{"id":6359,"date":"2013-12-20T18:57:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T23:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2013-12-20T19:21:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T00:21:54","slug":"everett-withers-is-officially-your-jmu-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6359","title":{"rendered":"Everett Withers Is Officially Your JMU Football Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R5UPCSfEE-E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Boom. Everett Withers is officially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmusports.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=14400&amp;ATCLID=209344451\">the 6th head football coach at James Madison University<\/a>. Fans were forced to sweat it out all day after reports surfaced yesterday that the deal was all but done. Thankfully, JMU didn&#8217;t get Mummed again. No press conference has been scheduled, but a conference call with the media will take place tonight. We were not invited to said press conference. I only assume that means they&#8217;re giving us the first sit down exclusive with Coach Withers.<\/p>\n<p>Withers of course has been the co-defensive coordinator and assistant coach at Ohio State for the past two seasons. His hiring is effective immediately, but he&#8217;ll be remaining with the Buckeyes through the Orange Bowl on January 3.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be back with our thoughts on the hiring later. For now though, let&#8217;s just say that we&#8217;re pretty optimistic about this move. If nothing else, it showed that JMU was ready, willing, and able to break out of a small-minded, regional mindset. I&#8217;ve heard the grumblings from Buckeye fans about the OSU defense that Withers helped run. Those critiques don&#8217;t bother me however, because I make a habit of ignoring Buckeye fans (kidding\u2026sort of). His experience working alongside Urban Meyers could prove to be invaluable and he did some nice work at UNC. Reports indicate that he&#8217;s a guy players love to play for and he&#8217;s had considerable success recruiting in the Southeast, which he could leverage to open up a new pipeline for the Dukes. All in all, it&#8217;s a pretty bold move for Jeff Bourne and JMU. And we&#8217;re excited about it.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D6359&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>Boom. Everett Withers is officially the 6th head football coach at James Madison University. Fans were forced to sweat it out all day after reports surfaced yesterday that the deal was all but done. Thankfully, JMU didn&#8217;t get Mummed again. No press conference has been scheduled, but a conference call with the media will take [&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":[7],"tags":[418],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6356,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6356","url_meta":{"origin":6359,"position":0},"title":"Everett Withers Reportedly Is Going to Be the New JMU Head Coach","date":"December 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"According to reports by FootballScoop.com, Everett Withers will be the new head coach of the JMU Dukes. Withers has been the co-defensive coordinator and assistant head coach to Urban Meyers at Ohio State for the past two years. 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