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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
Good day for some of my seafood gumbo! Nice and hot with a little spicy.
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
(11-16-2021 05:05 PM)JMU1987UVA1998 Wrote: From today's O'Neill's press conference Cignetti said that Towson's RB who's a transfer from GA Tech is the best RB we will have faced this season. Unfortunately I take that as typical weekly coachspeak.
Like others have said since we're not in the "making friends" business at this point with other CAA Programs/HCs we need to blow Rob Ambrose's Tigers out this weekend. No hard feelings. It's just something that needs to be done or we'll be on the road potentially for our quarterfinal matchup potentially with Villanova or Eastern Washington.
You might have a point about VU, but EWU with 2 conference losses isnn’t going to be seeded abead of JMU.
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
We should thank Towson for not playing last season and thereby having Bryce Carter bolt for JMU. Carter has played very well, far better than the big d-lineman we lost to them.
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
Dukes win 33-7 from 11 Ratke FG's, none longer than 29 yards
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11-17-2021 08:09 PM |
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
Towson 7
JMU 47
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Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
Ratke kicks 6 more FGs and CJ adds two TD passes. 32-10 Dukes
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
Dogs always better than cats.
Are we playing a backup QB again? I think Ferguson went down with an injury last week.
JMU 36 (Ratke kicks 12 FG’s including one that is drop kicked just to show off).
Tiggers 14
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
FWIW JMU has scored 2 non offensive TDs: pick 6 vs Maine, and scoop and score @ Weber. None in the last 7 games. Zero special teams TDs.
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Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
(11-16-2021 10:52 AM)jmu007 Wrote: ugh.... so cold.
Lol
C’mon Jon.
46? That ain cold!
Montana at 18+~ was cold. My 12, YO still thinks it was the best (loss) he’s ever seen.
46? You’re 15 degrees from t-shirt weather
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11-18-2021 12:51 AM |
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Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
(11-16-2021 11:33 AM)JMad03 Wrote: Who decided to put Towson on rival weekend all these years? They were never, ever a rival. We had some good games for a while, but not once did I ever consider them a rival.
CAA commish.
Trying to force something that was never, ever, in a gazillion years plus, gonna happen.
One of many dumb moves doing that crap.
Time to GOOO!
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11-18-2021 12:54 AM |
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Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
(11-17-2021 08:09 PM)s2dsayer Wrote: Dukes win 33-7 from 11 Ratke FG's, none longer than 29 yards
I’m Dunkanddukin and I fully endorse this post.
Too friggin funny
Thx
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11-18-2021 12:58 AM |
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
(11-18-2021 12:54 AM)JMUDunk Wrote: (11-16-2021 11:33 AM)JMad03 Wrote: Who decided to put Towson on rival weekend all these years? They were never, ever a rival. We had some good games for a while, but not once did I ever consider them a rival.
CAA commish.
Trying to force something that was never, ever, in a gazillion years plus, gonna happen.
One of many dumb moves doing that crap.
Time to GOOO!
That was always one of the problems with our time in the CAA, we didn't have a 'season ender' type rival with the exception of the two years ODU was in the league and even they were the last game only one of the two seasons ODU was there.
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
(11-18-2021 09:24 AM)JMaddy Wrote: (11-18-2021 12:54 AM)JMUDunk Wrote: (11-16-2021 11:33 AM)JMad03 Wrote: Who decided to put Towson on rival weekend all these years? They were never, ever a rival. We had some good games for a while, but not once did I ever consider them a rival.
CAA commish.
Trying to force something that was never, ever, in a gazillion years plus, gonna happen.
One of many dumb moves doing that crap.
Time to GOOO!
That was always one of the problems with our time in the CAA, we didn't have a 'season ender' type rival with the exception of the two years ODU was in the league and even they were the last game only one of the two seasons ODU was there.
I always thought it should have been WM or UR, but they had their own rivalry that the CAA chose over ours. To be fair, I never saw WM as a rival, either.
