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Join the Atlantic Sun and make it FBS
Realize this thread will be ridiculed but read and think.

Have Delaware, Stony Brook, Albany join too. Stony Brook has long intended to go FBS. Albany won't fall behind them.

The CAA is too anal as Hofstra forbids Stony Brook from joining as a full member so the CAA is not a vehicle to go FBS. Liberty has proven that FBS waivers are possible.

Kennesaw St intends to go FBS too, but the Sun Belt isn't interested in them as long as Ga St is a member.

The Atlantic Sun doesn't have many member and would have difficulty attracting new ones, but as a football conference that would change every thing. UNF and FGCU need a conference vehicle to go FBS eventually. After JMU and the other Northern teams join, USC-Upstate, Lipscomb, NJIT and Stetson can join other conferences.

Consider UT-Chattanoog, Jacksonville St and E Kentucky too, as there have been reports that all three want FBS. Get UMASS and Army and maybe Liberty too. JMU 's admin would be open to an FBS conference with academic credentials, a northeastern presence and a Florida presence. The Sun Belt doesn't have any of that but S Brook, Albany and Delaware give a northeastern presence and academic credentials.

Here would be the end result:

Atlantic Sun
North
Albany
Stony Brook
Delaware
JMU
Liberty
E Kentucky
Army - fb only

South
Kennesaw St
UNF - future FBS
FGCU - future FBS
UNA - future FBS
Jacksonville St
Chattanooga- future FBS

Belive JMU admin would be much happier with this conference than the Belt.

Travel wise it mimics the ACC and would be nearly as bad as CUSA. If things fall in place, wouldn't be surprised if this is already being planned. Fire away.
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While you research about particular schools' interest in FBS may be sound, your knowledge of the college landscape and how any of these institutions fit together is way off.

After more than a decade of speculation, JMU is all-in for AAC or bust. Clearly the administration has no interest in FBS for FBS sake - not a bad thing in my book. But the dream scenario that somehow a transitional FCS-FBS JMU would be picked over other teams to join the AAC is just that - a dream scenario.

Unless the big conferences shake up again, you'll see no movement from Harrisonburg. I do though appreciate your creativity in thinking yet another JMU2FBS scenario. No one on the East Coast would have ever thought up what you propose.
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(09-05-2017 12:48 AM)Yesolitis Wrote:  While you research about particular schools' interest in FBS may be sound, your knowledge of the college landscape and how any of these institutions fit together is way off.

After more than a decade of speculation, JMU is all-in for AAC or bust. Clearly the administration has no interest in FBS for FBS sake - not a bad thing in my book. But the dream scenario that somehow a transitional FCS-FBS JMU would be picked over other teams to join the AAC is just that - a dream scenario.

Unless the big conferences shake up again, you'll see no movement from Harrisonburg. I do though appreciate your creativity in thinking yet another JMU2FBS scenario. No one on the East Coast would have ever thought up what you propose.
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No firing.

Interesting thought, but unfortunately I believe it's just that. A thought.

Ain' gonna happen. Least not til Carrier is reinstalled as interim Pres...


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(09-05-2017 12:04 AM)NoDak Wrote:  Realize this thread will be ridiculed but read and think.

Have Delaware, Stony Brook, Albany join too. Stony Brook has long intended to go FBS. Albany won't fall behind them.

The CAA is too anal as Hofstra forbids Stony Brook from joining as a full member so the CAA is not a vehicle to go FBS. Liberty has proven that FBS waivers are possible.

Kennesaw St intends to go FBS too, but the Sun Belt isn't interested in them as long as Ga St is a member.

The Atlantic Sun doesn't have many member and would have difficulty attracting new ones, but as a football conference that would change every thing. UNF and FGCU need a conference vehicle to go FBS eventually. After JMU and the other Northern teams join, USC-Upstate, Lipscomb, NJIT and Stetson can join other conferences.

Consider UT-Chattanoog, Jacksonville St and E Kentucky too, as there have been reports that all three want FBS. Get UMASS and Army and maybe Liberty too. JMU 's admin would be open to an FBS conference with academic credentials, a northeastern presence and a Florida presence. The Sun Belt doesn't have any of that but S Brook, Albany and Delaware give a northeastern presence and academic credentials.

Here would be the end result:

Atlantic Sun
North
Albany
Stony Brook
Delaware
JMU
Liberty
E Kentucky
Army - fb only

South
Kennesaw St
UNF - future FBS
FGCU - future FBS
UNA - future FBS
Jacksonville St
Chattanooga- future FBS

Belive JMU admin would be much happier with this conference than the Belt.

