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The PAC/MWC Dominoes Begin to Fall

The guy who wrote that article is a delusional UCLA fan. According to him Sacramento State is going to become an NIL powerhouse that will out recruit USC. All of the talk about a move to FBS is exciting but the reality is there will not be enough NIL money to be competitive in football, let alone any money for the other sports. How will facility upgrades get funded? Then there is the revenue sharing that universities have to decide about that will further crush the underfunded schools. https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...evenue-sharing-promises-to-reshape-landscape/

Unfortunately money and greed is ruining college sports. The sooner we can get to a super football conference, and maybe a basketball one, it might be possible the other schools and sports could get some normalcy. Probably a pipe dream and a lot of lawsuits before that could be a reality.
 
This guy seems to be conflating a few different situations. It's as though Sac State is already FBS in his mind and he's projecting out to a super conference where they are in the same conference with UCLA. My guess is he's been fed some info and didn't quite know what to do with it. Not in his wheelhouse.

What's more important is that there appears to be movement regarding the PAC when you put all the rumblings over Twitter together. My gut says we're looking at 2-3 schools to be added soon. At least 1 of them football only. Probably from Texas. (I've been wrong many times before though)
 
Hornet25 said:
Hoping that we go PAC for all sports.

I'm in the minority in thinking the MBB is not a lost cause. It's cheaper overall to fix basketball than football. Sac State just decided it wanted to be a football school.
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Idk if I would classify UCD MBB as “good enough” for the MWC necessarily. Maybe they get a win or two against Air Force (like the Hornets) or SJSU. But the MWC in basketball is an incredibly even playing field amongst the top 8 teams and would probably run UCD up and down the court.
 
FootballAlum84 said:
Idk if I would classify UCD MBB as “good enough” for the MWC necessarily. Maybe they get a win or two against Air Force (like the Hornets) or SJSU. But the MWC in basketball is an incredibly even playing field amongst the top 8 teams and would probably run UCD up and down the court.
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Yes, the current MW would handle UCD easily. But they were brought in regardless. Left out of football, even though the football program is currently strong.

The investment to get basketball up to speed is less than it is for the football to get to FBS level is my overall point. Which is why they were let in for everything but football initially. Sac State has always put the minimum amount of effort in their basketball program. It's possible to make Sac State respectable relatively quickly.
 
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Greenteam said:
How will facility upgrades get funded?
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Student fees...I thought that was already settled with the move by Dr. Wood to forcibly raise them for athletics and athletics facilities. The students are going to fund the vast majority of all of these desired/needed facilities with some donor money sprinkled in for affect. The enrollment exceeds 30k, I fully anticipate Dr. Wood to utilize that strength of the university.
 
FootballAlum84 said:
Idk if I would classify UCD MBB as “good enough” for the MWC necessarily. Maybe they get a win or two against Air Force (like the Hornets) or SJSU. But the MWC in basketball is an incredibly even playing field amongst the top 8 teams and would probably run UCD up and down the court.
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They also get the joys of longer travel and to play at elevation. The elite teams of the MW are leaving to the new PAC, but there will still be some solid programs (NM, Nevada, GCU) that will step up in that conference. I expect the phags to be a middle-tier program in the new MW, which isn't meant to be a knock.
 
Hornet25 said:
Hoping that we go PAC for all sports.

I'm in the minority in thinking the MBB is not a lost cause. It's cheaper overall to fix basketball than football. Sac State just decided it wanted to be a football school.

There are less scholarships in basketball and it wouldn't take much at all to reach UCD level of basketball and they are good enough for MWC already. Yes, the G1C is not practical, but there are plenty of schools, even big programs that play in small arenas for a good number of games and a larger place for marquee events. St. Johns and Uconn come to mind. Gonzaga does it too. So we're not that far off. Just a bit of a commitment.

Josh Wood has stated that investments into other major sports are coming soon. Would assume Basketball and Baseball.
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I threw in the towel for MBB with the embarrassing loss at home to Mercyhurst this season. Getting completely outcoached and out played by a D1 transitioning team with literally just 2 D1 caliber players on their roster was the final straw for me. Yes I know Czep is just an interim HC and he isn't a D1 caliber coach, but what I saw that day in the Nest was an utter embarrassment considering the opponent. As lackluster and underwhelming as the current MBB roster is, it still should have been enough to beat a program like that at home.

I agree with you that of all the sports, hoops can be turned around, but a lot of our historical woes have been centered around our lack of facilities. Couple that with the current annual free agency carousel that college athletics is and the materialistic hyper driven mentality that the younger generation has means that our hoops programs just aren't going to attract the talent needed to be competitive until we get a flashy facility built (yes I realize Campbell was able to get it done for WBB). Maybe the Well will address that to a certain point, but I'm not too sure it will make a lot of difference (I hope I'm wrong on this). We'll need a full event center with all the bells and whistles if the hoops programs want to be in the same conversation as the PAC programs.
 

Talks about Sac State at the 9:00 mark and how they may go the Independent FCS route. Scheduling 8 games with PAC members. Can't imagine that would be beneficial financially and it's a slap in the face. Good enough to schedule all of their schools against Sac State, but we don't want you in our club.

That was just him speculating, but it struck a nerve with me. 😂

Seriously, Independent FCS doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and I'm not positive it would be the right draw for all of the FBS transfers and high 3 and 4 star commits.
 
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