(04-07-2014 12:57 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(04-07-2014 12:54 PM)ODUalum78 Wrote:  

(04-07-2014 11:59 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(04-07-2014 11:42 AM)DawggoneEagle Wrote:  Oh I'm sure it's gotten better, and if/when EKU reclassifies theirs will as well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well than they need about 10 more years to get to the point WKU was when we made the step up...That was back when their was a lot more money too....

You said WKU averaged 8500 when it made the jump?
EKU averaged over 8600 in 2013.

Do what? No I never said that, I said we averaged way more in our last years in FCS than the 8500 EKU just put up...My point was renovating our stadiums, adding on to campus with more buildings, haviing more scholarships, creating more sports, etc took us about 10 years of planning and doing before we made the jump to FBS in 2008...Since about 2004 or so WKU has grown more than any university in the state....The enrollment has tailed off recently but we basically went from 14k enrollment to 22k enrollment in a 10 year time frame.....EKU is where WKU was in 1997, we made the jump in 2008....With less money now than back than, their is no way EKU is ready before at least 6 or 7 years from now...Anyone that thinks otherwise is kidding themselves....

I dont have the exact numbers on our attendece last few seasons in FCS, but I know we averated way more than 8600.....

You did actually:
Western Ky. 5 83,483 16,697
in 2008

Source: (under separate category toward the end of teams transitioning) http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_r...e/2008.pdf