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I just heard that UMass might get a win next year in the MAC...SAC State is rumored to join the MAC next year. Heard it on YouTube. Any thoughts on it?
 
Does Vegas have a line on which athletic department collapses first? My bet is Sac State.
 
Let's get no revenue and pay gobs of $$ ....

.... to get into the MAC

With the hope that someday in a decade or two we might get an invite .... to the MW.

Interesting choice.
 
Windham4th said:
Does Vegas have a line on which athletic department collapses first? My bet is Sac State.
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Maybe on Kalshi or Polymarket which is where 20 something dudes go to lose their money.
 
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JVN said:
Not a rumor any more

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I can only imagine what it would cost to fly ~100 players, about a dozen or so coaches and another twenty staff members six times next fall. It's a good thing they're getting no revenue to defray some of these costs.
 
I wonder which conferences Sac State targeted ahead of the MAC? The MAC would have been stupid to say no to that deal. I think some other conferences probably should have accepted that deal and didn't.

Time for the BALL SAC game.
 
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JVN said:
Sac State president explaining why they made the move

sports.yahoo.com

Why would Sacramento State spend tens of millions to join the MAC? 'It is putting the university on the map'

The total price for Sac State's move stands to exceed $25 million. All of this to compete in a division where its budget will be dwarfed. It's left so many inside and outside of college athletics asking a question: Why?
sports.yahoo.com sports.yahoo.com
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thx for sharing.

but MAN unless this guy woods knows something we don't, Sac State is delusional if they think they will become the california state flagship univeristy, let alone using MAC affiliation as the vehicle to that goal. UC and Cal State are 2 different systems, with UC being the more prestigious of the 2 by far. Look at the UC schools vs Cal State schools, and it becomes pretty obvious that becoming the "flagship" of the state is pretty much impossible.

for starters, the obvious - Sac State will NEVER replace Berkeley and UCLA for the crown of california. football aside, those schools' alumni list & academic prowess makes sac state look like community college.

I cannot see this ending well financially, for the hornets. Godspeed.
 
JVN said:
Sac State president explaining why they made the move
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Guess the Sac State president didn’t bother to mention the purported stadium the school plans to build nor his brother who just happens to run a Sacramento area real estate development company focused on athletics and entertainment properties. /s
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I can only imagine what it would cost to fly ~100 players, about a dozen or so coaches and another twenty staff members six times next fall. It's a good thing they're getting no revenue to defray some of these costs.
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Flying from Sacramento to Bradley for a game at UMass...that would be crazy!! I think the MAC should've talk to URI and Albany to fill in the area here...now the have two outliers...UMass and SacState...

Hey MAC, who's next? The Stetson Hatters?
 
ArtTheFan said:
Flying from Sacramento to Bradley for a game at UMass...that would be crazy!!
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Even crazier, Sac State will pay UMass and other MAC schools to fly to Sacramento for their Tues-Thur night games likely kicking off around 10 pm ET.

Or, Sac State flying to play Maine next season in Orono. They really needed to schedule games, so the Hornets will be Bangor bound.

MAC teams lost 2 bowls revenues. Apparently, they were happy to accept Sac State’s bribe. NFW, URI nor SUNY Albany are playing that game.
 
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Kolumbo said:
Sac State plans to build a new stadium on an old horse racetrack

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i've been there, for a race a few years back. it's a massive complex, severely outdated but definitely with potential if they turn it into a cool entertainment + athletics district, which is the flavor these days with P4 football programs. I assume their ambitions are far beyond MAC football, this is the 5-year stepping stone to their actual plan. So, hopefully they have a good plan in place, because as we well know in husky-land, off-campus stadium situations are not ideal.

Cal expo is not NEARLY as far away from Sac State, as the Rent is from Storrs, so maybe they'll have a better chance to integrate the expo grounds with their campus. best of luck to them.
 
I guess SacState wants to play with the big boys...they still aren't at the big boy boy table, but at the adolescent table...the Adult table is where we are at...and trying to get to the elite table (P4)
 
Jetskies said:
thx for sharing.

but MAN unless this guy woods knows something we don't, Sac State is delusional if they think they will become the california state flagship univeristy, let alone using MAC affiliation as the vehicle to that goal. UC and Cal State are 2 different systems, with UC being the more prestigious of the 2 by far. Look at the UC schools vs Cal State schools, and it becomes pretty obvious that becoming the "flagship" of the state is pretty much impossible.

for starters, the obvious - Sac State will NEVER replace Berkeley and UCLA for the crown of california. football aside, those schools' alumni list & academic prowess makes sac state look like community college.

I cannot see this ending well financially, for the hornets. Godspeed.
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By flagship he is probably referring to the flagship of the CSU system. I don't think any particular school is known as the flagship the way Berkeley is of the UC system. I'm sure their ultimate goal is the PAC 12. Snapdragon stadium isn't on SDSU's campus either but those schools are in cities and have multiple tenants and uses.
 
Jetskies said:
i've been there, for a race a few years back. it's a massive complex, severely outdated but definitely with potential if they turn it into a cool entertainment + athletics district, which is the flavor these days with P4 football programs. I assume their ambitions are far beyond MAC football, this is the 5-year stepping stone to their actual plan. So, hopefully they have a good plan in place, because as we well know in husky-land, off-campus stadium situations are not ideal.

Cal expo is not NEARLY as far away from Sac State, as the Rent is from Storrs, so maybe they'll have a better chance to integrate the expo grounds with their campus. best of luck to them.
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Isn't that the Cali state fairgrounds?
 
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Duncan Idaho said:
Isn't that the Cali state fairgrounds?
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yes

an athletics complex, depending on how many stadiums/fields Sac State tries to jam in there, is still pretty small compared to the overall footprint of the Expo grounds, i think... so maybe both can co-exist in the space.
 
Purple Stein said:
I can't get over how bad this deal is.
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That implies it is bad for both sides. The MAC comes out ahead I think. Nothing to lose.

Not only do they get paid and all travel expenses covered, but the MAC TV deal is about to be renegotiated and they just added the 20th largest media market in the country to their offerings. Those Tuesday night MACtion games can now be double headers.

Horrible deal for Sac State for sure, but not the MAC.
 
Kolumbo said:
By flagship he is probably referring to the flagship of the CSU system. I don't think any particular school is known as the flagship the way Berkeley is of the UC system.
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Setting aside UCLA, Cal, nearby UC Davis, and all of the far more academically respected UC schools, even within the Cal State system, highly commuter/non-traditional student Sac State’s a bottom feeder the likes of Fresno, Fullerton, San Bernardino, Northridge, Humboldt, SF St, LA St, etc. An academic joke compared with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, SDSU, Cal Poly Pomona, even Long Beach St, and San Jose St conveniently located in Silicon Valley.
 
Jetskies said:
there is SMU paying an arm to the ACC, then there's Memphis offering an arm AND a leg to P4 conferences

and then there's THIS. lol
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I'm a little worried that if Connecticut gets an offer to joining a P conference at some point in the future, the whole "we will forgo distributions for X number of years" thing has now become the new expectation for joining.
 
Not umess, but good for less unlikable URI handing St. Louis U its 2nd loss of the season and 1st A10 loss. Rhody tried very hard to fail to win, but SLU ran out of time coming from behind. Not so impressed watching the Billikens last night, but maybe just a bad night.
 
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