If you're talking about Men's Basketball, American actually wasn't that bad year over year in the old CAA. They just never performed in the conference tournament the years they were good. And even...
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If you're talking about Men's Basketball, American actually wasn't that bad year over year in the old CAA. They just never performed in the conference tournament the years they were good. And even...
Idaho didn't have an FBS league that would take them, otherwise they'd still be up there. After the WAC folded, they couldn't get an invite to the Mountain West or the Sun Belt, where they had been...
Holy Cross and Colgate are in same boat as liberal arts colleges. Lehigh and Bucknell are technically universities but are mainly liberal arts with limited grad programs. Redshirts just require a...
Navy was a "founding member" of the Patriot League when it became a full DI conference in 1991. From 1986-1990 it was a football league only. Original league was 8 teams -- Army, Navy, Fordham,...
And they lost to JMU in the semis in 2004. UNH's best team lost to Illinois State in the semis in 2014 I believe.
I could be wrong, but I think it's less about Richmond strong-arming the Patriot League into a more favorable redshirt policy than it is recognizing the role COVID 5th years played for Holy Cross and...
Apples to oranges, sort of. The A-10 took over the league banner in 1997 after it was the Yankee Conference. At that time, none of the 4 schools you mentioned would have had the desire to join the...
Remember it's not all about football. The CAA was looking to refill it's ranks as far as all-sports membership, which resulted in a bloated football conference.
I have nothing against C-USA and am more bullish on its future than I was 6 months ago for sure. Just pointing out that comparing the Sun Belt to CUSA now is not really valid. The Sun Belt was a...
Here's my thought: CAA is actively trying to get Albany to join for all sports and very well could look to poach Bryant in the near future. Why wouldn't the AE schools want to hedge against that AND...
No but they have a lot in common with Marshall, Old Dominion, App State, Coastal Carolina and Georgia Southern. Not really a similar comparison for Delaware in CUSA, sorry.
The Ivy League doesn't allow medical redshirting or allow graduate students to play sports. Two ridiculously archaic rules IMO. Especially since every Ivy League school not only has grad programs,...
The ball definitely seemed to bounce our way during the Chesney era. Seemed the opposite when we had Gilmore. Winning programs create their own luck.
With regards to Sluka, Holy Cross would've...
Couple factors worth noting:
1) W&M is now the clear "flagship all-sports member in the CAA, both academically and athletically overall. They are at the head of the table. Before UD left, I...
The Patriot League is actually much stronger than people probably realize in minor sports. That being said, it would currently be a downgrade for W&M in their three most important sports => football,...
The "implosion" of CAA football occurs if the northern schools leave to form America East Football. The ball is actually squarely in the court of UNH, URI, Bryant Maine and Albany in that regard. CAA...
It's my understanding, from what I hear from insiders, that the Patriot League is now going to allow non-medical redshirts. The Holy Cross squads of 2022 and 2023 were built upon 5th years with COVID...
Before I jump into the back and worth of this thread, just wanted to say welcome aboard Richmond! I'm still salty you guys got into the playoffs over us last year but the Spiders were the more...
Random thought since this is a Missouri State thread:
Is MSU the first school in history to end up in a weaker football conference AND a weaker basketball conference by jumping to FBS?
Not...
I think you'll ultimately see 3 divisions in football:
1) The semi-pro division of the Top 50-70 schools => this group may decouple from the traditional conference structure. This will ultimately...
You probably would know better than me. I just don't see SBU being attractive from the eyes of a G5 conference anytime in the next 20 years. What about Albany?
DFW has opined that Georgetown faces tougher AI restrictions than the rest of the PL because the average HS GPA's and SAT's of the student body at Georgetown are higher than those of the other PL...
**Shrug**
I think I called this move in another thread maybe 3 days ago? Good luck to MSU. Don't think you'll be missed too much around here though.
Literally a step down in competition in...
CAA will survive but it's basically turning into Big South 2.0 with a wider geographic footprint. The bigger blow in football would be the New England schools leaving to form A-East Football.
I...