{"id":6639,"date":"2014-08-07T22:44:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T02:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2014-08-07T22:44:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T02:44:34","slug":"preseason-beer-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6639","title":{"rendered":"Preseason Beer of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of worthless pregame coverage of exhibition preseason games, we thought we should warm up for the season with a little Beer of the Week practice.<\/p>\n

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August Beer.<\/p><\/div>\n

Today was IPA Day. This makes sense because it’s August, you know, summertime, when it’s hot and an IPA tastes pretty good. And even though IPA’s time has now clearly passed in the hipster beer-geek world, at least that’s an actual beer.
\nAs opposed to Pumpkin anything. As we’ve stated multiple times, pumpkin beer is a bullshit excuse to get non-drinkers to open their wallets and sugar their glasses. Even you PumpKing. And you Punkin. And all of you other horrible punning names stealing shelf-space, in the middle of the damned summer already, from real beer. Please go away. Pumpkin beer on an Ashburn porch is to the 2010’s what Strawberry Daiquiris were to the 80’s in a fern bar. Disgraceful.<\/p>\n

Ok, glad we got that off our chests. Now on to a couple of football related items. As most of you know by now, the P5 conferences (formerly the BCS) voted to give themselves autonomy today from the rest of the NCAA teams. You’re welcome to deep-dive this, but the main effect seems to us to be pushing the G5 conferences (CUSA\/MAC\/SunBelt among them) back towards FCS. At least until one or more of those conferences vote, as they are now allowed to do, to keep up with the Joneses on the “full cost of attendance” and other benefits now coming for the big boys. Of course, this also officially means FCS\/1-AA\/JMU are officially Division II. But hey, at least NC State announced a game in five years with JMU! (a game they’ll almost certainly not be allowed to play under new rule changes but we can crow now and continue bilking our boosters under false pretenses)<\/p>\n

On the positive side, Akeem Jordan was in on a couple tackles for the Skins tonight. We couldn’t bear watching long enough to see if Caussin played so fill us in below in the comments. Also, check out this cool story<\/a> on Jordan Stanton, who’s certainly cranking up the press and hopefully forcing the Giants to take a long look.<\/p>\n