Travel wise it mimics the ACC and would be nearly as bad as CUSA. If things fall in place, wouldn't be surprised if this is already being planned. Fire away.

You are not understanding the reasons why we turned down the sun belt.

Contrary to the haters belief, it had nothing to do with not wanting to be fbs and everything to do with the conference not being a good fit for jmu as a school and program.

We get almost no students from the southeast, have no history or connection with schools down there and play many sports that are not played or emphasized down there.

This league would be the same.

Cusa is more attractive because of schools like odu, Marshall, charlotte that have better connections to us. That is why we would go there despite the league being so spread out.
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(09-05-2017 09:15 AM)Duke Dawg Wrote:  
(09-05-2017 12:04 AM)NoDak Wrote:  Realize this thread will be ridiculed but read and think.

Have Delaware, Stony Brook, Albany join too. Stony Brook has long intended to go FBS. Albany won't fall behind them.

The CAA is too anal as Hofstra forbids Stony Brook from joining as a full member so the CAA is not a vehicle to go FBS. Liberty has proven that FBS waivers are possible.

Kennesaw St intends to go FBS too, but the Sun Belt isn't interested in them as long as Ga St is a member.

The Atlantic Sun doesn't have many member and would have difficulty attracting new ones, but as a football conference that would change every thing. UNF and FGCU need a conference vehicle to go FBS eventually. After JMU and the other Northern teams join, USC-Upstate, Lipscomb, NJIT and Stetson can join other conferences.

Consider UT-Chattanoog, Jacksonville St and E Kentucky too, as there have been reports that all three want FBS. Get UMASS and Army and maybe Liberty too. JMU 's admin would be open to an FBS conference with academic credentials, a northeastern presence and a Florida presence. The Sun Belt doesn't have any of that but S Brook, Albany and Delaware give a northeastern presence and academic credentials.

Here would be the end result:

Atlantic Sun
North
Albany
Stony Brook
Delaware
JMU
Liberty
E Kentucky
Army - fb only

South
Kennesaw St
UNF - future FBS
FGCU - future FBS
UNA - future FBS
Jacksonville St
Chattanooga- future FBS

Belive JMU admin would be much happier with this conference than the Belt.

Travel wise it mimics the ACC and would be nearly as bad as CUSA. If things fall in place, wouldn't be surprised if this is already being planned. Fire away.

You are not understanding the reasons why we turned down the sun belt.

Contrary to the haters belief, it had nothing to do with not wanting to be fbs and everything to do with the conference not being a good fit for jmu as a school and program.

We get almost no students from the southeast, have no history or connection with schools down there and play many sports that are not played or emphasized down there.

This league would be the same.

Cusa is more attractive because of schools like odu, Marshall, charlotte that have better connections to us. That is why we would go there despite the league being so spread out.

What schools in the CAA exactly does the JMU admin so value?
Elon, College of Charleston, UNC-W, Drexel, Hofstra? Hofstra and Northeastern have dropped football and therefore aren't interested in elevating the sport in CAA.

Can understand JMU desire to be with George Mason, Old Dominion, VCU, and Richmond, but they have all left.

Stony Brook far exceeds the academics of any CAA school, as it is AAU. But perhaps JMU likes the tony privates like Hofstra, but they will only bring down JMU athletics over time.

A conference with a northeast presence for student recruiting and one with a Florida presence for student and athlete and alumni presence makes incredible sense and the Sun Belt doesn't offer either, so can understand why JMU admin would look there. But an Atlantic Sun with Delaware, Stony Brook, and Albany has the necessary schools that JMU wants to be associated with.

But perhaps I'm underestimating JMU desire to associate with William & Mary and Towson.
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Don't forget about that completely awesome TV package the CAA put together!
JMU saw the CAA as a Virginia conference which is what kept them so loyal to it for so long. The problem is an athletic program needs to always put its own interests ahead of the loyalty to the conference.
Now the conference is a shadow of what it once was, or at least what JMU saw as advantageous to stay.
The idea of the Atlantic Sun conference does not impress me too much. If there is a new conference created, I think JMU will be one of the first to join, along with ODU. I also think it will be focused on the mid-atlantic. The Atlantic Sun conference proposed here is a bit too spread out. While the North looks good, I just don't know how close Stony Brook and Albany are to being FBS ready. I do think Delaware would be ready to go.

