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(07-26-2017 07:52 PM)GhentFan Wrote:  

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(06-18-2017 09:23 PM)AimHigh Wrote:   spotted this gem at the Cracker Barrel at Hillcrest this morning sadly it was the only ODU item buried with all the VT and UNC crap.

Walked into Sam's Club at Greenbrier this past Saturday and what did I see?

There are more VT yard signs and car stickers neighborhood (Colonial Place) than ODU. Makes sense for the VT stuff to be in our area.

Our school isn't doing enough to advertise the brand.

As a CPRV resident, I'm not sure I can agree with the first sentence. But the rest, yeah.

For a project my wife did for her Marketing degree she (had me) tally up how many signs were up for each University in Colonial Place (River View was left out).

Tried to count house holds. If it appeared that a house had both a Yard pride flag and a car sticker or some other marker. It still only counted as 1.

I can only find 1 of the counts I did (I did several) and this was 1.5 years ago but:


VT: 10
ODU: 8
UVA: 6
Navy: 4
Tennessee: 3
JMU: 3
George Mason: 2
Southern Miss: 2
Norfolk State: 2
UNC: 2
ECU: 2
USC: 2
Michigan State: 2
Michigan: 1
Ohio: 1
Virginia State: 1
Army: 1
Butler: 1
Pittsburg State:1

Note:
*These numbers include the apartment complex Delaware and Llewellyn across the street from the dog park and went all the way down to 38th Street.

*This was during football season

*I did not count any cars parked at the Kingdom Hall on New Hampshire.

*Multiple counts were done, in hopes to catch any cars that may have been out of the area during a count so they could be counted again.

*Wife may still have that report on a thumb drive somewhere. I'll see if I can find it.


The fact that ODU and VT are so close, shows to me that students are not buying ODU pride stickers. (To include me)

Once the summer semester is done, I could do a count again to see how much things have changed. I'd imagine quite a bit considering how transient the area is due to the school and military leases.

Not sure how USM got credit for 2. But I know the guy who is the lone USM fan in the neighborhood, guessing his or his wife's car was parked far enough way from his house that it counted twice.

Edit: as for the ODU count, that seems low. Between my block and Newport (I live on Mayflower) I can count 5 houses (using your methodology) with either stickers or flags.