(05-19-2020 05:16 PM)Wear Purple Wrote:  

(05-19-2020 12:42 PM)NJDuke97 Wrote:  Also announced a game at Florida on 12/22. We played there a few years ago. That’s 3 Power 5 games so far- Uva at home, road at Georgia Tech, road at Florida. This is more like the schedule that many fans have been clamoring for!

Love it. Hopefully, we will start getting into some of these ESPN 2- or 3-day early season tournament events in the next few years as the program (hopefully) rises from the dead.

Been a while since we played than many Power teams in the OOC. Typically under Brady we would play one (Kansas State, Ohio State, Virginia, West Virginia, and UCLA come to mind). Under Rowe there were a couple of years where we didn’t play any and we played at Florida and at UVA.

3 should be the standard coupled with some local peer mid majors. Agreed on the early season neutral site tournaments that have P5 schools in them. Most of ours recently have been limited to mid majors only. It’s a simple numbers game IMO- the more cracks at the power conference teams that you get the bigger chance for upsets which creates real momentum for the program. Virtually every other JMU team has used that as the template to spring board their program to a nationally competitive program.