems.