{"id":8709,"date":"2016-07-21T22:35:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T02:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8709"},"modified":"2016-07-21T22:35:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T02:35:32","slug":"check-out-this-2016-caa-football-preview-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8709","title":{"rendered":"Check Out This 2016 CAA Football Preview Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U8W3GBF_lxQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nCAA Football Media Day is next week, which means it&#8217;s almost time to start talking football for real. (Yay!) While we&#8217;re not attending Media Day, we&#8217;ll go ahead and sum it up for everyone in advance. Every team had a great offseason. The players on each squad have been putting in work in the weight room. A couple underclassmen from each school are ready to step up. And all the coaches think that if their team catches a few breaks, this year could be special.<\/p>\n<p>All of that is\u00a0expected. Media Day is a day to celebrate the league and its programs, not to provide objective analysis. Thankfully, there are plenty of others ready to offer real opinions on the league. Like the crew from Football Gameplan of course. Which is great, because it&#8217;s July and you&#8217;re crazy if you\u00a0think we&#8217;re prepared to offer intelligent analysis on the league yet. In any case, give the video above a view. It&#8217;s offers a pretty good look at the state of CAA football as teams get set to start camp. And a pretty good use of 30 minutes in July.<\/p>\n<p>Spoiler: the Dukes are picked to finish 4th, due to concerns about the interior defense and struggles stopping the run. If we&#8217;re going off what we saw last year, it&#8217;d be tough to argue against that rationale. But we&#8217;re optimistic about Coach Houston&#8217;s ability to improve the defense, not to mention total purple Kool Aid drinking homers. Therefore, let&#8217;s assume whatever optimistic cliche we hear at Media Day about the defense&#8217;s improvement is 100% true.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D8709&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>CAA Football Media Day is next week, which means it&#8217;s almost time to start talking football for real. (Yay!) While we&#8217;re not attending Media Day, we&#8217;ll go ahead and sum it up for everyone in advance. Every team had a great offseason. The players on each squad have been putting in work in the weight [&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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1113,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=1113","url_meta":{"origin":8709,"position":0},"title":"Dukes Picked to Finish Fourth","date":"July 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The CAA preseason poll and all conference teams were officially announced at CAA Media Day. The league's coaches and media picked JMU to finish fourth. 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