MBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[jdubyadubya]

When RMWC, or Rivermont as Algernon calls it, joins the ODAC, the scrambling will begin(it has probably already begun). ODAC will want to keep the conference to 10 teams and that means someone has to go. This may mean that USA South undergoes a facelift.

[jdubyadubya]

It's kind of interesting to see where teams are going this year for December tournaments. BC and Steelyglen are going to LV; Roanoke and Loesel are going to PHX; HSC and Algernon and maybe Tigerfan are going to ARUBA(!), and VWC is going to TX. I wonder where the others are going.

[algernon]

It's kind of interesting to see where teams are going this year for December tournaments. BC and Steelyglen are going to LV; Roanoke and Loesel are going to PHX; HSC and Algernon and maybe Tigerfan are going to ARUBA(!), and VWC is going to TX. I wonder where the others are going.

ARUBA ??

Sounds good, but the Tigers have a December tournament scheduled at H-SC.  Shenandoah, Albright, and New Jersey City will be coming south for the event.

[jdubyadubya]

I must be mistaken then....says so on the website, December 17 to Aruba, but they may have changed it. You would know.

[jeloesel]

When RMWC, or Rivermont as Algernon calls it, joins the ODAC, the scrambling will begin(it has probably already begun). ODAC will want to keep the conference to 10 teams and that means someone has to go. This may mean that USA South undergoes a facelift.

Well, JWW, who do you think should go?    

You have to give careful consideration to the impacts any such ouster would have on our D3hoops discussions. 
--Would we really want to lose Steelyglen's abacus skills by ousting Bridgewater, thereby putting the entire ODAC pick'em at risk? 
--Or, are the savings in gas traveling to VA Beach really worth losing ODAC bragging rights to last year's D3 men's basketball champion?  No more talk about great seafood spots in Tidewater?
--There might be some merit in axing Hampden-Sydney to get rid of Algernon's mindless Tiger boosterism, but then you'd lose Tigerfan's wit and wisdom, and maybe an occasional shot from Sniper as well. 
--Think about how much poorer the board would be without the eternal optimism of emufan about this year's new and improved Emus or their logo. 
--Would you want to risk reviving the Civil War by throwing out the W&L Generals--and hearing no more about Denbow from his roomie?
--There would be no more pictures from Loesel if Roanoke is tossed, I'll guarantee that!

In the back of my mind I keep coming back to Lynchburg as a possible candidate for excommunication.  ex-coach has abandoned us for the real world of hoops, and thus he's no longer a guaranteed mark for Moonpies and RCs.    With Rivermont Avenue U in the conference, I'd still have a guaranteed trip to Lynchburg to visit the mother-in-law.   But, I guess it really comes down to Scottie.  Do we really want to squander his talents for creating board chaos on the USA/Dixie?

However, I'm open to opinions from others about who should go.

[steelyglen]

Jimmy...how's about the old boot for E&H. Nobody likes going there anyways (us guru's I'm talking about), there system is just chaos (organized or otherwise) and its always part of the doubleheader from hell for BC (along with the trip to Guilford). Can't get rid of the Quakers 'cause its the easiest trip for me (that's why we're all here, right?)...

Hmmm tossing the Hornets...well Rivermont WOULD keep the Hornets streak alive ( what will it be 21 or 22 in a row this year?) and certainly NOBODY wants to go to Lynchburg twice (your mother-n-law not withstanding).   

I say we add the entire USASAC/Dixie and schedule the Big East to a home and home for our season...

[algernon]

I must be mistaken then....says so on the website, December 17 to Aruba, but they may have changed it. You would know.

Actually, I've looked closer at the site and see that you're not mistaken: The Tigers have a trip scheduled for Aruba on December 17-22.  I hadn't heard about it.

[algernon]

The obvious team to be tossed out of the OLD DOMINION Athletic Conference is Guilford, given that the Quakers are not even located in the Old Dominion.

The only problem with this logic is that the ODAC might have to admit Shenandoah, CNU, Averett, Ferrum, Mary Washington, and Marymount University to the conference!   

[jeloesel]

The obvious team to be tossed out of the OLD DOMINION Athletic Conference is Guilford, given that the Quakers are not even located in the Old Dominion.

