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(04-09-2023 01:41 PM)bluelight Wrote:  To me, there was shocking news on the internet this morning. Coach May at FAU basketball, has received a 10-year extension to coach at FAU. No salary was given but the story said the assistants also would get a raise.

Now if JJ can just get in the NCAA next year, maybe Wood would give JJ a 10-year extension.

Seriously, Coach May has coached at FAU 4 or 5 years before this past season. I believe his record for those years, was around 500 or less. Their attendance is around 2K per home game and now they are going into the AAC next year.

What has happened to ODU. For whatever reason players don't want to play for JJ or have Wood as their AD. We lead the league in attendance, have a great facility and fans, and still in 10 years we have gone down instead of up.

With this area, attendance and nice facility, I don't understand why the smooth-talking Dr. Selig could not convince the AAC to invite us to join their league.

We would be close to the some of the other schools, in their conference. There are too many schools in Florida to consider a school like FAU. Either they had some reason or maybe we had the wrong AD to fight hard enough for ODU. Just the teams in that conference would increase our attendance in both sports.

Now Wood has put us in the C-USA and now the Sunbelt. Not great leagues for our attendance.

Football will grow if the team wins' (Football is a sport that recruits a lot of players). We have lost some good ones and I really feel sorry for Rahne, since the Sunbelt will always have tough teams. Hopefully we could break the 500 mark but it looks pretty hard.

Back to JJ, the schedule is deluded and soft in the sunbelt. Is that the way Wood wants to get to a 20-win season?

Coaches make decisions. Mike Jones has gone to Maryland and Drew will probably be at FAU next year. JJ is going nowhere with $1 Million waiting for him. I doubt JJ would coach again, as long as he is at ODU. Two of our recruiters in basketball, seem to doing good but I will wait and see who is on the complete list of recruits.

Somehow in the future I would like to see Drew, Mike and Odell back. Odell has 2 sons (highly rated) which I think we could get them. In order to be nationally known again we need to revise our whole basketball operations, including the AD. Unfortunately, football does not look strong either (again the AD). The decision to leave the C-USA a year early turned out to be a financial major lost for ODU.