(06-08-2019 09:49 PM)BleedingPurple Wrote:  

(06-07-2019 05:21 PM)JMUNation Wrote:  

(06-07-2019 11:20 AM)JMURocks Wrote:  

(06-07-2019 10:08 AM)NJDuke97 Wrote:  Pay for Buckhantz become the voice of Jmu. Will
Immediately add to the product on flo sports, with the new arena etc and elevate us.

While I conceptually like the idea of this, it adds to the "overheads" of the department.

We already seem to struggle to pay coaches in line with what our peers do who have similar sized budgets. In some ways, I'd prefer the department to operate a little leaner, and reserve those funds for hiring/retaining top coaches.

Man I get so frustrated when I read posts like this. You don’t pay coaches according to your budget. You pay according to what the market is and hope it fits within your budget. We are an FCS school. A top 5-10 FCS school. I expect the JMU football coach to be among the top 10 FCS coaches in salary as long as his performance warrants that type of pay.

Nation, mostly I agree, but in reality it's easy to say NDSU and JMU are perienial top 10 FCS schools, who else? Maybe EWU? Maybe SDSU? Maybe SHDU? You can't take a team who simply has a couple good seasons and say they're a top 10 program and use what they pay as a measuring stick. Maine's coach is not going to have the same expectations placed on his shoulders as the NDSU and JMU coach must carry around. At the FCS level there's certainly market value but it will have more to do with ticket sales and whether the crowd wants him in charge.