(12-31-2020 11:51 AM)NJDuke97 Wrote: (12-30-2020 10:12 PM)Hart Foundation Wrote: I’m not a fan of going FBS and that is one of the big reasons why. Our administration struggles to schedule 3 OOC games per year. Their brains may explode if they have to schedule 12 games per year. With a new aggressive and connected AD, then yes the possibilities are better for building a nice independent FBS schedule.
Take a look at JMU’s schedule from 1992 the last year they were FCS/1-AA independent.
At Va Tech
At Richmond
Hofstra
At Youngstown State
Northeastern
App State
At Georgia Southern
At Towson
William & Mary
Liberty
At Central Florida
Of course, the landscape has changed and 5 of those teams are FBS. Somehow JMU is sitting on its thumbs a decade after move ups started to proliferate.
Cool schedule - I guess it’s also how you look at things but 2 of the teams don’t sponsor football anymore. I think most would like to see us move up divisions and feel like we have maxed out in FCS/1AA yet it’s hard to deny that JMU football has flourished over the last 25-30 years.
I'd agree that JMU football began progressing around '04, the previous 15 years were typical fcs years, small crowds, little out of town alum engagement and the locals saying "I go for the band" and that is not flourishing.
I was a student in the mid 90's and it's not much of a stretch to say as a football fan, I did not know JMU had a football team. I attended one football game as a student, coincidently, vs now FBS App State.
For many of us, '04 was the beginning of upward football branding and hopes of playing VT and UVA at home like the peer we claim to be. That was about the time the DC claimed, "get your tickets while you can" and "read between the lines."
It was also around '04 that many of us, some on this board asked for a vision for football and 16 years later we don't know if the latest anti competitive athletics president will be renewed or not...but we still are being asked for money.
Many wise people would agree, a person // org are either getting better or getting worse. Regardless of what JMU has accomplished since 1990, are we getting better or worse today? We can't progress as fcs which means we are getting worse.
Remaining fcs is not a viable financial return option regardless of how it is spun or does the spinning.
It is time to **** or get off the pot and rename BFS to CCG (Choices Cheer Grounds).
Our horse won't or can't get it done.
I am no fan of Lenin but he once accurately said, "there are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." Covid caused decades to happen in 2020 and JMU again appears unprepared, not by Bourne or King, but by the BOV & their president.