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Post by Calling all Alumni on Dec 15, 2018 1:40:52 GMT -5
why would he leave when in three years JMU most likely will be in the FBS. I think this hire was a transitional hire to the FBS as he served as an assistant on the top team in the country for 4 years.
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Post by Elon Man on Dec 15, 2018 1:56:19 GMT -5
why would he leave when in three years JMU most likely will be in the FBS. I think this hire was a transitional hire to the FBS as he served as an assistant on the top team in the country for 4 years. People have been talking about JMU moving up to FBS for 10 years. When we played them the first time in 2014 I asked a lot of fans and they said they were no were near moving up because they did not want a Sun Belt offer. Obviously could have changed recently. |
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Post by JMUsine89 on Dec 15, 2018 10:20:21 GMT -5
JMU isnt going FBS anytine soon. The Admin has made that perfectly clear. Same thing was sais when we hired M Houston, coach tomtake us tomFBS. We are going to,be playing in the CAA for a long time.
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Post by Calling all Alumni on Dec 15, 2018 13:54:33 GMT -5
Well if they are not going FBS anytime soon, this is just theory and opinion. Its due to their massive facilities upgrades going on with student fees. Who knows if they have the backing and money to loose that cash cow by going FBS as they would have to reduce their take and be supported more by alumni and boosters. Yeah their students are paying a good bit for athletics. They do seem to have a tremendous amount of support behind football from what looks like their board of trustees, and administration are all in unlike ours.
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Post by Calling all Alumni on Dec 15, 2018 19:42:21 GMT -5
Wish our administration was this smart.
Cignetti has a $1.5 million buyout if he leaves JMU within the next three years for a Power Five school, according to JMU. If he departs the Dukes for a school in the American Athletic Conference or Mountain West within three years, the buyout is $1 million, and if he leaves for a Conference USA, Sun Belt or Mid-American Conference school within three years, the buyout is $750,000. In years four and five, the buyouts drop to $1 million for Power Five, $750,000 for AAC or MWC, and $500,000 for C-USA, SBC or MAC. In year six, the buyout falls to $250,000 if he were to depart for any school regardless of conference.
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Post by bhill483 on Dec 17, 2018 11:23:34 GMT -5
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Post by keepitreal on Dec 18, 2018 12:24:24 GMT -5
From the JMU message board:
"WEARPURPLE posts:
Greg Madia @madia_DNRSports
59m 59 minutes ago
According to the signed Memorandum of Understanding between Curt Cignetti and JMU, the JMU Foundation will pay Elon a $350,000 buyout. "
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Post by phightingphoenix1 on Dec 18, 2018 14:24:41 GMT -5
From the JMU message board: "WEARPURPLE posts: Greg Madia @madia_DNRSports 59m 59 minutes ago According to the signed Memorandum of Understanding between Curt Cignetti and JMU, the JMU Foundation will pay Elon a $350,000 buyout. " Very nice down payment for an indoor practice facility... |
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Post by Elon Man on Dec 18, 2018 15:50:20 GMT -5
$350K is a good chunk of change so least they have that going for them. Doubt it will go to an indoor facility. Honestly I dont see anything athletics wise happening for a while. Field house isn't old, softball a brand new facility, baseball needs help, and the Schar Center which was really pushed more by the university needs/wants than it was athletic needs/wants.
While an indoor facility could be said to be used by the university as well as athletics it wont have the return on investment for the university as much as say the Schar Center does. Therefore unless a donor comes out says here is $5 million to build an indoor, it is not happening.
The Fieldhouse was maxed out office wise until Schar was built and from the football standpoint the locker room is blah, the coaches have maxed out office/meeting space (using coaches offices sometimes for meetings and those offices are not big), the video dept was in a closet. Schar helped with some of the issues in regard to working with out sports but what they should have done is moved out the athletic department and moved everyone to Schar so then the whole second floor would have been just coaches offices and meeting space which was highly needed.
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Post by Calling all Alumni on Dec 18, 2018 21:21:04 GMT -5
Well it takes fundraising for facilities. Consider the area. There is not that much support or fan base, Except family day and homecoming. I mean ASU brought more fans than Elon. There is a reason why the term Elon bubble exists. The community thinks of Elon as a bunch of Rich poopers and really could care less. Like I said before as long as the university gets big checks from northerners for the university buildings who cares about athletics or giving back to the kids. Also you have UNC like 45 minutes away. ACC vs CAA hmmmm. I think more people went to see UNC than Elon opening night. When was schar packed last? the $350K most likely will go back to the general fund. Who knows where it will go from there.
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