{"id":3979,"date":"2012-06-04T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T00:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2012-10-31T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:08:54","slug":"jmu-snags-vanderbilt-transfer-lafonte-thorougood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3979","title":{"rendered":"JMU Snags Great Deal &#8211; Vanderbilt Transfer Lafonte Thorougood From Our Laptop to Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rjJCKCl5F7s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In May, Vanderbilt announced that Lafonte Thourogood would be granted his release to transfer. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewStoss\/status\/209787231228002305\">Matthew Stoss confirmed tonight that on Sunday Thourogood to JMU on Sunday he was coming to play for the Dukes<\/a>. Thourogood was a running back at Vanderbilt and redshirted last year. He was a very successful duel threat QB in high school and it is expected that he will line up behind center for JMU.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very, very big get for Coach Matthews and his staff. Recruiting analysis and rankings are notoriously suspect, but Lafonte was a highly praised recruit coming out of Ocean Lakes High School in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/traveler-information\/checkpoint-friendly-laptop-bags\">Virginia Beach<\/a>. He was ranked as the 25th best duel threat QB in the 2011 class by Rivals.com. As you can see from the highlights above, he&#8217;s a big, strong, player who was sought after for his athleticism. He originally committed to Virginia Tech, before changing his mind and opting to sign with Vanderbilt. In addition to those two programs, he received scholarship offers from Arkansas, Florida, Stanford, North Carolina, NC State, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Many of those schools probably offered him as an &#8220;athlete&#8221;, but those are not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsu.edu\/~avitv\/computerfaq.html\">programs<\/a> you usually see extending offers to guys that end up at JMU. In short, this is a great, great get for the Dukes. Plus, Lafonte still has 4 years of eligibility and he carried a honor roll GPA in high school. In short, it doesn&#8217;t just look great from the screen of your <a href=\"http:\/\/dealnews.com\/c49\/Computers\/Laptops\/f15\/Core-i5\/\">i5 laptop deals<\/a> like this can&#8217;t be passed up!\u00a0I don&#8217;t mean to disrespect Jace Edwards, but it would be tough to argue that swapping Edwards for Thorougood this off-season didn&#8217;t improve the Duke&#8217;s at QB.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D3979&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, Vanderbilt announced that Lafonte Thourogood would be granted his release to transfer. Matthew Stoss confirmed tonight that on Sunday Thourogood to JMU on Sunday he was coming to play for the Dukes. Thourogood was a running back at Vanderbilt and redshirted last year. He was a very successful duel threat QB in high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[295],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4168,"url":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=4168","url_meta":{"origin":3979,"position":0},"title":"JMU Football Practice Kicks Off Without a QB Controversy","date":"August 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"JMU had its first football practice of the 2012 season today. Before we get to anything else, let me be the first to say \"Thank God.\" Coming up with things to write about during the football season is pretty easy. And it's fun. 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