Jesus H Christ. I realize we live in a post-fact world but this is ridiculous. Sacramento State currently plays in a football stadium that seats 21,000 fans. They are "upgrading" to a new stadium that seats 25,000. Their entire athletic department received donations last year of under $1 million. Cal raised $2 million in a single day last week. They had $400k in total ticket sales for their entire athletic department. Cal had tens of millions and we consider THAT to be woefully inadequate. And yet we have their head coach saying stuff like this:
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"There's a lot of people in this community with real money … and they're really all in on making this a top-tier football program," Marion says. "If we're announced FBS when we're announced FBS the only schools on the West Coast that will have more than us financially when it comes to helping players in NIL will be USC and Oregon."
OK, let's pretend like Cal and UCLA and Stanford don't exist. Washington? A school that played in the national championship game two years ago? Hello?
The $4 million they are reporting in NIL for their entire athletic department this year (and I'll believe that number when I see it) is still 1/5 of what Cal is spending this year WITHOUT any of the millions California Legends has already handed out.
And of course their application for FBS membership was just denied and yet they are saying they are going to be playing at the FBS level in 2026.
Despite all this they are still announcing they are going to become the third most well capitalized school on the West Coast? And The Athletic just repeats it?
Denial ain't a river in Egypt.
