(01-10-2017 02:18 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Even I've moved on.

Their administration isn't moving. They'd rather be in FCS where they have a budget 2 times the average of FCS playoff teams. Kind of like the kid on the middle school basketball team that is bigger than everyone else because he's been held back 2 years.

And lets face facts. We no longer need them. There's no longer any chance that we'd consider that other school in Virginia. A raid on our teams is, for a change, remote in the medium term. App has their travel partner.

Maybe if something changes....but not at this point.

Congrats to them on their FCS title. Congrats to us on our success this year.

You really don't know what you're talking about. JMU may be egotistical when it comes to their opinion of themselves academically, but I can assure you they would not rather be in FCS. A good friend is a former JMU athletic council member and is highly connected with the JMU administration. He has told me repeatedly they would prefer to be FBS, but only in a conference that makes geographical sense. JMU has some of the highest student fees in the country. The athletic department is almost entirely funded by them. Not only is all of their debt financed with them, but every scholarship is as well and they fully scholarship every sport they offer. They cannot increase student fees and a jump to the Sunbelt would increase their travel costs tremendously. They would jump at the chance to join the MAC and also aggressively pursue membership in realigned CUSA / Sunbelt with a eastern division of App, Charlotte, Marshall, ODU, WKU & MTSU. He also tells me Delaware's new administration is seriously considering FBS, again if the circumstances are right. My warning to him is with the CFP payout favoring 10 team conferences there might not be any more FBS slots.