The NCAA said Division I-A football teams that fail to average at least 15,000 fans at home games twice over a 10-year period risk being dropped from the highest level of college athletics. It's a move that could be very bad for Middle Tennessee State football.

The membership standard was approved yesterday at the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors meeting in Indianapolis.

Any school that doesn't average at least 15,000 fans at home football games this season will receive notice from the NCAA that its Division I-A status is in jeopardy, said chairman Robert Hemenway, the chancellor at the University of Kansas.

If the school fails to reach the membership requirement a second time in the next 10 years, the team will be placed on restricted status, meaning it will be ineligible for a postseason bowl game. A school on restricted status would have to average 15,000 fans per home game for two years to regain full Division I-A status and avoid being dropped to a lower level of competition.

Our local high school could qualify for D-1 under that rule, nobdy will get kicked out and new D-1 schools will continue to be added.

It's also a move that could be very bad for Idaho if they don't get their attendance crap together, which we all hope they will!

Attendance has a direct impact on Ticket Revenue which impacts the athletic budget.
I think they should drop the attendance requirement! Too much paperwork and red tape to moniter.

They should however, require a 30,000 seat stadium for d1a schools!!!

TrueAggie Wrote:It's also a move that could be very bad for Idaho if they don't get their attendance crap together, which we all hope they will!

Don't worry about Idaho, they will find a way to survive at d1a, they always do!!!!!