[Farm93]

71bear, SJSU is a small time player, but the days of being a viable small time player on the west coast are numbered.  If they can't get into a stable conference now they would likely need to run $10 million type deficits every year.  And NO UC or CSU school should be allowed to continue with that crazy lack of budget discipline.  Right? ;)

SJSU is literally going to sink or swim in 2012 - 2014.  SJSU is clearly the last kid picked to join the MWC party.  In the MWC SJSU could become a credible mid-major type program. Chuckle at the idea, but that should be the SJSU goal.

This hire is important to SJSU because it seems possible that the MWC could be suffering from selection remorse.  Without an AD, SJSU could have been kicked out of their new club.  If that happened, SJSU probably would fall out of D-1A Football.  The goal seemed clear get an AD ASAP to make sure that the MWC keeps us in their mix.  And, better yet, get an AD that knows some of these MWC people to try to secure the spot.  That is my non-SJSU view.

Then if I were a fan of SJSU I could imagine that I would see the possibility that if this AD could get Boise State to become a national power in FBS football, then anything is possible.  And that would mean that getting SJSU to a top 40 level of play could happen.

I am not saying I believe that emerging SJSU football power story, but I am saying I understand how the SJSU community could believe, or even needs to believe in the possibility of, that story. 

[Farm93]

71bear, SJSU is a small time player, but the days of being a viable small time player on the west coast are numbered.  If they can't get into a stable conference now they would likely need to run $10 million type deficits every year.  And NO UC or CSU school should be allowed to continue with that crazy lack of budget discipline.  Right? ;)

SJSU is literally going to sink or swim in 2012 - 2014.  SJSU is clearly the last kid picked to join the MWC party.  In the MWC SJSU could become a credible mid-major type program. Chuckle at the idea, but that should be the SJSU goal.

This hire is important to SJSU because it seems possible that the MWC could be suffering from selection remorse.  Without an AD, SJSU could have been kicked out of their new club.  If that happened, SJSU probably would fall out of D-1A Football.  The goal seemed clear get an AD ASAP to make sure that the MWC keeps us in their mix.  And, better yet, get an AD that knows some of these MWC people to try to secure the spot.  That is my non-SJSU view.

Then if I were a fan of SJSU I could imagine that I would see the possibility that if this AD could get Boise State to become a national power in FBS football, then anything is possible.  And that would mean that getting SJSU to a top 40 level of play could happen.

I am not saying I believe that emerging SJSU football power story, but I am saying I understand how the SJSU community could believe, or even needs to believe in the possibility of, that story.