James Madison Athletics - what can we learn from them?

[greenminer]

JMU is currently ranked in BOTH football and MBB polls.  Random thoughts
 

• it's really, really hard to sustain success - especially in G5 FB.  How long can they do it?
• Does this put a little smoke on the argument that you should focus ONLY on one sport? That you have to be a bball school OR a football school, and you cannot be both?
• what is JMU's athletic budget/spending? How does that compare to us? To the rest of the Belt?
• home run hires? lots of luck? Probably a bit of both

https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/256/james-madison-dukes
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/256/james-madison-dukes
https://jmusports.com/

Harrisonburg, VA
Student enrollment: 22,224 (2022)
Endowment: $154.7 million
Harrisonburg Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area Population: 126,562
 

Edited November 24, 2023 by greenminer

[Matt from A700]

Maybe the question should be, who can we take from them?

[RBP79]

Win.

[Aquila_Viridis]

We can learn to move to Harrisonburg with MadDog, where there is nothing happening for many miles except college sports, strange religion and bad whiskey.

[Udomann]

1 hour ago, Aquila_Viridis said:

... bad whiskey.

[Aquila_Viridis]

It's a volatile combination. Once ignited, it will burn intensely until doused with turkey piss by vt supporters in the state legislature. (The Virginia supporters will be unaware until MadDog gets ranked in fencing or badminton.)

[Salsa_Verde]

Uhhhhh…..WIN? 

[Cougar King]

James Madison doesn't blame UVA or Virginia Tech for their problems. Hell, they don't even blame Old Dominion or Liberty either.

Holding yourself accountable is step 1.

Edited November 25, 2023 by Cougar King

[greenminer]

2 hours ago, Cougar King said:

James Madison doesn't blame UVA or Virginia Tech for their problems. He'll, they don't even blame Old Dominion or Liberty either.

Holding yourself accountable is step 1.

We are fully aware that 99% of our problems trace back to detrimental decisions made internally.  Apparently, you are not.

 

[Venson]

We could hire away their DC. He only makes $189k and I am pretty sure they are in the top 20 in defense in the country. He would get a substantial pay raise coming here.

[Green Otaku]

JMU has the most important thing it takes to run an athletic department. The right people/administration in the department. The success of both sports shows they are smart and informed decision makers, something we have been lacking in for decades. Outside of all of the sporting decisions the AD handles promotion, advertisement, fundraising, donations, logistics, community outreach, fan engagement, marketing, budgeting, etc. Without that strong foundation every coach will struggle to succeed here.