i agree there is always fallout and that JMU is headed for 1A.
however, how do you get there logically? what about the Big12 departures gives JMU the window to move? Unless you mean to the Big12 perhaps???
or perhaps your prediction (which i very much appreciate) is that there'll be so much other movement in between FBS and FCS that there'll be openings somehwere... thanks.
JMU is looking for an invite to the AAC. That's what they're waiting on. Bourne doesn't want to be an Independent, and he turned down a C-USA offer a few years ago. Now the Dukes have no chance, as it currently stands, to get an AAC offer, but if there were to be a massive shakeup of the BIG 12 post OU and Texas departures, with some AAC team gaining invites to the BIG 12, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for maybe, JMU to receive an offer. Now that's a long shot. And no, SBU will not receive an FBS offer until the team show consistency on the field for more than two seasons, upgrades the stadium and not just seating capacity, builds legitimate lockerrooms for both home and away teams, upgrades the press box, adds real suites, and much more. It won't happen because the school doesn't have the money for the upgrades or the coaching staff to pull it off.
"And no, SBU will not receive an FBS offer until the team show consistency on the field for more than two seasons, upgrades the stadium and not just seating capacity, builds legitimate lockerrooms for both home and away teams, upgrades the press box, adds real suites, and much more. It won't happen because the school doesn't have the money for the upgrades or the coaching staff to pull it off."
You beat me to AirTurn. SB is regressing when it comes to sports. SH needs to go. I like the man as a person. He is very nice, polite, smart, witty, but he doesn't have what it takes to make SBU a proven, respected athletic school.