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Here's Wilner's take on it.  Seems Stanford was miffed when SJSU went for the million dollar payday at Alabama a few years back when SJSU needed it to survive.  Also, Stanford's guarantee to SJSU is $215,000, when it should be closer to $500k to $600k.

I cannot quite tell if you are agreeing with or simply quoting Wilner.
As usual his logic is a little ... complicated. And he could use an editor.

1. The responsibility for the BWLG series ending falls almost entirely on Stanford.

Which he follows by calling SJSU's main demand (for a home and home) entirely unrealistic.

... there is no room to beef about the 2012-13 paychecks. But going forward, they would like a bigger cut — and they deserve one. 

This is the reason he blames the end of the series on Stanford. However, there is no discussion at all (even made up, much less by any actual information) as to what Stanford would be willing to offer. Presumably it would have been above the previous number ($215K) and less than the circa $1 million they could get from some SEC schools.

Apparently Stanford did give Sac State considerably more than that as a replacement for SJSU, so it's pretty clear that Stanford was willing to up the guarantee.  How much?  No information or speculation here.

Don’t underestimate the role that on-field success is playing in the breakdown of the BWLG.

The Spartans are a much better than they were five or 10 years ago, when they considered themselves fortunate to get a shot at Stanford every year.

Now they’re coming off an 11-win season, they’re in the Mountain West, and they consider themselves one of the rising programs in the West.

Whoops.

[CTcard]

Here's Wilner's take on it.  Seems Stanford was miffed when SJSU went for the million dollar payday at Alabama a few years back when SJSU needed it to survive.  Also, Stanford's guarantee to SJSU is $215,000, when it should be closer to $500k to $600k.

I cannot quite tell if you are agreeing with or simply quoting Wilner.
As usual his logic is a little ... complicated. And he could use an editor.

1. The responsibility for the BWLG series ending falls almost entirely on Stanford.

Which he follows by calling SJSU's main demand (for a home and home) entirely unrealistic.

... there is no room to beef about the 2012-13 paychecks. But going forward, they would like a bigger cut — and they deserve one. 

This is the reason he blames the end of the series on Stanford. However, there is no discussion at all (even made up, much less by any actual information) as to what Stanford would be willing to offer. Presumably it would have been above the previous number ($215K) and less than the circa $1 million they could get from some SEC schools.

Apparently Stanford did give Sac State considerably more than that as a replacement for SJSU, so it's pretty clear that Stanford was willing to up the guarantee.  How much?  No information or speculation here.

Don’t underestimate the role that on-field success is playing in the breakdown of the BWLG.

The Spartans are a much better than they were five or 10 years ago, when they considered themselves fortunate to get a shot at Stanford every year.

Now they’re coming off an 11-win season, they’re in the Mountain West, and they consider themselves one of the rising programs in the West.

Whoops.