{"id":9574,"date":"2017-08-27T20:34:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T00:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2017-08-27T20:34:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T00:34:38","slug":"game-week-is-finally-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9574","title":{"rendered":"Game Week is Finally Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"9577\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=9577\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?fit=1040%2C550&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1040,550\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1483807742&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;67&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2016 FCS Champs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?fit=300%2C159&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?fit=1024%2C542&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9577\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?resize=568%2C300\" alt=\"2016 FCS Champs\" width=\"568\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?resize=1024%2C542&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?resize=300%2C159&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?resize=768%2C406&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?w=1040&amp;ssl=1 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>We made it folks. It&#8217;s finally game week. As we always do, let us please extend our deepest gratitude to those of you who stuck around all summer and managed to wade through the muck on the blog to get to this point. Or maybe we should apologize for putting you through it. And while we&#8217;re at it, welcome back to those of you who (wisely?) gave JMU sports and this blog a break for the summer, but are now tuning \u00a0back in. We&#8217;re certainly ready for the 2017 season to kick off and we&#8217;re sure you are too.<\/p>\n<p>So what did you miss? Well, not much to be honest. We got hacked last week. That was something. Thankfully, it looks like we managed to recover everything by restoring to a backup. We did lose about 2 weeks worth of comments though. Other than that, we actually took it pretty easy for the summer. We tried to limit the absolutely worthless filler crap, and instead just post some relatively worthless filler crap. Oh, and we started a podcast. Please give subscribe and give it a listen via <a href=\"https:\/\/bumpers.fm\/jmusb\">Bumpers<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/jmusb-season-1\/id1268837342?mt=2\">iTunes<\/a>. We&#8217;re still in the training wheels stage, but we&#8217;re having a blast and plan on continuing on a weekly (or close to it) basis.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we have in store for this week and the rest of the season. We&#8217;ll be sticking to what we&#8217;re <del>good<\/del> the least crappy at. Our first of game prediction contest will be ready to go on Wednesday and our first game preview should be posted Friday. Expect some sort of game recap\/analysis after each game as well. The one new wrinkle is the podcast. Monday night we&#8217;re recording our 2017 JMU\/CAA Football lightning preview. It will basically be a few of our thoughts on the upcoming season in 15 &#8211; 20 minutes. Nothing Earth shattering. More just revving the engine and something to start the hype train rolling all the way back to Frisco.<\/p>\n<p>Sound good? Good. Just a few more days until we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreadshirt.com\/lock+the+damn+gates-A107495250?productType=812&amp;appearance=506\">Lock the Damn Gates<\/a> and start rootin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D9574&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>We made it folks. It&#8217;s finally game week. As we always do, let us please extend our deepest gratitude to those of you who stuck around all summer and managed to wade through the muck on the blog to get to this point. Or maybe we should apologize for putting you through it. And while [&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":6876,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6876","url_meta":{"origin":9574,"position":0},"title":"Welcome Back, Is JMU Playoff Bound or What?","date":"August 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Well hello there. How have you been? It's damn good to see you again. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. After a long and relatively uneventful summer, we're finally on the cusp of starting the 2014 JMU football season. It's game week. It really is. 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