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Texas State considering moving to D-1A

CaseyOrourke said:
This article was in today's San Antonio Express News:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/localcolleges/stories/MYSA042607.04D.FBCtexasfootball.2d5302b.html

Given the horrible record Texas State had this last season after making the playoffs the season before, I think they should reconsider.....If there is anything a Texan does not want in D-1A football is a another mediocre team.
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After talking to some of the folks I work with (one of which has a daughter going to Texas State), the general consesus is that if Texas State does go to D1-A they need to be just good enough to beat everybody else on their schedule but bad enough to play the sacrificial lamb to be properly humilated by both Texas and A&M, so they can pad their schedule in prep for the annual UT/A&M game and their running for the "FICTIONAL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP."

Other that that one reason most think there is no good reason Texas State to move up to D1-A.
 
Texas State is thinking strategically. They cannot compete now, but if they made strategic investments in facilities and coaches who's to say they couldn't do it? The thing they have going for them is the name "Texas State."

Craig T. Nelson's show, Coach, depicted a fictional Minnesota Screaming Eagles team. Since college enrollment is growing in leaps and bounds, there is room for the creation (or rather upgrading) of univerisities to fill in the void. We now see Florida universities (North, South, Central) springing up, for example.

There are a lot of states that do not have a major "State" university (like Oregon State University). These states include Nevada, Hawaii, Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.

While Texas State, Minnesota State, Kentucky State, Tennessee State, South Carolina State, Georgia State, Alabama State and Virginia State universities exist, they are not major universities ... yet. Each of these universities is quite weak politically. Georgia State is starting a FCS (I-AA) football program soon and will be playing in the Colonial Athletic Association. Of all these institutions, Texas State (formerly SW Texas State), which already has an FCS/I-AA football program, has the best chance to marshall the resources and support of the state of Texas to build things up quickly and establish their state's "State" university.
 
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