As The Ghost of Terry Holland has hinted at, Bourne doesn't seem to be the guy up for the task as Athletic Director. Especially if he has this conflict of interest always protecting Yeager's interests over James Madison's. Unlike Rose, Alger seems to be open to FBS and being a national university but his advisor in athletics is against it or not ready. Bourne still a Linwood Rose foot soldier? What is the story behind Bourne and Yeager?

(06-30-2013 02:38 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  As The Ghost of Terry Holland has hinted at, Bourne doesn't seem to be the guy up for the task as Athletic Director. Especially if he has this conflict of interest always protecting Yeager's interests over James Madison's. Unlike Rose, Alger seems to be open to FBS and being a national university but his advisor in athletics is against it or not ready. Bourne still a Linwood Rose foot soldier? What is the story behind Bourne and Yeager?

I've had several long time DC club members, several JMU employees and a former JMU president tell me Bourne and Yeager are not only works associates but very close friends. Does that mean he is more loyal to the CAA than JMU? No, but what I've seen in the past two yrs has strengthened my belief that JB has a "CAA for life" tat on his body. The Rose years were the perfect environment...

C-USA DMAs (post-realignment):

5 Dallas-Fort Worth
10 Houston
16 Miami-Fort Lauderdale
25 Charlotte
29 Nashville
36 San Antonio
38 West Palm Beach-Fort Pierce
42 Birmingham
44 Norfolk-Portsmth-Newpt Nws
65 Charleston-Huntington
82 Shreveport
91 El Paso (Las Cruces)
167 Hattiesburg-Laurel
182 Bowling Green

And now for the MAC:

3 Chicago
11 Detroit
18 Cleveland-Akron-Canton (x2)
26 Indianapolis
35 Cincinnati
39 Grand Rapids-Kalmzoo-B.Crk
52 Buffalo
65 Charleston-Huntington
67 Flint-Saginaw-Bay City
76 Toledo (x2)
114 Springfield-Holyoke

Not too bad, really.

(06-30-2013 02:38 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  As The Ghost of Terry Holland has hinted at, Bourne doesn't seem to be the guy up for the task as Athletic Director. Especially if he has this conflict of interest always protecting Yeager's interests over James Madison's. Unlike Rose, Alger seems to be open to FBS and being a national university but his advisor in athletics is against it or not ready. Bourne still a Linwood Rose foot soldier? What is the story behind Bourne and Yeager?

Boy, if you read stuff enough on here you begin to believe it. Rose didn't want anything to do with moving to 1A football. Bourne worked at Rose's command. Bourne has wanted to move our program up for some time. He now has a President that is open to exploring the possibilities; hence the report Carr and Associates will be delivering soon. Stayed tuned.

(06-30-2013 03:27 PM)BSKB 24 Wrote:  

(06-30-2013 02:38 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  As The Ghost of Terry Holland has hinted at, Bourne doesn't seem to be the guy up for the task as Athletic Director. Especially if he has this conflict of interest always protecting Yeager's interests over James Madison's. Unlike Rose, Alger seems to be open to FBS and being a national university but his advisor in athletics is against it or not ready. Bourne still a Linwood Rose foot soldier? What is the story behind Bourne and Yeager?

Boy, if you read stuff enough on here you begin to believe it. Rose didn't want anything to do with moving to 1A football. Bourne worked at Rose's command. Bourne has wanted to move our program up for some time. He now has a President that is open to exploring the possibilities; hence the report Carr and Associates will be delivering soon. Stayed tuned.

Thanks

(06-30-2013 03:27 PM)BSKB 24 Wrote:  

(06-30-2013 02:38 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  As The Ghost of Terry Holland has hinted at, Bourne doesn't seem to be the guy up for the task as Athletic Director. Especially if he has this conflict of interest always protecting Yeager's interests over James Madison's. Unlike Rose, Alger seems to be open to FBS and being a national university but his advisor in athletics is against it or not ready. Bourne still a Linwood Rose foot soldier? What is the story behind Bourne and Yeager?

Boy, if you read stuff enough on here you begin to believe it. Rose didn't want anything to do with moving to 1A football. Bourne worked at Rose's command. Bourne has wanted to move our program up for some time. He now has a President that is open to exploring the possibilities; hence the report Carr and Associates will be delivering soon. Stayed tuned.

Bourne quote two days ago regarding the most important varaible of jumping 1A, fan donations.

"It's kind of hard to gauge exactly what that means and what dollars would flow from it."

This is a quote from a capable AD that has wanted to move 1A for sometime?

