CSU always has this magic bullet fantasy that is going to make them relavent. For years it was getting a peice of the BCS bowl money. Now it is their on campus stadium. The fantasy is that if they build an on-campus stadium they are magically going to get 45,000 people show up to fill it despite the fact that at their current stadium they rarely went over 30,000 in the years when they were ranked in the top 25 and winning a lot of games.
With the on-campus stadium they are suddenly going to get TV ratings and be on sportscenter, they are going to be the lead story in the Denver Post and on the Denver TV sports reports. Build the stadium, get all those people and the Big XII is going to come begging for them to join, and give them an equal share of the TV money because after all with a new stadium they are suddenly the equal to Texas and OU.
They may get their new stadium. For a year or two they might even get around 30,000 people a game, more likely around 25k. They will still be a second thought at best in the Colorado market, they will still be gitting their butts kicked 70% of the time or more. They will still be at or near the bottom of the MWC in budget. The only thing that a new stadium does is temporarily make them not as far behind the rest of the country in FBS level football, shortly thereafter the rest of the teams will again continue to pull away from CSU leaving them further behind.
Then they will go on to their next magic bullet fantasy about becoming relevant and never get there.