{"id":8448,"date":"2016-03-21T21:08:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T01:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2016-03-21T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T01:08:50","slug":"any-suggestions-for-the-silly-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8448","title":{"rendered":"Any Suggestions for the Silly Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8347\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8347\" 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=\"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=\"Thank goodness we have a coaching search and hire to break down this spring!\" 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\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thank goodness we have a coaching search and hire to break down this spring!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So as we learned back in the 2009-10 school year when we started this project, two old men (that&#8217;s us) who live 2 and 3 hours from campus respectively simply aren&#8217;t capable of covering all of the spring sports in any way that isn&#8217;t mere regurgitation of the official <a href=\"http:\/\/jmusports.com\">JMUSports<\/a> coverage. We get excited when teams like Softball or Women&#8217;s Golf have great seasons. And we&#8217;re certainly gaining hope that the Good\/Ford Express may indeed be headed for an historic run that will sustain us well past May graduation this year. But we&#8217;ve also spent huge portions of the last five spring seasons discussing, arguing over, and generally ranting about, potential conference realignment news. But with our recent capitulation to our #CAAlyfesentence, we&#8217;ve got even less ideas what you all want to hear about as we head towards the end of the 15-16 year, much less throughout the truly silly summer season. We&#8217;ll obviously have some Football Spring Game coverage (hopefully with a little input from our redshirt\/freshman guru Mike Evangelista) and we&#8217;ll be tracking JMUSB fave Gabby Weiss and crew on the links along with all the other teams (lax) we hope will be seriously in the hunt for some hardware, but at this point we wanted to turn to you all, our invaluable community and source of ideas, to see what you&#8217;d be interested in us trying to fight over this spring? So let us know in the comments or on Twitter\/FB what you&#8217;d like us to dive into. And yes, these ideas are welcome to be non-sports, as the oldest of our readers know we used to invest significant offseason time to &#8220;Late 90&#8217;s H&#8217;burg bands&#8221; (let&#8217;s hear it for Puddleduck!), defunct Valley eateries (Luigi&#8217;s how we miss thee), and of course the late great Sanjeev and Mike&#8217;s Chevron.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D8448&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>So as we learned back in the 2009-10 school year when we started this project, two old men (that&#8217;s us) who live 2 and 3 hours from campus respectively simply aren&#8217;t capable of covering all of the spring sports in any way that isn&#8217;t mere regurgitation of the official JMUSports coverage. We get excited when [&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":2371,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=2371","url_meta":{"origin":8448,"position":0},"title":"My Least Favorite JMU Football Tradition","date":"April 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"[polldaddy poll=4967640] Spring practice finally wrapped up last Friday and all indications are that the JMU Dukes will head into next season without a clear number 1 QB. 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JMU officially began camp today with the first football practice of the 2010 season. Ninety players showed up to camp including one who's a bit of surprise. Wide Receiver Quintin Hunter reported to practice and according to Mickey Matthews is officially a member of the Dukes.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Football&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6644,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6644","url_meta":{"origin":8448,"position":5},"title":"Conference Realignment Recap","date":"April 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"We know it's not quite the offseason, and we know that softball, lacrosse and even men's golf are going through strong spring seasons. But life, as it is wont to do, has intruded on our JMUSB schedule the last few weeks. 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