On the bright side, Marshall, Coastal, and USM all suck defending the run. If the offense is going to get better they better take advantage while they can.

Passing isn't great either. ODU is last in SBC in yards per attempt and last in sacks allowed with 32.

This isn't going to be some long winding post about our history or this season or whatever. Just, Heinicke is our best player ever, and probably will be for a very long time. And this is how he gets honored tonight, with an absolutely miserable game. Just embarrassing. He deserved to have a stadium full of ODU fans, proud of their school rooting for a winning team. And I'm not blaming the fans, they didn't schedule this event for Thursday night, they didn't shunt Heinicke's honoring to the 1st qtr break, they didn't coach/lead this godawful team. The ODU administration should be downright ashamed.

I left this as a comment on the article regarding JMU’s move to the AAC, but felt it deserved its own post to discuss:

Good for them and all, but this has me seething. Not because JMU don’t deserve it, they very much do, but because this truly shows how far ODU has fallen since our move to FBS.

When we moved up we were the team with all the hype, we were beating teams like VT that we weren’t supposed to beat, we made the Bahamas bowl in our 1st or 2nd year, everything was looking up.

Then we got complacent, hired Rahne, and said “well I guess we hit the mountaintop.”

Sports for JMU has been an absolute gamechanger for their university. Their sports program has elevated their national stock, increased exposure to their school, brought in more students, brought in a ton of money and sponsorships for academic programs, and more. JMU football has won the conference multiple times and made a CFB playoff.

What has ODU done in that same time?

Lost overall student enrollment, lowered applications across the board, stagnant sports that are honestly a joke (looking at you football and basketball), lost any momentum we had when we made the jump, have had ONE winning season since 2020. Just absolutely ass.

And the worst part is when someone displays any type of discontent the response from most ODU fans is “well what do you expect from them? Do you think we’ll actually be good at stuff? Being good at stuff is so hard!!”

JMU went from our little brother that we used to beat up for fun to a school that’s moved past us without even trying. JMU fans are upset they SETTLED for the AAC over the ACC.

Think about that. JMU fans have a program that they legitimately believe could be a P4 school and here we are arguing whether a 6 win season is a success or not.

At this rate, ODU has a better chance of rejoining the FCS than finding any real FBS success.

I’m so supremely disappointed in all things ODU lately.