You would trade away hasanova's contribution to the board?  The poet of the ODAC, gone?  Did the publicity about the Snipe's shot, featured prominently on ESPN,  generate no lasting support for the Quakers?   

[Mr. Ypsi]

Which reminds me:

hasanova, how's the car?  It surely must be approaching the time for a name change to hadanova - the dang thing can't be immortal, is it??!

[hasanova]

Which reminds me:

hasanova, how's the car?  It surely must be approaching the time for a name change to hadanova - the dang thing can't be immortal, is it??!

Still got it and it's running and looking great, so hasanova it is.  To be grammatically correct, it should probably be haveanova, but the state of NC only allows eight characters on vanity plates.  lol  Besides, as all the ladies know, I need the obvious rhyme with Casanova.  Not!  I wish.  In about three weeks, I will have owned my car (my first) for 37 years, so I guess I'll keep it until I can no longer manage a 4-speed manual and a V8!  If anyone is going to Guilford's Homecoming on September 30, I think I'll probably drive it.  The '68 Nova was parked at English Hall and driven around campus from 1970-74, so it's its Homecoming too!

[algernon]

You would trade away hasanova's contribution to the board?  The poet of the ODAC, gone?  Did the publicity about the Snipe's shot, featured prominently on ESPN,  generate no lasting support for the Quakers?   

No, I wouldn't kick out Guilford for merely being out-of-state.  As noted, using geographical location in the Old Dominion as the criteria for membership in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference might encourage Averett or some other Virginia team to try to crash our party.

Actually, losing the Quakers on this board would be a travesty, pure and simple.  With no pacifists on the board, all hell might break loose .... especially with charges such as "mindless boosterism" being thrown around.   

[hasanova]

The obvious team to be tossed out of the OLD DOMINION Athletic Conference is Guilford, given that the Quakers are not even located in the Old Dominion.

You would trade away hasanova's contribution to the board?  The poet of the ODAC, gone?  Did the publicity about the Snipe's shot, featured prominently on ESPN,  generate no lasting support for the Quakers?   

A Guilford-less ODAC is sad
A league really inbred and bad.
Do we have any takers
For games without Quakers?
Without us you'll rue what you had!  

If you only consider travel, we're a closer trip for many schools than E&H.  Besides, do you think anyone at some of the other schools you mentioned really understands iambic pentameter and can write a limerick that rhymes with Lynchburg?  lol  If you vote out the Quakers, let me know and I'll call Catholic.   Their football team will also have to go!    One other alternative for you - change the name of the league and the geographic dilemma will no longer exist.  lol  How about the Virginia Aristocratic Conference Using One Unwanted Stepchild?  That way we could be VACUOUS, the Conference.  Only kidding!  Seriously, Guilford's a great academic fit for the conference and in DIII, I think that does - and should - carry a lot of weight.  

[Mr. Ypsi]

hasanova, GREAT post - +K.

Congrats on the car - WOW! 37 years (I think my record is about 11).

My all-time favorite was a '63 Corvair convertible (which my dad thought was such a death trap [probably correctly, plus it spit oil at the rate of a quart every 2-300 miles], that he 'gave' me [$200] his '70 Falcon.  I'm not sure a Falcon was THAT much of a step up from a Corvair, but at least it wasn't a Pinto (in which case I'd have to wonder about his paternal love)!

My only critique on the limerick is that I think 'rue' replacing 'regret' makes that last line better metrically.

[hasanova]

hasanova, GREAT post - +K.

Congrats on the car - WOW! 37 years (I think my record is about 11).

My all-time favorite was a '63 Corvair convertible (which my dad thought was such a death trap [probably correctly, plus it spit oil at the rate of a quart every 2-300 miles], that he 'gave' me [$200] his '70 Falcon.  I'm not sure a Falcon was THAT much of a step up from a Corvair, but at least it wasn't a Pinto (in which case I'd have to wonder about his paternal love)!

My only critique on the limerick is that I think 'rue' replacing 'regret' makes that last line better metrically.

Ralph Nader's book "Unsafe at Any Speed" had a lot to do with the demise of the Corvair, but I still see a few restored cars around town from time to time.

Rue it is.  I agree, that sounds better.  I now rue my original choice of regret.  Poetry on the fly is sometimes not as solid as it could be.  Great wordsmithing takes time.  Thanks.