The impending decision has much more impact on the university than just the football team.
University of Idaho President Staben had some remarks about the football teams future in the Sun Belt, FBS, and the possible relegation down to FCS.
What stood out to me regarding the ramifications of the football team dropping down back to FCS:
Another difference is we would move from 85 scholarships at the FBS level to 63 scholarships at the FCS level. That would affect our football team and it would also affect the availability of other sports, primarily women’s sports, because we would probably decrease the overall scholarship number by gender, approximately the same.