No worries, as you are new. You'll find no shortage of realignment conspiracy theorists ready to pounce on this thread to rehash their old takes on how football comes about for the WAC. The only thing I can offer with certainty is that GCU has never had a football program, nor will one ever be started under the current University leadership. The costs have been counted and the President of GCU is on record multiple times saying it just isn't worth blowing up the entire current athletic department so we can say we have football.