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(08-08-2019 01:45 PM)The Flagship Wrote:  

(08-08-2019 12:31 PM)12thmonarch Wrote:  

(08-08-2019 12:18 PM)FearTheLion Wrote:  

(08-08-2019 12:01 PM)The Flagship Wrote:  

(08-08-2019 10:13 AM)12thmonarch Wrote:  Although its a stupid decision by the AD to not even pursue the bell from the big E

I would be willing to bet that this story is missing a lot of facts.

Always easy to take facts from an anonymous message board and run with it. I mean, posters have all the knowledge, skillsets, and vision without any risk of losing personal income, losing money against ODU's budget, running into compliance issues, or anything. It's awesome.

True. I personally wouldn't have believed it had it not been an ODU alum posting it on our forum with the information from another ODU alum being his superior. There are always risks and I personally don't want to act like I know all the risks that comes with that decision because I don't but to a third/fourth person reading OP's input it's easy to assume it's rather easy to perceive it as stupidity when you have someone in the middle facilitating it. Again not everyone in that communication channel might have all the info but to say "No thanks" instead of we will consider it says something. Doesn't it?

It tells me that it quickly hit on something that makes it problematic, and rather than giving false hope, it was denied.

With the stuff that is going on at just about every college campus these days, I think that its possible that the Admin is trying to limit connection to the military as much as possible, or to put it another way, trying to not go overboard I would bet that people have complained about military flyovers (That's an easy bet because I know it has happened). Also, the howitzer is a bigger issue than many realize, and for the life of me, I can't figure out how we still have it, but happy we do.

I have absolutely no idea what the actual reason is (but I can probably find out in time), but I think there is a very good chance that there is an explanation behind this, whether we think it is a good or bad one.

The last 13 years or so have been full of very difficult decisions by the school and athletic department. Probably 10 times the number of all the previous years combined. Big decisions like football, FBS, conference, Title IX compliance, facility upgrades, where the new football stadium should go, etc. to smaller ones like seating prices, parking, tailgate rules, etc. The 13 years prior was a piece of cake compared to the most recent 13 years. They probably have PTSD.

Absolutely. I wouldn't consider the pre-FB 13 yr period a piece of cake but i get what you are driving at when compared to the later. It would be great if you can find out what caused the AD to say no to this bell idea. The idea of alienating ourselves from Military is a head scratcher to me, I personally believe they are part and parcel of society(although a part with problems just like any other entity), a part of society that took the oath to protect and serve us to which our dads, moms, wives, husbands, sons and daughters etc belong to. Why not use something that is lying unused paid and made from tax dollars. I get that not everyone approves risk taking ideas but come on where would be man with out them. Please do find out why the bell idea was a non-starter though.