(07-28-2018 02:26 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  

(07-28-2018 02:07 PM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  

(07-28-2018 12:05 PM)seaking4steel Wrote:  

(07-27-2018 10:06 PM)Section 200 Wrote:  If the Chargers can't make it, SD State has no chance. Maybe drop football and join the WCC to reduce travel cost?

The Chargers made it in SD for half a century. They left because Spanos wanted LA money and their stadium was 50+ years old. SDSU will be fine.

Well, they can learn a thing or two from the University of Houston. When the Oilers left in 1996, Houston chose the worst time to be bad in football. It could’ve been a good time to capture those Oilers fans and they were not far removed from a Heisman Trophy and competitive football in the SWC. Rice did a better job, was winning games and had decent fan support but being in the WAC-16 and a splitted WAC eventually put their program on the ground. The NFL put an expansion team in Houston in 2002 after LA said no. It took UH almost another decade to take athletics seriously.

SDSU has no room to be bad in football. They need to keep on winning if they want to capture those Chargers fans. They did a good job in basketball with Steve Fisher. They went from having Tulane/San Jose State level of fan support to selling Viejas out on a constant basis. They surpassed UNLV and New Mexico basketball, the two MWC powers. They can duplicate that formula in football but like I said, they don’t have any room to start sucking in football like they did in the first 12 years of the MWC.

There would be only a small percentage of conversion of Chargers fan.
There is a different between a college fan and a NFL fan. For the vast majority of NFL fans, they don't follow or care about college football. Which is why the NFL are 3 to 4 times bigger than college football. Some of that could change as the NFL players keep kneeling and pissing off their own fans, but with the new professional league starting up, those NFL fans would move to the other league and not college.

True. But even a small fraction helps if you’re a G5. Another thing is, the Chargers just moved 2 hours north (well without traffic) and practice in Orange County. If you’re a Chargers fan in Oceanside, you just take the 5 to LA in the morning and be back at night. As a native Californian, I know it’s a different culture out there when it comes to college sports.

Rooting for San Diego State to pull through. They have a lot of advantages going for them .... if they can get this stadium issue figured out, and one that is their's alone, I don't see why they couldn't continue being successful.