1986 Wichita State Shockers football team represented Wichita State University in the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season . The Shockers competed as an independent program and played their home games at Cessna Stadium . It was the Shockers 90th and final season . The team , coached by Ron Chismar , went 3 – 8 and announced on December 2 that the team 's 1986 season would be its last . University officials cited financial issues and lack of success as two of many factors leading to the program 's termination . The 1970 plane crash involving the Shockers football team , in which only nine of 37 passengers survived , also played a role in the shuttering of the program
1970 plane crash
Wichita State University football team plane crash
1986 Wichita State Shockers football team