Printable View
There is no doubt there has been an attendance apathy over the last 7 years.
However looking at the past I feel confident that winning overall (not just the home winning record at home over the last 2 years) will bring the fans to the games.
The last year that averaged over 20,000 was Jakes last year 1996
<blockquote><p align=justify><b>Wyoming did it in 2002</b>
If the people of Wyoming want UW to stay in Division I-A, they have two choices: to help the University of Wyoming become more competitive – thereby cementing UW’s membership in the Mountain West Conference – or permitting UW to muddle along at or near the bottom of the conference and risking possible ejection of UW from the conference and Division I-A. As Dubois has said, “If the state wants to have a Division I-A program, we should be prepared to be competitive and not be seen as an institution that let the game get away from it.”
Elements of the plan include strategies to restore competitive excellence, improve academic success, gender and ethnic equity, private fundraising, marketing, and facilities. During his presentations, Dubois has focused on just two parts of the plan – competitive excellence and facilities, centering on the four sports that tend to have highest visibility within the conference and nationally – football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and volleyball.
Restoring competitive excellence has four essential elements, with associated annual cost of $2.62 million:
Staffing and salaries to ensure that we can recruit and retain outstanding coaches and assistants: $1,150,000
<b>Scheduling to minimize the need for revenue games (such as our “home” game against University of Tennessee that was played in Nashville)</b> and provide the funds needed to bring to Laramie teams that will help our basketball Power Rating Index for NCAA basketball tournament selection: $787,000
<center><p><a href="http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/UWYO/vol5/01/game3.htm">PAge 3 of 3</a><!--
Allowing coaches to recruit the best available student-athletes: $150,000
Reducing game travel time and fatigue, as well as the number of classes missed by flying to games rather than taking buses: $175,000
The cost of other operational elements of the plan – Ensuring Academic Success, Promoting Student Athlete Welfare (including sports medicine), Improving Private Funding, and Marketing (including to the 10,000 UW alumni who live in the Denver area) raises the annual operational needs to about $3 million – nearly $2 million below what would be required to get UW to the Mountain West Conference average.
Facilities enhancements are divided into the essential and the desirable. Essential is a $5.5 million structural repair to War Memorial Stadium – that must be accomplished by fall 2004 – to prevent the ultimate collapse of the upper west stands and further structural deterioration. If the upper west stands become unusable, UW would no longer meet the NCAA Division I-A requirement for football stadium seating capacity and could be dropped from I-A and the Mountain West Conference.
Desirable enhancements, with a one-time cost of $25 million, include:
Constructing an indoor practice facility for football and soccer, which would create opportunities for use of the Fieldhouse by club sports: $6.5 million
Installing a state-of-the-art artificial turf at War Memorial Stadium, which would increase player safety, reduce water and other maintenance costs, and make the field available for use year-round: $1 million
Enhancing fan and corporate sponsor experience at War Memorial Stadium: $10 million
Covering outdoor tennis courts to allow UW to host tournaments $1.5 million
The plan suggests that costs could be borne by various funding sources, including major gifts and sponsorship agreements; increases in ticket prices and concessions; development of corporate suites; increases in student athletics fees; revenues from tuition; and state appropriations.
Dubois has told Wyoming residents that the Board of Trustees’ decision on the future of UW intercollegiate athletics could be based in large part on public sentiment – whether people care about the division in which Cowboys and Cowgirls play and whether they care about UW’s ability to be competitive. He also encourages residents to send him their comments on the plan.
University officials will review comments received at public meetings and through email and incorporate them into the next iteration of the plan, which trustees are scheduled to review in September. One outcome of that meeting could be a legislative request of about $3 million to cover the operational costs needed to achieve competitive excellence. During Dubois’ talks, he reminded people that UW had not requested any money for athletics during at least the past seven years.
To read the entire plan and submit your comments by e-mail, go to the UW Web home page (www.uwyo.edu) and click on the icon for Draft Strategic Plan for Athletics. -->
**I did not realize that I would have to split up the post since it was so darn long! Here is the rest of the post.**
The problem, Waters said, is that there are few reasons to play I-AA football anymore. Although I-AA programs are limited to 63 scholarships, there is little television revenue, no chance for a bowl game and now fewer opportunities to schedule I-A opponents. "You've got to give them a carrot to stay down, and we haven't done that yet," Waters said. "As long as I-A is as attractive as it is, people will find a way to move up."