(06-30-2013 03:12 PM)Purplehazed Wrote:  

(06-30-2013 02:38 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  As The Ghost of Terry Holland has hinted at, Bourne doesn't seem to be the guy up for the task as Athletic Director. Especially if he has this conflict of interest always protecting Yeager's interests over James Madison's. Unlike Rose, Alger seems to be open to FBS and being a national university but his advisor in athletics is against it or not ready. Bourne still a Linwood Rose foot soldier? What is the story behind Bourne and Yeager?

I've had several long time DC club members, several JMU employees and a former JMU president tell me Bourne and Yeager are not only works associates but very close friends. Does that mean he is more loyal to the CAA than JMU? No, but what I've seen in the past two yrs has strengthened my belief that JB has a "CAA for life" tat on his body. The Rose years were the perfect environment...

Granted, back when the CAA was the place to be, none of us would be complaining about the relationship with the CAA chief. Honestly, I think this argument is slightly over played. It may factor in how public we make our intentions to burn the CAA. I factor Alger's connections with Rutgers, Big East, FBS to be more valuable than Bourne hurting us with Yeager. It's a shame Alger came from Rutgers (mediocre), and not 'Cuse or Pitt where athletics are a priority. Al thou Rutgers did seem to lay a golden egg with the Big 10.

(06-30-2013 02:38 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  As The Ghost of Terry Holland has hinted at, Bourne doesn't seem to be the guy up for the task as Athletic Director. Especially if he has this conflict of interest always protecting Yeager's interests over James Madison's. Unlike Rose, Alger seems to be open to FBS and being a national university but his advisor in athletics is against it or not ready. Bourne still a Linwood Rose foot soldier? What is the story behind Bourne and Yeager?

If I'm Alger, I need Bourne to give me the information and I need to present it to the BOV. Seems to me like Bourne is incompetent in this area based on recent quotes. This is his job and he's not getting it done. If I'm Alger, I go "Where is my information?" and when that keeps happening, I fire that guy.

So is tomorrow not the day the report comes out?

No, tomorrow is the CAA NCAA hoops payday.

If there's an announcement from JMU tomorrow, I will donate my house to JMU.
Translation: I will not be homeless tomorrow.

(06-30-2013 11:03 AM)rufus Wrote:  

(06-30-2013 06:33 AM)BSKB 24 Wrote:  What don't you guys get? ODU's interest in seeking 1A was at the Presidents direction. He said do your homework and it has to work without an increase in student fees.

Our President said, "never on my watch"! If your President won't allow a move, there will be no move. Alger came on board at the time all of this was transpiring. Therefore, nothing was going to happen.

It is a new dawn, a new day. Our current administration has set wheels in motion. They have employed Carr Associates to explore all of the implications/ramifications of a move to 1A. Stop dwelling on the Rose years. They are over. Look forward with anticipation to the results of the Carr Report. Try just a little patience. If the decision is to remain 1AA, then by all means rant til the cows come home. All the chronic bashing of what happened in the past does no good.

This goes back to another poster's recent point that our BOV is stale and too close to management. In this case, the BOV failed to live up to their governance responsibilities. Rose personally disliked FBS football, and put his own feelings above the best interests of the university. The BOV should have fired him and appointed an interim president until Alger could come on board.

It is quite possible that Rose caused irreparble harm to our athletic programs and the university as a whole. He did so willfully, and no one stepped in to stop him. Truly disgraceful.

I personally know two of the new board members and two of the older ones. Your comment about the board being stale is completely wrong. In fact I can tell you that the ones I know have the same desires in the direction of our athletics as you. You are trying to draw conclusions based on everything except knowing these people and what they want.

(06-30-2013 03:39 PM)Purplehazed Wrote:  

(06-30-2013 03:27 PM)BSKB 24 Wrote:  

(06-30-2013 02:38 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  As The Ghost of Terry Holland has hinted at, Bourne doesn't seem to be the guy up for the task as Athletic Director. Especially if he has this conflict of interest always protecting Yeager's interests over James Madison's. Unlike Rose, Alger seems to be open to FBS and being a national university but his advisor in athletics is against it or not ready. Bourne still a Linwood Rose foot soldier? What is the story behind Bourne and Yeager?

Boy, if you read stuff enough on here you begin to believe it. Rose didn't want anything to do with moving to 1A football. Bourne worked at Rose's command. Bourne has wanted to move our program up for some time. He now has a President that is open to exploring the possibilities; hence the report Carr and Associates will be delivering soon. Stayed tuned.

