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For the conspiracy theorists out there (and WstateU with his very pretty rendering of the Texas State football stadium), two facts:
1. According to their website (http://www.txstate.edu/about), Texas State at San Marcos claims 37,979 students. If a school of that size has a 30,000 seat stadium (for perspective, aging Cessna Stadium held that many or more, although most were always disguised as empty seats) and doesn't routinely fill it or come very close -- and, to be honest, doesn't put out a product that commands sufficient interest despite being in a recruiting hotbed like Texas -- what does that say about WSU's prospects? There's a reason K-State is historically bad when Bill Snyder isn't running their program, that The Flagship is usually an embarrassment on the gridiron, and that WSU had the good sense to pull the plug almost 30 years ago.
(And, yes, I know that San Marcos is in the shadow of Austin -- but there are still about a million players who come out of Texas every year, and yet not enough of them can be gathered to support a program worthy of the name that's viewed by actual crowds on a regular basis).
2. The SunBelt (currently 17th in basketball RPI and with little prospect ever to make a dramatic move up, whereas the Valley is 13th even in a down year for most of the teams who sometimes have a shot at postseason play) is not a desirable conference destination for Wichita State. As someone else said, WSU is not Missouri State. And aren't we glad they aren't?
1. According to their website (http://www.txstate.edu/about), Texas State at San Marcos claims 37,979 students. If a school of that size has a 30,000 seat stadium (for perspective, aging Cessna Stadium held that many or more, although most were always disguised as empty seats) and doesn't routinely fill it or come very close -- and, to be honest, doesn't put out a product that commands sufficient interest despite being in a recruiting hotbed like Texas -- what does that say about WSU's prospects? There's a reason K-State is historically bad when Bill Snyder isn't running their program, that The Flagship is usually an embarrassment on the gridiron, and that WSU had the good sense to pull the plug almost 30 years ago.
(And, yes, I know that San Marcos is in the shadow of Austin -- but there are still about a million players who come out of Texas every year, and yet not enough of them can be gathered to support a program worthy of the name that's viewed by actual crowds on a regular basis).
2. The SunBelt (currently 17th in basketball RPI and with little prospect ever to make a dramatic move up, whereas the Valley is 13th even in a down year for most of the teams who sometimes have a shot at postseason play) is not a desirable conference destination for Wichita State. As someone else said, WSU is not Missouri State. And aren't we glad they aren't?
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