Slight correction: Simon Fraser's administration *publicly* said that they were dropping football due to distance and lack of success. Behind closed doors, they pretty much axed the program because the athletics department didn't like football. It's been an ongoing saga for months now and if SFU was a Div 1 program there'd be 7000 word writeups about the corruption in the school administration. SFU fans, players, and alumni have been trying to save the school's football program, and it looks like they may be returning to U Sports (Canada's analogue to the NCAA, which plays Canadian rules football) next year.

Angelo State's field hosted the Houston Oilers training camp through the early/mid 80s.

As a western oregon fan it does indeed have a roof

Better stadium and it has the facilities to facilitate a division 1 program. UTEP was going to move to play at grande before they canceled their season due to Covid.

Utpb is in the planning stages for a on campus stadium now seating around 9,000

Considering how many FCS schools in Texas have moved up to FBS even as the SEC and B1G are putting more and more distance between themselves and the other FBS conferences, the southern/southwestern FCS conferences would almost certainly be looking for schools like WTA&M to fill out their rosters.

WT's old stadium was sold to the local school district. The Angelo State stadium was originally a track facility before the football team moved from the nearby high school stadium, a sunken bowl shaped like the old Tampa Stadium or the Memphis Liberty Bowl that sits next to the Jetsoneque John Glenn Middle School.

Utpb is planning on a on school campus football stadium here in the next 3 years

West Texas President has always said he doesn’t want to move to D1! Until he retires or gets fired, West Texas will stay D2! With the WAC going down to 7 schools in 25-26, they are dying for members. No LSC schools have made the move up, yet. Sure a year from now three or four schools., including West Texas, could move up. But, until that happens, it’s all fairytales about West Texas to D1

@@Lawomenshoops the president is a known liar

The Border Conference didn't drop football. It dropped everything, wrapping up its existence in 1962, its members either joining the new WAC, competing as independents, or in the case of Hardin-Simmons, dropping straight to Division III. West Texas State Teachers College, as WTA&M was called until 1990, spent the next decade as a D-I independent, joined the Missouri Valley in 1972, and dropped to Division II in the mid 1980s.

Their previous stadium (the local 17,500 high school stadium a block away) was much better. But they were set on playing on campus.

Also LA Rams actually did copy Angelo State. There is a pending court case for it.

The team is the Greyhounds.