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(03-05-2018 03:26 PM)monarx Wrote:  

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(03-05-2018 11:38 AM)ODUalum78 Wrote:  

(03-05-2018 10:29 AM)Monarchblue Wrote:  Yep. Coastal fought the state legislature and won. We just complain about the legislature.

What fight with the legislature do you recommend?

1. The Virginia law that prohibits public colleges and universities from using tuition dollars or state funds to support intercollegiate athletics?
All money for these programs must be raised from student fees, ticket sales, media revenues, product sales, licensing agreements, user fees, and private donations, period. No re-allocations of left over monies from other budget catagories, no use of non athletic rainy day funds, no renamed or hidden fees, etc.

2. Or the Cox law that caps our use of student fees at 55%?
That was just enacted two or three years ago, and with the enthusiasm the Cox bill received, No. 1 will be a tough nut to crack.

Barring some sort of special waiver, those are our legislative options.

I believe they should have fought the Cox bill. And they should have fought to get the football stadium grandfathered as it was inferred that it would be prior to the passage of this absurd law. There was a very reasonable case to be made on why the Cox bill did nothing of any consequence for VA college students, and that a loud enough campaign to get that message out could have potentially defeated the bill.

Yes it was popular, but lets be honest, very few people know what it actually accomplished, which was basically nothing.

Well, it prevented ODU from building a nice stadium, which I have to figure was the intended purpose. (I know, but why else, especially the timing?)

BINGO. The UVA and VT grads don't want the additional FBS competition, and JMU (Cox) didnt want ODU to have the opportunity to be better than they were. I believe this bill was specifically introduced to stop the ODU stadium. It has had no other ramifications good or bad. All it has done is harm ODU.

Someone is not telling you guys the truth. You could build a 40k seat palace, join the AAC and still not catch UVA or VT @ 40 years. So there is some other unspoken reason by your administration why this project is held up. What's interesting is there are always some confidants of the program who know something. If the truth has not slipped out by now even of its not in here , I would be shocked. Someone knows.

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