MBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[hasanova]

How about this?

TRUE VIRGINIANS: HSC, RMC, W&L, E&H, Randolph, Lynchburg
ALL OTHERS: VWC, BC, EMU, Roanoke, SU, and the Quakes

Or in the ODGCAC (Old Dominion and Guilford College Athletic Conference), you would have a Virginia Division and a North Carolina Division!

I like it - the Quakers will be division champs every year!  lol

[jdubyadubya]

78rmc - who was it who wrote before the season began that the Yellow Jackets were going to be sub par on the season. Hmmmm. I do believe that they may be the best team right now in the ODAC. Up from the ashes, so to speak. I really wish I could get to the RMC/VWC game. It's going to be a classic and a game that will be talked about for decades, maybe even centuries

[hasanova]

How about this?

TRUE VIRGINIANS: HSC, RMC, W&L, E&H, Randolph, Lynchburg
ALL OTHERS: VWC, BC, EMU, Roanoke, SU, and the Quakes

I see elitism is alive and well in the Old Dominion.     Aren't some of you late for a Sons of the American Revolution meeting? Getting blue-blooded anew should be at least an annual event!

[hasanova]

I went to Elementary and Middle school in VA, HS and undergraduate school in NC and graduate school in SC, so ... I think I have some grounds to discuss.  There's an old saying that goes "North Carolina is a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit."

Please write your opinion of this statement in 50 words or less and the readers will try to guess the writer's state of origin. 

[78rmc]

78rmc - who was it who wrote before the season began that the Yellow Jackets were going to be sub par on the season. Hmmmm. I do believe that they may be the best team right now in the ODAC. Up from the ashes, so to speak. I really wish I could get to the RMC/VWC game. It's going to be a classic and a game that will be talked about for decades, maybe even centuries

Yes, that was me!  I've been pleasantly surprised, but I think few thought that RMC would win 17 of 20.  Coming into the season, they did not look good on paper, especially with so many freshmen.  The intangible for this team is their quickness.  Outstanding job by Coach Davis.  But, it will not be complete unless they continue to win and especially on the 8th against the Virginians from VWC.

[Brian Hamilton]

Nova,
If you're all that and then some, why should you be humble?   

[78rmc]

I went to Elementary and Middle school in VA, HS and undergraduate school in NC and graduate school in SC, so ... I think I have some grounds to discuss.  There's an old saying that goes "North Carolina is a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit."

Please write your opinion of this statement in 50 words or less and the readers will try to guess the writer's state of origin. 

NC's 'humility' is only tempered by their unbridled gratitude of VA's shielding during the War of Northern Aggression!

[Brian Hamilton]

By the way, the new Top 25 is out and VWC holds steady at #3 and RMC moves into the top 25 at #21.  No one else is receiving any votes.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I went to Elementary and Middle school in VA, HS and undergraduate school in NC and graduate school in SC, so ... I think I have some grounds to discuss.  There's an old saying that goes "North Carolina is a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit."

Please write your opinion of this statement in 50 words or less and the readers will try to guess the writer's state of origin. 

Unless you are a fan of the ACC.  Other members may scoff at the 'humility' of UNC and Duke.

[78rmc]

By the way, the new Top 25 is out and VWC holds steady at #3 and RMC moves into the top 25 at #21.  No one else is receiving any votes.

I'd predicted last week that RMC may slip into the Top 25 with wins over RC and GC.  I'd thought more like #24 or #25, but they moved up 9 spots, good going!  So, we should have a Top 25 showdown next week with the VWC Virginians!

[donho]

 78, I had them at around 500 at best. The players and Coach Davis are on one really nice run. Congrats to them for their hard work!

[hasanova]

I went to Elementary and Middle school in VA, HS and undergraduate school in NC and graduate school in SC, so ... I think I have some grounds to discuss.  There's an old saying that goes "North Carolina is a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit."

Please write your opinion of this statement in 50 words or less and the readers will try to guess the writer's state of origin. 

NC's 'humility' is only tempered by their unbridled gratitude of VA's shielding during the War of Northern Aggression!

We can't help it if Virginia was the closest to the Mason-Dixon line ... and we are grateful. 

[hasanova]

Nova,
If you're all that and then some, why should you be humble?   

I prefer confident. 

As (understandably) proud as Virginians are, everyone should take a trip to Charleston or Columbia, SC from time to time. Wow.  There's a historical marker at the entrance to The Horseshoe (original antebellum section of the campus) at my second alma mater, the University of South Carolina, that says, in effect, "every (male) student at the University of South Carolina dropped out of school the day after Charleston's Fort Sumter was bombarded and joined the Army of the CSA."  Not protecting their families' and state's pride was tantamount to their own shame and dishonor.  In the eyes of most South Carolinians, they could have been a country all on their own!

[jknezek]

Hasa -- that wasn't particularly unusual during the Civil War. W&L had the Liberty Hall Volunteers which included a significant portion of campus (quite a feet for what was at the time essentially a seminary school) and fought under Stonewall Jackson and with the majority of VMI students. If you make it up to W&L, take a look around in Lee Chapel and the plaques for the members of the Liberty Hall Volunteers. The casualty rate of a unit that fought at almost every major battle in the mid-Atlantic up to Gettysburg, serving as Stonewall's personal bodyguard at times, was over 50% and almost caused the end of W&L as an institution for lack of students.

While the company included many non-students as the war drug on, and was essentially annihilated at Gettysburg, the students were the original driving force of one of the most celebrated, and savaged, Confederate units.

There is a reason General Lee retired to W&L after the war to be President of a relatively unknown and small school in rural VA. And it wasn't simply because the Union decided his ancestral home was the perfect place to honor their fallen warriors!

[rmc1982]

Aside from all this CRAP! What happened in the VWC- W&L game tonite??GEEZ..... ISN'T THIS BASKETBALL CHANNEL!!!??....;-)