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(11-02-2017 12:37 PM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(11-02-2017 12:19 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(11-01-2017 02:10 PM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(11-01-2017 01:36 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  I'm confused about why some people seem to think losing to Towson is some sort of scarlet-letter moment. They could end up winning the CAA, and while I think conference RPI is a dodgy way to determine the quality of a conference or the difficulty in winning it, the CAA has been consistently higher in that metric than CUSA. ODU has suffered far more embarrassing losses in the past few years just in conference play.

Put another way: If ODU wins, and they should certainly expect to win at home, then there's a distinct possibility that they'll have a top-100 win on their resume. Even if it's a program that lost 41 straight a few years ago.

Because pre-BT meltdown we were at a level that we should not have lost to even a "good" Towson team. I am not willing to accept a new normal and start making comparisons based on what we are now, rather than what we have been when we aligned our resources correctly.

So other programs aren't allowed to improve? I don't get this "well, we were this good once so we should always be at LEAST that good in perpetuity and no other teams' improvements can ever be acknowledged" thing going on here.

I think if you're going to insist that ODU's best seasons are the floor for future seasons, you're going to be disappointed. Just like VCU and George Mason fans who don't understand why they're not in the Final Four every season. Programs have down stretches. Nobody's immune.

I expected for those years to at least remain the mean. Of course I understand that there will be down years from time to time, but we have been well below that mean for nearly a decade now. Do you find that acceptable? What is the definition of time to make a change?5 Years? 7 Years? 10 years? Never as long as we are as good as Towson?

What is the mean? Based on my last post it would appear once every 4 years? That's a fair number, right? But you do have a point, how long do you wait? How many promising recruiting classes? 4? So far we've had 2.