Do you have any?
1. the magic of 2008-Mcgee's Kickoff return, the catch vs Nova
2. The WNIT run in 2012, especially Newman's 3-point shot that tied it up vs Wake Forest to send it to overtime. Burkholder's back-to-back 3 pointers vs Virginia as soon as she came back in and the amazing duck and tuck layup toward the end to seal the game.
3. Just recently some of AJ Davis's power dunks.
4. Remembering watching JMU and Kent Culuko on TV-that awesome 3-point shot to win the game and the CAA Championship was something else. (here is a where are they now story
http://www.northjersey.com/sports/170134...ahwah.html)
5. The win over Virginia Tech. Was driving and listening at the time and people were just looking at me funny because I was putting up my fist, yelling, and banging the steering wheel. Then driving through main street and watching the students parade, was quite awesome. 21-16, oh yeah!
(01-27-2013 02:52 PM)jmufan Wrote: [ -> ]Do you have any?
1. the magic of 2008-Mcgee's Kickoff return, the catch vs Nova
2. The WNIT run in 2012, especially Newman's 3-point shot that tied it up vs Wake Forest to send it to overtime. Burkholder's back-to-back 3 pointers vs Virginia as soon as she came back in and the amazing duck and tuck layup toward the end to seal the game.
3. Just recently some of AJ Davis's power dunks.
4. Remembering watching JMU and Kent Culuko on TV-that awesome 3-point shot to win the game and the CAA Championship was something else. (here is a where are they now story http://www.northjersey.com/sports/170134...ahwah.html)
5. The win over Virginia Tech. Was driving and listening at the time and people were just looking at me funny because I was putting up my fist, yelling, and banging the steering wheel. Then driving through main street and watching the students parade, was quite awesome. 21-16, oh yeah!
Had to be McGhee's kickoff return for me. I was walking out of the stadium and stopped to catch the very end of the game and the touchdown!
My favorite moment was coming back from a 21-0 halftime deficit to knock of #1 app state, 3-time champs and their fans left with their tails tucked in between their legs. They were in complete disbelief at what they just saw.
That is still the most electric game I've ever been to at bridgeforth to this day.
I think another really great moment was (even though it ended in loss) was Drew Dudzik's 2-point conversion vs Montana. Never forget how he was flipped upside down and somehow was able to get the ball over the goal line. Several days later, that photo was in sports illustrated.
(01-27-2013 04:17 PM)jmufan Wrote: [ -> ]I think another really great moment was (even though it ended in loss) was Drew Dudzik's 2-point conversion vs Montana. Never forget how he was flipped upside down and somehow was able to get the ball over the goal line. Several days later, that photo was in sports illustrated.
And it was in sportscenter's top plays that night.
Mine was easily the Tech game. Nothing better than getting paid to beat someone in their own house. Especially when I got to dish it out to all of my hokie friends the rest of the weekend.
Have to agree. 21-16 was easily the biggest moment in the last 10 years of JMU Sports for me. Also, Baileys in Ballston was going crazy on that final kneel down by Dudzik.
Hard to believe nobody's mentioned the National Championship game...that has to be in the Top 5.
One for me (and I'm showing my age maybe), but when I went to JMU, ODU's women had won something like 120 straight conference games. They were literally unbeatable in the CAA. But I was driving around listening to the game and we were up pretty big at halftime, so I drove to the Convo and got there to watch the second half of us end the streak. That was a pretty special moment.
I think the Tech win is a given, but I also think the first game in the new stadium was a special one too.
The national championship was a special moment. At the time, I wasn't really following JMU sports too much. But remembered reading about the team during their playoff run. I did happen to watch the game though and remember how messed up the field was. Looking back on it, it was a very special moment. Even though I wasn't really following JMU then, it did help plant the seed. I also remember meeting the team at the airport and at the stadium. That was special.
I didn't mention the national title because I wasn't following JMU at the time. I still have not seen more than highlights of that game. I never bought the old DVD that they sold in the bookstore and now they don't have them.
I was a senior in HS and hadn't yet been accepted when they won that.
Steve hood vs. American @ the Convo. Buzzer beater 3 with 2.1 seconds left, hearing the American fans singing hey hey hey goodbye! Woop.
Midnight Madness vs. UR, simply put -off the freaking hook. I've been to a lot of "events", a ton. Concerts, ballgames, parties of all sort and manner. this was right up there. you couldn't hear for literally 2-3 days.
