FB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[HansenRatings]

Just posted on Twitter: 2025 Conference Preview

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[rmc1982]

rmc1982, Macon -- were either of you at Pedro's Breakfast? If so, anything to share?

I didn't go but a bunch of my Football Alum friends went. Pedro never reveals much ANY TIME he speaks about his team but privately we are cautiously optimistic we return to the playoffs and get at least one home game. Im not hearing much YET- in a week or so we probably will scrimmage CNU or someone similar- then we may know more. We return a good number of kids and ,as any of you know who follow ODAC Football, Pedro runs a pretty tight ship and turns out young men who make us all proud-on and off the field! GO JACKETS!!

[thescottharris]

Regarding FloSports, it's a distribution deal. The schools are still 100% responsible for production. 

Alas, I have watched my last online stream of any ODAC teams. This is basically the final nail in the coffin for that. But all the other nails that sealed the coffin is a whole other topic that I could go on and on about and this is not the proper place to do it, plus I doubt any of your care anyway lol.

Alas, unless I was told or remember incorrectly, schools are going to be required at some point to improve production values. Lynchburg might be mostly in the clear there already given what they do but even some of their stuff won't meet the requirements I remember being told. 

But that's a requirement that could prove to be pretty challenging for at least some of the schools if not most to all.

I know when I was at Hampden-Sydney I frequently struggled to staff the bare bones operation. Like you think I was happy to run a crappy one-camera setup with maybe one announcer - if I'm lucky - for anything outside of football and basketball? No, but I would often struggle to properly staff that. When the basketball team became a dumpster fire I was literally begging people to work. Like literally out here using child labor (legally, of course) because I couldn't get anyone else to work.

Now it will eventually have to eventually be like 4 cameras? And we're talking a school here that generally only has two games going in one day. 

What's a school going to when they have like basketball, baseball, softball, lacrosse, tennis, etc. all running on the same day? Get the coaches to collectively work together on scheduling so it doesn't screw over the athletics comms departments that are likely going to continue to be the one having to 100% carry the burden of having to make all this happen? That will be a cold day in hell when that happens.

[Pat Coleman]

Yes, as you get into the later years of the contracts, the production from the schools has to escalate. That's consistent with their other contracts.