VCU expresses interest in acquiring City Stadium

[CAA Flagship]

History is simply lost on many in America these days...

Nevermind that the Blue Hen is in honor to soldiers who fought for independence from Britain, and carries historical significance to Delaware. It's a far better thing to earn your title as a spin-off of another institution and in doing so to honor the throne sitting monarchs of some lilly-livered foreign country, some 150 years after we sent them packing back to their continent.

These fans from ODU stand against everything that is great about this country.

U.S.A....U.S.A....U.S.A.

Cockfights, eh? I wonder if the journalists back then got the story right. Maybe they just assumed birds were fighting each other, but in reality, it was........ War is hell, you know.

[ODUalum11]

I think as more and more teams decide to start a football program, I think VCU will feel the pressure to start a program of their own. For instance, while it won't affect them at all I see that Houston Baptist is deciding to start a football program. VCU isn't like UR, WM, Towson where they are perfectly content with staying where they are now.

[mainejeff]

VCU isn't like UR, WM, Towson where they are perfectly content with staying where they are now.

Exactly. There are gonna be some very disappointed fan bases of certain CAA football programs in about 5 years.......and they won't be the ones that support ODU, JMU, and Georgia State.

[PenthouseClosedEnd]

VCU isn't like UR, WM, Towson where they are perfectly content with staying where they are now.

Exactly. There are gonna be some very disappointed fan bases of certain CAA football programs in about 5 years.......and they won't be the ones that support ODU, JMU, and Georgia State.

Yap, Yap, Yap - The Maine fan would certainly know what it's like to be 'disappointed', so I'll take your word for it.

Since you're full of opinions, where are ODU, JMU and Georgia State going, exactly?

While you're at it, have you determined where Maine and their big brother New Hampshire are supposedly going?

Have you had your Summer's Eve gargle yet today?

[State Line Liquors]

Saw this article on Rivals and it reminded me of the discussion we had about various people ball tonguing the vaunted 757.

http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/co ... ID=1239398

Not sure if it's premium content or not, but Rivals 'crunched the numbers' and came up with the 10 best states for BCS signees over the last 10 years:

1. Texas
2. Florida
3. California
4. Georgia
5. Ohio
6. Pennsylvania
7. Virginia
8. Alabama
9. N. Carolina
10. N. Jersey

[89Hen]

Not sure if it's premium content or not, but Rivals 'crunched the numbers' and came up with the 10 best states for BCS signees over the last 10 years:

1. Texas
2. Florida
3. California
4. Georgia
5. Ohio
6. Pennsylvania
7. Virginia
8. Alabama
9. N. Carolina
10. N. Jersey

No Iowa, Montana or North Dakota???

[JmuSkinsfan]

1. Texas
2. Florida
4. Georgia
6. Pennsylvania
7. Virginia
9. N. Carolina
10. N. Jersey

I know JMU has been targeting North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas a lot recently. New Jersey, Florida and Georgia are also areas that JMU has focused on hard in the past. Add in Virginia ... and these are pretty fertile recruiting grounds!

[JMUpurplehazed]

Rob Iola - What does Harrisonburg have to do with this conversation? Harrisonburg is turning the corner pointing towards "college town." The JMU campus is growing and is nearing the dowtown area and bringing JMU $ with it...better restaurants & bars...

We all have issues but our issues are different than those of ODU & VCU.

[henfan]

Wow, this thread has sure veered far from the topic of VCU & City Stadium.

[Dukie95]

Not sure if it's premium content or not, but Rivals 'crunched the numbers' and came up with the 10 best states for BCS signees over the last 10 years:

1. Texas
2. Florida
3. California
4. Georgia
5. Ohio
6. Pennsylvania
7. Virginia
8. Alabama
9. N. Carolina
10. N. Jersey

North Jersey's officially a state now?

[andy7171]

I think as more and more teams decide to start a football program, I think VCU will feel the pressure to start a program of their own. For instance, while it won't affect them at all I see that Houston Baptist is deciding to start a football program. VCU isn't like UR, WM, Towson where they are perfectly content with staying where they are now.

As I have said in the past, when/if Delaware, JMU and now ODU move up. Towson will go, whether be a smart move or not. Those are the schools Towson idendifies with. Unitas Stadium has 3 more expansion phases already drawn up.

[∞∞∞]

I think as more and more teams decide to start a football program, I think VCU will feel the pressure to start a program of their own. For instance, while it won't affect them at all I see that Houston Baptist is deciding to start a football program. VCU isn't like UR, WM, Towson where they are perfectly content with staying where they are now.

As I have said in the past, when/if Delaware, JMU and now ODU move up. Towson will go, whether be a smart move or not. Those are the schools Towson idendifies with. Unitas Stadium has 3 more expansion phases already drawn up.

Towson better move up. What would we do without you?!

Andy at Towson game:

[andy7171]

As I have said in the past, when/if Delaware, JMU and now ODU move up. Towson will go, whether be a smart move or not. Those are the schools Towson idendifies with. Unitas Stadium has 3 more expansion phases already drawn up.

Towson better move up. What would we do without you?!

Andy at Towson game:

Listen Abdul, even with the 1-10 record last year, we broke the home attendance record. It's only going to go up this year.

Oh and off subject but did you see this?

I thought this was an interesting quote from Mike Giles from ESPN.com

"We have written extensively about the rebuilding effort being undertaken by Pat Skerry at Towson. Though the Tigers may be around the .500 mark next season, they are positioned to be one of the toughest teams in the CAA in 2012-13."

[∞∞∞]

Listen Abdul, even with the 1-10 record last year, we broke the home attendance record. It's only going to go up this year.

Congrats man! So you showed up to all 6 games instead of the usual 5 to break it?

Oh and off subject but did you see this?

I thought this was an interesting quote from Mike Giles from ESPN.com

"We have written extensively about the rebuilding effort being undertaken by Pat Skerry at Towson. Though the Tigers may be around the .500 mark next season, they are positioned to be one of the toughest teams in the CAA in 2012-13."

No I didn't, but if there's anything I've learned as a mid-major basketball fan in the last seven or eight years, it's that ESPN knows close to nothing about non-BCS schools. I wouldn't trust a 1-month prediction out of them, let alone something that's a year and a half away.

[Dukie95]

Listen Abdul, even with the 1-10 record last year, we broke the home attendance record. It's only going to go up this year.

Congrats man! So you showed up to all 6 games instead of the usual 5 to break it?

Oh and off subject but did you see this?

No I didn't, but if there's anything I've learned as a mid-major basketball fan in the last seven or eight years, it's that ESPN knows close to nothing about non-BCS schools. I wouldn't trust a 1-month prediction out of them, let alone something that's a year and a half away.

If anything, it shows an ignorance of how tough the CAA is. No doubt Towson's going to improve, but really? One of the toughest teams in 2 years?...may as well have said one of the toughest in the country.

[Rob Iola]

Rob Iola - What does Harrisonburg have to do with this conversation? Harrisonburg is turning the corner pointing towards "college town." The JMU campus is growing and is nearing the dowtown area and bringing JMU $ with it...better restaurants & bars...

We all have issues but our issues are different than those of ODU & VCU.

A simple "and then there's Harrisonburg" aside from March gets your knickers in a bunch now? But I agree with everything you say here - there's nowhere for Harrisonburg to go but up...

[andy7171]

No I didn't, but if there's anything I've learned as a mid-major basketball fan in the last seven or eight years, it's that ESPN knows close to nothing about non-BCS schools. I wouldn't trust a 1-month prediction out of them, let alone something that's a year and a half away.

touche'