(12-05-2023 12:15 PM)94computerguy Wrote:  

(12-05-2023 12:03 PM)bcp_jmu Wrote:  lol...nobody said this 94

And to say "we must continue the arms race until we are competitive, regardless of the cost" ....

This argument is starting to sound like "FCS lifers vs. FBS at all costs" days.....neither position was true

"times have changed in the last 30 years....JMU trajectory doesn't stop - why should it on this?"

As pointed out above, the other schools haven't either.

If you're going to try to compete with the very bluest of blue-bloods, you're looking at a budget that's probably 10x the size of JMU's. Remember that those schools have been cranking out roughly 10,000 graduates a year for the last century. That's literally a million graduates, including over 100,000 people in their 50s and above with money to give to, among other things, athletics.

By comparison, JMU just passed the 2,000-per-year graduation mark somewhere in the 90s. Where's the money going to come from to support the athletics department when there are roughly 1/10th of the wealth base of graduates?

And, again, not to be stuffy about it, but I sure hope not all of those wealthy graduates give their money to the football team --- some of if has to go to the actual academics, unless Liberty is your idea of well-aligned priorities.

My point here (as you've seen other people point out) is that this a mechanism for the ~30-50 very hugest and biggest-budget schools to establish a moat of spending that sets them apart from everyone else. If you think JMU should be in that tier, then that's fine, but I don't think it's going to happen, and I'm okay with that.

You're conflating a lot of different things here...and running to some serious extremes ...

It would be as ridiculous as if I asked you "Why didn't you just go to Bridgewater or Shenandoah College?"

For me ..JMU is something I love and I'm proud to see it continuously do more and be more (all the moreso since it was small time in the early 90s, by comparison to today). It's like watching your kids blossom