(02-14-2018 11:23 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(02-14-2018 11:22 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-14-2018 11:11 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 01:34 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 12:50 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Wow you actually had a vote? That's crazy, usually schools just say they are charging more and that's that....NOt sure how any UTSA fan thought this was actually going to pass, look at your student attendance for basketball. I don't know what your student attendance is for football but judging by basketball doesn't look like you get that great of student interest in sports....

You make it sound like you believe a similar measure would pass with a unanimous vote in Bowling Green...

Bowling Green University in BOwling Green Ohio? What the hell are you talking about? The city is not voting for it, the school is... My point was how would UTSA expect this to pass if you allow the students to vote?...Most students sounds at this particular university are not that invested in sports or at least basketball...Sounds like football they have good interest, but basketball is another key sport if you ever want to take next step and upgrade your arena.....WKU did not have a vote taken on last athletic fee, it was automatically added...I am sure the profs and newspaper staff at WKU are against anything sports related but that is at most universities...However enough students care and realize sports at WKU helps grow the university perception wise if we have success on the court and field...Only helps universities, look at UCF as example...

No, Bowling Green Kentucky, where Western is located, so where the vote would happen.

There is student apathy in all G5 schools.

Yes but 1500 show up to a game compared to 50 is a large gap at some of our schools...For the most part WKU students seem fully engaged now that they are showing up to basketball games and not on their phones the entire game at least...We have usually 4k for football and 1k for basketball....Only item I don't get is the 1 month excuse for students noy coming to games mid dec. to mid jan.....I would guess at least %40 of WKU student enrollment lives within a 45 mile radius of Bowling Green when campus is closed(but not really closed that long if enrolled in Winter Term)...."Going HOme" is really just driving down the street to the game and more and more students live off campus apartments nowadays starting as early as sophomore year....So I don't buy that excuse...

The problem is that even in G5 schools with strong student support, they are still outnumbered by the apathetic and the instate P5 fans.

These types of measures are unlikely to pass at most G5 programs, unless the apathetic don't vote or it's an extreme case like UAB where football is literally on the line.