Maine coach Jack Cosgrove: "Are they telling us we have to get something going? I don't know if there are any ready-made teams up our way to compete in our league."

URI athletic director Thorr Bjorn: "I would never speculate what makes sense for another school, but there's a lot of great I-AA football teams from eastern Pennsylvania north you could put together and play a competitive schedule where you don't need to get on an airplane."

OK, but how likely is this, really? And does this affect the glacial pace of Patriot thinking?

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