{"id":9462,"date":"2017-07-02T21:09:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T01:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9462"},"modified":"2017-07-03T06:59:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T10:59:43","slug":"seth-curry-visited-jmu-and-left-without-a-scholarship-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9462","title":{"rendered":"Steph Curry Visited JMU And Left Without a Scholarship Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I remember meeting with Steph on his visit to JMU. I respect him for sticking to his faith, family and work morals. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l6RH03v8er\">https:\/\/t.co\/l6RH03v8er<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Werner (@VTStrength) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VTStrength\/status\/881300286219964416\">July 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sports, like life, can be filled with plenty of &#8220;what if?&#8221; moments. We just discovered a big one for JMU basketball. The Steph in the quote above, refers to Steph Curry, the two time NBA MVP and two time NBA Champion with the Golden State Warriors. Perhaps you&#8217;ve heard of him.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet is from Greg Warner, the current strength and conditioning coach for Kenny Brook&#8217;s Virginia Tech Hokies women&#8217;s basketball team. Greg worked as a strength and conditioning coach at JMU from 1992 to 2015. We did in fact confirm that Steph Curry visited JMU prior to committing to Davidson. Well, to be perfectly clear, we replied to Greg&#8217;s tweet with &#8220;Wait, Seth Curry visited JMU? Good gracious.&#8221; and he liked the tweet. We&#8217;re counting that as confirmation. We&#8217;re Rob and Todd, not Woodward and Bernstein.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"9464\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=9464\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20150214-3pt-stephshoot3.jpg?fit=1500%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1500,960\" 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;2015 NBAE&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=\"20150214-3pt-stephshoot3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20150214-3pt-stephshoot3.jpg?fit=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20150214-3pt-stephshoot3.jpg?fit=1024%2C655&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9464\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20150214-3pt-stephshoot3.jpg?resize=564%2C361\" alt=\"20150214-3pt-stephshoot3\" width=\"564\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20150214-3pt-stephshoot3.jpg?resize=1024%2C655&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20150214-3pt-stephshoot3.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20150214-3pt-stephshoot3.jpg?resize=768%2C492&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20150214-3pt-stephshoot3.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Anyway, after flexing our investigative journalism muscles, we attempted to process this discovery. Everyone knows that Curry flew a little bit under the radar and only had one D1 offer coming out of high school. Plenty of schools regret that now. But the majority of them didn&#8217;t have Curry visit their campus and still pass on him. I mean, this appears to be a\u00a0big &amp;#%!@?! mistake for JMU basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Curry entered college in 2006. Let&#8217;s get all the caveats out of the way. The players on JMU that time were all good Dukes, played hard, represented the school well, yada, yada, yada. But can you remember a single freshmen from JMU basketball that year? I can&#8217;t either, but I&#8217;m confident in saying that none of them have gone on to become one of the top 5 players in the friggin world. None of them averaged 34 points per game in the tournament while leading an underdog mid-major to the Elite 8. Arrgghhh. He could have done that at JMU. Instead, Dean Keener passed on him. And then lead the team to a 7-23 record Curry&#8217;s freshman year and got fired. Could&#8217;ve, should&#8217;ve, would&#8217;ve.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D9462&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>I remember meeting with Steph on his visit to JMU. I respect him for sticking to his faith, family and work morals. https:\/\/t.co\/l6RH03v8er \u2014 Greg Werner (@VTStrength) July 1, 2017 Sports, like life, can be filled with plenty of &#8220;what if?&#8221; moments. We just discovered a big one for JMU basketball. The Steph in the [&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":9332,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9332","url_meta":{"origin":9462,"position":0},"title":"Dukes Defeat UVA to Advance to WNIT Sweet Sixteen","date":"March 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"After failing to earn a bid to the Big Dance, the Dukes are making the most of their Women's NIT experience. Precious Hall and her teammates knocked off their second straight in-state opponent Saturday afternoon in the Convo. 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