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(08-03-2012 10:32 AM)odusteeler Wrote:  DM, don't mean to be disagreeable here, but you just told someone it would be advisable if they wait 5 years before they form their own opinion. Isn't that somewhat hypocritical? I think we've all got the right to form our opinions when we're ready, and then revise them as required. For the record, I think CUSA was the right move, and I am a wrestling alum/fan first & foremost (which means we're without a conference for 2013 as of now). But I think there will be more pro's than con's when this all shakes out. Will revise opinion where applicable.

(08-02-2012 09:15 AM)TheDancinMonarch Wrote:  I wasn't in favor of the move but have decided to withhold any further judgement until at least 5 years have passed. You'd be well advised to do the same.

The advise in this case is me, just expressing my opinion, based on my experience, that we all would be better served by waiting for the passage of time to allow us to come to some final conclusion as to the widom of our move.

As for your strategy of revising your opinions with the passage of time that will only serve you well in a career in politics where ones opinion is allowed to change with the passing breezes. But that's just my opinion.

As to wrestling it is really bad that after all of the positives of the last few years that they find themselves in this unfortunate position. Hopefully they will land well and end up on the positive side of the ledger.

(08-03-2012 10:34 AM)djnva Wrote:  

(08-03-2012 09:40 AM)TheDancinMonarch Wrote:  The generosity of people always amazes me. Two people have actually conferred upon me the right to my own opinion.

Did they say you could have this opinion now or did they say you should wait 5 years?

Unspecified. But I have devised my own 5 year strategy.

Yet it wasn't all that long ago that SMU, Houston and Central Florida were nothing, absolutely nothing in football.....For that matter, take out Memphis and those schools weren't much in basektball either.....

C-USA rebound and will again be a good league.

The Soviet Union was developing 5 year plans and strategys all the time....look where it got them.

(08-03-2012 12:00 PM)ODU1986 Wrote:  Gone are: SMU, Houston, Central Florida, Memphis

Replaced by: North Texas, UTSA, La Tech, FIU, UNCC, ODU

This IS NO LONGER the league some people make it out to be.

Careful now.

I'm kind of a loner and I want to be in the pariah camp all by my lonesome.

But that's just my opinion and I have documentation that I am allowed to express it.

(08-03-2012 12:34 PM)ODU True Blue Wrote:  The Soviet Union was developing 5 year plans and strategys all the time....look where it got them.

Please. I'm a charter member of the "better dead than red" club. Don't try to hang that on me.

Mine will be an after action report using 5 years of non-challengeable data.

So what was it like seeing the live headlines when Lenin took over?

You don't pass on a promotion with your own office just because you like the conversations with the guy in the other cubicle.

Wrestling will be fine. They'll have a qualifying conference by then. Rumor has it that the NCAA will most likely go to a regional qualifying format, which will make conference qualifying obsolete. Besides, > 50% of NCAA wrestling program's are orphaned (their conferences don't sponsor it). If it works for Missouri, it can work for us too.

(08-03-2012 12:50 PM)ODU True Blue Wrote:  So what was it like seeing the live headlines when Lenin took over?

My cable was out that day so I missed the headline but fortunately for us today Lenin is still red but quite dead.

(08-03-2012 01:15 PM)Old Dominion Navy Wrote:  You don't pass on a promotion with your own office just because you like the conversations with the guy in the other cubicle.

Funny. I was going to use an analogy of a baseball player not accepting a call-up to the majors b/c he likes the deli next to the stadium in the minors.

This is not the Zone.

If you cannot keep it civil,
I will delete your drivel.