Bourne quote two days ago regarding the most important varaible of jumping 1A, fan donations.

"It's kind of hard to gauge exactly what that means and what dollars would flow from it."

This is a quote from a capable AD that has wanted to move 1A for sometime?

"Before taking the plunge, ODU officials needed to know if alumni had a taste for big-time football. Selig, Wilder and Mark Benson of the school's athletic foundation made calls on 15 potential donors in late April and early May. "Not one of them said no," Selig said. ODU raised $3 million in less than two weeks"

That answers Bourne's question exactly. Why does he always play possum? The answer is $3 million Jeff. Now you know.

http://hamptonroads.com/2013/06/lot-work...s-big-move

(06-30-2013 03:27 PM)BSKB 24 Wrote:  

(06-30-2013 02:38 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  As The Ghost of Terry Holland has hinted at, Bourne doesn't seem to be the guy up for the task as Athletic Director. Especially if he has this conflict of interest always protecting Yeager's interests over James Madison's. Unlike Rose, Alger seems to be open to FBS and being a national university but his advisor in athletics is against it or not ready. Bourne still a Linwood Rose foot soldier? What is the story behind Bourne and Yeager?

Boy, if you read stuff enough on here you begin to believe it. Rose didn't want anything to do with moving to 1A football. Bourne worked at Rose's command. Bourne has wanted to move our program up for some time. He now has a President that is open to exploring the possibilities; hence the report Carr and Associates will be delivering soon. Stayed tuned.

That's what Miami does. He reads a ton of rumors and spreads them as facts. For some reason many tend to believe them. The internet is strange at times.

If JMU changes conferences in 2013 I wonder how many of these guys bashing our admin will admit they were wrong all along about Alger and Bourne.

(06-30-2013 03:39 PM)Purplehazed Wrote:  

(06-30-2013 03:27 PM)BSKB 24 Wrote:  

(06-30-2013 02:38 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  As The Ghost of Terry Holland has hinted at, Bourne doesn't seem to be the guy up for the task as Athletic Director. Especially if he has this conflict of interest always protecting Yeager's interests over James Madison's. Unlike Rose, Alger seems to be open to FBS and being a national university but his advisor in athletics is against it or not ready. Bourne still a Linwood Rose foot soldier? What is the story behind Bourne and Yeager?

Boy, if you read stuff enough on here you begin to believe it. Rose didn't want anything to do with moving to 1A football. Bourne worked at Rose's command. Bourne has wanted to move our program up for some time. He now has a President that is open to exploring the possibilities; hence the report Carr and Associates will be delivering soon. Stayed tuned.

Bourne quote two days ago regarding the most important varaible of jumping 1A, fan donations.

"It's kind of hard to gauge exactly what that means and what dollars would flow from it."

This is a quote from a capable AD that has wanted to move 1A for sometime?

It's a neutral quote just to answer a reporters question. You know how most executives that are working a business deal do: Say something that says nothing. You act like every other school out there is handling their expansion business publicly. You're taking out your frustrations from Rose on everyone else.

Why does caasports.com still have GSU and ODU as members?

(06-30-2013 05:24 PM)JMUDDOG Wrote:  Why does caasports.com still have GSU and ODU as members?

Because they technically still are members? There's no requirement that CAA Sports delete them early.

(06-30-2013 05:46 PM)DCAbloob Wrote:  

(06-30-2013 05:24 PM)JMUDDOG Wrote:  Why does caasports.com still have GSU and ODU as members?

Because they technically still are members? There's no requirement that CAA Sports delete them early.

In 5 hours, they are no longer members.

(06-30-2013 03:13 PM)uakronkid Wrote:  C-USA DMAs (post-realignment):

5 Dallas-Fort Worth
10 Houston
16 Miami-Fort Lauderdale
25 Charlotte
29 Nashville
36 San Antonio
38 West Palm Beach-Fort Pierce
42 Birmingham
44 Norfolk-Portsmth-Newpt Nws
65 Charleston-Huntington
91 El Paso (Las Cruces)
137 Monroe-El Dorado
167 Hattiesburg-Laurel
182 Bowling Green

And now for the MAC:

3 Chicago
11 Detroit
18 Cleveland-Akron-Canton (x2)
26 Indianapolis
35 Cincinnati
39 Grand Rapids-Kalmzoo-B.Crk
52 Buffalo
65 Charleston-Huntington
67 Flint-Saginaw-Bay City
76 Toledo (x2)
114 Springfield-Holyoke

Not too bad, really.

FIFY.

Ruston, LA is part of the #137 Monroe-El Dorado DMA.

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