For Shocker Football Fans

[Lurking Dog]

Nonscholarship football means not having to wait for the Tooth Fairy to leave $12 million under your pillow.

http://www.campbell.edu/football/CUFootballRelease.pdf

[Panthera Pardus]

Does this mean that there's a chance the PFL will split into something more geographically friendly?

[Lurking Dog]

I guess if they can add Campbell plus someone else (Dusquesne?), they might consider going back to two divisions with a championship game. That would certainly make the geography easier for those in the eastern time zone.

The only way it gets friendlier for Drake is if a school like WSU joins up.

:bulldogs: :shockers:

[shockerfan34]

I'd go for this but it would have to be a first 5 years deal, Sort of a test drive of how the city would support football.

[rock,chalk,wushock]

The possiblity of football returning to WSU is gaining exspecially since the mayor of Wichita is now pushing for its return.:shockers:

[skinny_uncle]

The possiblity of football returning to WSU is gaining exspecially since the mayor of Wichita is now pushing for its return.:shockers:
I'll believe it when I see it.

[DUShock]

Nonscholarship football means not having to wait for the Tooth Fairy to leave $12 million under your pillow.

http://www.campbell.edu/football/CUFootballRelease.pdf

I think this link is functional: http://www.gocamels.com/football/faq.htm

It logically address the basic issues of non-scholarship football. "So you're tellin' me there's a chance..." :clap:



Go Valley!!

Go Shocks!!!!

[Lurking Dog]

"So you're tellin' me there's a chance..." :clap:

Not really. I don't think WSU wants nonscholarship football.

Maybe one of their fans will comment.

[outpost]

I will.

No thanks.

[iSASO]

I second. No thanks. WSU had just under 10,000 per game for a D1-A program right before it was killed. Why would games against Northern South Dakota Technical College draw better than that?

[Fraydog]

The fundamental problem with I-AA - I've seen this firsthand as a Saluki - is that you can't get the attendance to compensate for the student scholarships you have to pay for. We have one of the best football programs in the Gateway and I-AA and people on the SIU campus still talk of the financial benefits of cutting football for that very reason. You double our attendance of 8,500 to 17,000 (McAndrew's capacity btw) and maybe you can turn that around, but no one, not even Jerry Kill, who is a very good coach, has managed to do that, and I don't see why WSU would be any different.

I'd advise that it's not worth leveraging your renaissance in basketball and your continued excellence in baseball over, but you'd either have to do that or raise student fees, and raising student fees would only manage to make the students angry. I'm not a big supporter of I-AA football, I don't think the financials work.

[bears1]

http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/othercities/wichita/stories/2006/07/31/daily2.html?b=1154318400^1323821

[Aargh]

The possiblity of football returning to WSU is gaining exspecially since the mayor of Wichita is now pushing for its return.:shockers:
If there was anything that absolutely stuck a dagger in the heart of WSU football, it was our idiot mayor.

WSU football =
http://www.yomommashouse.com/images/music/tsunplugged.jpg

[iSASO]

Thankfully the WSU President and AD showed their leadership on this and just said 'no'.

Schaus should run for mayor. He could work it 2 hours per week and be 100x more effective than Mr. Mayans.

[MoValley John]

The possiblity of football returning to WSU is gaining exspecially since the mayor of Wichita is now pushing for its return.:shockers:

Exspecially?