(10-29-2021 03:30 PM)bucfan81 Wrote:  

(10-29-2021 12:50 PM)Buc76 Wrote:  66- you seem to be obsessed with how many fans attend a game. You made several comments about the attendance at App St. ETSU would kill to have the attendance and support that App State football garners or Marshall, Geogia Southern, JMU, etc.

There is so much more that FBS offers, even the lower division of FBS.

It's amazing how some posters continue to overlook the tremendous success that our former peer institutions have enjoyed.

I guess averaging 24,000 fans per game, university enrollment growing to 20,000 and the constant exposer of your institution on national tv counts for nothing.

If going to a lower FBS conference is so irrelevant, why are all these FCS schools, many of which are or where ETSU peer Institutions. Many were members of the same conference as ETSU.

Why are the Presidents, ADs, students and fans supporting the move from FCS to FBS?

Yes. We have to start thinking like a 21st century public university.

I’m certainly not against “moving up”. Let’s get together with UTC and make it a 16 member football playing Sun Belt Conference. Who will start this thing rolling by putting down the $25 million or so to at least double the football stadium capacity. Like I’ve said all along — it would be great to be playing App State, Ga Southern, James Madison, Marshall, Old Dominion, Coastal Carolina, UTC, Ga State ……. on a regular basis. In addition, it’s most interesting to read the history of the Sun Belt. The SBC and CUSA traded schools back and forth. When App State and Ga Southern left the SoCon for the SBC, we were resurrecting football and hoping for a return to the the SoCon.

76, in 20/20 hindsight — that would have been the time to go for it — like Old Dominion, Charlotte, Ga State, etc. did by quickly transitioning from no football, to FCS football, to FBS football. Anyway — we did not, others did, and that’s the harsh reality of it all. If someone dropped the money on ETSU to expand the stadium and go FBS, where would we go now that the SBC will soon be full up. I hate to say it and it sounds far fetched—- but could that developing ASUN football experiment be emerging as the next FBS conference with the regional leftovers from CUSA, these current ASUN schools, and additions — including ETSU? After all, the SBC was on very shaky grounds once.