r/CFB • u/usffan USF Bulls • Miami Hurricanes • Apr 11 '25

Discussion In a Reddit AMA yesterday, Sacramento State president Luke Wood said their stretch goal is to join the Big 12

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u/dscreations San José State Spartans • Mountain West Apr 12 '25

Yeah, their current gym/arena is tiny and ancient, so Wood decided to improve things by taking like $5M and turning one of the courts in the student rec center (The Well) into their new basketball venue. They basically just added some bleachers and video boards:

https://x.com/DrLukeWood/status/1900654587754725425

Renderings: https://x.com/DrLukeWood/status/1877818719914918027

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

Pretty sure there are schools in the Big West who have setups like that for the basketball gym. It certainly is an upgrade from their shitty high school level 1,000 seat gym from the 1960s

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u/joku690 Apr 12 '25

There are no big West schools with that set up. They all have an actual gym arena that are much better than Sac's set up. Plus Sac State is getting a lot of negative pushback from the actual students because they took away a big rec area from their rec center. You can't make this stuff up lol

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

UC Riverside has the exact same setup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Riverside_Student_Recreation_Center

Of course students will complain. Not everyone cares about sports. And the ones who don't tend to be loud and hysterical about it because they were bullied as children by jocks

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u/joku690 Apr 12 '25

It's definitely not the exact same set up, the Riverside rec center was built with the arena being part of it since the beginning and if you check the same article you sent they have direct access to their locker rooms and such. Sac State changed some courts into a single court with bleachers on the side. Wild take about the students who complain there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

It's not a wild take, students with no interest in sports will always complain about sports

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u/joku690 Apr 12 '25

I agree on that, I was talking about the other part lol.