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(03-12-2019 09:12 AM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(03-12-2019 09:04 AM)odu09 Wrote:  

(03-12-2019 08:46 AM)Monarchblue Wrote:  The problem is how do you balance the schedule. We had 10 NC games this year (not including the tournament), 7 of those games were at home, 3 on the road. Let's say that we add 3 road P5 games, that means that all of our remaining games would need to be home games, which is impossible if we maintain VCU, Richmond, W&M. Every other year, we would have at least 5 road games, and that assumes that the remaining 4 games are all buy games, which also is not reasonable from a SOS perspective. So add home and homes with 2 top tier mid majors and now we are alternating between 5 and 6 road games and 5 and 6 home games every year. I doubt ODU, and probably a lot of fans, want to lose that home inventory. I think I would be okay with it, but it will never fly.

The best way to do it would be to get P5's to buy us (like Syracuse) for our away games, then we turn around and use that money to buy CAA games (W&M, JMU) for home. Keep VCU on the home/away agreement, alternate it with Richmond home/away (although, isn't it time to stop calling Richmond "historically good?"). Perhaps replace them with a home/away arrangement with another A10 school or MAC/OVC opponent.

I would be very surprised if W&M or JMU would accept buy games from us. It would be a bit of a slap in the face to them. They would probably feel about the same as we would feel if VCU wanted to play buy games against us.

FWIW VCU bought Hofstra to come to the Stu this season so it is possible with some programs. I agree that simply on pride W&M and JMU wouldn’t be bought by a former in-state conference peer due to the optics.