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(12-16-2021 04:25 PM)ODUalum78 Wrote:  

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(12-16-2021 11:07 AM)ODUalum78 Wrote:  If you ever went to the CAAT, there was little home advantage for VCU vs ODU at the Brown Dump. ODU fans turned out in huge numbers

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Man, those were fun times. 11,000+ fans nearly evenly split between 2 hated rivals for a championship. I really hope that wasnt the peak for Monarch basketball.

Where else are you gonna have 10,000 fans for a ODU Basketball Tournament game? Unless we were in the A-10 and NYC or something I would say, yes, that was indeed the peak. At least as far as an exciting sold out championship game goes.

Could we one day end up playing a championship game in New Orleans or Florida somewhere? Sure. But you sure won't have 5-6000 ODU fans going.

It sure was fun back then, even though we sure complaining back in the day!

And that is exactly what I miss so much with ODU Basketball! It hasn't been like that since JJ took over and I guess that is why I resent him as much as I do. Selfish as it is, I feel he took that away from all of us.

JJ had nothing to do with that.

1. VCU and Mason left the CAA, ending our rivalries.
2. ODU left the CAA (with NO chance of following VCU and Mason to the A10 so don't even start)
3. They (City of Richmond) shuttered the Brown Dump, ending the CAAT being held in Richmond (now in Washington, DC
4. JMU has left the CAA, so even had we stayed, we would have no natural rivals left

None of the above have/had anything whatsoever to do with JJ

We're still playing them every year. I think ODU still has a fading rivalry with VCU. It's only fading because the outcomes have become so one-sided since Jeff took over.