SDSU has a ton of alumni in San Diego. If its too expensive around campus build a new football stadium in one of the larger suburbs around there looking to add tourism and entertainment dollars to the tax base. The enrollment is large enough where issuing bonds to get it complete will fly in a way it wouldn't at a MAC school.

I like it when you think "out of the box." Or, in this case, "out of terra firma." If they won one of these games, they could call it, "Victory at Sea"!

A $12 Billion football field...talk about an expensive stadium solution ;)

The landscape is changing. Unless you're an elite Power 5 school, there's not enough funds to build big stadiums. SDSU will have to come up with a cost effective solution.

Good idea. Baseball team can sign a lease at a double AA ballpark for 5 years or indefinitely if its a solid arrangement.

I believe Jeff is correct those days of building excess have come and gone. The Cincinnati spending spree is tolerated because their college academic rankings have been rising and they are one of the largest institutions in the nation. In almost any other state, they would be the largest public university. They reside in a fairly large media market and sooner rather than later, they will get an invite from the Big 12.

However, it is the Akron debacle that scares most administrators. We haven't even addressed the Wright State arena on this board (to the best of my recollection.) Akron and Wright State's free fall in recent college academic ratings hasn't begun to slow. As a matter of fact, our beloved alma mater, Cincy and Ohio State are the only Ohio public institutions that haven't slid in recent rankings. As much as a I am an idealist (you have to be to be a long suffering Browns fan,) the idea that we are going to get an invite to the Big 12 or ACC if we spruce up our lovable--historic Pedan Stadium just isn't feasible.
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Yeah, but they may sell the facility to the professional soccer team as part of their MSL bid. On another note, The NCAA has kicked all the HS games in August (Skyline Showdown) out of Nippert and all the high school games all season off the practice facility. That's called how not to endear yourself to the community.

Ohio Bobcat Thanks for the video link. Wow, you're right both cool and bizarre. While I realize we are talking the San Diego Aztecs, it kinda of looks like some sort of Mayan ruins one would see while visiting Chichen Itza!

I wouldn't give UC all that much credit academically. They've become marginally selective which boosted their USNWR ranking up to rough parity with Ohio. We'll see where it goes from here. The higher one goes up on the food chain, the harder it gets. Are they going to start luring 30+ ACT students away from OSU and Miami? I doubt it. From out of state? I doubt it. Are they going to lure kids from Columbus and Cleveland away from Ohio. I doubt that too. They're still largely a regional commuter school.

As for other academic metrics. They had a bit of a head start on other Ohio publics in developing doctoral and research programs due to their being a metro university until the 70s, but the rankings of those programs are much more similar to Ohio and other Ohio MAC schools than to OSU. The Cincinnati community did build up a decent medical school when they had control of the university but let the rest of the university languish in mediocrity.

We'll see what comes of the athletic spending. They had something of a con artist President who made a lot of big promises (co-flagship status with OSU, AAU membership, Comprehensive Cancer Center and B12 invite), and when none of it came true, he bolted for the first job that came along after only three years despite repeatedly promising to stay for 10. As Boren said, they didn't move the needle for the B12 a year ago, and I don't see what's going to change in the future.