any given saturday

I guess to say that I miss my college years everyday is probably a huge understatement. I think that the fact that I miss the actual place and the people more than I miss the partying is how I know I made the right choice when I chose to go to school at JMU. This weekend was the biggest weekend in sports history for the school. We played #13 Virginia Tech in their home opener. And we won. Students, alum and fans worldwide are still going crazy and I have never been more proud to be a Duke.

QB Drew Dudzik ran for two touchdowns

Today at work I have spent any ounce of spare time reading and re-reading every article and watching every youtube video posted from Saturday. Normally, going into a game the coach will say we can win, we can do this. But we were not expected to win at all. In fact, big teams choose to play FBS teams so they know they will have a sure win early in the season. Oh well. Even at halftime, when the Dukes were down 13-7, JMU’s head coach Mickey Matthews still told the team “We might still not win, but at least we’ll be close”. Tech hadn’t tried to recruit even one of the current JMU football players but by the time we left Blacksburg on Saturday I can bet they were re-thinking that all together.

Today the school is celebrating by having a national “purple out” and you can bet that I’m sporting my purple corporate America clothes at work today. Go Dukes!

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