On a positive note, if Laramie (isolated city of 30K with 8K undergrads) can average over 20k fans, and 5k basketball fans, there’s hope for us!

I always try to be positive with my posts. It’s just been a bit of a reality check to imagine us adding 10k (or more) paying customers along with corporate suites in a few years. I think basketball is really facing an uphill revenue battle. TV money and P4 payouts will help balance things but game day revenue has to be a big part of the stream.

I get that things are regional, it’s just that the population and growth here just looks much different . Fort Collins and Loveland combined is roughly 250K with alot of new building going on, and plenty of commercial growth. And separated by an hour or more from Denver and any other colleges with sports, they have a bit of a monopoly for sports fans. I walked into our hotel to see two large banners that were CSU related - one offering a loyalist plan to alums. - with CSU merch on sale.

I’m in Fort Collins, CO. The new on-campus stadium is VERY IMPRESSIVE! Plus there are dorms literally across the street. Both FC and Colorado Springs seems so much bigger (and growing!) than Davis - the step up seems like an even bigger hurdle than just a matter of building up facilities. Getting the same level of local fan and financial support is going to be challenging.

They have people directing traffic at the intersection where the road from 53 meets the main road so it flows out well. The slowest part got me getting out of 56 is waiting on pedestrians crossing out of the stadium; but we’re generally in the car and on 113 within minutes after the game.

Its just interesting that his sticking around warranted an "I'm baaaack" post on social media.

Apparently Ylan Esso Essis is now back in the fold. Or never left the fold to begin with?

Looks like MSU is on back to back weekends.

I think because this is reality-based!

At our last Zoom, Plough was speculating that would be televised. that would have been pretty cool since its the first-year student night and we'd have a very big crowd for TV.

I guess I meant Bronson who was DC

how about agreeing to scrimmage us in the Spring, giving Foster/Arp a chance to figure out a plan to completely stop them!

I don’t follow WBB very closely. Not sure how they have stacked up with MWC teams in the past.

if you are anxious for us to move up to the MWC in football, you want to be a BIG men's and women's basketball fan starting this season. their success will be a litmus test for our readiness to move football up. personally, i think we have a ways to go before we are in the top half of the MWC men's basketball standings. we were a consistent top level team at in the BWC with an arena that was one of the top 4-5 in the conference; i think we'll be toward the bottom of the MWC, with one of the worst arenas.

looks like he can get to the hoop, which hasn’t been a strong point for us.

Sounds like a good addition; we need a solid defender

I was thinking more along the lines of NIL, which i had heard that they were at the top of the conference along with UCSD and UCSB. How that translates to the new revenue sharing model, i'm not sure.

that’s the minimum. The average head coach salary is something like $1,3M, with UNLV’s Dan Mullen topping the list at $3.5M.

https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/reporters/how-much-every-head-football-coach-in-the-mountain-west-and-pac-12-will-make-in-2026

I would think Sac offered more money, and I believe UCI’s revenue stream is larger than ours. In some ways, it feels like they expected big paydays and/or jump up in competition……and had to settle for less when that didn’t materialize.

you are right. It seems like the terms NIL and revenue sharing get interchanged quite a bit.