{"id":7848,"date":"2015-07-30T22:31:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T02:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7848"},"modified":"2015-07-30T22:31:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T02:31:56","slug":"offseason-poll-who-is-the-best-qb-in-jmu-football-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7848","title":{"rendered":"Offseason Poll: Who Is the Best QB in JMU Football History?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[polldaddy poll=9005062]The wait isn&#8217;t over, but we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. That&#8217;s right, football season is coming. But we&#8217;re not quite there yet. So we&#8217;ll save the talk about the schedule and playoff prospects for a later day. Instead of looking forward, we&#8217;d like to look back today. Specifically, we&#8217;d like to discuss who the best QB in JMU history was.<\/p>\n<p>Last night we were going back and forth with a few Twitter friends on this very topic. Of course everyone has an opinion about who the best signal caller in Dukes&#8217; history is. The only consensus we could seem to come up with was &#8220;not Justin Thorpe.&#8221; Guess that&#8217;s the price you pay for being talented and unfairly compared to Rodney Landers before ever taking a snap. In any case, Todd and I actually are in 100% agreement here. For us, the top 3 JMU QBs in order are <a href=\"http:\/\/jmusports.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=148\">Rodney Landers (Superman)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jmusports.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=3459\">Justin Rascati<\/a> (National Champion), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmusports.com\/roster.aspx?path=&amp;rp_id=2127\">Mike Cawley<\/a> (JMU Hall of Famer). And because this is our blog, those are going to three players we force you to choose between.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not that hardheaded though, so we&#8217;ll throw in a few more. He might have preceded us by more than a few years, but JMU Sports Hall of Famer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmusports.com\/roster.aspx?path=&amp;rp_id=2117\">Eriq Williams<\/a> is also deserving of consideration. And to add a little extra spice to the mix, we&#8217;re going to include Vad Lee as well. Yes, he&#8217;s still active and only has one season under his belt. However, it was a heck of a season and if he follows up on last year&#8217;s record setting performance, he&#8217;s definitely going to be in the JMU G.O.A.T discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Vote in the poll and then share your thoughts in the comments. It&#8217;s a Friday in the summertime, what the heck else are you gonna do all day?<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D7848&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>[polldaddy poll=9005062]The wait isn&#8217;t over, but we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. That&#8217;s right, football season is coming. But we&#8217;re not quite there yet. So we&#8217;ll save the talk about the schedule and playoff prospects for a later day. Instead of looking forward, we&#8217;d like to look back today. 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