LET'S HEAR IT FOR 'UNCLE RON'
YEA! … BOO!! (Briefly told): YEA! JMU … no, not because it’s moving up in the college football world, leaving the Sun Belt Conference for the more- competitive American Conference … but because the one-time all-women’s institution is rapidly becoming the modern-day Cradle of Coaches … Surely you’ve noticed what CURT CIGNET T I has done at Indiana and what BOB CHESNEY is doing in his first season at UCLA, both win-starved programsprior to the arrival of the James Madison graduates … Somewhere in the great beyond DR. RONALD CARRIER smiling … for it was “Uncle Ron” as JMU president (1971-98) who was most responsible for turning a small college in out-of- the-way Harrisonburg, Va., into a major, well-known university … by concentrating on athletics. BOO! Triple-A golf … Even though it is second only to the game’s major leagues and loaded with “stars of tomorrow,” how in the world can anyone tak...