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EA Flash's avatar

They have pledges for NIL money, and the "concepts" for a new stadium.

NIL pledges don't pay for the stadium, the additional annual budget costs for more scholarships and staff, and they don't pay the $5 million FCS-to-FBS transition fee. Sac State in FBS is a pipe dream at the current time.

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Sac St is looking to have their new stadium open by the 2026 season. If they’ve raised (by now) between 25-50 million for NIL funds I don’t see a problem with them having the 5 million dollar fee planned for and possibly already in the bank.

Sac St has a “SAC12” committee which involves the Sacramento community. They have their local politicians on board from the interviews with their AD and President say.

To me it looks like they have a plan to move into FBS and are moving forward with it. As John says, it probably won’t be in time to be the P12’s eighth member deadline. But I can see the P12 looking at them with consideration in a couple years.

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