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    Default Re: Coach Houston: JMU interested in going FBS, + 2017 season and repeat natty articl

    Quote Originally Posted by taper View Post
    If JMU wants to go FBS then refusing to even consider FCOA is a funny way to promote yourself. They're not going anywhere soon.
    Good point.
    Not willing to consider FCOA isn't exactly a show of the financial strength needed to make reckless FBS aspirations comments.

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    Default Re: Coach Houston: JMU interested in going FBS, + 2017 season and repeat natty articl

    JMU already has an FBS level athletic budget ($47M+ in 2016). However, they're funding it primarily through subsidies including a whopping $36M in student fees last year. By comparison NDSU student fees accounted for $1.4M in revenue for the athletic department last year. So that's one way you can fund an FBS move... good luck convincing the NDSU student body to sign off on that.

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    Default Re: Coach Houston: JMU interested in going FBS, + 2017 season and repeat natty articl

    Quote Originally Posted by Professor Chaos View Post
    JMU already has an FBS level athletic budget ($47M+ in 2016). However, they're funding it primarily through subsidies including a whopping $36M in student fees last year. By comparison NDSU student fees accounted for $1.4M in revenue for the athletic department last year. So that's one way you can fund an FBS move... good luck convincing the NDSU student body to sign off on that.
    id be pissed if I was a student and all those fees to watch FCS football also!
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    Default Re: Coach Houston: JMU interested in going FBS, + 2017 season and repeat natty articl

    Quote Originally Posted by tjbison View Post
    id be pissed if I was a student and all those fees to watch FCS football also!
    A good portion of them will probably be paying off the loans that allowed them to watch that FCS football well into their 30s.

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    Default Re: Coach Houston: JMU interested in going FBS, + 2017 season and repeat natty articl

    Quote Originally Posted by Professor Chaos View Post
    JMU already has an FBS level athletic budget ($47M+ in 2016). However, they're funding it primarily through subsidies including a whopping $36M in student fees last year. By comparison NDSU student fees accounted for $1.4M in revenue for the athletic department last year. So that's one way you can fund an FBS move... good luck convincing the NDSU student body to sign off on that.
    That's not sustainable. I think in the next 10 years a lot of these programs are going to come crashing down.

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    Default Re: Coach Houston: JMU interested in going FBS, + 2017 season and repeat natty articl

    Quote Originally Posted by AKBison View Post
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...aoq8a_RBWcrxaQ

    Will the Bison get left behind again? Coastal, Liberty, and now JMU? We have to find a way to get this done in the next decade.
    Do you think they would make the move if they had to play in the MWC? They have a geographical advantage as opposed to NDSU in Fargo. They are surrounded by different conferences out there.
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