{"id":6925,"date":"2014-09-04T20:57:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T00:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6925"},"modified":"2014-09-04T20:57:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T00:57:40","slug":"fan-confidence-poll-what-a-difference-a-week-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6925","title":{"rendered":"Fan Confidence Poll: What a Difference a Week Makes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Week-2-Confidence.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"6926\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=6926\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Week-2-Confidence.jpg?fit=600%2C371&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,371\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Week 2 Confidence\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Week-2-Confidence.jpg?fit=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Week-2-Confidence.jpg?fit=600%2C371&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6926\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Week-2-Confidence.jpg?resize=600%2C371\" alt=\"Week 2 Confidence\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Week-2-Confidence.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Week-2-Confidence.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re in just our second week of our brand new experiment to gauge JMU fan confidence. We&#8217;ve asked the same question, &#8220;Are the Dukes Playoff Bound?&#8221;, twice now. Once before the Maryland game, and once after. The Dukes&#8217; loss was either incredibly enlightening, or we have a rather reactionary fan base. Regardless, there was a pretty steep drop in fan confidence. Last week 84% of respondents thought JMU was a playoff team. This week only 56% believed that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun for NC Triad Dukes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anyone in the Greensboro area who&#8217;s looking for something to do tomorrow evening, can join Todd as he watches JMU soccer take on UNCG at 7:00 on the UNCG campus. He&#8217;s new to the area and would love to meet some other JMU fans or alums. He&#8217;ll be the guy in a JMU polo looking like your\u00a0run of the mill unkept middle-aged who<span style=\"color: #222222;\">&#8216;s wandered into the wrong place and will stand out as a non-parent, non-coach just by being there. Those are his words, not mine by the way. I actually think he&#8217;s a handsome young man. Younger than me at least.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D6925&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>We&#8217;re in just our second week of our brand new experiment to gauge JMU fan confidence. We&#8217;ve asked the same question, &#8220;Are the Dukes Playoff Bound?&#8221;, twice now. Once before the Maryland game, and once after. The Dukes&#8217; loss was either incredibly enlightening, or we have a rather reactionary fan base. Regardless, there was a [&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":[426],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6914,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6914","url_meta":{"origin":6925,"position":0},"title":"JMU Fan Confidence After Week 1","date":"September 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"[polldaddy poll=8280544]Last week we kicked of our new fan confidence poll and asked readers if they thought JMU was playoff bound. A resounding 84% of poll respondents said \"yes\" the Dukes will make the playoffs. Now we're one game into the season and the Dukes are coming off a pretty\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Football&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7247,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7247","url_meta":{"origin":6925,"position":1},"title":"Fan Confidence Poll: Coming Off a Homecoming Victory","date":"November 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"[polldaddy poll=8423061]The Dukes got their best win of the New Era last Saturday, defeating William & Mary 31-24. JMU now sits at 6-3 with 3 games remaining. Two of those games are on the road against Stony Brook and Richmond, and the finale is in Bridgeforth against Elon. If the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Football&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7067,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7067","url_meta":{"origin":6925,"position":2},"title":"Fan Confidence Poll: Week 6","date":"September 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"[polldaddy poll=8341482]Another week and another CAA loss for the Dukes. Last week barely over 50% of voters thought postseason play was in the cards for JMU. After letting one get away against Delaware, is the sky falling or are the Dukes just a few plays away from getting things right?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Football&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6973,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6973","url_meta":{"origin":6925,"position":3},"title":"Fan Confidence Slightly Up Heading into St. Francis Game","date":"September 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"We saw a slight uptick in fan confidence among poll voters after the comeback win over Lehigh. 60% of respondents thought the Dukes were playoff bound. Only 56% believed the same thing heading into the game in Bethlehem. That makes perfect sense to me. The Dukes did some stuff very\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Football&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Confidence Week 3","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Confidence-Week-3.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7136,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7136","url_meta":{"origin":6925,"position":4},"title":"Slight Uptick in Fan Confidence Heading Into Towson","date":"October 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Things are looking slightly better for most fans, but just slightly. This week 28% of poll respondents thought the Dukes were playoff bound. It's too late now, but we really should have done a better job of separating \"fan confidence\" and playoffs. Because \u00a0even though the JMU has nearly no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Football&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"week 7 confidence","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/week-7-confidence.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7281,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7281","url_meta":{"origin":6925,"position":5},"title":"Fan Confidence Poll: Richmond Week","date":"November 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"[polldaddy poll=8441859]Vad Lee and the Dukes have now won five straight games. That's JMU's longest winning streak since all the way back in 2008 when a guy by the name of Rodney Landers was lining up behind center. 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