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(12-20-2019 10:19 PM)JJMonarch Wrote:  

(12-20-2019 09:45 PM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(12-20-2019 09:07 PM)ODU2003 Wrote:  

(12-20-2019 07:35 PM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(12-20-2019 06:09 PM)Obiwan Wrote:  Exactly - our typical fans complain no matter what .. this gives them more to talk about over a cup of egg nog

Some never complain. They are like Baghdad Bob. Everything is fine. Nothing to see here.

We just lost 2 starters mid season. No matter the reason, that is not fine.

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Some think the cup is half full, others think the cup is shattered. I’m somewhere in between. I like Jones but he has a high floor and a low ceiling.

So my question is this; what is our ceiling as a program? Outside of a moon shot I’d say what VCU has accomplished is the max we could ask for. They are a consistent top 50 program who plays around in the top 25.

This season ODU has struggled but last year we made the tourney. I think right now we are a top 100 program (not season, program). It’s hard to go from top 100 to top 50 and even harder to move past that.

So yes I’m frustrated and disappointed by Godwin and Dickens leaving. Do I think it’s a defining moment for our program? No I don’t.

We’ll get it together and have a shot in the CUSA tournament. Go Monarchs.

I'll reiterate my post from earlier. This program is about as bad as it has been in it's D1 history over a 6 year period. It is the program that has a low floor, not JJ. I do agree that VCU is about as good as we can hope for, and that is pretty damn good. Why would you not arrive to be your best, and instead just hang out forever saying, yeah we could probably be better, but we aren't terrible. If I said that to my boss, I'd probably be fired.

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Have you been watching any of our games for the past 6 years? If so, that’s a pretty ridiculous statement to say this is as bad as it’s been. Or maybe I should ask do you know anything about the history of ODU bb? I am not going to waste my looking back at the records but try checking out Tom Young’s success with us. He was here about 6 years and had players like Chris Gatlin, AC Carver, and Frank Smith and aside from one really good year he had a losing record with us. His teams were terrible. How about the train wreck Blaine Taylor left us?

Sure, we all hate to see what this season looks like after 12 games but the low point for 6 years? I have been pretty proud of our record the past 6 years. Am I satisfied? Certainly not and no one is, not the fans, not the players, not the coaches. But we have done pretty well. It’s certainly not a low point for a 6 year period in any way, shape, or form.

To put things in perspective, JJ did better with the train wreck Blaine left us than he is doing now. This team is worse than that one. Let that sink in.


But yeah, while this is one of the worst teams ODU has fielded, the 6 year statement wasn't fair.
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