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(03-19-2019 08:53 PM)Polish Hammer Wrote:  

(03-18-2019 10:37 PM)KSU93 Wrote:  

(03-18-2019 06:35 AM)Polish Hammer Wrote:  

(03-17-2019 03:39 PM)KSU93 Wrote:  The best path for football to make money is to drop down a division. This will happen in the next 10 years. Can you imagine if we were in a basketball conference where we could get 2-4 teams in the Big Dance. The enthusiasm and national recognition ?

Dropping down a division in football does not automatically equate to an increased focus on basketball and/or turn us into Gonzaga overnight. BTW, the little football success we’ve had over the years generated more enthusiasm and national recognition than our basketball success. The huge run we had years ago came and went and is now just a fading memory with little to no effect on recruits.

You couldn’t be more wrong. Look at our run in 2002. Talk to administrators. The numbers of students wanting to apply to KSU doubled. That led to us being more selective in who we allowed in. We created academic standards. Those students graduated since they were a higher caliber of student. With a higher graduation percentage we received more money from the state because they base a portion of their money on that rate. With more money academic programs expanded. Dorms were built to accommodate the new students. We have expanded ever since that year of basketball. So sir, that run in 2002 propelled the university. Quite the opposite of close to 50 years of embarrassment in the football program.

And it fizzled quickly as tradition eventually graduated. You have one agenda here, to bang on football every step of the way as you’ve proven with every one of your 245 posts. Somehow someway you think by getting rid of football would take us back to that miracle run on a permanent basis and it is just never going to happen. Football is vital to this area, want more focus on basketball then open the checkbook.

I take offense to your get out your check book I do write multiple checks to the sports I appreciate and that show a winning tradition. Football vital to the area? Is that why we dont schedule against OSU or big HS weekends? My posts? Yes half bang on football because they bring our university down. They are a losing team and will always be one. If they ever win I will not attend because I wont be hypocritical. I promise when football drops a level in the next ten years I will only gloat one time. I further promise that when Coach Beard gets a winning record for one year and bolts I will only write one time. The university has done studies showing that MBB is where we can make a significant impact nationally. Hopefully,
a new president will remove our D5 punter and we will get an AD that will see that move MBB to the forefront. I will admit that three paid games is great. Hopefully, we can get to four over the next few years.