Patriot League Expansion?

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

http://thebrownandwhite.com/2015/10/...ll-scheduling/

If so, I wish St. Francis would jump to the Patriot League. The NEC is a sinking, stagnating ship.

[LeopardBall10]

Been hashed, re-hashed, and re-re-hashed. They try to add someone every year, but the AI and no redshirting make it a nonstarter for most regional FCS teams. And I know DFW is going to be hot on my trail, but the possible "academic peers" to add to the league or few and far between. The same list of candidates get cylced through each year and each year they say, "Not interested."

[LeopardBall10]

Not to mention that the student reporter from the Brown and White, while I am sure he is very good at writing a for the campus paper, has no idea what he is talking about.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

I thought the article was good. It wasn't about expansion per se, it was more of an exploration of the challenges of PL scheduling, and on that note it hits everything pretty much on the head.

Having said that, LB10 is correct in that when it comes to expansion, the candidates don't change much.

Personally my favorite solution is BU and Loyola restarting football. Nine football schools, 8 conference/3 OOC games, and nothing to mess up the other sports. If you start looking at adding all-sports members, they almost have to come in as a pair to make 12 teams, like Monmouth/Bryant, Marist/SFPA, or something like that. And that's before the inevitable snootiness battle about how all of these candidates shouldn't be actively considered "because we're more dignified than that" or some other asinine argument.

[ColgateTD]

We're more dignified than accepting schools such as BU, Loyola, Sacred Heart and their ilk. Let's keep the PL pure.

[RichH2]

Been hashed, re-hashed, and re-re-hashed. They try to add someone every year, but the AI and no redshirting make it a nonstarter for most regional FCS teams. And I know DFW is going to be hot on my trail, but the possible "academic peers" to add to the league or few and far between. The same list of candidates get cylced through each year and each year they say, "Not interested."

Really should go back and get cites for the 47 prior threads on this topic.
Read article this AM. Well researched and written but nothing we havn't said before.
Coen's comment on the difficulty of scheduling so many OOC games was intetesting.
The topic wont die until we either expand or disband.

[Pard4Life]

A PATRIOT LEAGUE EXPANSION THREAD!?!??!?!??!?!?

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

I apologize if I inadvertently rehashed an old theme.

[Lehigh'98]

It's OK, good article. Coen sounds so soft saying he doesn't want to go play better teams on the west coast. One game every 2-3 yrs out there, perhaps a home and home, would be a great challenge for the team and measuring stick for the program. Wish he wouldn't have said that.

[RichH2]

I apologize if I inadvertently rehashed an old theme.

No sweat Knight. If you hsdn't ,a PL poster would have . Just frustration. We all know expansion is important but until either we change (unlikely) or the landscape does (hopefully),nothing will happen.