Wichita State to get I-AA football?

[Bison_Kent]

There actually was a report on the local ABC TV station last night about getting I-AA football for the Wichita State Shockers. Here is a story on that possibility.

Living in Kansas, this would be a big plus for me. I would presume that the Gateway Conference might look to add WSU if this happens three years down the road since WSU plays their other sports in the Missouri Valley.

http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/2264051.html

[Lehigh Football Nation]

And just how successful is 1AA? A football at the gate, perennial powers from that division, Georgia Southern and Youngstown State have 10 national championships between them. Still, both programs lost over a $1,000,000 last season.

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In the most recent reporting year ending in June of '05, Wichita State's athletics revenue exceeded expenditures by almost $400,000: a positive gap that Schaus says would disappear is football were to return."

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What a bunch of unbelievably misleading crap.

[MarkCCU]

There actually was a report on the local ABC TV station last night about getting I-AA football for the Wichita State Shockers. Here is a story on that possibility.

Living in Kansas, this would be a big plus for me. I would presume that the Gateway Conference might look to add WSU if this happens three years down the road since WSU plays their other sports in the Missouri Valley.

http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/2264051.html


Go SHOCKERS!http://re2.mm-c1.yimg.com/image/991425539

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[crunifan]

Is it true that if WSU got football back, they could change the Gateway's name to the Missouri Valley again?

[BDK@YSU]

I would like to know where YSU and Georgia Southern lost a million dollars by playing football. Can I see a source on that? Can I trust a poorly written article from a TV station called KAKE?

edit: missed this gem of a picture on the sidebar of that site...
http://media.graytvinc.com/images/piece-of-kake-120120-tile.jpg

[Husky Alum]

Is it true that if WSU got football back, they could change the Gateway's name to the Missouri Valley again?

In order to "sponsor" a sport in the NCAA a conference must have six full time members play the sport. That's why the A-10 will change its name to the Colonial Athletic Association in 2007. Once Northeastern moved from the America East to the Colonial, the Colonial would have six full time football members (Northeastern, Hofstra, Towson, Delaware, James Madison and W&M).

The Gateway's name wouldn't "change" to the MVC. The MVC would be able to offer football as a sport. Effectively what would happen is the MVC schools would work out a deal with the Gateway (if it was willing) to give the autobid and the name to the MVC.

I think the MVC schools currently in the Gateway are UNI, SIU, Ill State, Mo State, Indiana State. Add Wichita, and you've got your six. All you'd need to do is work out a deal with the Gateway and its other members to be "affiliates" of the MVC, and it can be done.

[Pete's Weekly]

WSU/Fairmount College has a great football history. They played in the first-ever night game. They had the first-ever black head-coach at their level. They played most of the Big-8 teams on a regular basis. They community did not follow the team after the plane crash in 1970, and the program declined steadily until 1986, when they dropped football as did the MVC. Back then, they had Oklahoma State, Drake, Houston, UDM, Tulsa, Cinci, North texas, Memphis, Louisville, and more. The MVC then took their women's sport's conference, the Gateway, and renamed it the Gateway Football Conference, I-AA affiliated. It has remained pretty much intact, Eastern Illinois left for the OVC, YSU was added in 1997, and WKU was added in 2000 (I think).

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