I am torn about all of this. Because, I agree with most points of contention.
If there is frustration from the athletic department about support from the area, it is on them because support comes with trends. Not some flash in the pan-one hit season wonder type thing. There needs to be a regular building momentum that has a little staying power. We haven't had that and the university needs to look at itself for that.
However, it is hard to recruit well when that foundation isn't already there.
What I see though is that others have been able to do it. So, why not us?!
What I also see is that we could model other schools like TCU and BSU by having a well balanced schedule playing patsies and slowly riding to higher teams AT HOME more often instead of seeing the program as a cash-cow. I feel like we are merely going to stack our own cards to work against us. I hope we work with intentionally here on out to slowly and steadily get this thing going on track. It really is funny that we had an 8 win season and party like its 1999. And now that i live in Boise, they refer to last season as a dark year. You know, when they won 8 games in the regular season.
This is probably one point of a million to bring in as the problem. But, our athletic department can control only what they can control. and this seems like one of them.