Re: Just an offseason stat
Originally Posted by
Bisonator98
Not sure where the $100M more comes from unless we are talking the Top 15 FBS schools.
Think about this though, NDSU went from a budget of about $5M in 2000 to over $25M today. Not sure how much higher that can go at the FCS level as FB is the driver at NDSU.
JMU decided to NOT to go FBS in 2014 even though they were offered a spot in the Sun Belt.
One must also remember that when moving up there are probationary periods where your teams wont be eligible for bowl games--think Georgia Southern and you wont be eligible for conference bowl money splits or March madness money. So you have to have alot of money in reserve to make it through those periods of non-revenue.
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