One thing that will help get us attention across the nation specifically to key groups mentioned above. That is the growth and development of academia. Not to long ago, LU posted this about the school of engineering:
https://www.liberty.edu/engineering/adv ... gineering/
This is huge for the university, since this field is a big value along with medicine, law, Science and government. What matters more is academia, that will give us more respect along with the growh of athletics. If you look at most of the AAC, most of their schools are R2 (look up Carnegie classifications for higher learning [
https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/ ... /basic.php] for more details). We are only R3 and should proceed to receive an R2 in the upcoming classification year. Of course almost all P5 schools are R1. This is what establish schools to connect and established conferences since its foundation. The money is there and our athletics can grow , but we need to continue working on academia. We will never get a chance to get into the AAC or even a power 5 in the future if our academia is low. Now we will have more interest of coming to school if there is value to academics from Christians all over the nation/world. If you think it's mostly because of Jerry's tweets, then I don't know what to tell you. There are students (and I've talked to many about this) who don't like Jerry much but loves the school and what is has and what is to come as more studies become accredited. We have to be a valuable school school first and then having great athletic programs is a bonus (fan support and donations). That's just my humble opinion.