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(01-29-2018 12:56 PM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

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(01-29-2018 10:03 AM)monarx Wrote:  

(01-28-2018 05:26 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  We were a big fish in a small pond in the CAA. Hence, A LOT better than Deleware, Hofstra, UNC-W, Bill and Mary...etc. Our only consistent competition was VCU and GMU. CUSA is a bigger pond and harder to compete in. I don’t follow your logic about the bar being lowered, and I prefer to compete in a bigger pond. Hanging a CUSA banner in the Ted will significantly enhance the CAA banners that are currently displayed - and will demonstrate our growth as a program. And it will eventually happen - hopefully this year.

You should probably move on to supporting a P5 school. I would suggest a team like Kansas, Kentucky, UNC, Villa...that reload every year with blue chips. Because that will NEVER be ODU - and our current situation is as good as it gets. Seems you would be more satisfied if you’re currently dissatisfied. The bar has most certainly not been lowered.

Have to disagree on most of this. There were plenty of times in the CAA where Hofstra, Drexel, UNCW (ever heard of Brett Blizzard?) and even JMU provided very tough competition for the Monarchs. Also, by every measurement out there, the CAA is consistently rated better than CUSA. I believe that is in large part due to CUSA having 2 more awful teams, but it is the case none the less. Also, I do believe the top four of CUSA are all very good teams and would probably win the Colonial (in spite of WM beating us), but after that, the CAA is as good or better.

I agree that this year CUSA is A LOT better than the CAA. I think the best CAA team would be somewhere around 5th or 6th in this year's CUSA.

The comparison is to the CAA when we were in it. ODU, VCU, and GMU during the '04-'11 period were all superior to the top of CUSA this year. Those CAA years produced 2 Final 4 runs, at least 5 at-large bids, along with multiple NIT bids annually. Moreover, Drexel, Hofstra, Northeastern, and UNCW all had teams that would have been right up there with this year's WKU and MTSU teams. I don't this year's ODU team could finish in the top 4 in that CAA, much less still be competing for the regular season conference title. Granted, this is just an opinion, but there are results. Note, I am not complaining. CUSA is improving and I am thankful for that. We just still have a ways to go.

I think I agree with this.

Agreed. But it took a while for the CAA to get to that point as well. For most of it's history, the CAA has been a one-bid league.

CUSA is going in the right direction. I'm just not sure I have the patience to wait 3 more years for ODU to get a bid.