NEW DIVISION I-A REQUIREMENTS In order to maintain full Division I-A status, a school must meet these new criteria beginning this fall: • Average 15,000 in football attendance for five home games against I-A opponents. Because of scheduling conflicts, schools can play a minimum of four home games against I-A opponents for the next two years. • Sponsor 16 sports, with at least six for men and eight for women. • Provide at least 200 total athletic scholarships each year, or spend at least $ 4million in grants-in-aid every year. • Maintain a two-year rolling average of at least 90 percent of the maximum number of football scholarships. The current maximum is 85 scholarships, so school would have to average at least 76.5 players on football scholarships over two years. MISSING THE CUT NCAA legislation that goes into effect this fall requires schools to average 15,000 a game in home football attendance to maintain Division I-A status. The 11 schools that failed to meet the requirement last season with home games and average attendance:
School G Avg.
Kent State 6 8,524
Middle Tennessee 6 11,021
Eastern Michigan 7 11,258
La.-Monroe 5 11,298
Idaho 5 12,064
Ball State 6 12,339
Buffalo 6 12,419
Akron 6 13,812
Central Michigan 6 13,907
La.-Lafayette 6 13,995
Utah State 5 14,921
Fine company we are in now!!
:o :o :o :o :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
The problem is, you have to count actual people in the seats, NOT JUST PAID ATTENDANCE!! The paid attendance numbers do not count anymore and have always been fabricated,.....I found!
Any chance of the 2006 LSU game being a home game for UL?
Good thing UL has been using actual numbers the past couple of years withthe ticket scanners. Try again, dipdunk...
Bottom line, are we going to be ok? I think we will (should) have a winning record next year. That has to affect ticket sales and ultimately recruiting. I think in the end, we'll be alright and remain in D1-A
>>>>>>>>>>Quote:
Originally posted by realitycajun
**I did not realize that I would have to split up the post since it was so darn long! Here is the rest of the post.**
The problem, Waters said, is that there are few reasons to play I-AA football anymore. Although I-AA programs are limited to 63 scholarships, there is little television revenue, no chance for a bowl game and now fewer opportunities to schedule I-A opponents. "You've got to give them a carrot to stay down, and we haven't done that yet," Waters said. "As long as I-A is as attractive as it is, people will find a way to move up."
NEW DIVISION I-A REQUIREMENTS In order to maintain full Division I-A status, a school must meet these new criteria beginning this fall: • Average 15,000 in football attendance for five home games against I-A opponents. Because of scheduling conflicts, schools can play a minimum of four home games against I-A opponents for the next two years. • Sponsor 16 sports, with at least six for men and eight for women. • Provide at least 200 total athletic scholarships each year, or spend at least $ 4million in grants-in-aid every year. • Maintain a two-year rolling average of at least 90 percent of the maximum number of football scholarships. The current maximum is 85 scholarships, so school would have to average at least 76.5 players on football scholarships over two years. MISSING THE CUT NCAA legislation that goes into effect this fall requires schools to average 15,000 a game in home football attendance to maintain Division I-A status. The 11 schools that failed to meet the requirement last season with home games and average attendance:
School G Avg.
Kent State 6 8,524
Middle Tennessee 6 11,021
Eastern Michigan 7 11,258
La.-Monroe 5 11,298
Idaho 5 12,064
Ball State 6 12,339
Buffalo 6 12,419
Akron 6 13,812
Central Michigan 6 13,907
La.-Lafayette 6 13,995
Utah State 5 14,921
Fine company we are in now!!
:o :o :o :o :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
<<<<<<<<<The problem is, you have to count actual people in the seats, NOT JUST PAID ATTENDANCE!! The paid attendance numbers do not count anymore and have always been fabricated,.....I found!
Hey brain surgeon, I believe Turb. has addressed that we are doing this......counting actual butts in the seats....
Pay attn. rain man.....
Z.
Z why reply to this BOZO, he has an agenda that is not beneficial to UL. Direct answers to his nonsense will only get you a BOZO response like bite me.
Or he could reply something like tiger bait tiger bait, tigger bait. Or LSwho LSwho LSwho. Something moronic that they do.
<center><p><a href="https://forumeus.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=17350#post17350"><img src="https://forumeus.com/images/buttons/button-pageback.jpg">
</a></center>
...UL faces NSU in the Herbert Heymann Football Classic. Are they any good?