Tensions appear to be settled between Idaho State’s football program and one of its primary donor groups.

The ISU Football Alumni Team (F.A.T.) was returned its tailgate shed and clubhouse after ISU revoked the unit last September.

F.A.T. uses the shed, which is located in the corner of the parking lot east of Holt Arena, as its clubhouse. It is also open to the public for tailgating before ISU’s home football games. It was taken away from F.A.T. after the group called for the removal of former university president Arthur Vailas and athletic director Jeff Tingey last year.

F.A.T. also threatened to withhold $80,000 in fundraising that was originally committed to ISU’s endowed football scholarship. Those financial issues have since been resolved.

F.A.T. board member Jason Whitmer said newly inaugurated ISU president Kevin Satterlee recently told F.A.T. it could have its shed back. F.A.T. also recently reached its goal of $200,000 in an endowed ISU football scholarship, and ISU officials said F.A.T. has agreed to use half of its funds from the annual F.A.T. Golf Scramble to help finance summer football scholarships starting next year.

“Whatever happened in the past is the past,” Whitmer said. “It was always about our interests in ISU athletics. It wasn’t personal for anybody. We want to see ISU athletics excel and perform and do well.”

Tingey echoed Whitmer’s sentiment, saying all university-booster relationships are key to university advancement.

“I look forward to working with F.A.T. and all of our booster groups in continuing to build the athletic department and the rest of the university,” Tingey said.

F.A.T.’s push for administrative change started when the group published a letter in the Idaho State Journal last August voicing its displeasure with the “all-time low” status of the school’s athletic programs. Over the next month, the two sides publicly rebutted the other’s claims of ISU’s successes and shortcomings. Former ISU national championship-winning quarterback Mike Machurek and well-known Pocatello car dealer Phil Meador took sides with the boosters, and the feud came to a head when F.A.T. alleged its clubhouse was revoked despite an agreement to end the aforementioned financial standoff.

For now, both parties seem content to move forward.

“This is part of being on the right track,” Whitmer said. “We’re excited to have president Satterlee and his vision of what things can be.”