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Originally Posted by bob
I guess I don’t know enough about those Temple or JM teams, but OD was 0-3 and had lost 52-10 to Liberty earlier this year.
Why was VT even playing at OD to begin with?
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Old Dominion is part of the state system, so maybe it was politically suggested, or they looked at it like you can do it as a 2 for 1 or home & home and the game at ODU lets more alumni in the Eastern part of the state go watch a game? ODU is in the Norfolk/Hampton Roads/Virginia Beach metroplex, while Blacksburg is 5 hours west in the mountains. Thinking about it more, that area ODU is in is also a very fertile recruiting ground.
(UMass basketball always plays a team near Boston, and I can remember the time we lost to Northeastern in Jose Juan Barea's coming out party.)