Talk of adding football at VCU.

**Tribe4SF** · October 28th, 2008, 06:28 AM

From today's Richmond Times Dispatch.

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/sports...0-28-0078.html

**MplsBison** · October 28th, 2008, 07:15 AM

If VCU adds football, does George Mason follow?

**andy7171** · October 28th, 2008, 07:18 AM

Originally Posted by MplsBison

If VCU adds football, does George Mason follow?

I believe Mason already has a club level football team and have been rumored to want to move up in the past. Can Virginia really support all these football schools?

**Appstate29** · October 28th, 2008, 07:26 AM

Originally Posted by andy7171

I believe Mason already has a club level football team and have been rumored to want to move up in the past. Can Virginia really support all these football schools?

My guess is brass at UVA and Va Tech privately work against this move by potential competitors, UNC-Ch and UNC-Raleigh worked very hard for UNC-C to not get a team.

**Tribe4SF** · October 28th, 2008, 07:28 AM

Originally Posted by andy7171

I believe Mason already has a club level football team and have been rumored to want to move up in the past. Can Virginia really support all these football schools?

Sure! It just means Towson won't get anymore VA recruits.

**purplepeopleeaterv2** · October 28th, 2008, 07:29 AM

Originally Posted by andy7171

I believe Mason already has a club level football team and have been rumored to want to move up in the past. Can Virginia really support all these football schools?

Yes. Also not we get a lot of folks from Maryland as well.

**Tribe4SF** · October 28th, 2008, 07:30 AM

Originally Posted by Appstate29

My guess is brass at UVA and Va Tech privately work against this move by potential competitors, UNC-Ch and UNC-Raleigh worked very hard for UNC-C to not get a team.

Sorry, but that's just silly.

**purplepeopleeaterv2** · October 28th, 2008, 07:30 AM

Originally Posted by Appstate29

My guess is brass at UVA and Va Tech privately work against this move by potential competitors, UNC-Ch and UNC-Raleigh worked very hard for UNC-C to not get a team.

VT and (especially) UVA won't have much if any say on whether VCU gets a football team or not. VCU is their own driving force. Actually you could make the claim that JMU, ODU, and VCU have just about as much clout and pull as UVA or VT.

**Cobblestone** · October 28th, 2008, 07:34 AM

I hope they're successful. I didn't see any talk about what conference they'd play in, I'd have to think the CAA. This is looking more and more like the CAA will soon be a Virginia conference (to include Towson) with the northern schools breaking off. I wouldn't be surprised to see this happen and the old Yankee Conference returning with a few new faces from the north.

Foreman Field? WOW! I'm glad to hear it is still there. I can remember going to see the Norfolk Neptunes play there in the late 60's or early 70's when I was a kid living in Norfolk, VA.

If anyone remembers that team and league then you're a dinosaur.