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Post by hchoops on Oct 29, 2021 8:55:34 GMT -5
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Post by trimster on Oct 29, 2021 9:41:32 GMT -5
Apparently it is for football only but Husky supporters are apoplectic about it over on the Boneyard Board.
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Post by trimster on Oct 29, 2021 9:48:00 GMT -5
Sounds like Hampton and Howard have moved front and center on CAA replacement/expansion talks.
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Post by purplehaze on Oct 29, 2021 10:55:24 GMT -5
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Post by timholycross on Oct 29, 2021 11:21:04 GMT -5
Well, if CUSA wanted a football team around here, why wouldn't they want two?
You knew this was going to end badly when they started playing at Gillette against MAC teams that very few New England folks would want to see. And I'd much prefer Fitton to McGuirk with the same number of fans in each of them.
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Post by alum on Oct 29, 2021 11:29:04 GMT -5
Without going over to Boneyard to see what those whackos are yelling about, I have to say that no casual Connecticut sports fans will think that Conference USA is any more appealing than the AAC or the independent route.
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 29, 2021 11:34:15 GMT -5
Does UConn have any "casual" sports fans?
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Post by DFW HOYA on Oct 29, 2021 12:28:52 GMT -5
Looks a zillion times better than PL football. Patriot League Football Bucknell Lehigh Lafayette Delaware Villlanova Towson William and Mary Elon Richmond Georgetown There may be a roadblock in that plan.
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Post by longsuffering on Oct 29, 2021 14:44:28 GMT -5
Looks a zillion times better than PL football. Patriot League Football Bucknell Lehigh Lafayette Delaware Villlanova Towson William and Mary Elon Richmond Georgetown There may be a roadblock in that plan. Only leaves two OOC games one to rotate among all our traditional regional FCS foes and now that we have a taste of FBS low hanging fruit and the six figure check that goes with it, an FBS game.
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Post by hcpride on Oct 29, 2021 14:57:32 GMT -5
Looks a zillion times better than PL football. America East Football Maine New Hampshire Rhode Island Holy Cross Stony Brook Albany Fordham Colgate Patriot League Football Bucknell Lehigh Lafayette Delaware Villlanova Towson William and Mary Elon Richmond Georgetown There may be a roadblock in that plan. I can think of a 100 or more roadblocks to it. It is one Lehigh blogger's fantasy. lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2021/10/if-patriot-league-thought-bigger-this.html
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Post by Ignutz on Oct 29, 2021 15:38:09 GMT -5
There may be a roadblock in that plan. Only leaves two OOC games one to rotate among all our traditional regional FCS foes and now that we have a taste of FBS low hanging fruit and the six figure check that goes with it, an FBS game. Said our friend, Ed Zachary.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 29, 2021 17:41:59 GMT -5
Looks a zillion times better than PL football. Patriot League Football Bucknell Lehigh Lafayette Delaware Villlanova Towson William and Mary Elon Richmond Georgetown There may be a roadblock in that plan. This is fake news.
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Post by cruskater31 on Nov 1, 2021 11:48:31 GMT -5
If these Southern members left, I wonder if the CAA would be open to expanding with more northern teams...
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Post by timholycross on Nov 1, 2021 14:13:19 GMT -5
Villanova, Towson, Delaware, Albany, SBU, UNH, URI, Maine.... eight is perfect for football, imho. No league title game at this level to make 10 or more imperative.
Basketball's a different story however as only 2 of these football schools are in the league and there's only non-football NU, Drexel and Hofstra from the Northeast. Even if I missed a school (very possible, did this off the top of my head), six is a non-starter. Auto bid is gone.
If they asked me, I'd figure out a way to have the PL and the CAA redistribute the schools...but of course, my phone won't be ringing. Merging so two one bid leagues become one large one bid league doesn't do much for anybody.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Nov 1, 2021 15:47:52 GMT -5
If these Southern members left, I wonder if the CAA would be open to expanding with more northern teams... The Southern schools are not leaving jist because some hack with a fugasi Twitter account said so. College of Charleston and Elon each just paid a million big ones to get out of the SoCon. They're not going to pay another 1.3 in exit fees to go back. William & Mary is not leaving. The axis of the CAA lies between Newark DE and Williamsburg.
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Post by longsuffering on Nov 1, 2021 17:18:41 GMT -5
If these Southern members left, I wonder if the CAA would be open to expanding with more northern teams... The Southern schools are not leaving jist because some hack with a fugasi Twitter account said so. College of Charleston and Elon each just paid a million big ones to get out of the SoCon. They're not going to pay another 1.3 in exit fees to go back. William & Mary is not leaving. The axis of the CAA lies between Newark DE and Williamsburg. A million big ones is a lot of cotton and tobacco. HC has saved multi-millions by not jumping leagues every few years.
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Post by thecrossisback on Nov 1, 2021 20:55:00 GMT -5
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Nov 1, 2021 21:06:24 GMT -5
This will go one of two ways: 1) This ends up being too little too late and the conference still folds. 2) CUSA winds up bringing in an additional 6-8 FCS schools, possibly more. I could see CUSA approaching the Dakota and Montana schools as a group (+ Idaho who just dropped down) and creating two divisions.
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Post by hc87 on Nov 1, 2021 23:38:10 GMT -5
Maybe my bias, but I see no advantage for a school to be considered G5 rather than FCS....the schools at the G5 FBS-level are such a mish-mosh of "no one cares'...just a terrible level of football.
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Post by timholycross on Nov 2, 2021 7:27:50 GMT -5
I think the number of people watching/going to the FCS final versus the New Orleans Bowl might be a wash (or the FCS final might even do a little better)... unfortunately, when you compare the same bowl game versus the other FCS rounds, there's no comparison. Toiling in relative obscurity, just like D2 and D3, unfortunately.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Nov 2, 2021 8:44:08 GMT -5
Maybe my bias, but I see no advantage for a school to be considered G5 rather than FCS....the schools at the G5 FBS-level are such a mish-mosh of "no one cares'...just a terrible level of football. 8 of the top 25 are G5 schools. You may not care, but plenty do.
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Post by bfoley82 on Nov 2, 2021 11:01:12 GMT -5
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Post by hc2020 on Nov 2, 2021 13:41:18 GMT -5
Jacksonville St. and Sam Houston St. are reportedly contemplating a move to FBS and C-USA. If this happens and JMU follows suit, three of the best FCS football programs will be leaving for the FBS
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Nov 2, 2021 14:39:20 GMT -5
It seems inevitable that they will make the move
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Post by longsuffering on Nov 2, 2021 18:34:18 GMT -5
The "Power Five" conferences are not defined as such by the NCAA and the origin of the term is unknown. Which are the only two schools among the 65 members of these five conferences (SEC, ACC, Big 10, Big 12 and PAC 12) who have never won a national championship in any sport?
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