Found this info on the MAC board and broke it out for easy readiing

13 DI-A institutions received letters from the NCAA because they were below 15K last year. They were warned of possible sanctions if they are below 15K again this year...

WAC - Utah State, San Jose State, New Mexico State

MAC - Bowling Green, Akron, Buffalo, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Ball State, and associate member Temple

C-USA - Rice, Tulane

Sun Belt - UL-Monroe


Utah State University told to boost attendance

This is retarted. I like Soaring Eagle's letter to the NCAA on the C-USA board about this

[quote]Soaring Eagle wrote:
The Knight Time wrote:
I think it's hilarious that the NCAA allows an almost criminal divide to exist in football where money is being protected by certain "higher ups" and design it so certain schools fail- and when certain schools DO fail, they write them letters like this asking why and threatning them.

I'd write them a letter back saying "Worry about the ****ing criminals in BCS programs and boosters paying off athletes FIRST, then come talk about attendance, jack@ss."



Dear NCAA,

We apologize for not meeting the minimum attendance requirement in football. We realize that this is a grievous offense to intercollegiate athletics. The NCAA

Tulane didn't even play a "home" game last season. Sometimes, er most of the time, the NCAA does things that just don't make sense. This is one of those times.

I guess teams like south florida get a pass because they are part of the almighty BCS.... what a joke. notice the scoreboard -this isn't pregame.

[/b]I'd write them a letter back saying "Worry about the ****ing criminals in BCS programs and boosters paying off athletes FIRST, then come talk about attendance, jack@ss."



Dear NCAA,

We apologize for not meeting the minimum attendance requirement in football. We realize that this is a grievous offense to intercollegiate athletics. The NCAA

72Tiger Wrote:I guess teams like south florida get a pass because they are part of the almighty BCS.... what a joke. notice the scoreboard -this isn't pregame.

simply stunning...it really worries me that there are 7 MAC schools on that list. that is just over half if you count the associate member temple.

72Tiger Wrote:I guess teams like south florida get a pass because they are part of the almighty BCS.... what a joke. notice the scoreboard -this isn't pregame.

USF inflates its attendence #s... but their official is 30k per game... UCF and WV games saved them big time ... had over 40k for both of them.

It seems like it would be fair to say that attendance in SB football is improving. Woulld all of you say that is a trend for most SB teams? Given the rabid ferver for college football in the south, is it realistically possible that we could see several Sunbelt teams regularly drawing 30,000+ in the near future?

Hilltopper2K Wrote:It seems like it would be fair to say that attendance in SB football is improving. Woulld all of you say that is a trend for most SB teams? Given the rabid ferver for college football in the south, is it realistically possible that we could see several Sunbelt teams regularly drawing 30,000+ in the near future?

Attendance is improving at most SBC schools. There is still too much road whore about the Sun Belt though. I'm saying that with MT playing Oklahoma, Maryland, and South Carolina on the road. But instead of Oklahoma and S. Carolina, MT had UAB (home game) and vandy (like a home game) before those two schools backed out.

As far as attendance, MT should be in good shape in the future. The game with Louisiville at the Titans' stadium is a MT home game. Next season we have Virginia at home in Floyd Stadium. Maryland the following year, and Memphis a couple of times in years after that and Georgia Tech is coming to Floyd Stadium as well. A new four-year deal with vandy is supposedly in the works with two of those games at Floyd. Attendance will not be a problem for MT.

If wku makes the move up to 1A and stays in the Sun Belt, the game between wku and MT will be THE mar-kee game in the Sun Belt and should be close to a sell out each time.

SpaceRaider Wrote:Found this info on the MAC board and broke it out for easy readiing

13 DI-A institutions received letters from the NCAA because they were below 15K last year. They were warned of possible sanctions if they are below 15K again this year...

WAC - Utah State, San Jose State, New Mexico State

MAC - Bowling Green, Akron, Buffalo, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Ball State, and associate member Temple

C-USA - Rice, Tulane

Sun Belt - UL-Monroe

Looks like WAC membership didn't help Utah State's attendance numbers much either as many of their fans proclaimed. Amazing also that Bowling Green is on that list. I thought they were one of the better MAC schools. What are they doing sharing company with Akron, Buffalo, Kent State, and Eastern Michigan?