Sir Sci wrote:AndShock wrote:I don't understand how SWOMO is so delusional as to think going to the Sun Belt will get them in line for a BCS invite. Springfield doesn't have 50k people to come to their football games, it's never going to happen. If I were to pick an FCS school to eventually make the leap to FBS and then BCS there are about 50 of them I would put ahead of SWOMO. Why aren't these 50 teams making the move? Is it because they don't have the "vision?" No, it's because they aren't stupid. Maybe SWOMO is making the move because they have nothing to lose. "Hey, if we go 0-13 for 5 straight years and average 4k fans a game, we'll just cancel our football program and no one will care."
You can think it's a poor idea for Missouri State to leave for the Sun Belt, but don't go posting something this ridiculous.
1. Nobody thinks that moving to the Sun Belt means the Bears will just waltz in and go bowling or move up to the Big XII.
2. FBS requires 15k average attendance, not 50k.
3. There are other FCS programs that are much more successful (obviously), but most are smaller schools in smaller markets that are geographically isolated from any BCS conference. NDSU is probably the most worthy program to move up of anybody, but it's not like there's any BCS conference out there that would actually want them right now.
4. Missouri State tends to draw an average somewhere between 8,000-10,000 people per game each season. Last season it was an 8,700 average. While that is not good enough for FBS, there are not even close to 50 FCS programs with better attendance.
The 8700 average is a complete...bold face...lie. I have photos from the UNI/MSU game. There was MAYBE 100 people there...MAYBE...
FCS programs that are at the top of the FCS...have been for the last decade or so
NDSU - isolated..Fargo has like 200K
UNI - less than 2 hours from 2 BCS schools and less than 5 from about 6 BCS schools...CF/Wloo is over 100 K and the 380 corridor has about a million
App State - NC has like 9 FBS programs
Georgia Southern - Georgia has 2 BCS programs, 2 other FBS programs, and like 4 or 5 FCS programs
Montana - isolated
Eastern Washington - shares a town, basically, with Washington State and Idaho.
JMU - not isolated at all
Delaware - not really all that isolated
SHSU - shares a state with about 50 other D1 football programs.
Most of what you said was completely false. I won't call it a lie...but it wasn't true.