Football at Wichita State??

[kchats]

http://www.cjonline.com/stories/0702..._shocker.shtml

Wichita State football is a hot-stove topic, and, every now and then, talk simmers about reviving the program. It happened in 1998, when a WSU committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of reinstatement, and it's happening now that Wichita's mayor, Carlos Mayans, came out in favor of using city tax money to help fund a program that once swam in the red.
The mayor attributes at least part of enrollment declines at WSU -- and it's down almost 3,000 since 1987 -- to the absence of football and the pride and diversity it engenders. He says the city has suffered to the tune of $144 million.


Honestly, football might have been affordable had the program pulled back to the Division I-AA level, but that received little consideration, mostly because Warren Armstrong, the university president, wanted no part of it."His point," Weiser said. "was 'If we can't fly first-class, I don't want to fly at all.'"

"I don't know if the city would accept the so-called stigma of being I-AA," he said. "They like to be on the same level as KU and K-State."

If that's the case, football will never succeed at Wichita State.

Scholarship limits have made Division I-A football more competitive than ever, but WSU is years from being big-time.

[TheBisonator]

I think WSU could quickly become a I-AA powerhouse, and even draw crowds that are bigger than Montana's. But if they want to be I-A, I think they should try starting up a I-AA program, and have that exist for 5-7 years, and see if they can make money or win championships, and then jump to I-A.

[lakesbison]

NDSU, SDSU, Wich State to gateway!!!!

lets do this!!

or add WICH ST to great west., keep cali Schools and steal West Illionois,