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This was a very contentious issue in the school district for a long time. There were adequate facilities in both Winthrop and in Fairfax (especially) but local politics closed the Fairfax facility quite some time ago. The tax base in the district is almost entirely agricultural, there being...

I think we're two years away from being one win worse than three years ago.

I would guess a college town with 300k people and a metro of a million people a short drive away would be attractive to most recruits while an urban campus would be attractive to only a smaller cohort.

I would guess the Bengels, Browns, Indians, Cavs, Reds and Blue Jackets have zero fans in Columbus and OSU has no fans outside Columbus.

Why not forfeit in fact, if not dejure?

Sorry, shitting the bed was assumed in my generalization.

Did I say "tend to improve" or "always improve?"

Unless this were a 1 win or no win team I don't know how one can make any pronouncements about a PJ Fleck team until the end of the year. Last year's team was what, 7-5? And 5-7 the year prior? PJ's teams start slow, always play ugly win or lose, and tend to improve as the season progresses...

On one hand, the stadium naming rights were given away for a song. On the other, the market for naming rights seems to have dried up some.

Not to nitpick but NW and WF was a merger "of equals" with NW leadership surviving hut like nearly all such transactions involving MN based organizations, the HQ moved out of state.

No it isn't.

I thought they were balking

OSU and Michigan are balking.

On field success would be a very small part of the equation but only as it relates to viewer interest. The real question will be what schools will get the most viewers. Some might take that view. But there's a whole lot of fans of schools that would have never made a January 1 bowl game, the...