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(03-27-2017 01:01 PM)odu09 Wrote:  

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(03-27-2017 11:31 AM)84Monarch Wrote:  

(03-27-2017 06:28 AM)Spantheman34 Wrote:  One thing for sure is we are not going anywhere with 6'7" mediocre centers! When we lose to W&M and are not even competitive with VCU, there needs to be a change!

VCU and GMU didi. Not saying we are, but saying it can be done

And it stings that much more when two of our three arch-rivals have been to the F4 and we can't even get to the sweet 16.

Even worse ... we are ridiculed if we so much as aspire to reach that goal as our peers have done. You know, it's sort of like how former president Kennedy in the early 60's aspired for the United States to go to the moon before the end of the decade. Not because it was easy, but because it was hard.

Guess I am more of the Bobby Wilder mind set ... AIM HIGH!!!

I am not ridiculing you. You are correct that my original post was mostly sarcastic, as I am at this time of year. I'm hurting too. It hurts that we are where we are. There's nothing wrong with high aspirations, and I commend you for them.

The problem lies with those who think we are entitled to NCAAT victories or a trip to the Final 4 because our rival did it. Or that one time we lost by a put back bucket, that team went on to win the whole thing, so that was our chance... right? I don't agree with those statements. Just because Butler went on to keep winning doesn't mean that our ODU team would have done the same. We are stuck in our history of what ifs that we forget we have never done better than winning a game in the NCAAT.

I don't think anyone thinks we are entitled to anything, just that we are capable of much more than we are currently achieving. As long as we keep saying we just are who we are, and we should not expect to be anything better than the 120th best team in the nation on average, we will never get any better. I will never be ready to settle for what we have, because if you aren't striving to get better, you are settling.