JMU to the Sun Belt?
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The Sun Belt is much better than CUSA at this point, so they might as well take the offer if they want to move up.
Your preference, 32? I think i'd be partial to the Camels as another southern outpost but i doubt we'll have a particularly loud voice at the table.
It looks like CUSA is under heavy pressure. Nine schools will have left the conference within 2 weeks.
I am ok with our Spiders playing FBS VT and UVA. Not so with FBS Dillweeds and ODU.
I don't know how much VT and UVA pays. I doubt that JMU would play as much as VT and UVA.
Tech paid us $400,000 this year and the Hoos will pay us $430,000 next year. The link contains more information.https://richmond.com/sports/college...cle_8e5e594d-533b-5bf2-abcc-8d3efb65e935.html
JMU definitely won't be ponying up that kind of dough for awhile for a buy game. It'll take a few years of selling 45k tickets and winning to be able to afford that.
So if JMU raises the student activities fee $28.50 then it's doable? Wonder how much more of this move will the students be funding?
Actually…they may have to cut the student fees. There’s a limit as to how much can come from student fees and it’s a smaller percentage if you’re FBS vs FCS.
I think this is about the best the Dukebags can ask for so they should jump. They’ll never be in a p5 conference, may as well jump and pay more (and lose more) to be in no man’s land to play the same schools you did while in FCS essentially.
Ole Tmac passed a bill (along w Kirk Cox so it was bi partisan) where JMU has to lower its student fee percentage with regards to funding its athletic department. Will be interesting if they can keep up with expenses while their main source of revenue for the athletic department is being curtailed.
If I were a Dukebag I would want to be making this jump with Houston at the helm rather than Cignetti.
Ole Tmac passed a bill (along w Kirk Cox so it was bi partisan) where JMU has to lower its student fee percentage with regards to funding its athletic department. Will be interesting if they can keep up with expenses while their main source of revenue for the athletic department is being curtailed.
If I were a Dukebag I would want to be making this jump with Houston at the helm rather than Cignetti.
Does anyone wonder why relatively young programs (Liberty, ODU, and JMU) move on, and up. We don’t move at all.
Being one of the oldest programs in the state, it seems we should be more.
Being one of the oldest programs in the state, it seems we should be more.
We have tried before after Joe Pa and co forced our hand down to FCS (Older heads can attest to this better than myself so please correct any inaccuracies)
I knew a former prominent figure all of us would know on here told me of a time we were to join the big east(football only) had we made the necessary upgrades admission would merely be a formality in the late 90s. A 30 million dollar renovation of city stadium to 40k being the primary obstacle. A meeting was called on the feasibility of it including Dr. Cooper and another prominent former board member and Cooper seemed to give the go ahead to get the money for it, only to renege later. The rest is history. At the time the BCS had been created and offers were on the table for all the BE Basketball schools Nova, GT, St. John's to move up. Instead we decided to reduce scholarships for a number of years before we restored them all.
Once we moved on campus any pipe dream of returning to FBS was killed with a 8k person stadium. Until they remove the archaic stadium size/attendance requirement we will always be FCS or "2nd level"
Leadership isn't capable of thinking we can have the best of both worlds with great athletics and academics.
I’ve heard various versions of that same event with slightly different reasons why it fell apart. Who knows, perhaps all are true. But I did hear it was very close to happening.
we then tried again right around 2000 with the Bandy Field purchase that collapsed at the last minute.
we then tried again right around 2000 with the Bandy Field purchase that collapsed at the last minute.
It looks like the General Assembly has to approve JMU`s move to the FBS.
Virginia bylaw HB1897 requires any four-year public institution seeking change to the division of level – including FCS to FBS – for any of its sports programs to earn state approval. JMU, of course, has to get approval from its own Board of Visitors first ahead of presenting to the General Assembly.
Once given approval from the General Assembly, JMU would be in a position to accept an invitation from the Sun Belt and elevate from FCS status to FBS status.
Have any other FCS teams been invited to FBS conferences yet?
I assume no where for NDSU to go yet?
If its approved by JMU, I would be very surprised to see it get hung up in the GA.
HaHa....priceless!Are fans allowed to throw streamers after scoring at the FBS level? If not, the Dillweeds may opt not to move up.
CAA exploring expansion, two-division setup that would reduce travel costs
CAA exploring expansion, two-division setup that would reduce travel costs
Departure of James Madison to FBS and Sun Belt Conference may spur CAA reconfiguration.
Davidson and Duquesne... Both seem to be a little more interested in football lately, though I know that's all relative to their situations. But the Dukes actually showed nicely a few years ago in the playoffs and have been there more often than us since 2015.
