1. I don't think CSU was ever really interested. I believe it was pushed by the new president -- the third choice, by the way, after the first two choices declined second interviews. The new president has come in and is pushing the Vet school and ag programs aside. She is from the East Coast with very left wing ideas, and even less in touch with the make up and mentality of the school than the recent Presidents Wyoming has had to deal with.
2. The proposal was never even discussed to the CSU system Board of Governors, who found out about it from reading newspapers and talking with friends.
3. Air Force is pissy because it wants a sweetheart deal like Boise and the conference has turned a deaf ear, which he should.
4. What Air Force found out is their alums and big donors were up in arms about the idea and strongly opposed it.
5. From a scheduling standpoint, the idea Navy is in the conference was not a selling point. First off, Air Force already has a great set up with the annual games against Navy and Army, and that trophy, so the idea it was being lured by the idea of being in the same conference, actually would have been a financial negative because in light of the fact they already reap financial benefits from playing Navy in terms of a sellout every other year when they are the host school. Secondly, Navy is only in the AAC only in football so there would have been no basketball or non-revenue draw of matches with Navy.
6. What was never mentioned was, okay maybe it benefits football and maybe the payday is bigger, but what is going to be the cost of non-revenue sports? I know with CSU, more than half of the non-revenue trips are by van or bus, not flights. I don't think the idea of getting in a van and driving to the various schools in the AAC would have been well received.
7. And finally, Tony Frank, is now Chancellor of the CSU System, in other words over all the CSU schools, not just the one in Fort Collins. And Frank is a bit more aware than the East Coast woman who filled the void when he left the Fort Collins arm of the CSU System.
2. The proposal was never even discussed to the CSU system Board of Governors, who found out about it from reading newspapers and talking with friends.
3. Air Force is pissy because it wants a sweetheart deal like Boise and the conference has turned a deaf ear, which he should.
4. What Air Force found out is their alums and big donors were up in arms about the idea and strongly opposed it.
5. From a scheduling standpoint, the idea Navy is in the conference was not a selling point. First off, Air Force already has a great set up with the annual games against Navy and Army, and that trophy, so the idea it was being lured by the idea of being in the same conference, actually would have been a financial negative because in light of the fact they already reap financial benefits from playing Navy in terms of a sellout every other year when they are the host school. Secondly, Navy is only in the AAC only in football so there would have been no basketball or non-revenue draw of matches with Navy.
6. What was never mentioned was, okay maybe it benefits football and maybe the payday is bigger, but what is going to be the cost of non-revenue sports? I know with CSU, more than half of the non-revenue trips are by van or bus, not flights. I don't think the idea of getting in a van and driving to the various schools in the AAC would have been well received.
7. And finally, Tony Frank, is now Chancellor of the CSU System, in other words over all the CSU schools, not just the one in Fort Collins. And Frank is a bit more aware than the East Coast woman who filled the void when he left the Fort Collins arm of the CSU System.
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