(02-13-2018 10:18 PM)Duke Dawg Wrote:  

(02-13-2018 07:22 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  I'm sorry, but for me, I'm a bit underwhelmed by the value proposition here.... 340 million dollars in mandatory student subsidies over 10 years....and 1 FCS national championship, 1 appearance in the FCS championship game, 1 play-in game as a 16 seed, and an upset of the number 3 team in women's lacrosse....

I think that the people that the JMU community should be mad at isn't me, its your AD, your BOT, and your chancellor.

The frustrating thing should be that the resources are obviously there, but they appear to be really out of whack. Again, its not like JMU doesn't have the fan support and the financing to do more than they do. Its that they appear to waste money like crazy. You spend more on athletics than USF. Your Athletic Department has a vastly higher deficit too.

For that money, you could join FBS and hire a top G5 coach at the same time.

2 fcs football titles (not 1), 3 appearances in title game
2 espn gameday
2 top 10 finishes last two seasons in softball
National player of the year in softball (Megan good)
5 NCAA tourney bids in last 8 years in women’s basketball
At least a dozen straight years with 24+ wins in women’s basketball (lost count)
National championship in field hockey

Do you just not look anything up before you speak about something you don’t know anything about?

I used the last 10 years as the benchmark. But I went back, again, to recheck for you. Here's what I found

1) There was a mistake in my original financial number. JMU isn't losing 34 million on athletics a year, but rather 38 million a year.
2) JMU did win a FCS championship 14 years ago too. App spends 60 percent of what you guys do and won 3 of them in that time period. They also have much higher athletic department revenues.
3) JMU did win 1 game in the last 10 years in women's basketball in the NCAA tournament.
4) JMU also made the super regionals once in the last 10 years too in softball. Congrats, you're in the rarified air of South Alabama, which did it with a 8 year old program (and went further than JMU in the super regionals too) with an athletic budget half of JMUs.
5) Field hockey did get a National championship 24 years ago.
6) You got gameday because of a homer at ESPN. Congrats. That didn't cost you anything.
7) And you did go to the FCS national championship 2 years in a row and even won it in 2016.
8) And you did make the NCAA men's basketball tournament once in the last 10 years, as a 16th seed play-in.

So, JMU's plan is apparently to spend close to 500 million bucks on athletics in the next 10 years, of which a staggering 380 million will be financed by the students in mandatory student fees. I think that JMU has underperformed and should be doing much more for the money. You're free to disagree with me.

JMU is number 1 in one athletic metric (and its not even close). That category is: Biggest athletic department loss that has to be financed through student loans by its students.

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Look, its a lot easier fix if you have the money, but aren't spending it effectively than to not have the money and have no way of getting it. Seems to me that JMU has a pretty easy fix.