"EXCELLENT!!!
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/06/additon ... g-soon-caaRather than fret about growing too big too fast, maybe the league will say what the heck and just super-size it.
If it does, there are two schools that would be a geographic fit for the league - surely more of a fit than Georgia State. Adding them would be cost effective at a time when schools everywhere are looking to save wherever they can.
Two weeks ago, Fordham announced it would begin awarding football scholarships. Unless Fordham plans to use this to pressure the rest of the Patriot League to change its position, the school's days of playing in the non-scholarship league are numbered.
Then there is Stony Brook, whose entrance last season into the Big South Conference in football is anything but a natural fit. The school, which competes in the America East in 19 other sports, was having difficulty scheduling in football. Now, it finds itself in a league where the closest school (VMI) is 475 miles away.
Fordham is in New York City. Stony Brook is on Long Island. If the CAA were to absorb both, a natural northern division would emerge, with the dividing line being the Big Apple.
"We are so engrossed in the Big South that we haven't even looked at the idea of being in the CAA," Stony Brook athletic director Jim Fiore said. "But from an economic standpoint, I have to admit it makes sense. And right now, at every school across the country the No. 1 priority is cost-saving initiatives."
Absorb Fordham and Stony Brook and the CAA North could have those two, along with Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Northeastern, Maine, New Hampshire and Hofstra.
That would leave a CAA South with James Madison, Richmond, William and Mary, Old Dominion, Towson, Villanova, Delaware and Georgia State.
The North and South could play round-robin schedules within their divisions, with an eighth conference game coming against a team from the other division. That would give each team four home games and four away games in CAA play.
Obviously just a sensationalistic column, but seems like the thought is now in the Stony Brook ADs mind
Sixteen automatic playoff spots here we come! Better get on the bus Monte/Hippy Hillbilly Mascot otherwise your playoff days may be numbered, the CAA will soon garner all.
