(08-19-2019 11:54 PM)SDHornet Wrote:  

(08-19-2019 06:53 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(08-19-2019 03:22 PM)Hilldog Wrote:  What is the athletic and football budgets for Cal Poly and Davis? Let's say they are thinking of moving up in football. Let's assume, that means they would have to leave the Big West.

So would each of those two schools increase their athletic and football budgets by at least 25% with the increased in scholarship and travel- since there will be no more bus trips to conference schools!

https://www.kcra.com/article/records-sac...s/26327042

Article on UC Davis’s and Sac St athletic budgets. UC Davis’s budget is almost three times higher than NC A&T, which just announced that it is considering going FBS. UC Davis and Cal Poly would need stadium expansions though, which are planned. UCDavis plays in an east coast field hockey conference with Stanford and Cal.

https://thespun.com/college-football/nor...otball-fbs

Cal Poly isn’t going anywhere unless they are forced by Sac and davis going FBS. CP has the highest mandatory campus fees of all 23 CSU’s (per ’18/19 academic year data) at $4074 which is almost double the next closest CSU (Sonoma State at $2056/year). Sac State’s is at $1568, 9th highest of the 23 CSU’s. San Jose has the highest fess of the FBS CSU’s at $2054, Fresno the lowest at $845.

To put it bluntly, CP can’t/shouldn’t afford the increased fees associated with supporting more scholarships at the FBS level. Also their stadium is locked in with surrounding infrastructure so any expansion in its current location will be very costly and not add many seats.

On the other hand, Sac State can absorb a fee increase for FBS and a fee associated with an on-campus events center if/when needed.

Cal Poly seems more like the next target for dropping football IMO. Of course, they're already in the Big West and aren't going anywhere else.

Observation about Sac State: didn't the student rec center proposal that was voted in several years ago include an arena? It's my understanding that this was true, and then arena funds were diverted to something else. Maybe I'm wrong.

Thing is, does Sac State have the will to vote for such a thing?

Portland State got a downscaled arena done without going to students... because that would have failed at the ballot. At least it's not to the point where the students actively want to dismantle football instead of just passive-aggressively ignore it.