How much NCAA dollars come to WIU either directly or indirectly (e.g. via conference payout) in a typical year?  I asssume it varies somewhat from year to year based on performance of teams, conference, etc.
 

With the current top attendance numbers at Hanson Field being in the 5,000 - 6,000 range, do we really need to do a complete re-build of the west side ???

Perhaps a more realistic idea would be to move the Home side of the field to the east side. Tear down the old west side, replace it with a ...

IMO, a lot of schools have a line of demarcation around 2008/2009 when smartphones were popularized where student attendance at sports started rapidly declining.





Smartphones, social media, streaming sports...I think it's all contributed to it. Even mighty Alabama was struggling with it ...

I really don't think dropping to D2 is the answer-would lose what school spirit there is.





Western had a lot of school spirit back in the 60's and 70's. Western was NAIA until 1972 when it moved to NCAA Division 2.

Some of the largest crowds at Hanson Field came during that era ...

Hey, stupid question boss, how did we mess up our football superiority of '97-'02? Lesthernecks then scared people. We had the NFL mystic but for Fiing Crips sake with solid enrollment we do nothing..

It's as if the University could give a flying finger flip that his was their moment in the ...

Hurts a lot Losing 1000 international students due to current political climate.

Let me know when " things" are great again. Still waiting.





Max Pell Grant may be going down from $7,395 to $5,710 next year. That can't be good for business either. On the plus side, the actual legislation is ...

Recruiting has to be a nightmare job for us and lot of other similar programs right now. Portal aside, my gut is telling me that some kids simply want to compete against the best (e.g. MVFC) even though they are not good enough to actually play for the better teams there. Bigger stages, more ...

Third quarter killed us.  We got soft.

4th and 10 at the 40 down 5 late in 4th, you go for it IMO.

When you can't run the ball or don't have confidence in running the ball, football is a difficult game to play.