{"id":5668,"date":"2013-07-28T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2013-07-28T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T01:02:07","slug":"33-days-till-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5668","title":{"rendered":"33 Days Till Kickoff!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doesn’t that headline just make you all warm and tipsy?!Ok, or for some of us it may be more of a kick in the ass to spend time with the fam while we still can, but no denying the fact that in just over four weeks football is back (UNC\/USC in 31 days and JMU in BFS two days later!).<\/p>\n

That said, we’ve still got plenty of time to address serious topics like CAA previews and discovering how to properly mock Stony Brook and Albany. We’re also going to be gauging Dukes fans’ expectations for the upcoming season (with 24 playoff slots and a hugely diluted playoff field it’s pretty clear what MM’s responsibility is if he wants to keep his job when JMU moves up – wait, was that the whole season in a nutshell? Oops).<\/p>\n

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Time to invest in the ‘Burg?<\/p><\/div>\n

But first, obviously, we’ve got to gauge Dukes fans’ interest in the two of us buying out Dave’s Taverna?! \u00a0As many of you know, Dave’s closed its doors<\/a> a couple of weeks ago. Scuttlebutt is that the actual Dave’s personal financial difficulties ultimately cost this institution its iconic status and dealt a blow<\/a> to Downtown’s resurgence. \u00a0So Rob and I got to talking over a couple of Starr Hill Grateful Pale’s<\/a> (because damn it, it’s still July and Octoberfest\/Pumpkin beers should NOT be here yet) and we joked about starting a Kickstarter project for JMUSB to buy Dave’s! \u00a0Of course, first we need to do a little market research. \u00a0Please complete the following survey:<\/p>\n

1) Do you support the awesome idea of JMUSB taking over Dave’s?<\/p>\n

2) Do you have any information whatsoever regarding whether Dave’s is actually for sale or was the space just leased? (Preferably in some kind of bankruptcy special or something)<\/p>\n

3) Would you agree to support changing the name back to Gus’s? \u00a0If not, would you agree to support subsidizing the beer purchases of those who do support this through an old-guy beer special throwback night where you pay the difference?<\/p>\n

4) We can keep gyros, seasoned fries, and spanikopita and pretty much get rid of everything else on the new menu, right?<\/p>\n

5) We can pay whatever bribe money is required to the Harrisonburg councilmembers to allow for more freedom on the roof (we can also call it the roof, not the “terratsa”), right?<\/p>\n

Thanks so much for your time and attention in this survey! Also, I’m pretty sure we can mock Stony Brook and Albany just by saying “it’s Stony Brook and Albany?,” right?!<\/p>\n