Today's Pilot Online article

[ODU Commish]

Very interesting. Although I believe that most people speculating about conference realignment are doing just that (speculating), there was one interesting note at the bottom of the article.

According to Harry Minium, ODU casted the deciding vote against conference expansion to include Northeastern and C of C. If so, congrats to whoever made that decision. NU would have been a nightmare!!!

[ODU2K1]

According to Harry Minium, ODU casted the deciding vote against conference expansion to include Northeastern and C of C. If so, congrats to whoever made that decision. NU would have been a nightmare!!!

I guess that old man Jarrett is good for something from time to time. I agree 100% that NU would have been a disaster in the CAA. Depending on what happens the CAA could probably do better than C of C as well.

[RAMKING]

From another CAA member, I would just like to thank the ODU AD for that no vote. Hopefully the VCU AD was also a no vote.

[paranoia1975]

I would like to think the ODU AD too. I opposed those teams joining the CAA.

[Mr. Jablomi]

I would have liked C of C, but not Northeastern. C of C and, say, GW or St. Joe's would be nice.
Good article. I agree that the best the CAA could do is stay together, than grab two of the better programs that become available. If we DID get C of C and UMass, and a few of the A10 schools jump to the Big East, we may actually surpass their "new" league in terms of media exposure. We'd have a bigger footprint on the map, anyway.
It should be interesting to see what happens. The Ted may end up being a greater asset than we expected. With that kind of facility, and attendance numbers, plus TV market, ODU should be able to market itself pretty well, if necessary. If CUSA loses a couple of football schools, we may get a look from that conference.

[ODUBB]

Jim Jarrett is a huge asset for Old Dominion. He has the longest running tenure of any A.D. in the country. I would assume he has connections on top of connections. I like him being in our corner during the mad scramble of realignment, if it happens.

The CAA is in a pickle. Fb only has 5 schools; JMU,W&M, Hofstra, Towson, Delaware. (ODU, VCU, UNCW, GM, Drex) If we only add two schools to bump us to 12, only seven may have football. I thought you needed eight schools to get auto bid to D-II playoffs. George Mason has club football, will they bump up soon?

If the CAA wants fb, they need two quality programs or sign teams for football only. i.e. A10 now has JMU, W&M, Hofstra, & Del for football.

I'm not sure what will happen, but do feel confident the CAA will stay in tack and probably get stronger. UMass has been mentioned several times with joining the CAA. (They have A10 fb) Rhode Island another candidate with A10 fb.

[ODUFanSam]

I am really pulling for this conference jump. I think ODU will benefit from it, as well as the CAA. Miami may back out of it though after their commish's heart felt words. :wink:

[Big Blue Beast]

I wouldn't mind seeing a shake up too, I can't help but think we'd be better off at the end of the day.

HOWEVER, I really don't want to see VT get screwed like I know they're gonna.

[ODUBB]

VaTech, yes; what about West Virginia. They've been really quiet and so has Pittsburgh.

I hope Richmond gets the shaft, out of all the schools involved.
(let'em join the MEAC) All those years the RTD got two votes (UR&VCU) for CAA awards, they screwed VCU and ODU, a bunch of times. Screw Richmond and their biased press.