Spartans 4 Sanity:

Leave Division I-A Now

Faculty:  Click here to download the petition!!!

Spartans 4 Sanity is a group of faculty, students, administrators and community members who believe that continued membership in Division I-A imperils the academic mission at San Jose State.  The only reason to maintain Division I-A status is to retain a football program.  But that program has been a failure both on and off the field for more than a decade.  As a result, SJSU spends up to $3.5 million annually than it should on athletics.  And it does not deliver either the prestige or the external support that its supporters claim.

This web site contains the entire story -- the complete explanation of why Division I-A status at SJSU makes no sense and is the very definition of insanity.

• Quick Facts

• The Complete, 30-page argument

• The 3-page Executive Summary

• SJSU Academic Senate 2004 Report on Athletics

• Open Letter to the Board of Trustees, Signed by 57 Faculty

• Division of Athletics Spartans First Plan

• Knight Commission Report on Intercollegiate Athletics 

• SJSU Academic Senate 1993 Report on Athletics

If you would like to join us, please write spartans4sanity@yahoo.com

This site was last updated on April 4, 2004.