[jcmanson]

Hopefully next year will be our year to experience the play offs and win a CAA game.

Do we play a game against the CAA next year?

Not unless we meet one in the playoffs

[districtballer]

As for the comments regarding ODU's student section, it doesn't seem fair to compare student sections with a playoff game that took place during thanksgiving break, especially considering ODU's still a commuter school by and large.

ODU has for several reasons surpassed everyone at the FCS level in the state, and they have the best shot at being called up to the FBS of anyone at that level.

Trust me, as a VCU fan that's a hard thing to say, but ODU has maybe the most enviable position from a conference realignment standpoint of anyone at the FCS level.

They do sports right at ODU, and that is a credit to the strong athletic department there and support for their programs from a community starved for big-time sports. It's a perfect situation for ODU and they have done well to take advantage of it.

[01LUGrad]

As for the comments regarding ODU's student section, it doesn't seem fair to compare student sections with a playoff game that took place during thanksgiving break, especially considering ODU's still a commuter school by and large.

Which means that the students were still in town for the game, but weren't at the game, right?

Don't get me wrong. ODU has incredible support from the area. I know because I live here. They just don't have incredible support from the students yet. Hopefully that will change as the wins pile up.

ODU and Liberty have completely opposite problems. ODU can't get the students to show up, but can't provide enough tickets for the locals who want to attend the games. Liberty has an amazing student section and has to give tickets away in an attempt to fill the home side of the stadium. We are kind of like comic book heroes and vilians to each other.

[districtballer]

As for the comments regarding ODU's student section, it doesn't seem fair to compare student sections with a playoff game that took place during thanksgiving break, especially considering ODU's still a commuter school by and large.

Which means that the students were still in town for the game, but weren't at the game, right?

Sure, but you don't think thanksgiving break wouldn't further exacerbate that issue in the game that's being discussed? They gave away 3 times the number of tickets they were mandated to be sold to the opposing team as a courtesy to NSU, something they didn't have to do. Those included a ton of student tickets that ended up becoming NSU general admission. There were a whole lot of ticked ODU students that didn't get in. A ton of people got turned away from this, a playoff game. Obviously these games are notorious for being poor attendance games, but not so for ODU. They probably have the best student section in the CAA when it comes to football. They fill the section pretty much every game, they stand and stay until the very end every game. That's not true for a lot of other CAA schools including James Madison.

Either way the support for ODU football overall far surpasses any other FCS school in the state right now. They could be easily filling a 30,000 seat stadium every game right now if they were able to get the facility to contain them. That's why they aren't comparable to any other program at that level. Their ceiling is much higher than anyone else in the CAA and they could conceivably give very real trouble to UVA and Virginia Tech in the future as a member of a BCS conference in the next couple of decades. ODU's attendance at this game was more than all the other opening playoff game attendances combined.

[jcmanson]

ODU does not have a better student section in terms of numbers than LU