All we can do now is just keep winning and make it a no-brainer for a conference to invite us. If we can get MBB at least respectable again we have a very good chance, and that's a big "if".
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(09-05-2017 12:56 PM)NoDak Wrote:  But perhaps I'm underestimating JMU desire to associate with William & Mary and Towson.

I believe it has more to do with Willie and his bride (also his first cousin) than anyone or anything else.
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(09-05-2017 12:56 PM)NoDak Wrote:  
(09-05-2017 09:15 AM)Duke Dawg Wrote:  
(09-05-2017 12:04 AM)NoDak Wrote:  Realize this thread will be ridiculed but read and think.

Have Delaware, Stony Brook, Albany join too. Stony Brook has long intended to go FBS. Albany won't fall behind them.

The CAA is too anal as Hofstra forbids Stony Brook from joining as a full member so the CAA is not a vehicle to go FBS. Liberty has proven that FBS waivers are possible.

Kennesaw St intends to go FBS too, but the Sun Belt isn't interested in them as long as Ga St is a member.

The Atlantic Sun doesn't have many member and would have difficulty attracting new ones, but as a football conference that would change every thing. UNF and FGCU need a conference vehicle to go FBS eventually. After JMU and the other Northern teams join, USC-Upstate, Lipscomb, NJIT and Stetson can join other conferences.

Consider UT-Chattanoog, Jacksonville St and E Kentucky too, as there have been reports that all three want FBS. Get UMASS and Army and maybe Liberty too. JMU 's admin would be open to an FBS conference with academic credentials, a northeastern presence and a Florida presence. The Sun Belt doesn't have any of that but S Brook, Albany and Delaware give a northeastern presence and academic credentials.

Here would be the end result:

Atlantic Sun
North
Albany
Stony Brook
Delaware
JMU
Liberty
E Kentucky
Army - fb only

South
Kennesaw St
UNF - future FBS
FGCU - future FBS
UNA - future FBS
Jacksonville St
Chattanooga- future FBS

Belive JMU admin would be much happier with this conference than the Belt.

Travel wise it mimics the ACC and would be nearly as bad as CUSA. If things fall in place, wouldn't be surprised if this is already being planned. Fire away.

You are not understanding the reasons why we turned down the sun belt.

Contrary to the haters belief, it had nothing to do with not wanting to be fbs and everything to do with the conference not being a good fit for jmu as a school and program.

We get almost no students from the southeast, have no history or connection with schools down there and play many sports that are not played or emphasized down there.

This league would be the same.

Cusa is more attractive because of schools like odu, Marshall, charlotte that have better connections to us. That is why we would go there despite the league being so spread out.

What schools in the CAA exactly does the JMU admin so value?
Elon, College of Charleston, UNC-W, Drexel, Hofstra? Hofstra and Northeastern have dropped football and therefore aren't interested in elevating the sport in CAA.

Can understand JMU desire to be with George Mason, Old Dominion, VCU, and Richmond, but they have all left.

Stony Brook far exceeds the academics of any CAA school, as it is AAU. But perhaps JMU likes the tony privates like Hofstra, but they will only bring down JMU athletics over time.

A conference with a northeast presence for student recruiting and one with a Florida presence for student and athlete and alumni presence makes incredible sense and the Sun Belt doesn't offer either, so can understand why JMU admin would look there. But an Atlantic Sun with Delaware, Stony Brook, and Albany has the necessary schools that JMU wants to be associated with.

But perhaps I'm underestimating JMU desire to associate with William & Mary and Towson.

We didn't choose the situation we are in with the caa. It unfortunately turned out that way.

Why would we pay exit and entrance fees to get the same thing we have now?

And for non football purposes, the caa is better than all the aforementioned conferences and reworks
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The problem I see with this is how do you get the NCAA to recognize it as an FBS conference with only Army and Liberty as existing FBS classified schools.

This looks like a core of CAA football schools with those 2 and then some other FCS. Don't see the NCAA allowing a largely FCS conference to declare itself to be FBS without more participation of existing FBS schools.

Honestly, I think it'd be much easier for JMU to go FBS Indy than pull this off, though I don't see our admin wanting that path.
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(09-05-2017 01:05 PM)JMad03 Wrote:  Don't forget about that completely awesome TV package the CAA put together!
JMU saw the CAA as a Virginia conference which is what kept them so loyal to it for so long. The problem is an athletic program needs to always put its own interests ahead of the loyalty to the conference.
Now the conference is a shadow of what it once was, or at least what JMU saw as advantageous to stay.
The idea of the Atlantic Sun conference does not impress me too much. If there is a new conference created, I think JMU will be one of the first to join, along with ODU. I also think it will be focused on the mid-atlantic. The Atlantic Sun conference proposed here is a bit too spread out. While the North looks good, I just don't know how close Stony Brook and Albany are to being FBS ready. I do think Delaware would be ready to go.

