Chancellor Donald Reaves of WSSU: “We don’t know a lot of what happened, but we do know our starting quarterback, Rudy Johnson, was beaten up, and he didn’t beat himself up.”
Not sure when the DII playoffs begin, but I suspect Virginia State (currently ranked #22 in the Coaches Poll) will not be playing.
"But the damned and the guiltiest among you are the men who had the capacity to know, yet chose to blank out reality, the men who were willing to sell their intelligence into cynical servitude..."
- John Galt
Chancellor Donald Reaves of WSSU: “We don’t know a lot of what happened, but we do know our starting quarterback, Rudy Johnson, was beaten up, and he didn’t beat himself up.”
Not sure when the DII playoffs begin, but I suspect Virginia State (currently ranked #22 in the Coaches Poll) will not be playing.
And you would be correct, the CIAA banned them from postseason play.
In Scott's defense, it's his 1st season, so he didn't recruit most of the players.
Ironically, VSU's starting QB is former JMU starting QB Justin Thorpe, a 6th yr senior who wasn't invited back to JMU for this season. The VSU TB, a 5th yr Sr, who made all conference, was JMU's backup TB the last couple of seasons who also wasn't invited back for his 5th season at JMU...
JMU Football:
4 Years FBS: 40-11 (.784). Highest winning percentage & least losses of all of G5 2022-2025.
Sun Belt East Champions: 2022, 2023, 2025
Sun Belt Champions: 2025
Top 25 ranked: 2022, 2023, 2025
CFP: 2025
Chancellor Donald Reaves: "The supervision of that team was left to the football coach, a person who was not cooperative, who failed to cooperate and refused to cooperate and came very close to being arrested for the obstruction with regards to the police in their attempt to get things under control.
"He was more out of control than his players were.”
On an interesting side note, WSSU LB John Rizor, formerly of Appalachian (dismissed in the Summer of 2012 after an assault charge) was "in a nearby stall" when the attack started, and purportedly chased-out the Virginia State players.
"But the damned and the guiltiest among you are the men who had the capacity to know, yet chose to blank out reality, the men who were willing to sell their intelligence into cynical servitude..."
- John Galt