EPJr
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THE VCU v. ODU RIVALRY
VCU/ODU: The Rivalry Is Just Different…
Old Dominion and VCU rejoin the battle tomorrow in Norfolk at 4:00pm, typically with a shot at first place in the conference on the line.
New fans may not fully understand the depth and length of the rivalry, which spans more than 30 years, two conferences and 82 games. VCU leads the series 42-40. The teams have split six CAA tournament games and knocked each other out of the past two CAA tournaments.
It’s a bizarre association that extends off the playing floor and into the coaching ranks. Eddie Webb was an assistant at VCU for 10 seasons. His father is Paul Webb, who won 196 games at Old Dominion. Jeff Capel ushered in a basketball revival at VCU. The younger Capel was an assistant on the ODU bench prior to landing the VCU job, and his father coached ODU to its 1995 NCAA tournament victory over Villanova.
It’s different when these two get together. Even former players understand that when these two teams get together, it’s different. “It was always a knock-down drag-out,” recalls Rodney Ashby, who played at VCU in the early 1990s. “We knew as players our fans took ODU, by far and away, more seriously than Richmond. The fans are a huge part of it. They just do not get along. At all. You see the venom that our fans and boosters have for ODU and it translates to the team and how you play.”
http://www.caahoops.com/2011/01/vcuodu-t...different/
(This post was last modified: 01-23-2011 11:45 PM by EPJr.)
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01-22-2011 10:59 PM |
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