WKU fans keep comparing EKU moving to what they did. Your strategy worked. Great. Wonderful. However, let's keep in mind WKU is NOT the only school that's moved from FCS to FBS and made it work, I would guess not all used the same WKU "model". Several schools have been mentioned on here as "candidates ", some who don't have football at any level... And no stadium period. There was a WKU fan somewhere back in the EKU discussion who mentioned Northern KY U as a better choice than EKU. NKU has no football program at all and as far as anyone knows, no plans to start one. That's just one example of the bias concerning EKU.
I believe an EKU fan on here mentioned, we as well as other schools hoping to move to FBS, probably do not have the luxury of time Western KY had. I believe that EKU's President Benson as well as the BOR, are intelligent enough to get this done and to move forward if this is in any way feasible. All the: "I've been to EKU, I live in Lexington, they can't do what we have done, they have an ugly stadium, they're too close to uk", etc, blah, blah, blah, does not mean a hill of beans. EKU will do what it takes to move this forward or we won't. I have faith in Benson, he has talked about this from Day 1. This may not mean anything to any of you, but he does his homework. Before his interview, he came to campus, walked around without telling anyone who he was, talked to students, faculty and staff, talked to the coaches, he knew this university well before he was chosen. He knew what the needs were before he was hired and then he hit the ground running.