The unofficial online home for fans of the Old Dominion University Monarchs. Part of Collegiate Sports Nation (CSN).

(10-11-2018 09:09 AM)monarx Wrote:  

(10-11-2018 08:16 AM)odu09 Wrote:  I don't really understand the obsession here with JMU? I get the feeling people would be less bothered if Longwood or Radford got this guy. It's time to realize JMU is not a rival, and they haven't been ever since we left CAA. After this season we won't be playing them until another conference realignment (if they ever decide to move up, but they probably won't). Perhaps there is some nostalgia factor with them? I just don't get it.

If a recruit thinks he can make a bigger impact at a lesser program, I don't see why we should be so upset. Good luck to him! Time to move on.

I don't get why people think that JMU is not a rival. They're an in state school with similar resources and athletic profile. Soon to have even better facilities. We have a long history of competing against them. We go after the same students, the same recruits, the same exposure. We want to be in the same conference. They are as much, and maybe more of a rival that VCU. Us claiming JMU is not a rival is as ridiculous as VCU claiming we are not a rival of theirs. We're all fighting for the same thing, to be generally accepted as the third best sports program in the state. Liberty may wind up beating us all to the punch. Just my opinion.

The only thing we share in common is a past conference mate and we play sports in the state of Virginia. Do they want to be in the same conference? I get the impression over on their boards that they think CUSA is a joke and would rather be the king of FCS.

VCU is a rival in basketball because our basketball programs were always fighting for the top spot in an old conference.. JMU is the doormat of the CAA. They are not a basketball rival. And we will probably never play them in football, so how can they be a rival in football?