{"id":5060,"date":"2013-02-21T23:21:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T04:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2013-02-22T20:10:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T01:10:12","slug":"jmu-catfished-mumme-not-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5060","title":{"rendered":"JMU Catfished, Mumme Not Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been drawing a line between hopeful, excited tweets and actually going crazy covering the Hal Mumme to JMU as OC story here on the blog for a month out of fear it wouldn’t work out. \u00a0Something just seemed fishy, we hoped not Lennay Kekua fishy, but today we found out what it was. \u00a0According to Matthew Stoss’ enlightening article<\/a> in the Daily News Record today, Mumme literally left an assistant sent to pick him up waiting at the airport and forced JMU to look like the second-rate outfit they’re rapidly becoming by reannouncing the job posting for Offensive Coordinator. \u00a0Apparently, Mumme, the offensive innovator behind the pass-heavy Air Raid offensive attack, will be announced next week as the OC at a BCS school. \u00a0Presumably this is for significantly more money and obviously this comes with more prestige. \u00a0(But we’re still damned skeptical that it will be a non-BCS FBS school in which case this rant will be back with a whole new level of venom aimed at our own folks).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As always, there are two ways of looking at the story, but I’m afraid in either case, on some level JMU looks like a bunch of buffoons. \u00a0There are no words for the levels of incompetence displayed here and how silly it makes us fans feel for hoping the Dukes have better days ahead.<\/p>\n

You could <\/em>choose to look at this story as the dude pulled a huge but financially understandable dick-move, and that JMU’s only mistake was leaking this thing out before everything was signed, sealed, and delivered. \u00a0But that’s still a huge mistake in and of itself. \u00a0And even if a few of the truest believers in the power of the purple koolaid would like to revise the last few weeks and claim Mumme’s track record is considerably less stellar than we’ve all made it out to be, no one can deny that this is a program in need of a major injection of different. \u00a0Just different. \u00a0And now Mickey’s last hail mary has failed miserably. \u00a0(Doesn’t seem out of the question that there are those in the administration and in the fanbase who aren’t sad about this by the way)<\/p>\n

Or….you could react like most fans already frustrated by JMU’s utter lack of leadership in athletics and find yourself torn between delirious laughter and shaking your fists. \u00a0It’s nearly impossible to understand how a large, growing state university with nearly a decade of\u00a0ascendancy fading quickly in the rear view would invest millions in facilites upgrades and unjustified hype while remaining unable to handle basic infrastructure decisions required to run a decent athletic program including but certainly not limited to closing a deal with an exciting assistant coach, holding Mickey accountable, and charting a course for conference stability. (This list might<\/em>\u00a0also include having the stones to not leave coaches in lame-duck status by actually making a decision and not losing bids to host playoff games in your new football palace to Eastern f*ckin’ Kentucky, and deciding not to hold a large graduation ceremony in your new stadium after that was a huge selling point for building it, but we’re trying to keep this focused on football in its current state).<\/p>\n

Hope all those freshmen wide receivers the Dukes just signed don’t mind a larger set of shoulder pads so they’ll be ready to block on 3rd and long!<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, one more thing, don’t have the Duke Club calling alums to solicit more money tonight when you just looked like an idiot. \u00a0Needless to say, those calls were not well-received in either of our households this evening. \u00a0Get it together you clowns!<\/p>\n