(06-28-2010 09:01 PM)SpaceRaider Wrote: (06-23-2010 10:21 AM)dchi72 Wrote: (06-23-2010 08:29 AM)arkstfan Wrote: You can write that story pretty much everywhere. ASU's scholarship costs have gone up a bunch and we are well behind the national education inflation rate in tuition and room/board increases.
Agree. That story is being repeated on almost every campus right now.
Nevada-Reno is having financial problems also
That is all true, but for various reasons, these pressures are greatly intensified for schools within the California State University system. The three campuses of that system that play FBS-level football are located in Fresno (WAC), San Diego (MWC), and San Jose (WAC). All three of them are feeling a very sharp, painful crimp in their athletic lifestyle, and there is basically no sign at all that things will get better, unless they somehow wind up in a BCS league. (Does anyone really think that will happen?) Fresno, at least, has a very strong history of playing good football, and of turning out large crowds for their home games. Football at San Jose and San Diego, on the other hand, is virtually invisible to their own students and the local media. It would not surprise me at all if those two schools are forced to abandon FBS-football in the next 10 years or so. I think Fresno will tough it out, somehow, but they are in a tight squeeze, no question about it.
(06-29-2010 07:44 PM)arkstfan Wrote: WAC basketball revenue is falling
What's causing that to happen?
(06-29-2010 07:44 PM)arkstfan Wrote: Hawaii and Fresno are moaning about contemplating independence.
Short of being directly subsidized by someone with Bill-Gates-like wealth, I don't see any serious way that Fresno State could survive as an Independent in FBS-level football. Hawaii's a special case. I think they
Could get by scheduling 9-10 home games every year, plus 2-3 on the West Coast. It's kinda "iffy", but at least a plausible scenario can be sketched out.
(06-29-2010 08:10 PM)dchi72 Wrote: Yes Boise leaving could hurt the conference as a whole.
Shouldn't "could" be changed to "will"?
(06-29-2010 08:10 PM)dchi72 Wrote: Hopefully things will get better, but we have a year to pull it together.
That's not much time, is it?
(06-29-2010 08:10 PM)dchi72 Wrote: After that, who knows. Benson will either earn his keep or be regarded as the worst commissioner in football.
There is no way that Benson can prevent WAC's TV-revenues from going significantly down without Boise State football pulling the train.