I have little faith Mason will ever commit to athletics like that.Mason has about 10k more students than vcu, so it would not need a 1400 dollar fee to generate similar money. Something like a 500 dollar per semester fee or 1000 per year across about 40k students gets you close to 40 million annually, which is basically what vcu is bringing in.
And that is still a lot less than what vcu students are paying. This is not really a resource issue, it is just a choice Mason has not made.