(12-05-2017 02:16 PM)Jay M. Youix Wrote: Purple, i'm not responding to your novel, but yes... you're out of your mind if you think we can pay Houston $1M/year. but if you think it's so easy to raise that kind of money, by all means, get started on that. volunteer your time, your energy, set up a website, make some calls.... go! You make it sound easy, so i'd love to see it happen. go for it. that would be awesome.
OK, I offered you one way to raise money, substantial money. Since you are such a genius and I am out of my friggin' mind, please show me how that simple example is wrong. By all means, please show me where my simple example, that I came up with in ten seconds flat, is so wrong. Go ahead, I've got all week.
I know damned well we can pay Houston a million dollars a year if we want to! I'm not saying we will. God knows, if the board thinks like you, then we are relegated to the purgatory of playing Slippery Rocks forever.
However, if the powers that be have any imagination at all and a solid set of nuts, they will find the money.
"Volunteer your time, your energy, set up a website, make some calls." What BS! In reality, it is simpler than that. But, only if you ain't skeered.
While we are on this topic, I would like to make another point. My opponents in this debate have said that I am out of my friggin' mind suggesting we can pay Coach Houston a lot more because we are already paying at the top of FCS.
Here is my challenge to you. Forget that we are FCS. I know how hard that is to do for some people who just can't see the future, but for me, just this once, pretend that we are not FCS, that we are FBS, because, in fact, we are in transition. We are a fish out of water, a very large fish in a very small pond. It's amazing that fans from opposing schools can see this yet some people who are closest to JMU cannot. One recent post I recall on another school's message board said that JMU's stadium "screams Big Time."
He knew of which he spoke. We are a program in transition, waiting for the most ideal opportunity before we make the jump, but make the jump we will.
So, please, STOP all the nonsense about JMU being just an FCS school, thus we must pay our coach what an FCS coach would expect to make. Bullsh*t! Stinking thinking! Step out.
And, please, Jay M. Youix (what does that mean, anyway?), don't respond to my novel again by responding to my novel again. I tend to write long posts because I value clarity. I hope that is clear.