Now that's original...my opinion of the quality of education at ODU is now shot...2 year old smack?????????? What a rodeo ass-clown you are. Please... continue to show us your obvious ignorance and dullard-like tendencies...

Wow man, you are really wound tight.

(12-05-2013 10:21 AM)ultraviolet Wrote:  Here is the real irony. Terry Holland had been after CUSA for years to do what they just did, which is to regionalize the league to mitigate the travel. Football is minimally affected by charter flights and weekend play, but it plays hell on Olympic sports to have to go to El Paso, etc., mid week. No offense to UTEP or the Texas schools, but this new set up is so much more sensible. Problem is it took them facing disaster to heed his advice, that's if they'll ever admit it was his idea. He's on record years ago of advocating ODU, MTSU, WKU, and others for membership and NT in the west. They'll never give him credit for it though.

Seriously, you have jumped back into the AAC where travel looks a lot like C-USA 2.0. You will still send your Olympic sports to Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Does that give you pause?

(12-05-2013 02:21 PM)ESE84 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 10:21 AM)ultraviolet Wrote:  Here is the real irony. Terry Holland had been after CUSA for years to do what they just did, which is to regionalize the league to mitigate the travel. Football is minimally affected by charter flights and weekend play, but it plays hell on Olympic sports to have to go to El Paso, etc., mid week. No offense to UTEP or the Texas schools, but this new set up is so much more sensible. Problem is it took them facing disaster to heed his advice, that's if they'll ever admit it was his idea. He's on record years ago of advocating ODU, MTSU, WKU, and others for membership and NT in the west. They'll never give him credit for it though.

Seriously, you have jumped back into the AAC where travel looks a lot like C-USA 2.0. You will still send your Olympic sports to Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Does that give you pause?

Wrong dummy. The AAC will have regional divisions set.

(12-04-2013 10:47 PM)49erlew Wrote:  When we announced the move to C-USA, I was so excited... not only to be in C-USA but to be in a conference with ECU. We hadn't had another in-state conference rival since we got booted/left (depends on who you ask) from C-USA 1.0.

Then, y'all up and left for the AAC. I was really disappointed when that happened. I wish you all the best... but damn, I hate to see you go.

Before it is all over, I suspect Charlotte and ECU will be conference mates again.

(12-05-2013 05:06 PM)chess Wrote:  

(12-04-2013 10:47 PM)49erlew Wrote:  When we announced the move to C-USA, I was so excited... not only to be in C-USA but to be in a conference with ECU. We hadn't had another in-state conference rival since we got booted/left (depends on who you ask) from C-USA 1.0.

Then, y'all up and left for the AAC. I was really disappointed when that happened. I wish you all the best... but damn, I hate to see you go.

Before it is all over, I suspect Charlotte and ECU will be conference mates again.

How do you see that happening? Why would the AAC pick up Charlotte if a team left the AAC?

(12-05-2013 09:38 PM)airbornepirate Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 05:06 PM)chess Wrote:  

(12-04-2013 10:47 PM)49erlew Wrote:  When we announced the move to C-USA, I was so excited... not only to be in C-USA but to be in a conference with ECU. We hadn't had another in-state conference rival since we got booted/left (depends on who you ask) from C-USA 1.0.

Then, y'all up and left for the AAC. I was really disappointed when that happened. I wish you all the best... but damn, I hate to see you go.

Before it is all over, I suspect Charlotte and ECU will be conference mates again.

How do you see that happening? Why would the AAC pick up Charlotte if a team left the AAC?

TV market, TV market, TV market

And if our football program gets going when the next round comes around, we would be a hard program to pass up (strong athletics all around).

(12-05-2013 02:21 PM)ESE84 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 10:21 AM)ultraviolet Wrote:  Here is the real irony. Terry Holland had been after CUSA for years to do what they just did, which is to regionalize the league to mitigate the travel. Football is minimally affected by charter flights and weekend play, but it plays hell on Olympic sports to have to go to El Paso, etc., mid week. No offense to UTEP or the Texas schools, but this new set up is so much more sensible. Problem is it took them facing disaster to heed his advice, that's if they'll ever admit it was his idea. He's on record years ago of advocating ODU, MTSU, WKU, and others for membership and NT in the west. They'll never give him credit for it though.

Seriously, you have jumped back into the AAC where travel looks a lot like C-USA 2.0. You will still send your Olympic sports to Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Does that give you pause?

You'll never win that argument with them no matter how wrong you'll prove they are.

They're no longer part of this conference (at least in football) so I won't miss their biatching and whinning about sending their teams to El Paso which BTW was once every four years in football, every other year in basketball and the olies play weekends for the most part with those schedules being out months in advance that way they can plan around the trip and classes, exams, etc.

Adios Piratas!

(12-06-2013 12:27 AM)Ninerfaithfull Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 09:38 PM)airbornepirate Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 05:06 PM)chess Wrote:  

(12-04-2013 10:47 PM)49erlew Wrote:  When we announced the move to C-USA, I was so excited... not only to be in C-USA but to be in a conference with ECU. We hadn't had another in-state conference rival since we got booted/left (depends on who you ask) from C-USA 1.0.

Then, y'all up and left for the AAC. I was really disappointed when that happened. I wish you all the best... but damn, I hate to see you go.

Before it is all over, I suspect Charlotte and ECU will be conference mates again.

How do you see that happening? Why would the AAC pick up Charlotte if a team left the AAC?

TV market, TV market, TV market

And if our football program gets going when the next round comes around, we would be a hard program to pass up (strong athletics all around).

Depending on when the next go around is... Within the next 10 years...I doubt Charlotte is brought in (depending on who the team that departed is). After that...who knows.

(12-06-2013 12:46 AM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:21 PM)ESE84 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 10:21 AM)ultraviolet Wrote:  Here is the real irony. Terry Holland had been after CUSA for years to do what they just did, which is to regionalize the league to mitigate the travel. Football is minimally affected by charter flights and weekend play, but it plays hell on Olympic sports to have to go to El Paso, etc., mid week. No offense to UTEP or the Texas schools, but this new set up is so much more sensible. Problem is it took them facing disaster to heed his advice, that's if they'll ever admit it was his idea. He's on record years ago of advocating ODU, MTSU, WKU, and others for membership and NT in the west. They'll never give him credit for it though.

Seriously, you have jumped back into the AAC where travel looks a lot like C-USA 2.0. You will still send your Olympic sports to Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Does that give you pause?

You'll never win that argument with them no matter how wrong you'll prove they are.

They're no longer part of this conference (at least in football) so I won't miss their biatching and whinning about sending their teams to El Paso which BTW was once every four years in football, every other year in basketball and the olies play weekends for the most part with those schedules being out months in advance that way they can plan around the trip and classes, exams, etc.

Adios Piratas!

That argument was so 2008.