{"id":11017,"date":"2019-08-26T00:21:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T04:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=11017"},"modified":"2019-08-26T00:21:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T04:21:56","slug":"we-are-back-same-as-it-ever-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=11017","title":{"rendered":"We Are Back&#8230;Same As It Ever Was"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5IsSpAOD6K8\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, rooters and non-rooters, we are back. Yeah, it&#8217;s been a while. You&#8217;re favorite bloggers haven&#8217;t really been bloggers at all. We&#8217;re a decade into this little project and for the first time ever we took the summer off. Actually, that&#8217;s giving us too much credit. We didn&#8217;t take time off as much as we simply enjoyed our lives and stopped worrying about &#8220;content.&#8221; But the pull of the Dukes is strong. And in case you haven&#8217;t heard, it&#8217;s game week. JMU plays West Virginia on Saturday. Coach Houston is gone and Coach Cignetti is all the rage now. It&#8217;s a new day. The boys are back in town. And by boys, we mean a couple of middle aged dorks no longer content to bore y&#8217;all on podcasts. Now we&#8217;re going to bore y&#8217;all on the blog as well. That&#8217;s right. It&#8217;s a brand new season for JMU Football. But it&#8217;s the same as it ever was for JMU Sports Blog. Hop on board for one more season. It&#8217;s gonna be fun. <\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D11017&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>Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, rooters and non-rooters, we are back. Yeah, it&#8217;s been a while. You&#8217;re favorite bloggers haven&#8217;t really been bloggers at all. We&#8217;re a decade into this little project and for the first time ever we took the summer off. Actually, that&#8217;s giving us too much credit. We didn&#8217;t take time [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8733,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8733","url_meta":{"origin":11017,"position":0},"title":"Guess Who&#8217;s Back in Town?","date":"August 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Are you ready? We're ready. #JMUBreedpic.twitter.com\/zfUpNXnio1 \u2014 JMUFB Recruiting (@JMUBreed) June 28, 2016 The boys of JMU of football are back in town. Finally. All players reported to campus last night and the first day of camp is today. 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