{"id":7481,"date":"2015-01-12T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7481"},"modified":"2015-01-12T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:47:07","slug":"scotty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7481","title":{"rendered":"Scotty!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you didn&#8217;t think one of everyone&#8217;s all-time favorite Dukes couldn&#8217;t make you any prouder, you really have to read <a href=\"http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/news\/crime\/2015-01-04\/story\/former-jaguar-sees-purposeful-path-through-brothers-shooting-college\">this story in the Jacksonville&#8217;s Flordia Times-Union<\/a>. It certainly reminded us that the field\/court can be a springboard to greater things instead of just an end in itself. Seriously, Scotty has to be REALLLLY high on the list of JMU athletes for whom it easiest to pull for in without any qualifications.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1147\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jax-scotty.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1147\" data-attachment-id=\"1147\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=1147\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jax-scotty.jpg?fit=660%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"660,394\" 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=\"jax scotty\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Scotty Mcgee with the Jags&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jax-scotty.jpg?fit=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jax-scotty.jpg?fit=660%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1147\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jax-scotty.jpg?resize=300%2C179\" alt=\"Scotty Mcgee with the Jags\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jax-scotty.jpg?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jax-scotty.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scotty Mcgee with the Jags<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the sadder, immediate front, Men&#8217;s hoops is fully in the &#8220;rinse and repeat&#8221; cycle part of the season now. Decent effort, but everyone not on the same page, and then the second half turns into a train wreck of poor shot selection, shots by the wrong guys, no motion or passing on offense and ultimately just enough breakdowns on D to turn a close game into a larger loss! Good times. That said, it should be noted that &#8211; with all due respect to Hofstra&#8217;s balanced attack and Damian Lee &#8211; William &amp; Mary&#8217;s Marcus Thornton is simply the finest player in the CAA. And of course he went off alongside a teammate that recorded the Tribe&#8217;s first ever triple-double in school history <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmusports.com\/news\/2015\/1\/10\/MBB_0110152513.aspx\">against JMU<\/a> this weekend. Ugh. That said, scoring 73 and losing by 8 to the Tribe is not the end of the world, though that&#8217;s seemingly very close for Brady&#8217;s bunch.<\/p>\n<p>On a happier note, I (Todd) may finally get to see Kenny Brooks&#8217; machine this Thursday at Elon. If anyone else is down here and can make the game, drop me a line.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D7481&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>Just in case you didn&#8217;t think one of everyone&#8217;s all-time favorite Dukes couldn&#8217;t make you any prouder, you really have to read this story in the Jacksonville&#8217;s Flordia Times-Union. It certainly reminded us that the field\/court can be a springboard to greater things instead of just an end in itself. Seriously, Scotty has to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":650,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=650","url_meta":{"origin":7481,"position":0},"title":"Updated: Moats Drafted by the Bills &#038; McGee by Jacksonville","date":"April 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Arthur \"Da Body\" Moats got drafted by the Buffalo Bills with the 178th pick of the 2010 NFL Drafts. Moats is the first JMU player to be drafted since 2000, when the\u00a0Cincinnati\u00a0Bills picked Curtis Keaton and he is the 11th Duke to be drafted overall. 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All three players put\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Football&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/64369_Jaguars_Camp_Football-292x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1145,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=1145","url_meta":{"origin":7481,"position":4},"title":"OGL Links Are Back!","date":"August 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, we used to call these little round-ups \"weekly\" links, but it's been 4 months. My bad. Anyway, check out the JMU week that was on the web. 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