{"id":7627,"date":"2015-03-26T07:25:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7627"},"modified":"2015-03-26T07:27:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:27:29","slug":"tbt-lefty-driesells-first-home-game-at-jmu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7627","title":{"rendered":"TBT: Lefty Driesell&#8217;s First Home Game at JMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qvzVjKxv1s4\" width=\"520\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the offseason for both hoops and football and Throwback Thursday, so we might as well take a look back. Way back. All the way back to 1988 in fact when one Charles &#8220;Lefty&#8221; Driesell was in his first year as head coach of the JMU Dukes.<\/p>\n<p>The video above is of JMU&#8217;s first home game under the Lefty regime. As you can see, things were quite a bit different then. The convo was packed and in full &#8220;Electric Zoo&#8221; mode, a certain alum with a &#8220;Daaaagggggeeeerrrr&#8221; of a catch phrase was on the play by play, and the sideline reporter just might have been a New York Times best selling author. And the Dukes beat VMI 94-92.<\/p>\n<p><em>h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bpmarkowitz\">@bpmarkowitz<\/a> for the video<\/em><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D7627&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>It&#8217;s the offseason for both hoops and football and Throwback Thursday, so we might as well take a look back. Way back. All the way back to 1988 in fact when one Charles &#8220;Lefty&#8221; Driesell was in his first year as head coach of the JMU Dukes. The video above is of JMU&#8217;s first home [&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":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1971,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=1971","url_meta":{"origin":7627,"position":0},"title":"All Aboard the JMU Basketwagon!","date":"January 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"If you happen to be a Skins fan around my age, then you're one of the few people on the planet\u00a0who understand how an old, bald, bitter, condescending, and orange man like Tony Kornheiser became a national sports pundit despite obviously not having watched an actual game he wasn't paid\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Basketball&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/All-Aboard-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4752,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=4752","url_meta":{"origin":7627,"position":1},"title":"Guest Blogger: Reflecting on the JMU Loss to Richmond","date":"December 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Our good friend and reader, Tedward, was at the Convo last night for the Dukes \u00a083-82 OT loss to Richmond. 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