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That's fair. Troxell is in great shape, Sgarlata too but for different reasons, and everyone else is under some expectation to improve in 2024.

There's no hot seat in Patriot Land:

Everyone Is Happy: Troxell, Dakosty
New: Curran
Relatively New: Cahill
No Issues Yet: Conlin
Fit For Purpose: Sgarlata, Cecchini

It's all about definition, of course. I tend to associate elite with exclusive, and many of these schools are not altogether exclusive:

Elon: 74%
Stony Brook: 49%
Delaware: 73%
Drexel: 79%
...

Excepting W&M, I'm not sure any of the CAA full members are that elite, and UD is the only flagship of the bunch.

If the Dayton Rule was ever repealed, no one except Davidson and the Midwest Pioneer schools would go back.

I wish Nova and Georgetown would commit to a long-term scheduling arrangement similar to the one you had with Lehigh.

The PL needs Bucknell, and Georgetown in particular, to right themselves.

https://twitter.com/Reddit_FCS/status/1775959656227029338

Patriot League could expand with...
+ Duquesne
+ Robert Morris

(ducks...)

Have any PL schools picked up talent in the transfer portal?

How many seasons of Davidson, Sacred Heart, and Marist is appropriate?

Six of the seven PL schools have a FBS opponent, well done.

Thanks for the correction--with five 5th years starting last fall on offense per the media notes, this may not be as concerning if the depth is there.

This is a misleading headline-- it compares five FCS schools that draw playoff revenue and good attendance with low(er) rates of tuition and operating expenses, but you can't extrapolate that "FCS...

The off-season, in summary:

Lafayette: Confident
Colgate: Encouraged
Lehigh: Hopeful
Holy Cross, Fordham: Rebuilding
Bucknell, Georgetown: No changes

On what basis?

In hindsight, probably. This was from the NACUBO survey but it appears not all schools were in their survey of 697 schools. The only D-I school listed I could find below this was Utah Tech (the...

The problem isn't the name, it's demographics. Western Pennsylvania is losing college age population and Moon Township can't compete with State College or points east.

Of 362 Division I schools,...

No team has joined in 24 years (Georgetown joined in 2000 for the 2001 season). In realignment circles, that's practically never. Here's what college football looked like in 2000:

1. The ACC had...

No one joins the Patriot League.

Another reason why Northeast football is struggling: poor conference management.

The NEC has become little more than Division II callups.
The CAA is elongated and its veteran members are...

If it could, would HC would play fewer PL opponents (code named "B" & "G") if it could instead play more local opponents?

As for Howard, the culture of the Mecca does not look outward and losing to Georgetown is not well received there.

Club sports run independently of the college are not subject to Title IX, nor are collectives.

Title IX is bad law in its application. It was never meant to address sports.

Still wondering why Towson (or Villanova) can't/won't schedule Georgetown. DC is literally an hour from Towson's campus.