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Gotta tip my hat in your direction for this one, exmediahack. I would say Iowa is the Billy Ray Cyrus of the Big 10, playing at Burlington Steamboat Days.

 

FWIW, Bleacher Report (ugh) says Harbaugh-to-Michigan will happen next week.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2311793-sources-jim-harbaugh-expected-to-take-michigan-job

 

Attendance is already awful. Had two sellouts this year and those were the first since 2005 at a 32,500-seat stadium. Games were homecoming and Border War vs. Wyoming. Don't think any games sold out once CSU was ranked in the top 25.

As far as securing stadium funding goes, no. CSU was trying to raise $120 of the $220 in private funds, but fell short. Stadium was finally official approved by the BOG earlier this month with only one vote against. Most likely funding course will be using the $90 million raised during the past two years and bonding the rest.

 

Assuming a 3% interest rate that means that the school is on the hook for 6.6 million annually in interest and principal for the next 30 years. If they play six games a year they have to come up with an incremental 1.1 million dollars a game in revenue to break even. I bet there is not a school in the Mountain West that grosses that much a game in revenue now. And in the inevitable down years a football program goes through in a 30 year cycle the school will get it's butt kicked making the payment.

I know the school thinks that an on-campus stadium will increase student attendance but they can't afford to pay a lot for a ticket. The population of Larimer County is 320,000. With Boulder County to the south, Wyoming to the north and Weld County, which is the location of the University of Northern Colorado, to the south and east I don't think the population base is high enough to fill a new stadium.

My recommendation is for the Board of Governors to hire the chancellor of UAB as President of the school. The new stadium is madness.

 

They want the UAB President, Ray Watts. He'll euthanize that puppy and not shed a tear.

All they'll have to do is beat the $753k he gets now. He's the eleventh highest paid public college president. Then again, the UAB fans would give one helluva discount.

How does free sound?

 

Utah HC Whittingham to leave? Conflict with AD.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...-031440032.html;_ylt=AwrBJSAVOqBU.ysAOVNNbK5_

 

I think Michigan is going to find out Harbaugh isn't the be-all end-all it thinks he is.

 

After months of magma buildup,
a volcanic blast is sheering the top
off of Utah football, spewing rocks
a mile high, triggering mudslides, leveling
forests, choking off life as we know it there.

That lede will hook ya in a hurry.

 

"Shearing."

 

Just a bit over the top.

 

I think he'll be quite successful there, assuming he goes there. Someone on one of the NFL pregame shows called Harbaugh "the Larry Brown of football," and that could be an apt comparison -- a brilliant coach who wins wherever he goes but wears out his welcome and/or starts looking to leave quickly.

 

Really? they let that melodramatic horseshit fly on the Whittingham piece? Crissakes.