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J[ames] M[adison] U[niversity] suspends fall football [ed]
WBBT ^ | August 7, 2020 | Marc Davis

Posted on 08/08/2020 4:18:50 AM PDT by C19fan

James Madison has suspended its 2020 fall football season, the school announced on Friday.

The athletic department release cited nationwide developments over the course of the week and the impending cancellation of the NCAA FCS Championships as factors in the decision. The department will now shift its focus to exploring a spring football season.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Sports
KEYWORDS: college; covid19; football
JMU is a powerhouse in FCS/I-AA football.
1 posted on 08/08/2020 4:18:50 AM PDT by C19fan
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My wife and daughters alma mater. Very disappointing. Many players want to sit out the season out of fear they will start and then the administrators will shut down the season.


2 posted on 08/08/2020 4:22:39 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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Will the “student/athletes” be forced to attend classes? (even online??)


3 posted on 08/08/2020 4:24:06 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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JMU/UVA/VaTech are all 3 hugely popular in VA. Fun to watch. My wife and I were devastated when March madness pulled the plug as we’re big UVA b-ball fans. The schools politics aside. Watching Tony Bennett coach that team was a great way to spend an evening.


4 posted on 08/08/2020 4:28:45 AM PDT by albie
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All because the media says HYdroxychloroquin is bad


5 posted on 08/08/2020 4:35:12 AM PDT by inchworm (al)
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They had a football team????

Who knew?


6 posted on 08/08/2020 5:20:57 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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I am for every college suspending their on campus classes, their football and sports in general. I am for anything and everything that suspends revenue sources from our institutes of higher indoctrination.


7 posted on 08/08/2020 5:35:59 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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Yup, they always are the 2d runner to North Dakota State. About the only team that gives NDS a game. NDS has won and won and won and won that level of college football.


8 posted on 08/08/2020 5:38:02 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Friends, are you prepared to meet the LORD? Do you KNOW Him? Time is running out.)
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To: inchworm

If it is bad, then why ain’t I dead? I have been taking this drug for years now to treat a condition that I have. Maybe it has helped me with the PLANNEDdemic’s virus?? Who knows??


9 posted on 08/08/2020 5:39:51 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Friends, are you prepared to meet the LORD? Do you KNOW Him? Time is running out.)
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To: C19fan

The country would probably be better off if all universities just shut down until the Covid-19 pandemic is over and then add another 10 years to the shut down just to be safe.


10 posted on 08/08/2020 6:02:38 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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Guess I’d better revise my projected national-championship game picks...


11 posted on 08/08/2020 11:38:45 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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Ridiculous. No football player has yet died or had their health seriously compromised. Only the fear of what might happen. And this is a sport in which every player risks permanent brain injuries without a second thought.


12 posted on 08/08/2020 9:03:21 PM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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There hasn’t been 1-AA since 2005.


13 posted on 08/10/2020 2:47:04 AM PDT by opbuzz (Right way, wrong way, Marine way)
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