(11-13-2020 11:16 AM)Purplehazed Wrote: (11-13-2020 07:47 AM)Dukeman2 Wrote: Charlotte schedules home and home with NC State and Duke:
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports...87397.html
“This is another fantastic home-and-home series for the Niners,” Charlotte athletic director Mike Hill said in a statement. “We strive to schedule games which will excite our fan base, and playing the Wolfpack certainly qualifies.”
See article for note on 5 game series with App State, wow, cant help but analogize to JMU. Leadership has failed at D2 JMU.
I am going defend football scheduling a bit.
JMU's problem isn't that they won't schedule interesting fan games. The problem is they can't schedule interesting fan games now or ever because the only choices are fcs programs. Chatt is the best OoC fcs they can find anywhere on the east coast.
They at least tried with Weber State. If Weber State is interesting is debatable but Bourne at least tried. Having to dial up Utah to schedule debatably semi interesting fcs game with Weber State is (see note 1).
note 1 - Refer to Conference Rumor Thread (sad)
I would think that JMU would drain purple blood to get a season game with NDSU home or away but we know that will never happen because we won't risk losing. What else is there? The first person that says Lehigh needs to be banned from this board, that was so 5 years ago and sad even then.
the issue is what is semi-debatable to you may not be to others. It's all just opinions and impossible to please everyone.
5 years ago, if we had scheduled Weber, most of you would have said "who? where?" and been up in arms over that for sure.
but because now maybe you see them as a good team and we have played them twice in the playoffs, that has moved to the "semi-debatable" interesting realm. hey, that's progress !
I for one found it VERY interesting. As soon as it was announced, we started making plans to go to the game and make a trip out of it to a part of the country i wasn't sure i'd be going to anytime soon, if ever. Now....can't wait for the trip and the game and the days before and after where we plan to explore the area and region.
the point is, your opinion and view isn't the only one. some of us actually enjoy things related to JMU still (but not everything! - basketball has been kinda unenjoyable for awhile. i'm sure we can all agree on that
) and don't post stuff like this that make someone else wonder why you would even bother with the school's athletics anymore. If its bringing that much angst and you openly hope to see your own school "squirm" which could lead to failures, just let it go and move on. Plenty of other things to do and watch
Quote:Having to choose primary sports seems like a reasonable budgetary mid major conference leveling step and could decrease the cozy level between JMU and small privates and small state schools even more...hope so... I'd love to watch JMU squirm as they label sports primary or not. About time...
Just trying to get your perspective here Hazed. What DO you find enjoyable about JMU athletics these days? is there anything to grasp on to? Or is the FBS thing just gonna override it all until it finally happens?
PS - Bourne DID try and get a home and home with the BIzzzzzon. they said they would not come to BFS. They made excuses why they couldn't. So are you implying we should just go there? and they shouldn't come to us? Hell no. We arent' ******* Campbell. home and home. Not ONE away game at NDSU. Good on Bourne for telling them to stick it on that one. That's my opinion.