James Madison on financing move...

[Brother Bear]

Does seem odd they are going to the Sun Belt... isn't that where Idaho used to reside :lol:

James Madison officials will meet with the Intercollegiate Athletics Review Commission in the General Assembly this morning in a gathering that the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Epps says could "formally open a final doorway to the Sun Belt Conference." A 2015 bill says a state school at the FCS level can use student fees to fund up to 70% of its athletic budget, but a state school at a non-power FBS conference can only use student fees to fill up to 55% of its athletic budget. The Dukes will show the commission how they plan to finance the jump, though they are requesting a five-year grace period to phase in the new proportions. Old Dominion was afforded the same when it moved from the CAA to C-USA in 2013.

https://richmond.com/sports/college/jmu-set-for-friday-meeting-at-general-assembly-to-progress-sun-belt-move-with-grace/article_f92a5afc-798a-5200-bdd4-bfde719f9710.htm

 

[AZGrizFan]

My biggest takeaway from that article. I can't believe ODU has been gone EIGHT years already.

 

[get'em_griz]

Does seem odd they are going to the Sun Belt... isn't that where Idaho used to reside :lol:

James Madison officials will meet with the Intercollegiate Athletics Review Commission in the General Assembly this morning in a gathering that the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Epps says could "formally open a final doorway to the Sun Belt Conference." A 2015 bill says a state school at the FCS level can use student fees to fund up to 70% of its athletic budget, but a state school at a non-power FBS conference can only use student fees to fill up to 55% of its athletic budget. The Dukes will show the commission how they plan to finance the jump, though they are requesting a five-year grace period to phase in the new proportions. Old Dominion was afforded the same when it moved from the CAA to C-USA in 2013.

https://richmond.com/sports/college/jmu-set-for-friday-meeting-at-general-assembly-to-progress-sun-belt-move-with-grace/article_f92a5afc-798a-5200-bdd4-bfde719f9710.htm

Well JMU certainly fits the Sun Belt much more than Idaho ever did, just by location alone.

Sun belt is looking like a pretty decent conference now. App State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, and soon-to-be Marshall and JMU.

 

[kemajic]

Does seem odd they are going to the Sun Belt... isn't that where Idaho used to reside :lol:



https://richmond.com/sports/college/jmu-set-for-friday-meeting-at-general-assembly-to-progress-sun-belt-move-with-grace/article_f92a5afc-798a-5200-bdd4-bfde719f9710.htm

Well JMU certainly fits the Sun Belt much more than Idaho ever did, just by location alone.

Sun belt is looking like a pretty decent conference now. App State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, and soon-to-be Marshall and JMU.

All FCS grads.

 

[AZGrizFan]

Well JMU certainly fits the Sun Belt much more than Idaho ever did, just by location alone.

Sun belt is looking like a pretty decent conference now. App State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, and soon-to-be Marshall and JMU.

All FCS grads.

Is the WAC going to be the western version of that someday? Or is that just a WAC-off wet dream?

 

[Grizzlies1982]

All FCS grads.

Is the WAC going to be the western version of that someday? Or is that just a WAC-off wet dream?

Reportedly the WAC's intent is to become an FBS conference of former fcs teams.

Yet geographically it would not be anything like what the Sun Belt is creating (Virginia, West Virginia, No. Carolina, So. Carolina, Georgia). That is a neat little conference all essentially a bus ride away from one another.

 

[Grizzlies1982]

Back to the premise of the article;
if UM or MSU tried to fund 70% of their athletic budgets solely on student fees they would financially break their students.

 

[AZGrizFan]

Is the WAC going to be the western version of that someday? Or is that just a WAC-off wet dream?

Reportedly the WAC's intent is to become an FBS conference of former fcs teams.

Yet geographically it would not be anything like what the Sun Belt is creating (Virginia, West Virginia, No. Carolina, So. Carolina, Georgia). That is a neat little conference all essentially a bus ride away from one another.

Well using that measuring stick, no. There's NO conference (FCS, G5 or P5) west of the Mississippi that has that kind of geographic concentration of schools. It just doesn't exist out here.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

Back to the premise of the article;
if UM or MSU tried to fund 70% of their athletic budgets solely on student fees they would financially break their students.

Difference between being a private and public institution.

 

[kemajic]

Back to the premise of the article;
if UM or MSU tried to fund 70% of their athletic budgets solely on student fees they would financially break their students.

Difference between being a private and public institution.

What difference? JMU is a public institution.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

Difference between being a private and public institution.

What difference? JMU is a public institution.

Yeah, my bad, brain fart.