FCS Schools without Rivalry Games

[DFW HOYA]

Not every FCS school gets a rivalry game like Harvard-Yale, Lehigh-Lafayette, or ND-NDSU. Some don't have any rivalry games. I can think of at least a 15 or more FCS schools which seem to have no particular rivalries (as opposed to longer series, which of themselves are not rivalries). Which teams in your conference never developed a rivalry game or opponent, and why?

[gravalico]

Well there is no doubt that Lafayette vs. Lehigh is a result of two very similarly ranked schools separated literally by less than 20 miles. It's a territorial thing at heart.

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[MR. CHICKEN]

......HENS....LEAVE... 'NOVA...WHIF NO RIVALRY............BAWK!

.....MAYBE...START ANEW WHIFF....MONMOUTH....&...MUHAWKS...AWK!

.....OR....UH THREESOME.....WHIFF BILL & MARY...........BRAWK!

[ngineer]

......HENS....LEAVE... 'NOVA...WHIF NO RIVALRY............BAWK!

.....MAYBE...START ANEW WHIFF....MONMOUTH....&...MUHAWKS...AWK!

.....OR....UH THREESOME.....WHIFF BILL & MARY...........BRAWK!

why can’t UD and Nova play OOC game?😉 Oops! Have to be a “payday” game! Only alternative…join the PL and two rivalries can start within 50 mile radius.

[MR. CHICKEN]

why can’t UD and Nova play OOC game? Oops! Have to be a “payday” game! Only alternative…join the PL and two rivalries can start within 50 mile radius.

...WOOD UD EVEN WANT ANY PART UH WILDCATS....AFTER GOIN' FBS?.......TEMPLE STOPPED PLAYIN' US...'CAUSE WHEN WE WON....THEY LOOKED BAD.....AN' WHEN THEY WON....IT WAS EXPECTED...AWK!

[Gangtackle11]

why can’t UD and Nova play OOC game? Oops! Have to be a “payday” game! Only alternative…join the PL and two rivalries can start within 50 mile radius.

Given what has happened to the CAA in recent years (losing JMU & Delaware) it could make sense for Nova to align with schools in the Patriot. The Academic Index would change the type of student-athlete gets to some degree. We’ve dominated the PL for a long time w/o adhering to the AI.

Any savings in football is seen as a good thing to most of our leaders & alum. Many want to spend $$$ in hoops, track & field, etc. The CAA means little to most at Nova & they certainly aren’t entertaining a move up. That ship sailed in 2011.

The Patriot League makes a lot of sense now. Its still a long putt for those who support football here.

[Go...gate]

Given what has happened to the CAA in recent years (losing JMU & Delaware) it could make sense for Nova to align with schools in the Patriot. The Academic Index would change the type of student-athlete gets to some degree. We’ve dominated the PL for a long time w/o adhering to the AI.

Any savings in football is seen as a good thing to most of our leaders & alum. Many want to spend $$$ in hoops, track & field, etc. The CAA means little to most at Nova & they certainly aren’t entertaining a move up. That ship sailed in 2011.

The Patriot League makes a lot of sense now. Its still a long putt for those who support football here.

Thank you. We would welcome you wholeheartedly. It might even encourage programs like Georgetown and Bucknell to bring themselves into line with the rest of the conference.

[DFW HOYA]

Thank you. We would welcome you wholeheartedly. It might even encourage programs like Georgetown and Bucknell to bring themselves into line with the rest of the conference.

FWIW, Bucknell spends more on football now than Lehigh: $6,319,656 in 2021-22. As for Georgetown, the league had an opportunity in 2011 to require minimum scholarship funding for each school and they chose not to do it. In short, it's a marriage of convenience between a one-bid FCS league that can't attract better expansion targets with a program that is significantly underfunded but cannot justify doubling the school's total existing men's scholarships merely to finish in fourth place instead of fifth.

[Sitting Bull]

I think the CAA has several already;
W&M/Richmond
Maine/UNH
UAlbany/Stony Brook

A few others that could develop
Elon/Campbell
Hampton/NC A&T

Villanova/Delaware will disappear but I don’t think it will bother the Cats fans that much. I think they could probably look at Holy Cross or even Georgetown even though both would be OOC.

Delaware can pick up Middle Tennessee, maybe Kennesaw. What a freakin mess.

[MR. CHICKEN]

I think the CAA has several already;
W&M/Richmond
Maine/UNH
UAlbany/Stony Brook

A few others that could develop
Elon/Campbell
Hampton/NC A&T

Villanova/Delaware will disappear but I don’t think it will bother the Cats fans that much. I think they could probably look at Holy Cross or even Georgetown even though both would be OOC.

Delaware can pick up Middle Tennessee, maybe Kennesaw. What a freakin mess.

.......UH OOC RIVALRY GAME.....EVERAH SO MANY YEARS APART?......JES' START SLAPPIN' TOWSON AROUND.....BRAWK!

...YEAH...WE KNOW YER UNHAPPY WHIFF UD.....WE WON'T FO'GET....'CAUSE YA KEEP ON TELLIN' US.......PROLLY...SAM HOUSTON...TA BEGIN WHIFF.........AWK!