IMO it should have been Delaware. We had a history and both programs were solid.
But that would have been a rational decision, which is exactly why the CAA never did it.
The lesson is: rivalries are never forced. They just happen.
I am SO excited about the Sun Belt as we have at the least two rivals right out of the gate with ODU and App State.
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
We have definitely been trying to get Ratke the all time points record and we will do so and then unleash our incredible red zone offense...
At least I hope so.
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
(11-18-2021 10:50 AM)JMad03 Wrote: (11-18-2021 09:24 AM)JMaddy Wrote: (11-18-2021 12:54 AM)JMUDunk Wrote: (11-16-2021 11:33 AM)JMad03 Wrote: Who decided to put Towson on rival weekend all these years? They were never, ever a rival. We had some good games for a while, but not once did I ever consider them a rival.
CAA commish.
Trying to force something that was never, ever, in a gazillion years plus, gonna happen.
One of many dumb moves doing that crap.
Time to GOOO!
That was always one of the problems with our time in the CAA, we didn't have a 'season ender' type rival with the exception of the two years ODU was in the league and even they were the last game only one of the two seasons ODU was there.
I always thought it should have been WM or UR, but they had their own rivalry that the CAA chose over ours. To be fair, I never saw WM as a rival, either.
IMO it should have been Delaware. We had a history and both programs were solid.
But that would have been a rational decision, which is exactly why the CAA never did it.
The lesson is: rivalries are never forced. They just happen.
I am SO excited about the Sun Belt as we have at the least two rivals right out of the gate with ODU and App State.
Delaware has their rivalry with Nova though, so that doesn't make sense. Towson could have been something but they weren't part of the old Yankee Football rivals and didn't join the A-10 until the very end, so the history wasn't there.
We kind of had a similar situation to UMD when they were in the ACC where their top rivals (UVA, Duke, UNC) never really considered them their #1 rival (UVA has VT and UNC, Duke has UNC and NCST, UNC has Duke, NCST and UVA).
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
(11-16-2021 11:33 AM)JMad03 Wrote: Who decided to put Towson on rival weekend all these years? They were never, ever a rival. We had some good games for a while, but not once did I ever consider them a rival.
This is why moving to the SBC will be great. We SHOULD get ODU in the final week of the season every year. A much more true rival. I don't care if it's going opposite the commonwealth cup. It'll become better than it real quick.
I looked back and using the 2004 season as a starting point of the modern JMU football era. Every season featured a "rivalry" game against Towson since 2004 except the following:
2010 - Maine
2011 - Massachusetts
2012 - Old Dominion
2014 - Elon
2015 - Villanova
2016 - Elon
2017 - Elon
2019 - Rhode Island
2020 - Not counting this year
17 seasons excluding 2020. 9 of 17 featured Towson, 3 featured Elon. Almost the entire 2010s decade, we bounced around.
The reality is that JMU doesn't have a FB rival but I suppose Towson was the one the CAA kept forcing on us with the leftovers after all the real rivals were matched up. The tigers were what was left over, regionally.
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
(11-18-2021 12:51 AM)JMUDunk Wrote: (11-16-2021 10:52 AM)jmu007 Wrote: ugh.... so cold.
Lol
C’mon Jon.
46? That ain cold!
Montana at 18+~ was cold. My 12, YO still thinks it was the best (loss) he’s ever seen.
46? You’re 15 degrees from t-shirt weather
Haha, so cold. That Montana game was coldddddddd.
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11-18-2021 11:47 AM |
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
'Rivalry' weekend is a bit overblown. For a lot of schools that always play the same opponent it's more 'tradition' than actual 'rivalry'. For everyone else it's just another game on the schedule. The term was co-opted by some posters as another means to conveniently skewer our admin, conference, and FCS.
That said, playing ODU as the last game each year would make a lot of sense and hopefully the schools and SB are open to it.
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RE: Week 12 - Towson at JMU, 2pm
Montana 2008 was the coldest JMU home football game of all time. Nothing else was even close.
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