All we can do now is just keep winning and make it a no-brainer for a conference to invite us. If we can get MBB at least respectable again we have a very good chance, and that's a big "if".

It's almost impossible to start a new conference. Taking over a lower conference and transforming it into some thing much better is the practically the only option. Eight schools getting waivers and making the transition appears to be possible, and then a conference with 8 full FBS members has to be made an FBS conference, which would be included in the next CFP contracts in 2025.

Stony Brook and Albany need one more stadium expansion to go FBS. Kennesaw St needs another expansion, but will play a game in the new Atlanta Braves stadium. UMASS needs a football conference and arguably Army does too. Liberty arguably needs a conference. E Kentucky is not on par academically with the others but badly wants FBS and apparently has backers that would make it possible. Jacksonville St is ready for FBS now, as they have been lobbying for Belt membership for years. UNF and FGCU need the A Sun to be a football league to open up their football options.

I happen to think that JMU's leadership would be open to this league or they would be FCS for 15 more years in a much junkier CAA. Why would JMU be satisfied with the CAa after seeing George Mason, VCU and Old Dominion depart for greener pastures?
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(09-05-2017 01:48 PM)NoDak Wrote:  I happen to think that JMU's leadership would be open to this league or they would be FCS for 15 more years in a much junkier CAA. Why would JMU be satisfied with the CAa after seeing George Mason, VCU and Old Dominion depart for greener pastures?

What makes you think that? Do you actually know someone who has said so? (Not trying to sound like a jerk, just asking)
When most of the CAA schools made their move, we had President Rose who said something along the lines of 'not going to happen as long as I'm here'. I do believe if our current admin was in charge we would not be in the CAA.
I think currently our admin has our hands seriously tied. No conferences (other than the Sun Belt) have been trying to add another member and our admin has refused to join the Sun Belt. While I don't like the decision, I understand it. If any other viable conference was knocking on our door today I think we'd take that option.
As for the Atlantic Sun, the North idea is nice but it definitely doesn't get me excited. If that was the only option for us, I'd jump at the opportunity.
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I want some of that purple kool-aide you FBS advocates are drinkin'. JMU isn't going FBS until we get a offer from a conference. FBS is a dream way down the road. There is no way we go indy in FBS. We need to just keep on winning and take the acolades that goes with it.
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(09-05-2017 03:04 PM)JMad03 Wrote:  
(09-05-2017 01:48 PM)NoDak Wrote:  I happen to think that JMU's leadership would be open to this league or they would be FCS for 15 more years in a much junkier CAA. Why would JMU be satisfied with the CAa after seeing George Mason, VCU and Old Dominion depart for greener pastures?

What makes you think that? Do you actually know someone who has said so? (Not trying to sound like a jerk, just asking)
When most of the CAA schools made their move, we had President Rose who said something along the lines of 'not going to happen as long as I'm here'. I do believe if our current admin was in charge we would not be in the CAA.
I think currently our admin has our hands seriously tied. No conferences (other than the Sun Belt) have been trying to add another member and our admin has refused to join the Sun Belt. While I don't like the decision, I understand it. If any other viable conference was knocking on our door today I think we'd take that option.
As for the Atlantic Sun, the North idea is nice but it definitely doesn't get me excited. If that was the only option for us, I'd jump at the opportunity.

No. Just aware of how strong the attractiveness of research schools are to athletic conference. Stony Brook, then Delaware, and then Albany would be at the top of any list JMU would want as pals. Southern schools are generally much lower on the academic totem pole, but way higher in football potential.

With the rest of the Virginia schools gone except for W&M, can't understand what holds JMU in the CAA if it doesn't go FBS as a conference. FCS will lose money almost no matter what. FBS is a net positive just for national awareness and esteem, even compared to your FCS championship last year. JMU has all the necessary ingredient for FBS just like Liberty, but haven't pulled the trigger. I was close to college personnel that just before they pulled the FBS trigger, and it seems JMU would do it but doesn't have schools they want to associate with in that endeavor. All the Belt is considered below the CAA academically, so understand the Belt turn down by JMU. But it would seem that the ASUN minus obvious schools like Lipscomb, USC-Upstate, would be a conference FBS starting point if it intended to invite Delaware, JMU, SBU and Albany.

