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(03-14-2018 11:55 AM)monarx Wrote:  

(03-14-2018 10:51 AM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(03-14-2018 09:59 AM)ODU2K1 Wrote:  The A10/CAA Football hybrid isn't going to happen. The CAA will insist that anyone new members of CAA Football are all sports members. The two A-10 schools that are in the CAA for football date back to it being the A-10 Football Conference (possibly the Yankee Conference). You really think that the CAA would be cool with Wood and J-Brod making a call saying "Hey guys remember us? Would it be cool if we dropped football back down to 1-AA and joined your football conference?" The CAA brass would laugh before hanging up the phone. The best we could hope to do from an A-10/1-AA Football hybrid would be the SoCon.

I think the only way ODU leaves FBS at this point is if a) a major restructuring of the divisions knocks ODU into the second tier, or b) a catastrophic failure of Foreman Field combined with a severe money crunch that makes continuing football no longer viable. I can't see any circumstances in which ODU willingly demotes its football any more than they would willingly join the Big South or Atlantic Sun in all sports.

I would argue that A has already happened. Its called the G5. And that B looks very close to being at least 50% fulfilled with what we are hearing about the stadium and our revenue. I do still believe football is viable and important to the health of the school.

I meant more like a breakaway of the P5 and a handful of upper-tier G5s into a standalone grouping that left ODU in a literal second division in which they couldn't ever get home games with the first division teams. Mostly I'm thinking that ODU is more likely to kill football outright than accept a demotion to a lower division, acknowledging that neither are even remote possibilities at this point.