(06-01-2020 04:30 PM)POTUS#4 Wrote:  

(05-30-2020 08:16 PM)Rock House Duke Wrote:  I wonder what prompted MM to write and submit an opinion piece to the RTD?

I think he's angling for the Commish job in the new realigned conference.

Maybe MM talked to Joe D and already knew the regional model was going to be in play this season in the CAA

https://www.richmond.com/sports/college/...d7836.html

Seems like a pretty big unfair advantage for Richmond since they're already used to playing in a stadium without fans except when JMU comes to town.

(05-31-2020 12:49 PM)KickItToScotty Wrote:  Totally agree with JMUNation and JMURocks. JMU football is never close to what it is today without Mickey, but it's also not quite what it is today if Mickey were still around. He coached a style that could turn any game in to a near coin flip, he just needed to recognize way more often when we weren't outmatched and needed to keep our foot on the gas. Every time it bit us you'd hope he'd learn from it and he never did.

Akron and especially the last ODU game are the perfect examples. Akron we go up 13-0 and are clearly the better team despite the FCS label, but he decides we should try to run clock for three quarters and we're down 14-13 by halftime. ODU we're up 21-10 on a team that everyone knows has an insane offense and no defense but then played like he thought we could run clock the whole second half.

I also think that even though obviously most of us would agree with a lot of his thinking he's still thinking too small for JMU football. Staying FCS and playing in a conference with W&M, Richmond, ODU, Villanova, Delaware, Elon, Towson... Every year the expectation will be to go undefeated in conference and make the trip to Frisco, still the six foot tall second grader.

You said all of this better than I could have. Spot on!

(06-01-2020 09:13 PM)JMUNation Wrote:  

(05-31-2020 12:49 PM)KickItToScotty Wrote:  Totally agree with JMUNation and JMURocks. JMU football is never close to what it is today without Mickey, but it's also not quite what it is today if Mickey were still around. He coached a style that could turn any game in to a near coin flip, he just needed to recognize way more often when we weren't outmatched and needed to keep our foot on the gas. Every time it bit us you'd hope he'd learn from it and he never did.

Akron and especially the last ODU game are the perfect examples. Akron we go up 13-0 and are clearly the better team despite the FCS label, but he decides we should try to run clock for three quarters and we're down 14-13 by halftime. ODU we're up 21-10 on a team that everyone knows has an insane offense and no defense but then played like he thought we could run clock the whole second half.

I also think that even though obviously most of us would agree with a lot of his thinking he's still thinking too small for JMU football. Staying FCS and playing in a conference with W&M, Richmond, ODU, Villanova, Delaware, Elon, Towson... Every year the expectation will be to go undefeated in conference and make the trip to Frisco, still the six foot tall second grader.

You said all of this better than I could have. Spot on!

Hence why my two division FCS and FBS Caa conference has legs.

It’s groundbreaking if I don’t say so myself and very much the future regional model that would work.

(05-30-2020 08:28 AM)HyperDuke Wrote:  I was thinking that too. Someone else wrote down those thoughts!

Would not surprise me if Clayton had a lot of input on the article.