{"id":8431,"date":"2016-03-14T08:38:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T12:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8431"},"modified":"2016-03-14T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T12:38:22","slug":"breaking-jmu-fires-matt-brady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8431","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: JMU Fires Matt Brady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"8347\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=8347\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2-James-Madison-Dukes-coach-Matt-Brady_20130321145327977_0_0.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,400\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Brady scowl\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Thank goodness we have a coaching search and hire to break down this spring!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2-James-Madison-Dukes-coach-Matt-Brady_20130321145327977_0_0.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2-James-Madison-Dukes-coach-Matt-Brady_20130321145327977_0_0.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8347\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2-James-Madison-Dukes-coach-Matt-Brady_20130321145327977_0_0.jpg?resize=600%2C400\" alt=\"Brady scowl\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2-James-Madison-Dukes-coach-Matt-Brady_20130321145327977_0_0.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2-James-Madison-Dukes-coach-Matt-Brady_20130321145327977_0_0.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>There you go. JMU announced that the school has parted ways with Matt Brady. We&#8217;ll have more thoughts on the news tonight. Love him or hate him, it&#8217;s been pretty obvious the administration wanted Brady gone. Not really sure how it benefited anyone to wait this long to cut ties. And doing it the day before the school&#8217;s (and the Duke Club&#8217;s) largest fundraising day of the year&#8230;no words.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D8431&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>There you go. JMU announced that the school has parted ways with Matt Brady. We&#8217;ll have more thoughts on the news tonight. Love him or hate him, it&#8217;s been pretty obvious the administration wanted Brady gone. Not really sure how it benefited anyone to wait this long to cut ties. And doing it the day [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2944,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=2944","url_meta":{"origin":8431,"position":0},"title":"Bourne Sends Another Message to Brady","date":"September 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"JMU Athletic Director Jeff Bourne was in a giving mood today. As Mike Barber reports above, Bourne handed out contract extensions to 3 Dukes coaches. Now that the ink has dried, Kenny Brooks is locked up until 2016, and McFarland and Lombardo until 2015. 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