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(08-09-2018 06:41 AM)benny_t Wrote:  

(08-08-2018 11:56 PM)Sirloin Burger Wrote:  Why does ODU insist on playing an exhibition game at the start of every season? It’s like not really starting the season until the following week. I know we got paid a pretty penny, but the fact remains that we don't really start the season until week 2. It puts us behind our CUSA mates who begin the season with a P5. Do you think an exhibition game is going to prepare us for FIU? How about we start the season with a P5 for a change? How about a trip to Tuscaloosa. Once the team gets a taste of that, nothing on the remaining schedule will strike fear in the Monarchs.



Let's do a home and home shall we?

Not trying to derail the thread with a response but we got crushed by UNC last year in what was one of their worst seasons as of late, we never crossed the 50 yard line at tech and you want to play Bama. Then you say lets do a home and home so I am assuming your whole post is a joke considering the fact the bama rarely plays a p5 as a true road game let alone a G5.

You miss the point that we start our season with what amounts to an exhibition (weak opponent). We need to be ready on day 1 and not treat opening week as an audition to see who will be the starters. Alabama or any P5 was an example of how the team would have to step it up a notch to be prepared on day one.

Also the 757 reputation makes it easier for P5's to consider playing here. That's already been proven.