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  1. UTSA had people on campus on Thursday from the Alliance and apparently Texas State had people on campus today. La Tech gets a visit next week. I would expect UNT to get a visit either Monday or Tuesday.
  2. The WAC will play next year and have until the 2014 season to find 1 more school at this point. The WAC has to have 8 schools in 2014. Also expect UTA to announce football returning sometime this year.
  3. Don't know where you get your information from, but we averaged over 15,000 last year in attendance. What are these low academic standards you speak of?
  4. Take a look at our facilities before you pass them off as being worthless. here is a photo gallery of the box suites. Photo gallery Here is a picture of our current construction on the stadium.
  5. Maybe I should have worded my statement to say just the last 30 years. North Texas at one time had great teams. But in the last 30 years, North Texas has not done much. A string of 4 Sunbelt championships break the monotony of the bad seasons, but not much else. Texas State has not done much either. Back-to-back D2 national titles in the early 80's and 2 FCS playoff appearances in the 2000's. Mediocrity at its best. Our fans would rather follow us playing FBS competitors vs. FCS competitors. I am anxious to see what our attendance is this coming season and how many season tickets are sold. Here is a seating chart for our upgraded stadium and I know they are bringing in temporary seating for the Texas Tech game for overflow.
  6. Since when has UNT not been in the bottom of FBS? UNT football has been a bottom feeder in FBS for several years. There is nothing you can do to get away from it until you start winning and go to bowl games in multiple years. Yes Texas State and UTSA will start out at the bottom of the FBS, but the budgets that they are bringing to the table will help them improve quickly. Both are/have maxed out their athletic fees at $20 per credit hour and both have over 30,000 students enrolled. Budget comparisons School Expenditures Revenue University of North Texas (FBS) $22,417,616 $22,417,616 Texas State University (FCS) $19,695,633 $21,300,108 UT-San Antonio (FCS) $14,475,118 $14,475,118 Another note: Texas State has already passed UNT on the Texas list of emerging institutions in regards to research with about a quarter of the PhD. programs that UNT offers, our endowment has grown and is now larger than UNT, and our 4, 5, and 6 year graduation rates in 2006-2009 (latest years of available data) were significantly higher than North Texas State. We may be FCS now, but we are not just saying we want to be FBS, we are also putting the money into the program to make a successful move to the FBS level. Our football stadium is being upgraded now to approx. 29,500 and another expansion is scheduled in 2014 that should bring the capacity up to about 35-36,000. We recently completed new luxury boxes and club level seating that are very nice and will be some of the best in the WAC next year. Whether you like it or not, on July 1 Texas State will be an FBS school.
  7. Just more institutions having access to the limited research dollars.
  8. Texas State has been identified as an Emerging Research institution by the Texas Legislature. http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2012/January-2012/EmergingResearch011212.html
  9. Guys, next year Texas State and South Alabama are FBS teams and UTSA is an FCS when counting wins for the bowls. In 2013, UTSA will be an FBS counter.
  10. I think the Texas State cost for this is only going to be around $275,000 if you factor in the proposed scholarship cuts. Without the cuts it would be closer to $450,000.
  11. Something to consider is the fact that the NCAA is looking at lowering the scholarship numbers in football to 80, as well as lowering men's and women's basketball scholarship limits. I believe that that is decrease in 10 scholarships that could help offset this new cost. Someone also posted that the SBC had discussions at the Fall meeting about lowering the football scholarship limit in the SBC to 75. I would be more concerned about that.
  12. Even SMU, Baylor, Texas A&M, Houston, and TCU have played the lowly FCS Texas State program in the last few years.
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