Central Missouri averaged 7700 fans at home last year. Northwest Missouri averaged 7650. They are both division 2 schools. If nothing else, it proves that if a school in Missouri puts a good product on the field the fans will come. Missouri State should easily increase its attendance with the recruiting class coming in and a little excitement of things to come.

All of that being said, this particular thread is about basketball. Mo. State has always primarily been a basketball school first. Mo. State would do nothing but help on the basketball side. Given the RPI's of the teams leaving and the teams coming, I am not sure inviting them would do anything more than maintaining the status quo but that is at least something.

You state that you are waiting for the MSU AD or President to actually say "FBS" but then state you are willing to offer James Madison who to my knowledge has never publicly stated a desire to move up either. I don't doubt they are both doing a lot of things behind the scenes to get this accomplished or we wouldn't be talking so much about both schools. The difference between the two is a very public Carr report in the last couple of years for JMU exploring the possibility of a move. Missouri State has had these types of studies in the past as well. Liberty has been very public for a couple of years about their desire to move to FBS. If transperancy is your only qualifier, Liberty is your best option...