jQuery Cycle Plugin and HTML5 Boilerplate

jQuery Cycle Plugin and HTML5 Boilerplate

I'm reworking a current website that uses the Cycle Plugin . I'm using the HTML5 Boilerplate  and Cycle is not working. Doing a bit of troubleshooting, there is a line in the Boilerplate index.html file that appears to be rendering it useless.

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

Removing this line from the index.html (near the bottom) file allows Cycle to work properly. 

I am not a Java programmer, so I'm not sure where to go with this error. Is it Cycle? Is it Goggle? Is it the Boilerplate? Hope someone can take a look at it.

I am using the latest revs of both mentioned above as of this date.