(09-13-2018 09:47 PM)booman Wrote: I know as a Spartan, my opinion matters the least. Personally, and this is hindsight, I think it was a mistake. You went from one of the most promising teams in FCS, to a bowl season to hoping enough teams didnt get invited last year. Now you lost to a team that had lost to NC A&T, a fcs meac school. These losses are going to turn your fanbase. Even with rain, yall would still sell out. Last time NSU played at foreman, everyone knew it would rain and that was a sell out. What was different about last week. I think it would be good for ODU and the city of Norfolk to move back down.
I have stated my belief that the ODU admin would not have moved had they known that both ECU would not be there and the Cox bill would restrict our ability to collect much needed FBS startup monies.
I am going to otherwise hold my opinion as
I want to see what the new stadium does for recruiting.
Certainly there would be, indeed were, advantages to having cross town rivals NSU, HU, W&M, and eventually CNU as well; not to mention great rivalries with JMU, UR, and UD.
Using the startup record of ODU to support an argument now is ridiculous.
Coaching at this level is different, in sophistication, complexity, and recruiting. It's almost like saying that Gerry Faust should have stayed at Notre Dame because of his high school record (look that up).
In FCS we had a stadium, even though old, and a campus that reeked of Big Time, providing game day excitement tertiary only to NDSU and JMU in FCS. Of course we were going to always land top FCS recruits.
Today I saw a 49er team successfully play under center when the situation called for it, show motion, and use misdirection, with arguably lesser talent.
I believe we should stay the course in FBS until the recruiting results of our new stadium can assessed, but I am not sure that our coaches are sophisticated enough for FBS.