[Vision2020] University of Idaho

[Tom Hansen]

Greetings Visionaires -

The Idaho State Board of Education considers the UI to be in a peer group of
15 other universities in the U.S.   It is a very respectable group of
schools and 14 of the 15 play 1-A football.  One of the arguments the UI
administration has made is that competing in 1-A football is typical of
educational institutions in their peer group.  The schools are:

Washington State
Arizona
Oregon State
Utah State
New Mexico State
Colorado State
Wyoming
Nevada
Arkansas
Nebraska
Iowa State
Texas Tech
Kansas State
Oklahoma State
Montana State

As most of you know, three of these schools are on UI's 2003 schedule (WSU,
USU, NMSU),  five have been on recent UI football schedules (Arizona,
Wyoming, MSU, Nevada, CSU), and one (OSU) is on future UI schedules.  If UI
dropped back to 1-AA football, its scheduling of peer institutions would be
limited to Montana State.  After seeing the names of the peer schools, the
point made be the UI administration made more sense.

GO VANDALS!!

Tom Hansen
UI '96
Moscow, Idaho