(04-15-2014 10:05 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(04-15-2014 09:38 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  If JMU really wanted to be in the Sun Belt they would have accepted last Spring after WKU left. Probably time to cross them of the list.

It was too early to cross JMU off the list until they had finished their due diligence, and also too early before they found out whether they were really, truly, not likely to see any immediate CUSA or MAC invite.

As far as this news ... either the inside source has been told the truth, or someone has fed them a line of bull to keep the real story quiet. June will be here soon enough, and if JMU is not announced to be on its way to the Sunbelt by then, that is soon enough to cross them off the list.

If there was any possible way to botch a process, JMU has done it. Our process involved CARR, but that was just the beginning. We had a Feasibility Committee with faculty, staff, students, alumni, corporate, city leaders and former athlete membership do an open, above board process that involved public forums, surveys, listening tours, targeted meetings with at-stake and interested parties over a period of months. After the results were made public, the BOT voted to give our administration the authority to speak with athletic conferences. JMU's process was broken from the get-go, and as much as I wanted to see them a part of the SBC, I believed all along that they hadn't even decided if FBS was the right move or not. They have put their fans through the ringer and its shameful.