Here is a little of San Diego history.

The City of San Diego gifted UCSD over 500+ acres in La Jolla to originally build their campus. In addition UCSD was also able acquire in another gift of an additional 500 acres from the federal government which was the old Camp Mathews. So there has been some precedent set albeit 50 years ago. Also, the Q site is 166 acres of land which the City only owns half the land and the water district owns the other half. The city can only gift their land not the water district's portion of the site.

SDSU's goal is to increase their student population to around 50k from the 35K current enrollment. The Q site is connected by a trolley ride of about 7 minutes to the main campus. This is why they want to develop the land to grow the university and also build a new stadium over time, with the new stadium coming first. SDSU does have a couple of spots near campus where the university owns land, where it could build a new stadium but it is close to many residential homes and in CA, it would take forever to build there.

Even under the Soccer City plan initiative they only want purchase the Q site land for 10K.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/busi...story.html

My bet is FS investors the group sponsoring Soccer City and SDSU will come to an agreement in where they can share the site. What the final agreement looks is still TBD. One of the lead investors of Soccer City is a huge SDSU booster as well, and help build they new basketball JAM Center for the hoops programs. He is the A in the initials JAM. I think the mayor will act as the intermediary between both groups to work out something that is amicable.

Lastly, the hard part for SDSU, is they just got a new AD last fall and are in the process of searching for a new University president, as he is leaving to take another job back east in June. Hopefully, we can cue Fisher to take the lead in this for SDSU, now that he is retired from basketball and being retained by SDSU as special designee for the University.