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Show J THE Aggies Are Optimistic About Acceptance To WAC Play With the application deadline for Western Athletic LEADER-GARLAN- TIMES. March 31. D Page 9 1977. 1 membership a away, Utah State University Athletic Director Ladell Andersen was an optimistic man when he left Conference week Logan for Denver. Andersen's Thursday meeting with WAC Commissioner Stan Bates will include USU's formal application for conference membership. "With San Diego State's application Wednesday," said Andersen, "It seems to be a foregone conclusion by many that they will become the seventh member of the WAC. We at USU feel it will be difficult to overlook the Aggies for membership as the eighth school. Among all of the other schools applying, those that have come to my attention, we feel we came the closest to meeting the criteria outlined by the WAC office." Guidelines expected to be used for consideration in WAC expansion include academic programs and aspirations of the applying schools, especially as they compare with programs in the WAC. Also important will be facilities and their capacities, football and basketball attendance, scholarship support in football and basketball, strength of scheduling (i.e., number of Division I teams played) in football and basketball, and participation in other intercollegiate sports. "We are going to great lengths to let the other WAC schools know where we stand in each of those areas," said Andersen. "Of course, we think the Spectrum (10,270) and Romney Stadium will be strong additions to the WAC facilities, especially when we have the chance to expand the stadium to 30,000. Neither of those two structures is ten years old yet. "We think it is important, when considering attendance averages, to combine football and basketball figures since they are generally considered the 'revenue' sports. Our combined figures stack up well with most of the current WAC schools. Statistics since 1969 indicate Utah State has shown a very strong ability to draw fans into WAC stadiums. This includes the last four home game years at Utah, BYU, Wyoming and Colorado State. "A survey by Wasatch Opinion Research Corporation throughout northern Utah and southern Idaho shows that if we belonged to the WAC, it would stimulate 48.8 percent of the population represented by the study to attend more football games at USU," said Andersen. "In fact, of those questioned during the survey who never attended a football game the past four years, 35.5 percent said they would come to watch Aggie football in Romney Stadium if USU was a member of the conference." Andersen said USU representatives have visited, or will soon visit, every existing school in the WAC. "We're also inviting Presidents and Athletic Directors of the oher six schools to visit Logan and see our facilities first hand," he said. "President (Glen L.) Taggart has done a great deal of work with the Presidents of the current WAC schools. He has been particularly close with President Oaks and President Gardner at BYU and Utah." While pointing out USU's competitive edge over WAC teams since the inception of Pi ' t Take ItDtairsftSecTufe stieis I BEAR RIVER high school is in the middle of student elections. Above (1 to r) Dina Tucker, Dana Hill, Sydney Smith, Jill Josephson and Melanie Ilirschi help prepare a campaign banner. angle the question isn't "Can you afford to be in the WAC?", suddently it's "Can you afford not be to be the WAC?" Prior to Thursday's official application, the school administration cleared their conference goals through the school's Athletic Council, then the USU Institutional Council and Tuesday (March 21) received support and endorsement of their WAC bid from the State Board of Regents. "The Wasatch Opinion Research Poll also showed more than 87 percent of the 2 in the conference football and 3 in basketball), USU's Andersen has been quick to familiarize WAC leaders with the smooth transition in scheduling the Aggie admission into the WAC would afford the conference. "Right now we play four of "We could make a transition into swimming and gymnastics and baseball, to go with the program we have now," said Andersen. "We would want to be competitive in each one and being in a league the caliber of the WAC forces its members to be strong in each sport. And we could accomplish that, particularly with the finanmember realizes from Bowl Game revenues and TV money. In fact, from that population endorses our app- in four days during the second week of March.) "I think this is because we have a reputation for putting out competitive teams. Only two schools in the West -UCLA and San Francisco -have been to more post season basketball tournaments since 1960. (The Aggies have played in eight.) In football we've only had three losing seasons the past 17 years and our record during .that's that time is seven wins a year." As in football, Aggie bask- (The survey was conducted zoom cial benefits each WAC 3 months 6 to 2Vi yrs. 2Vi to 4 yrs. 4 yrs. 6 yrs. 7 7V4 5.61 7.71 annua' yield on quarterly compounded certificates Certificates held to maturity The earn more Federal regulations require substantial penalty lor early withdrawal on certificates effective Let yourself grow with First Security. Fifslt (EtairiEi Security Resources over $2 Billion fn Firtl Security Security Bank of Bank of Utah N Bountiful. A Ftftl Security Bank of Idarto. N First Security Bank of Murray. N.A A N ' A ' Ftrtt Secutity Slalc First Security Bank ol Bank Logan. N First Security Bank ol Orem. HA Firtl Security Slate Bank ol Karmlle A i First Security Bank ol Rock Springs. Wyo. First Security Slate Bank of Helper etball attendance figures against WAC the remaining six MWM RMKK!ER'& EARLY S EASON R0VAR7 TILLER SALE!' WAC schools in football," said Andersen, "and should San Diego State be added, that would make it five. You're talking about USU's natural rivals in these cases and that competition can only profit the WAC." His visits around the conference have left Ladell with the impression the "three schools in one state syndrome" is no longer an item in regards to expansion. "We at Utah State think the WAC Presidents will feel strongly about being affiliatin an athletic confered ence - with schools which are on a similar academic level. And USU certainly doesn't have to take a back seat in that department," said Andersen. "Academically, USU is a strong institution after 89 years. 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