NORFOLK, Va. - Athletic director Wood Selig stepped to the podium last Thursday night at Virginia Beach Town Center, and without notes, spoke passionately for more than an hour to more than 60 of the University's major donors.
His topic? Old Dominion has to raise more money if the football program is going to be successful. ODU, he said, needs $5 million to supplement the football budget over the next five years.
That wasn't necessarily an easy sell. Donors were a little tapped out after the Old Dominion Athletic Foundation raised $10 million for the $67.