WM playoff game with QB Lang Campbell. In the rain, pounding nerds. Awesome.
NC game and the freaking SCENE that was, out in the parking lots. The single biggest part that moving to Frisco takes away. It too was a party of parties. And saw a TON of people there I hadn't seen in ten years or so. Then hanging out with OJF and 007 in the hotel dumpy bar afterwards, too freaking funny, with the barmaid.
21-16. My older bro's a typical Hokie (with the exception that he actually went and got his MA there). So, yea. Nuff said. Didn't hear from him for 2 weeks. And we work together... haha.
I think the first Football national championship in 2004.
*Home Football Game in person: App St in 2008
*Away Football Game in person: UVA in 1982
*Most exciting neutral site game in person: JMU-NDSU for the Natty in 2017. Bowl type atmosphere, though the loss sucked.
*Most exciting game that I didn't attend: Virginia Tech 2010
*Home Basketball Game in person: Midnight Madness against Richmond 1990
*Away Basketball Game in person: Kenny Brooks buzzer beater against Mt. St. Mary's in 1990
*Most exciting neutral site game in person: NCAA 1st round win against WVU in Greensboro in 1983 (Culuko game is a very close 2nd)
*Most exciting game I didn't attend. JMU-UNC on radio in 1982 NCAA Tourney. Still a senior in HS, but pretty much knew I'd be going to Madison.
*Any home baseball game in Spring 1983. That was our College World Series year and we were very tough at home. Sun, Suds & Strikeouts just a 5 minute walk from the dorms.
2004, Chattanooga, National Championship that came absolutely out of nowhere, and being there with Dad (OJF), BSKB, and HMK.
More recent, Ratke's walk-off winner against Weber State. What an incredible comeback when it looked like a perfect season (up until then) was going to go down the drain.
Enjoy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U0Uc5O-pQg
(if anybody has the video of the JMU fans at the bar going crazy after he made the FG to win it, please post...it's a classic moment)
being a JMU fan only since my daughter and son enrolled in 2013 and 14.
1. Coach Brady and team winning CAA
2. Football winning chip
3. Football win over SMU
4. College Game Days
5. Womens success in softball, lax and bball
Tops would be going over the wall in Chatty in 2004 and grabbing a huge chunk of turf, about 1' x 2'. I kept it alive for months, watered it, fertilized it, and kept it clipped with scissors. I was going to plant it in my front yard but it didn't quite make it.
The entire 2008 football season was awesome. The comeback against Ape State, the Hail Mary at 'nova, the last 3:14 of the game against the ticks, then the playoff loss to Montana, the dirtiest team I have ever seen play a football game.
Blowing the Penguins out in Frisco was great fun. We were tailgating at 6 AM in 11-degree weather. Losing to the Bison the following year was terrible, considering we were a much more talented football team. Dumb mistakes and dropped passes. Just DAMMIT!
I called the win against Tech, if anyone remembers.
I believe the next great memory is just a few months away. I think we win in Morgantown. That will be blasted all over the media, akin to Ape State beating Michigan, even though the Mounties will be down this year. It will still be a shocker to many who think FCS is like D-III.
For me, the two most exciting moments that I witnessed were the Culuko game and tournament-winning shot over ODU in 1994 and Scotty’s game winning punt return with :01 left to beat UR. Those two moments have to be the most excited I can ever remember a JMU crowd.
It is funny that Mike London still shakes his head when people mention Scotty McGee to him in interviews.
I agree with the 2004 and 2016 national title runs too.
The games at the Convo in the early 90s were awesome too. Packed and loud for the most part. Beating Florida and Auburn and Purdue at the Convo during those years was memorable, and the UNLV game with Tarkanian was amazing. Still go back and watch some of those games occasionally.
No one could have convinced me or anyone when I graduated in 1994 that the basketball team would be basically a zero for the last 25 years. Impossible. If we replayed it a million times, it would not go that bad.
Wow a 6 year-old thread :) Nice additions to the updated thread. A lot has happened since 2013. Amazing.
I didn't move here until 2006, so my fav moments are all after:
1st: being in the Fargodome as they took down ND St in their house
2nd: being in Frisco as they took down Youngstown St a few weeks later
3rd: celebrating with a frenzied Bridgeforth crowd as they beat Weber St as time expired
honorable mention:
the ref signaling TD and the crowd going crazy as 'rally squirrel' crossed the goal line.