President Allen

[krusej23]

Re: President Allen

I don't think the FBS is letting anymore teams in for awhile are they? I had heard awhile back that they had too many schools make the jump.

[Panther-Sheik]

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I think / hope that the NCAA is looking for ways for FCS to become a "bigger deal" with more sponsorship dollars available. This will probably have about as much immediate impact as a gallon of water in the ocean, but if they can get a bigger stage for the championship game with more tv exposure, sponsors are sure to follow. Maybe a slow and steady climb to more incentive to be a top tier FCS program rather than a bottow dwelling FBS program.

[Big_Al]

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Thats interesting. IIRC, their dome is somewhat similar to ours, I wonder how they are increasing it to 20K?

No, theirs is more like a ginormous quonset hut, just like Idaho State (Boise State had one as well, IIRC, but replaced it with their stadium back in the 80s). My wife went to Idaho on student exchange for her junior year. To say football isn't a big deal at Idaho would be very charitable. They have a very competitive women's VB in the WAC, for whatever that's worth. I don't really understand why Idaho went FBS.

[UNIAlum95]

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No, theirs is more like a ginormous quonset hut, just like Idaho State (Boise State had one as well, IIRC, but replaced it with their stadium back in the 80s). My wife went to Idaho on student exchange for her junior year. To say football isn't a big deal at Idaho would be very charitable. They have a very competitive women's VB in the WAC, for whatever that's worth. I don't really understand why Idaho went FBS.

It's similar in that they have seating on both sides but none on the ends.

They went FBS with dreams of $$$ and championships. I'm guessing that football is not making money up there unless they stayed at 65 scholarships which might explain their on field performance. Just sayin...

[Panthers to the Bone]

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This article discusses WKU's move to the FBS. It says after they won the national championship they got an extra 100 season tickets sold. That kind of started the jump. They were on the opposite side of Title IX where they needed to add men's scholys. They talk about their $49 million 'facelift' of their current stadium that was built with mostly school bonds (something I don't think would fly at UNI).

Bottom line is that WKU thinks they are making a good decision, but I just don't see it at all. I'd really like to see the $$$ difference in their move.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g_0C3HkSoP8keEOjmDZN-ekKUktAD9AF2CK00

[oldcat]

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This article discusses WKU's move to the FBS. It says after they won the national championship they got an extra 100 season tickets sold. That kind of started the jump. They were on the opposite side of Title IX where they needed to add men's scholys. They talk about their $49 million 'facelift' of their current stadium that was built with mostly school bonds (something I don't think would fly at UNI).

Bottom line is that WKU thinks they are making a good decision, but I just don't see it at all. I'd really like to see the $$$ difference in their move.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...KUktAD9AF2CK00

They almost dropped football a few years before their championship run. UNI was to play them there and they canceled the game.

[clenz]

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This article discusses WKU's move to the FBS. It says after they won the national championship they got an extra 100 season tickets sold. That kind of started the jump. They were on the opposite side of Title IX where they needed to add men's scholys. They talk about their $49 million 'facelift' of their current stadium that was built with mostly school bonds (something I don't think would fly at UNI).

Bottom line is that WKU thinks they are making a good decision, but I just don't see it at all. I'd really like to see the $$$ difference in their move.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...KUktAD9AF2CK00

They sold 100 more season tickets and wanted to jump? Didn't UNI double their season tickets in the last 2 years or so?

[TH1974]

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Bottom line is that WKU thinks they are making a good decision, but I just don't see it at all. I'd really like to see the $$$ difference in their move.

Yeah, they're not talking much about that. They mention that the recruiting budget has doubled, but don't say where that money came from. Obviously they're not competitive yet, so their revenue may go up in the future compared to what it's been, so we aren't seeing the big picture. I doubt they'll be very successful, though.

[DomeRanger Posse]

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I actually kinda miss playing the Hilltoppers. It was always a good smash-mouth game.

[06panther10]

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How bout the game in Bowling Green in '05? The season was on the line, and they had a FG to win the game, they missed it, but we were offsides and they got another shot at a pretty short FG to win the game. We blocked it, won in OT and began our run to the title game.

[Scrambler]

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Well, push come to shove, the PSC will die and the contributions will go straight to the Football team.

I really don't believe that, but its the first thing that comes to my mind....

Isn't that where 80% of that money goes anyway since football scholarships are about 1 million a year? I don't know this but would assume football eats most of the PSC money up.

[CincyPanther88]

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How bout the game in Bowling Green in '05? The season was on the line, and they had a FG to win the game, they missed it, but we were offsides and they got another shot at a pretty short FG to win the game. We blocked it, won in OT and began our run to the title game.

Yep. Actually went to that game. Just a great day alltogether. I was a little bummed that they went to FBS since they are only 3.5 hours from me.

[run&blade]

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I think playing two FBS games a year would solve it.

Truth be told, UNI could cut all the men's sports besides football and basketball and nobody would care. I realize track has some football influence but if you got to cut it you cut it.



If UNI dropped football then the university would be dead to me an my family. We have season tickets and make a day of it on game days. Kids like walking around campus and seeing everything there is to see.

[FOTY]

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We may have ISU next year (very winnable FBS team), but we could play two FBS teams and never leave the state. Both winnable games....

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090916/SPORTS020502/90916001

Hey, if Ball State wants out at $800k. We'll give Iowa a break and only charge $700k this time around! I'm not really going to support the idea, but it would be kind of fun!

[MnPantherFan]

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I think playing two FBS games a year would solve it.

Truth be told, UNI could cut all the men's sports besides football and basketball and nobody would care. I realize track has some football influence but if you got to cut it you cut it.



If UNI dropped football then the university would be dead to me an my family. We have season tickets and make a day of it on game days. Kids like walking around campus and seeing everything there is to see.

Two FBS games a year would solve what? Maybe making the playoffs, getting a seed, eliminating the bother of getting ready to go to an extra home game?

What do the kids like to see besides the dome, nobody cares about anything besides football and basketball? Maybe it's the intangables on campus like the energy created by the endless possibilites for the future and the diversity of college life. Please don't speak for me, thank you.