(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

It is posts like this that really are unfair and why the internet is bad. It allows someone who has no clue to make an emotional post based on their feelings about a person they don’t even know.

You are making a lot of strong statements. You are basically saying the man doesn’t care about JMU athletics and wants to destroy everything he spent his entire career building.

My perspective is he is trying his best to schedule a season and play for an FCS championship when his conference was one of the first to bail. He was disappointed with the CAAs decision. He knows he has NFL prospects and knew they might decide to enter the portal if JMU did not play. He knows that for JMU to continue to be been as a serious athletics program, he had to try to salvage a season. He knows he has to do all he can to give his student athletes a chance to play their senior season. He is spent the money to bring athletes back in JULY instead of cancelling the season. The rest of the CAA saved their pennies and did not even try to have a season.

Some of you think scheduling is easy. FCS teams won’t play us because they are scheduling a loss that could eliminate them from playoff consideration. FBS teams won’t play us because losing to an FCS school can cost an FBS coach his job. Some of you think it is as easy as picking up the phone and saying “hey, let’s play”. There is value to other FCS programs if JMU doesn’t play this fall. One less hurdle to face in the playoffs.

Unlike you, I know Jeff Bourne and I find your post incredibly offensive and extremely immature. You don’t know how lucky we are to have this guy as our AD. I can promise you no one cares more about JMU athletics than he does. He doesn’t need to do any of the things your emotional rant accuses him of doing. The easy out was for him to use the CAAs decision as a reason to cancel the season and save the school significant dollars.