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Post by purplehaze on Jun 4, 2020 10:33:03 GMT -5
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Post by lou on Jun 4, 2020 10:47:46 GMT -5
Your topic could also read RMU TO MAAC? according to this reporting
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Post by rf1 on Jun 4, 2020 11:33:26 GMT -5
Neither conference has FCS football for RMU. One wonders if they are considering dropping the sport.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jun 4, 2020 12:04:07 GMT -5
Looking at a Basketball-only move. All other sports stay put. Not dropping FB.
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Post by timholycross on Jun 4, 2020 12:34:46 GMT -5
They only have one bus trip less than 100 miles now. Fairly Ridiculous, LIU, StF NY and Wagner are around 375 miles. CCSU and Bryant are 463 and 542, respectively. Merrimack is around the same as Bryant.I
The NEC is a Metro NY/NJ/Conn league primarily, so a move to the MAAC would in effect be a trade-off of one set of schools in those areas for another set.
They'd have to go to Albany and Poughkeepsie versus going to Mass. and RI. Buffalo instead of The Mount (almost identical distance).
Distance and time wise to the Horizon schools is not significantly different and in some ways may be easier if you fly.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jun 4, 2020 12:38:22 GMT -5
Looking at a Basketball-only move. All other sports stay put. Not dropping FB. I thought the NCAA has a rule that a school can't join a conference for basketball only. The only sport that enjoys an exception to that conference affiliation rule is football. |
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Post by timholycross on Jun 4, 2020 12:45:03 GMT -5
Well, if the NEC has Duquense for football only, they'd probably want to keep RMU. If that was the case, then RMU would most likely go to the MAAC for everything else. The Horizon is feasible if you fly to Chicago, Green Bay and Milwaukee. Gets expensive if it's more than just men's and women's basketball
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Post by bison137 on Jun 4, 2020 13:07:05 GMT -5
Well, if the NEC has Duquense for football only, they'd probably want to keep RMU. If that was the case, then RMU would most likely go to the MAAC for everything else. The Horizon is feasible if you fly to Chicago, Green Bay and Milwaukee. Gets expensive if it's more than just men's and women's basketball When Monmouth left the NEC, they wanted to continue in the NEC for football. NEC would not allow it. Thus Monmouth was forced into the Big South. |
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Post by timholycross on Jun 5, 2020 9:18:43 GMT -5
If that's the standard they want to adhere to, then RMU will either end up independent in football or find another conference, like the Big South. Or, I guess, discontinue the sport, you never know these days.
I don't think I'd want them in the Patriot League, Bucknell and Georgetown are long enough trips IMHO.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jun 5, 2020 11:33:08 GMT -5
If RMU leaves, one would think St. Francis (PA), which is also in the Pittsburgh area, would also leave. The closest all-sports member to them would be who, Wagner?
And then at that point, maybe the NEC caves and allows the pair to stay in as football affiliates, rather than lose TWO teams?
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Post by bison137 on Jun 5, 2020 12:31:06 GMT -5
If RMU leaves, one would think St. Francis (PA), which is also in the Pittsburgh area, would also leave. The closest all-sports member to them would be who, Wagner? And then at that point, maybe the NEC caves and allows the pair to stay in as football affiliates, rather than lose TWO teams? I doubt anyone would want St. Francis. RMU has a beautiful new arena and is in the suburbs of a major city. Thus desirable as a new member for a midwestern league. St. Francis otoh has an old gym and is in the middle of nowhere. SF is about 130 miles - less than 2.5 hours - from Mt. St. Mary's. |
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