Hampton on Oct. 30

   Let's get something straight here: ODU football doesn't need games against teams like Georgetown anymore.

   While Georgetown was a convenient opponent for the upstart Monarchs in their first season of football this past fall, the Hoyas would have been annihilated a second time around. The 31-10 pasting ODU put on Georgetown at Foreman Field this past fall was a gift-wrapped 21-point defeat. That's right, I said defeat: ODU took it easy on the Hoyas.

   A bigger, better, stronger, faster ODU would have buried Georgetown at the 50-yard line this coming fall. Georgetown is not committed to playing competitive football and there's no sugar-coated way to say that. ODU is committed.

   So breaking the contract that had ODU returning the trip this coming fall was a wise thing to do on everyone's part.

   Hench, ODU will visit Hampton. It's a skewed version of Battle of the Bay (oops, I said it). I know, the Battle of the Bay moniker is supposed to ride with Hampton and Norfolk State. And now I've dropped Norfolk State into the equation. Sure, ODU should have scored a game with Norfolk State before a game with Hampton. But don't blame ODU for this one.

   Norfolk State's schedule doesn't have a lot of room on it to squeeze in ODU. There's the weathered meeting every year with Virginia State (Tell me why these two schools still face off annually? Because I don't get it). And there's the game where NSU travels to some I-A and gets hammered for money (Sounds suspiciously like the beginning of the movie Rocky; like NSU , Rocky had some bills to pay along the way). So ODU and NSU is going to take some time to reach (Like, don't expect that game until 2013).

   As for ODU fans who wanted to make a road trip to Georgetown, walk the stairs where they filmed the ultimate climax scene in The Exorcist and watch the Monarchs pummel the Hoyas on a mult-purpose field not built for football, there are better things to do on a Saturday.

   Like go to Hampton for a football game. It's a heckuva lot closer.

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