(08-05-2020 07:50 PM)JMURocks Wrote:  

(08-05-2020 07:46 PM)DukeThaDawg Wrote:  

(08-05-2020 07:25 PM)HyperDuke Wrote:  DeAngelo Amos enters the transfer portal. Sucks.

https://twitter.com/almostfamos_/status/...44609?s=21

And there's the answer on the 2020 football season. I would think that your senior leader got word to get ahead of this because there won't be a season.

So much for Bourne's foot dragging and stringing the fans along about a season. He NEVER intended to put together a season. He ONLY intended to string us all along so he could make it look like he was trying to play a season. Bourne expected the NCAA to bail him out all along by cancelling the playoffs. He never expected the NCAA to flip the script and put it on the schools and conferences to decide.

Bringing all these kids back in early July----when JMU already suspected the CAA was going to cancel the season----housing, feeding, testing, training, practicing---this was alot of time, money and effort. JMU is supposed to suit up on Friday to start fall camp---are they gonna keep up this charade now that they've lost a senior leader??

This is the first JMU domino to fall. I'd expect more seniors to hit the portal. I'd expect coaches to look for greener pastures. I'd expect commits to open up recruitment.

You can't got around telling coaches, players, and recruits you're as good as any G5 then bail on a season when the G5 plays. Can't be expected to run that same game on donors and fans either. If JMU does not play this season---and there is a season---the brand is irreparably harmed

I'm not this pessimistic on outcomes, but do think it would be good for us to play if we can. For now, I'm taking Bourne and Cig at their word that they want to move forward if possible and play games.

Bourne thought he had this all figured out when he said, JMU will play a season if there are playoffs. He thought the NCAA would make the decision for him. He thought he could play the hero by acting like he was putting together a season, when all along he was betting HEAVY that the NCAA would pull the plug on the post season----Too bad for him that the NCAA stuck it back in the face of the FCS and put the decision on them.

I completely, totally, absolutely 100% believe Cignetti wants a 2020 season. I believe Cignetti 100% wants an FBS heavy schedule---But I'm sure he has been silenced by the athletic department.

Amos is just the first one to realize he's been sold a bill of goods. JMU built this wonderful FCS big bad bully on the block model. They were content to run that model to infinity. JMU spent like a G5 program but with none of the struggles G5 programs faced, because JMU was playing their well cultivated role a FCS bully boy. And truth be told, most donors, fans, coaches, and players accepted that model to some degree. As the FCS bully JMU had more exposure than most G5 programs, which helped with enrollment, fan interest, donations, and recruiting. Everyone knew that JMU had outgrown the FCS but they went along with the model because it was successful.

Then covid-19 hit, and the entire sustainability of the poor sisters of the FCS crumbled in an instant. JMU's big bully FCS model is in serious jeopardy---and the ONLY way to save it is to play a season, because if not---we are nothing but an FCS program, and JMU will never be able to tell coaches, recruits, fans, donors, prospective students that we are everything a G5 program is, and better, and it's only a matter of time before we move up. Because the chance to "move up" is now--there are plenty of holes in many teams schedules.

Maybe this forces Bourne into action, and he sees that he has to act to save his program before more players jump the sinking ship. But probably not---Bourne is probably looking at this as a perfect excuse to kill the football program to some degree, and concentrate more resources on Olympic sports.