(01-28-2018 06:29 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  

(01-28-2018 06:22 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(01-28-2018 06:16 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  @ Tom

That's because it was the wrong school trying to be the school. Had it been Georgetown, it may have been more of a hit. Or George Mason with its numbers.

Georgetown? I think even they recognized they didn't need it. What does football provide for them that they don't already have?

George Mason? No. Friggin' Maryland has trouble drawing fans many years. And they play in the B1G. You're not going to compete with the NFL team and Maryland in DC. Just not going to happen. It would be a foolish investment. And at what cost? GMU already loses 20+ million a year on athletics WITHOUT football. What would they lose if they added FBS? Much of GMU's undergrad enrollment are not traditional students.

And where would GMU play? CUSA? The Sun Belt? Add the deficit that most AAC football programs run on top of the existing deficit and you'd get a trouble from the state of Virginia really quickly. And then spend 100 million of money they don't have on a football stadium....or play in Maryland? No, no, no.

Mason could have and they'd have had the benefit of also be a Virginia team instead of just for Washington DC. They'd likely be in C-USA right now had they started a team after the Final Four run.