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San Jose State has backed out of its game with Stanford football in 2010. Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News is reporting the Spartans will take a much larger pay day to go play Alabama rather than the annual Bill Walsh game versus the Cardinal.
The cancellation is awfully last minute by the Spartans but when offered $1-million, you do what you have to do. As Wilner reports, that is about 5-times what their guaranty is from Stanford.
This leaves an open date the first weekend in September for Stanford. It is very difficult to schedule on such short notice. A division 1-AA team is likely to fill the void.
I like the idea of dropping San Jose from the schedule. This was a good rivalry back in the 80s. 60,000-plus people would fill the old Stanford stadium to watch the games. John Elway played on one sideline, Jack Elway coached on the other. But attendance has been on a steady decline just about every year. With various troubles at each program through the years, and then just sagging attendance across the board, the game no longer elicits much enthusiasm in the Bay Area.
Cal dropped San Jose years ago. With little fan appeal, and no recruiting issues, the game does very little for the Cardinal. Stanford should consider taking an extended leave from the series and schedule a team that may be more appealing when it comes to filling the stands or in recruiting.
Alas, this sounds like a one year break with the series set to resume in 2011 and this 2010 game just being postponed until 2014. Hopefully Stanford can cut a last minute deal to bring in a team of interest for 2010.
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