{"id":6828,"date":"2014-07-20T22:29:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T02:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6828"},"modified":"2014-07-20T22:30:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T02:30:44","slug":"coach-withers-introduces-life-lessons-thursdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6828","title":{"rendered":"Coach Withers Introduces &#8220;Life Lessons Thursdays&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/100730945\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Way back when we were in school, our favorite Thursday tradition might have been Dime Drafts at JM&#8217;s. Ever the innovator, Coach Withers has introduced a new Thursday tradition for the JMU football program that should be much more impactful that cheap Natty Lite. It&#8217;s called Life Lessons Thursdays and it centers around successful JMU alums speaking to the team about life after football. It&#8217;s one of those ideas that is so simple, you wonder why nobody has thought of it before.<\/p>\n<p>The video above gives you a brief overview of the program. Essentially, it connects some of JMU&#8217;s most successful alums with some of its most visible (and hardest working) students. It&#8217;s a complete win-win and an example of how alums and students should be interacting all the time. Well done Coach Withers, well done.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D6828&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>Way back when we were in school, our favorite Thursday tradition might have been Dime Drafts at JM&#8217;s. Ever the innovator, Coach Withers has introduced a new Thursday tradition for the JMU football program that should be much more impactful that cheap Natty Lite. It&#8217;s called Life Lessons Thursdays and it centers around successful JMU [&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":[419,425],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6822,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6822","url_meta":{"origin":6828,"position":0},"title":"Changes Coming to JMU Game Day Experience","date":"July 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"If there is one thing we've learned about Coach Withers thus far, it's that the man is not afraid to make some changes. 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