re: A new college is building a football program in south Louisiana, and they've hired a coach

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will they be the only NAIA football program in louisiana?

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Don't turn your back on the Wolf Pack. You might wind up in a body bag

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it's for kids who can't play sports at a real college

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NGL as a high school senior who wasn't even good enough to be a walkon at a legitimate college, this place would have gotten my attention. Hopefully my parents would have talked sense into me.

Friend,

Jesus warned us, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.”

In the year of our Lord 2014, a small new “Christian college” in North Carolina named College of Faith made national headlines for being the first ever college football team to be held to negative 100 yards of total offense in a collegiate football game. It later came out that this college was hardly a college at all. It was non-accredited, not a single person associated with the school had a PhD from any accredited university, and its entire school was composed of athletes who were never offered to play at any other school.

College of Faith charged its students a discounted tuition that on face value seemed like a good deal. Most students paid around $1000, a seemingly great bargain from a listed semester tuition of $10,000.

The college had a fancy website, with much of its content cobbled together from other college websites. Photos and descriptions of the school and its curriculum were blatantly stolen from websites for other colleges in North Carolina. College of Faith had a sleek website with a modern logo and mascot. The website had an online store where proud parents could buy CoF Saints gear. Parents, wooed with the promise of their children being given a scholarship to a Christian school where their children could continue their dreams of being an athlete, were willing suckers for the scam.

College of Faith made most of its money, not from students but from other colleges. Small schools in the region who needed a punching bag, an automatic win for something like homecoming, paid CoF thousands to come to their campus and to be slaughtered. In College of Faith’s lone football season, the team scored zero points.

After the scheme of the school was found out, it soon closed and there is hardly a trace of its existence on the internet, and no existence in the physical world, today.

Sadly, people will use the name of Christ to appeal to the naivety of sometimes good natured people. There are wolves in this world ready to pounce on the flesh of delusional dreamers whose athletic gifts do not exceed that of a pitcher whose sub-80 mph fastball or the running back whose 4.9 40 time has failed to garner the attention of any accredited college athletics program.

John Melvin “University” is not accredited. That means your degree, if one is ever awarded is worth in academic circles the same as a degree from Time Saver College. Does one expect any accrediting body to accredit a “university” where not one faculty member has a PhD. However, if you dig deeply enough you will find that JMu is accredited by the National Bible College Association. The NBCA website is hosted by Tripod.com and has accredited, according to the website six institutions, truly elite company. The NBCA would appear also, in the most generous of terms, to be suspect, but parents whose dreams of their children playing college sports are likely to overlook that they are paying for a school that is not accredited by the U.S. Department of Education, whose standards are embarrassingly low.

But if you’re still on the fence about JMu, shall we look at its dining plan? Each semester, students are offered a 130 meal plan for $1410, which works out to $10.85 per meal. Students get to choose eating in several off campus eating establishments with the likes of Mr. Gatti’s Pizza, which one wonders if the NBCA endorses as serving the ideal balanced diet for athletes. Students are allowed $8-$10 and if their meal is over $10, the student is responsible for the excess cost. For those whose degree comes from a NBCA accredited school and need help with the maths, that means each semester, if you choose to limit your eating options to those places on the JMu meal plan, and actually use every meal that you purchase, you will lose between $110 and $370.

The following interviews with the founder, whose Beaumont centered Holy Patriot University has the distinction of being founded and closing in the same calendar year, should remove all remaining doubt. Although I am sure for the faithful believers who dream in false things, no amount of truth shall arouse them from their delusions.

Holy Patriot opens in Beaumont in 2022

Holy Patriot closes in Beaumont in 2022

John Melvin to open in 2023

Yours,
TulaneLSU

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Go take a look at their website. They copy and pasted from the LSUE website and didn’t even bother to take the “LSUE” part out of the sentences describing their student housing

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This place will be open 2 more years max.

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NGL as a high school senior who wasn't even good enough to be a walkon at a legitimate college, this place would have gotten my attention. Hopefully my parents would have talked sense into me.

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Yeah, I don't remember schools like this anywhere back when I was in high school(93-97). But it probably would have gotten mine as well. As adults, we know better.

where are students gonna live on campus there? A cot in the math professors office? A tent out back?

25 five star reviews

Google John Melvin University

just copped some merch.

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25 five star reviews

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Friend,

23 of those 25 reviews were made exactly eight months ago, before the school opened. Nearly every reviewer has only one review, that of the “school.”

It’s all window dressing for an Instagram culture. Make a website. Get “accredited” by a group who will accredit anyone so long as you submit $250. TigerDroppings College would have more legitimacy.

These groups nail the basics for the parents and students enamored by social media, where a photo with a “coach” holding up a uniform on “signing day” or a “graduate” who has a piece of paper and wears a gown is more important than getting an education that will be recognized by anyone. This situation is not like Liberty or other Christian colleges that started honestly by adhering to certain academic standards and being accredited by actual accreditation bodies that have standards above and beyond paying a $250 application fee.

This business venture will likely end just as his last one did in Beaumont: with a bunch of upset parents and students who paid tuition and soon after had no school to attend nor any credits that they could transfer to another school.

Yours,
TulaneLSU

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You seem to have the details down pat

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His mother taught him to be very thorough in all aspects of life.