The PAC-MWC Dominoes Begin to Fall/Conference Realignment

[Hornet25]

However, from a PR perspective, if you want to add Sac State but think fans may reject the idea, you couple it with adding NDSU. It takes some of the spotlight off of Sac State.

 

[HornetFootballFan]

$15 million up front + league revenues would go a ways at places like SJSU or Akron...

I mentioned the sports mix because (slightly OT) Cal Baptist is dropping three sports at the end of the school year including men's golf, which the Big West sponsors. They aren't poor and they don't have the burden of football either, yet they are slimming down.

Football isn’t a burden. Low Testosterone would be a burden.

I do want the Hornets in FBS, but I fear for attendance on Tuesday-Thursday night MACtion games, off campus most likely, against the likes of UMASS, Buffalo, Akron… is anyone confident we will draw bigger crowds than Hornet Stadium just because our title is FBS possibly?

the revenue of being FBS in the long term is our goal. The short term of playing non traditional game nights is part of the growing pains we must pay if we end up in the MAC.
I see this as a 3-4 season investment into our future,

 

[ES2X]

How big is the athletics budget?

Do you guys have 15 million dollars laying around?