JMU Bye Week: News around the CAA

So THIS is a self-indulgent post.  We’ve tried to avoid these, but occasionally we’ve got to throw a bone to our old-school readers.  And what better time than a JMU bye week!  One little intoxicated TD post tonight and aonther tomorrow!  If you don’t get the references in this post, check back later this week.

Most of you are probably trying to catch a little Stanford/Wake Forest or MSU Spartans throwing fabulous fake FG’s in OT to knock off the Irish, but here at the sentimental side of JMUSB, the side that appreciates random bowl games in late December between 7-4 west coast teams with fired coaches,  Johnnie Walker Blue and the subtle pleasure of ditching family for a Marlboro Light, we’re flipping between UNLV/Idaho on the U and W&M/ODU on DVR, putting back a few more (than appropriate) Bell’s Two Hearteds, and prepping for JMU @ American Field Hockey tomorrow with possible sightings of JMU legends Karen Zarchin and Amy Brew!

I meant to write about the Fourth Reich (Linwood Rose directing the VA State Troopers, the Rockingham County Sheriff’s, the Harrisonburg PD, and the Campus Cadets) cracking down on tailgating, but then I decided an anti-ODU rant was perfectly in order!

First, around the CAA today.  Watched the end of Rhode Island’s upset of New Hampshire today.  Great to see the RhodeI Rams whooping it up, proving UNH (and all of the former CAA North) is overrated, and announcers going off about how tough the CAA is week to week on the road.

Richmond Ticks beat Elon Fighting Chrisitans in OT.  Good! Lots of folks predicting this is finally the year Elon dethrones (cr)App. St. in the SoCon so the fact the fifth or sixth best team in the CAA took the favorites down “should” speak volumes to the FCS selection committee (a committee that should start paying attention by the way).

UMass damn near took out the Heisman trophy favorite in the Big House.  42-37 Michigan.  I’m now outright scared of the Minutemen and you’d think Michigan would figure out scheduling top-level FCS teams is NOT a good idea.

Not the CAA, but the Dukes’ next opponent, Liberty LOST to Robert Morris.  So I’ve no idea at all what the Colonials are all about, but I will now officially throw out I expect a full-on beatdown of the Homophobic Falwell’s next week!

Lastly, the most important game of the week long-term to the Dukes, William & Mary 21, Old Dominion 17.  Watching right now on DVR.  I have “some” love for the Tribe/Griffins thanks to my brother’s attendance and general familiariatiy with the geeks from Williamsburg, but let me just state loud and clear for the very first time, we effin HATE the Monarchs!  There’s no halfway on this.  No “my father-in-law-used-to-be-the-basketball-colorguy” action and now we sort of like them.  They just suck!!  Their little traditional “Oyster Bowl” is bush league.  The “suites” in the end zone are absolutely “Budget”.  The whole program is the college football version of K-Mart.  They almost pulled it off tonight, but what a sham:

W&M took them lightly, biggest game of the year for them , 3 turnovers for the Tribe, a fumble in the end zone for the Griffins, 24,000 (nice turnout btw) in the stands, all combined to lead to a closer-than-expected game, but in the end, William & Mary pulled it out and ODU can return to their schedule of has-beens and never-will-be’s.  Seriousy, ODU has a good bit of talent already and may only gain in that respect, but they are headed for nothin’ but misery in the CAA.  They’re already so high and mighty and proud of themselves and so sure they’re headed for a Miami Hurricanes-type-rise thanks to their proximity to world-class athletes.  But in reality, they’re headed for a rude awakening, a TON of weak coaching, mediocre fan support composed mostly of young marines and soon-to-be-controversial racist ole’ fans.  Look, W&M’s O-Line is an outright disaster, you had 24k in the stands, they turned it over a bunch, and you still couldn’t beat the fifth best CAA team.  What the hell do you think’s gonna happen when the Dukes roll into town?! 

Great coverage of JMUSB favorite Coach Antoinette Lucas and JMU Field Hockey, plus a bit of an expose on current donkeydick tailgating policies in the ‘Burg coming tomorrow.

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