WKU Coach gets BIG FAT RAISE

[bdan2002]

WKU and Taggart announced a new four-year contract on Wednesday that more than doubles the head coach's base salary to $475,000 after he led the Hilltoppers to a 7-5 record, the best mark in the school's three-year history in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

[StealthEagle84]

ESPN Story

I was just getting ready to post the same thing. Looks like we're not the only ones trying to get attendance where it needs to be. I think the key, as stated below, is for the Sun Belt as a whole to continue to perform better out of conference. If we can do this, we can dispel the notion of our conference being inferior. We have this opportunity with three teams in bowl games this year.

"We need to perform better in non-conference games, and we need to fill Houchens-Smith Stadium on a consistent basis."

[LakeTravis]

They still have the smallest Div 1 stadium.

[oldguystudent]

They still have the smallest Div 1 stadium.

Smaller than Kibbie?

[Green Mean]

Wow I didn't realize their capacity was about 22K. How were they able to move up? Didn't the NCAA make it mandatory for schools wanting to move up to FBS that their facilities had to be 30K? I always wondered that about Idaho too...I still can't believe they play their FBS games at Kibbie.

[cl_1_2008]

Well deserved.

[StealthEagle84]

The Kibbie Dome has a capacity of 17,000 according to govandals.com (click here). Also, I was looking at this years attendance, and I'm not really sure how Eastern Michigan can keep their D-I status. Their average attendance this year was 4,267 (click here).

[Mean Green 93-98]

Wow I didn't realize their capacity was about 22K. How were they able to move up? Didn't the NCAA make it mandatory for schools wanting to move up to FBS that their facilities had to be 30K? I always wondered that about Idaho too...I still can't believe they play their FBS games at Kibbie.

They changed that rule.

[Green P1]

Meh. He didn't even get them to a bowl.