(05-20-2017 08:43 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  Sac State still has the urban CSU commuter school problem, where it's the 3rd or 4th choice every kid there,mostly because they can drive from home to class. It's not a big time college sports environment.

UC Davis is true residential campus and has 20x the endowment. If they ever get leadership with vision they will be a monster. The gap between UC Davis and Sac St is potentially as great as between UCLA and Cal State Fullerton.

I think Sac St is doing very well as a CSU. But the "CSU" is a big limiting factor.

Not really sure why being in an urban environment is a problem if you are trying to draw more crowds to athletic events in this hypothetical FBS scenario. Having more students living on-campus is nice, but you need the "t-shirt" fans to come to games for the revenue. In the sporting world, Sac is a Bay Area suburb for everything except the Kings…loads of bandwagon fans for whatever BA team is winning. I don’t think a bottom tier G5 team breaks into that scene unless there are years upon years of winning and bringing name programs to town.

I’m not following how a big endowment helps athletics get butts in the seats. Fill me in on this.

Bottom line is absolute mayhem would result in davis going FBS, and at that point Sac State and even Cal Poly is probably in the mix as well.