(12-29-2020 03:51 PM)Dukester Wrote:  

(12-29-2020 03:46 PM)Bawlmer Duke Wrote:  

(12-29-2020 02:58 PM)PGJMU2 Wrote:  

(12-29-2020 01:17 PM)Dukester Wrote:  

(12-29-2020 01:03 PM)Hart Foundation Wrote:  JYD also missed 1/3 of his senior year and was on restricted minutes the other games for a heart problem. He could be higher up too. I think that was the year JMU achieved 20 wins after 8 straight losing years under Dillard and Keener.

I'd love JYD on this team. I know he was not an up tempo type player, but we could use his muscle on defense, and his inside game on offense. Plus - he was a hell of a competitor.

We had JYD jr. on the team last year, Dwight Wilson. We could have used DW this year.

JYD would have eaten DW's lunch day in an day out. No comparison.

I was thinking the same. Keener did well with that recruit.

no doubt, that is why he is JYD junior. still tougher inside than anyone we have right now.

Coach Rowe would of been the perfect player for coach By. His style would of fit perfectly.

I recalled Jeff Chambers being very good, but his stats were not as great as I expected. Didn't Richmond also have a Jeff Chambers at the same time?

(12-29-2020 04:41 PM)Dukester Wrote:  Coach Rowe would of been the perfect player for coach By. His style would of fit perfectly.

I recalled Jeff Chambers being very good, but his stats were not as great as I expected. Didn't Richmond also have a Jeff Chambers at the same time?

Richmond had a Johnny Newman whose career I believe overlapped with our John Newman. Ours was very solid, but theirs was on a whole other level.

(12-29-2020 09:42 PM)olddawg Wrote:  

(12-29-2020 04:41 PM)Dukester Wrote:  Coach Rowe would of been the perfect player for coach By. His style would of fit perfectly.

I recalled Jeff Chambers being very good, but his stats were not as great as I expected. Didn't Richmond also have a Jeff Chambers at the same time?

Richmond had a Johnny Newman whose career I believe overlapped with our John Newman. Ours was very solid, but theirs was on a whole other level.

You are correct on both accounts.

(12-29-2020 01:03 PM)Hart Foundation Wrote:  JYD also missed 1/3 of his senior year and was on restricted minutes the other games for a heart problem. He could be higher up too. I think that was the year JMU achieved 20 wins after 8 straight losing years under Dillard and Keener.

Looking back it was Wells junior season when JMU was really on the cusp of good things (10-11). They had Bowles as a Senior on that team and Eve received some top 25 votes early that season. That’s the year where they beat VCU in the regular season finale but were upset by W&M in the first round of the Caa. They wound up losing to Davidson in a second tier post season tourney.

By Senior year they were 7-4 when he went down but lacked a reliable big. Goins was injured and out for the year and Flores left the team. Also supposedly James Millen a juco guard on those teams was even more of an impact guy than Goins but there was an issue with his eligibility. What could have been because those teams had some talent - Hitchens, Wells, Moore, Davis, Bowles, Semenov, Goins- not all were on the court together but those guys had talent if they could stay healthy eligible and motivated on defense.