FB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[yellow jacket]

Macon 45, Denison 16, less than 2 minutes left.  Chalk 1 up for the supposed last place team in the ODAC 

[TheEHC52]

Emory 50, Ferrum 7.  Almost 300 yards rushing.  No back cracked the century mark, but FOUR backs had 50+.  Emory was also 6 of 6 for 6 TDs in the red zone.  Rough day for Ferrum.

[ace]

Broadcaster of the E&H game: "I don't know if anyone in Division 3 could beat E&H the way they are playing today"

Mount Union 72, Averett 0 @ half.

Let's not get carried away boys.

[ODACfan1]

we'rrrrrreeeeee baaaaacccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkk




GO WASPS

[mandfense]

Hopkins blocks a FG with 6 seconds left to hold on and beat Hampden-Sydney 17-16.  HSU missed an XP earler in the game.

[CNU85]

Halftime here in Bridgewater...

Bridgewater 28
McDaniel 3

Eagles' running back Phillip Carter has all four scores, all being rushing touchdowns.

Hey Matt,

That was the score that I anounced on the CNU broadcast on radio....also gave out a nice hello to Stone Station over the air!!

Man, did I have a blast doing radio today. I hope I didn't sound too bad! What a game to call for my first ever time on air.

Good job BC.....

[yellow jacket]

ManDefense.

How did Hopkins look?

[abnrgr]

Looked on GC-Q's and Southern Virgina's site. No score. Anybody know what happened or was it PP.

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

Looked on GC-Q's and Southern Virgina's site. No score. Anybody know what happened or was it PP.

Guilford beat Southern Virginia 70-26.

The ODAC put a lot of points on the board today.  Guilford 70, Emory & Henry 50, Bridgewater 45, Randolph-Macon 42.

Congrats to today's conference winners.  Catholic pulled out a close one against Shenandoah (7-6), while Sydney almost beat Hopkins (17-16).

More thoughts to come later!

[mandfense]

ManDefense.

How did Hopkins look?

Didn't watch the game.  Caught the end on the internet.

[Trenches]

Looked on GC-Q's and Southern Virgina's site. No score. Anybody know what happened or was it PP.

Guilford beat Southern Virginia 70-26.

The ODAC put a lot of points on the board today.  Guilford 70, Emory & Henry 50, Bridgewater 45, Randolph-Macon 42.

Congrats to today's conference winners.  Catholic pulled out a close one against Shenandoah (7-6), while Sydney almost beat Hopkins (17-16).

More thoughts to come later!

Nice job by the ODAC today!! I thought it was great to see most of these teams not only win, but to walk into another team's stadium and do it big in Week 1.

I unfortunately didn't get to listen to the GC game until about the last 3 minutes of the postgame show. Looking forward to reading the release and checking out the stats. Congrats again to the ODAC for a great start and GO QUAKE!!

[abnrgr]

A D2 school was Southern VA!! 70 Points.

[K-Mack]

I'll respond to the questions from 662, most notably "how do you improve a weak conference so it is strong nationally?" ... The ODAC is not all that far removed from getting a good amount of respect, based on what Bridgewater has done in the playoffs, so I don't know if it's a long term thing or not. It could be as simple as the ODAC having some young teams last year and most of them having a lot of experience back this year. Sometimes overall competitiveness & parity, which the ODAC has now, is a great goal to achieve, but teams can end up beating up on each other and no one team has the phenomenal year.

It happens.

Sorry for reviving old topics, now that we have some games to discuss, let's get on to that.

How 'bout them Jackets? Whaddya say?

I realize winning at Denison's not a huge achievement on the grand scale, but getting off on the right foot is. Finishing a team, getting a road win, beating who you're supposed to beat -- all good things. And considering a lot of ODAC-watchers thought, I guess, that the road trip was going to be too much ... I'm just really happy for the guys and hope they keep moving in the right direction.

Bridgewater, back in a big way, at least for a week. Emory & Henry = same. Catholic wins, and we assume Guilford is doing the same (I haven't seen the score yet).  (W&L doesn't get it on until next week, as most of you know)

Only H-SC lost, in a tight one.

I won't say I'm happy about it, I'm rooting for ODAC all around, plus they've got some good guys down in the Farmville area. But if it had to happen to anyone ...

[K-Mack]

Hopkins blocks a FG with 6 seconds left to hold on and beat Hampden-Sydney 17-16.  HSU missed an XP earler in the game.

Oh yikes, what a brutal way to lose.

[K-Mack]

     Not sure that I totally agree that it means nothing if a conference doesn't win consistently on the national level. Don't get me wrong, nothing would be finer than to be fellowshipping with Stone Station in Salem AND having an ODAC team (preferably the Tigers) playing for a national championship. Look at the buzz created by BC making it. Six years later and I think the Eagles are still riding the wave. It forever changed BC football as we knew it.
     Will an ODAC team return to Salem? Who knows, but there was a time not too many years ago that I wasn't sure whether an ODAC team could make a run deep into playoffs  in basketball. Look what VWC, H-S, GC, and R-M have done in the last 8-10 years. The bar has been raised.
     E&H and then BC have (to perhaps a lesser degree than hoops) done the same thing for ODAC football. Being able to maintain a program that is a threat to go deep in the playoffs over a long period of time is a very hard thing to do. How many have done it over an extended period of time? 
     Regardless, I have ODAC in my blood no matter what happens on the national level.   8)

Good points about the ODAC rep as a basketball league. Everyone has raised their level of play so that the champion of the league and a few runners up have to be taken seriously in the playoffs.

I don't think the ODAC is finished as a football league, for all we know it was an off year. But we're definitely fighting a lot of battles recruiting the same kids as other successful ODAC programs in the region, and with things looking up nearly everywhere, maybe that spreads the talent around, leaving no one dominant. And maybe in football it has a larger impact than in basketball, where a smaller concentration of talent (by sheer numbers) is needed to succeed to excel.

Just speculation though.

My main point with the other post is that Division III is huge, at 27 conferences and 238 teams ... no guarantee the top twenty, which is what I was responding to, features one team from each conference.

A good way for the conference to raise its profile, besides playoff wins, is by doing well in out-of-conference competition, top to bottom.

ODAC's at least 4-1 today, that's a good start.