UNF and FGCU are wonderful recruiting grounds and fb there would go over big timE, like UCF and USF.
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You just answered part of the question about JMU and FBS - research. JMU is, despite having Master's and PhD level degrees, an undergraduate institution. Staying focused at that level has earned JMU's accolades for years, whereas competing nationally for research grants with the likes of the Ivy League, ACC schools, other highly regarded (and well-endowed) private schools would be swimming against the current. I think this also makes JMU, an otherwise fantastic addition to a conference, a potential liability in terms of fit among FBS conferences.

Pres. Alger does seem to want to raise that profile to something less regional, more national, but it is moving at a slow pace IMO relative to the changing college landscape. I just wish the admin would see that connection between sports and academics, but my distant impression is that faculty (Longhorn aside) are generally opposed to FBS due to the resources it will consume/take away from the academics (not looking at the potential windfall for the school and how the faculty might benefit).
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(09-05-2017 01:48 PM)NoDak Wrote:  
(09-05-2017 01:05 PM)JMad03 Wrote:  Don't forget about that completely awesome TV package the CAA put together!
JMU saw the CAA as a Virginia conference which is what kept them so loyal to it for so long. The problem is an athletic program needs to always put its own interests ahead of the loyalty to the conference.
Now the conference is a shadow of what it once was, or at least what JMU saw as advantageous to stay.
The idea of the Atlantic Sun conference does not impress me too much. If there is a new conference created, I think JMU will be one of the first to join, along with ODU. I also think it will be focused on the mid-atlantic. The Atlantic Sun conference proposed here is a bit too spread out. While the North looks good, I just don't know how close Stony Brook and Albany are to being FBS ready. I do think Delaware would be ready to go.

All we can do now is just keep winning and make it a no-brainer for a conference to invite us. If we can get MBB at least respectable again we have a very good chance, and that's a big "if".

It's almost impossible to start a new conference. Taking over a lower conference and transforming it into some thing much better is the practically the only option. Eight schools getting waivers and making the transition appears to be possible, and then a conference with 8 full FBS members has to be made an FBS conference, which would be included in the next CFP contracts in 2025.

Stony Brook and Albany need one more stadium expansion to go FBS. Kennesaw St needs another expansion, but will play a game in the new Atlanta Braves stadium. UMASS needs a football conference and arguably Army does too. Liberty arguably needs a conference. E Kentucky is not on par academically with the others but badly wants FBS and apparently has backers that would make it possible. Jacksonville St is ready for FBS now, as they have been lobbying for Belt membership for years. UNF and FGCU need the A Sun to be a football league to open up their football options.

I happen to think that JMU's leadership would be open to this league or they would be FCS for 15 more years in a much junkier CAA. Why would JMU be satisfied with the CAa after seeing George Mason, VCU and Old Dominion depart for greener pastures?
In your dream scenario, why does "...Liberty arguably needs a conference."?
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(09-05-2017 01:48 PM)NoDak Wrote:  UMASS needs a football conference and arguably Army does too.

If Army needed a football conference, Army would already be in one.

Army needs to continue the improvement under the current coaching staff. At some point in ~5 years, Army will probably re-visit the question of football conference affiliation.
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Sun Belt and CUSA need to realign. Based on the realignment, and adding 5 new schools, the 14 schools in blue create a new 14 team, 2 division conference:

Liberty
JMU
Marshall
Old Dominion
Eastern Kentucky
Western Kentucky
East Tennessee State

App State
Middle Tennessee State
Chattanooga
UNC Charlotte
Georgia State
Georgia Southern
Coastal Carolina
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(09-06-2017 10:16 AM)brock20 Wrote:  [Image: 1t0oP1Z.png]

Sun Belt and CUSA need to realign. Based on the realignment, and adding 5 new schools, the 14 schools in blue create a new 14 team, 2 division conference:

Liberty
JMU
Marshall
Old Dominion
Eastern Kentucky
Western Kentucky
East Tennessee State

App State
Middle Tennessee State
Chattanooga
UNC Charlotte
Georgia State
Georgia Southern
Coastal Carolina

Drop Chattanooga and ETSU and you might have something. Attendance of 8,900 at a 20k stadium for Nooga doesn't cut it for FBS.

Secondary problem is Marshall won't like this arrangement. We will need to overcome their objections or lobby other schools heavily to join a conference with them.
09-06-2017 02:17 PM
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