(10-02-2020 02:50 PM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 09:39 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  If the rumor is true, it’s some of the East schools—with ODU and Charlotte leading the charge.

If CAA schools are in the know on this than at a minimum, they’ve been talking to JMU.

I think its difficult to work JMU into this.

It sounds like they want to take about 8 schools from CUSA which leaves 2 spots to round out the conference. If I had to give two spots I'd give them to Georgia St for the Atlanta market and then App St for their football strength.

I'm just not seeing where JMU would be high up on the priority list here as an FCS school in a small market. ODU might not mind them in the conference but I doubt they are a top priority.

JMU is attractive because they have football strength. They are very arguably better now than Georgia Southern and App State were when those schools left FCS.

Markets are way, way overrated at the C-USA/Sun Belt/MAC level. App State has been the best program among those three conferences over the past five years, and they're not really in a market at all. But they have a stronger presence in the 100-miles-away Charlotte market than UNC Charlotte does... JMU has those same characteristics in Virginia.