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Mikovio wrote:Liberty is a nonprofit tele-evangelical school founded by Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and reliably funded by old ladies' Social Security checks that might erstwhile have gone to Oral Roberts. Different beast altogether.

Actually, I believe the source of Liberty's cash is the genius decision a long time ago to get heavily into online courses, and a $29,000,000 life insurance policy on Jerry Falwell that paid off every red cent of the school's debt. Say what you want about the school's religious viewpoint, but it might be the best managed non-P5 school in America.

In December 2010, Liberty sold $120 million in facilities bonds, with the proceeds to be used to finance future expansion.[145] An additional $100 million in taxable bonds were sold in January 2012, with the proceeds used to help finance $225.2 million of planned capital projects around the campus over the next five years.[146]

Mikovio wrote:Liberty is a nonprofit tele-evangelical school founded by Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and reliably funded by old ladies' Social Security checks that might erstwhile have gone to Oral Roberts. Different beast altogether.

“We looked at even numbers, and I really thought that it had to be an even number because when you talk about odd numbers you really create some issues with your scheduling structure,” Elgin said in the release. “You look at, in men’s basketball for instance, when you have 11 teams, 10 of those teams will be playing in five games and every scheduling window, whether it’s a mid-week Tuesday-Wednesday sequence or a Saturday-Sunday sequence every one of those windows throughout the season would have one team being idle.”Twelve teams is on the table and the MVC seems leaning that way, according to Elgin’s comments. (No. 11 seems obvious with Murray State interested and a match geographically. No. 12 seems more of a mystery, especially if Belmont (Nashville) is not interested.)“The Presidents Council is leaving the door open for that, and they are encouraging that, actually,” Elgin said. “And I think over the next year or so, I think we’ll continue to study expansion with the possibility that we might eventually within, I think, in the next 12 or 24 months go to a 12-team model.”

Jsnhbe1Birds wrote:Well, you just explained why Valpo was chosen over Murray. Good job.