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(12-18-2017 12:50 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 09:40 AM)jasdf Wrote:  6 posts in a row in response to 1 post, yet none of the 6 actually contained a rebuttal...Just a ribbing about caps use. And these responses coming from some of the posters who openly detest posts void of content, yet here they are, content-less themselves. Comical at best.

Then here's a response that has nothing to do with CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL: ODU is a mid-major program, and the scheduling is going to reflect that. Most of the power-conference programs aren't going to play ODU in Norfolk. Your best bet is getting better mid-majors to play you, and quite frankly, the Monarchs have been pretty good about scheduling those games — lots of A-10 and CAA opponents dot the OOC. This year's wasn't as sexy—thanks to St. Bonaventure crapping out on a deal and Richmond going down the toilet—but if this is as bad as it gets then I'd say that's still pretty good.

Being upset that the schedule doesn't live up to that poster's expectation only works if you can make a good argument, but quite frankly, that response read like a transcribed temper tantrum (which may not have been the poster's intent, but the all-caps is not good form and does in fact inform the message). Would fans be happier with four losses against P5 opponents than four wins against mid-majors? I don't know, but success is a paint that covers a multitude of sins, and failure is a highlighter. Plus look at how people here have gotten upset at ODU football not beating the power opponents that it has played so far, wondering why they should bother scheduling them (or in some cases even being FBS at all). Can't keep everyone happy.

I'll say this: Warts and all, I'll take ODU's basketball scheduling over most mid-major programs' (if nothing else, they're not scheduling games against D2/3/NAIA/USCAA teams on the regular).

Only problem that I have with your message is that you are acting like it is a forgone conclusion that if ODU played 4 power conference schools that they would lose all 4. While that may well be the case today, it was not so much the case just a short while ago when ODU was defeating schools like Georgetown and Va Tech on the road as well as at home. It seems that we had higher expectations back then.