(06-02-2019 06:13 PM)olddawg Wrote:  

(06-02-2019 04:35 PM)BleedingPurple Wrote:  

(06-02-2019 07:07 AM)NJDuke97 Wrote:  

(06-02-2019 05:16 AM)BleedingPurple Wrote:  

(06-01-2019 05:13 PM)NJDuke97 Wrote:  Appears to be more about money and also an assurance that they play at Jmu in the year we want them to. Last year I think Syracuse paid Odu something comparable to what Odu will pay us. I guess Jmu values the money. I just hope it isn’t in lieu of another payday or two from Power schools. I’ll feel a lot better about it if this year Jmu is double or tripling up and Odu is just more revenue for the program to go with some other pay days maybe even a 2 for 1 with a lesser Power program and it is more about stacking the home slate for next season. Odu better be our 3rd or 4th best OOC opponent at home next year. If they are our 1st or 2nd best that will be extremely disappointing.

Regarding the bold: saying next year, you do mean the 20 - 21 season, am I right? Not this upcoming season?

Yeah - All lining up for 20-21 when the new arena opens- if we play some decent opponents on the road this year it’s more palatable if we know that 20-21 with the new arena will be a home heavy OOC schedule with multiple good opponents. Imo Odu can not be a headliner at himenin 20-21. Headliner needs to be Va Tech, Vcu, Uva or some well known regional Power school. Odu Mason maybe Richmond are great games to have in the schedule but we need more.

Agree, however when we opened the Convo, it was with VMI, people barely knew then and few remember today. It was the second game that brought everyone out and had a lottery for tickets, UVA.

True that VMI was not a marquee opponent for the 1982 opening of the Convo, but they had their moments in the mid -late 70s. Elite 8 in the '76 NCAA Tourney and Sweet 16 in the '77 Tourney. Granted, there was 1 less round back then, but they were a tough team at one point. That said, they won all of 5 games total in the two years prior to the opening of the Convo.

Wasn't that game played when we (students) were out of school for something, maybe Thanksgiving?