Joe Davidson, The Sacramento Bee

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ryan Bjork is an unassuming, behind-the-scenes mover and shaker in Sacramento State athletics as the assistant director of communications.

He doesn’t have to promote the buzz that has swarmed over the J Street campus and across the state capital of late. The Hornets green colors Bjork wears spark curiosity, he said, when he is in the grocery store, in a parking lot, or during his tasks and duties on campus.

He is asked what is going on with the Hornets and what it all means.

“This is the most exciting time for Hornets athletics in my 27 years here, and it’s not even close,” Bjork said. Bjork is a Sac State grad (class of '98) and has been working with its media relations department for 25 years.

“If I’m out and about, I hear from p

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