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I think you're jumping to conclusions, Private. Keeler was asked a question, like just about every other coach at CAA Media Day, and he expressed concerns about the future of FCS.alvin kayak wrote:The CAA makes sense with Old Dominion, Georgia State, Richmond, Towson, and JMU. UNH and Maine don't really make sense, especially without UMass and URI. What is gonna happen to the Fighting Roosters of Delaware? Keeler has suggested they might bolt -- probably a good thought right now. I'd say -- long term -- CAA is doomed or at least severely damaged. SOCON will then be the king of the (FCS) land!
Where do you see William & Mary?alvin kayak wrote:The CAA makes sense with Old Dominion, Georgia State, Richmond, Towson, and JMU. UNH and Maine don't really make sense, especially without UMass and URI. What is gonna happen to the Fighting Roosters of Delaware? Keeler has suggested they might bolt -- probably a good thought right now. I'd say -- long term -- CAA is doomed or at least severely damaged. SOCON will then be the king of the (FCS) land!
In the U.S. News & World report rankings. Sorry...Where do you see William & Mary?
Patriot League.LeadBolt wrote:Where do you see William & Mary?alvin kayak wrote:The CAA makes sense with Old Dominion, Georgia State, Richmond, Towson, and JMU. UNH and Maine don't really make sense, especially without UMass and URI. What is gonna happen to the Fighting Roosters of Delaware? Keeler has suggested they might bolt -- probably a good thought right now. I'd say -- long term -- CAA is doomed or at least severely damaged. SOCON will then be the king of the (FCS) land!
Now there'a a football league in jeopardy.AZGrizFan wrote:Patriot League.LeadBolt wrote:
Where do you see William & Mary?
Yeah, just a "question" and "response"....Because we all know how rarely Media Days bring "coach speak" and prepared lines about the upcoming season. Ball-own-ee. Hens want out of the cage to swim with the ACC & Big East sharks; might even take a MAC invite before the CAA goes the way of the polar bear in the next 5 years.I think you're jumping to conclusions, Private. Keeler was asked a question, like just about every other coach at CAA Media Day, and he expressed concerns about the future of FCS.
You gotta love upstart enthusiasm. There is no way the CAA will have the most top 10 teams in 3 years if it loses UMass, Villanova, Delaware, and/or UNH. The SOCON, Big Sky, and Missouri Valley are clapping their hands right now.The CAA is not doomed. It is in the drivers seat.
Harsh!AZGrizFan wrote:Patriot League.LeadBolt wrote:
Where do you see William & Mary?
Here's the quote from Keeler in TSN's article:alvin kayak wrote:Yeah, just a "question" and "response"....Because we all know how rarely Media Days bring "coach speak" and prepared lines about the upcoming season. Ball-own-ee. Hens want out of the cage to swim with the ACC & Big East sharks; might even take a MAC invite before the CAA goes the way of the polar bear in the next 5 years.I think you're jumping to conclusions, Private. Keeler was asked a question, like just about every other coach at CAA Media Day, and he expressed concerns about the future of FCS.
Like any other program in FCS, Delaware would probably accept an offer from the Big East and the ACC. I don't really see how that's news. I also don't see, at this time, how that's something that is even a remotely probable occurrence."At one time this is the best conference in America - you have six in the north and six in the south," said the coach of last season's national runner- up squad. "And then you have Northeastern drop football and Hofstra follows suit. And now Rhode Island is moving out. Massachusetts is already moving out. Villanova's talking about moving out. I'm concerned about I-AA football. I'm concerned about the Montanas and the Appalachian States of the world.
"Now you wonder what we're going to be in two or three or four years. And that's why I encourage our administration, if an ACC or an Big East (enters the picture) -- because those are the places that we want to be -- we would be foolish not to jump on board and do whatever it would have to take to get into those conferences. But it is a little nerve-wracking what may happen with I-AA football in the future."
I guess you've missed all the discussion on their situation.alvin kayak wrote:Wait...why is the Patriot League in jeopardy?
Montana would not accept an offer from the Big East or ACC.State Line Liquors wrote:Like any other program in FCS, Delaware would probably accept an offer from the Big East and the ACC.
Yes they would. No one would turn down the TV revenue from a BCS conference.AZGrizFan wrote:Montana would not accept an offer from the Big East or ACC.State Line Liquors wrote:Like any other program in FCS, Delaware would probably accept an offer from the Big East and the ACC.
Or a $180,000 paper bag.Yes they would. No one would turn down the TV revenue from a BCS conference.
http://www.sunjournal.com/local-sports/story/1073667"I hear and appreciate Cosgrove’s defiance when he bristles at the suggestion that Maine deemphasize its program or move into a perceived lesser conference. But how much longer does it make sense to stay in the Colonial, where William & Mary, James Madison, Richmond and Delaware each contend for the national championship every year and all are 600 or more miles away?
In an economic climate that sees schools even dropping the sport, sliding into the Northeast Conference would be a wise preemptive strike. Shorter travel, a more manageable schedule and an easier route to the national playoff every year are a win-win-win."
I chuckled at this line...DaBigBlue wrote:http://www.sunjournal.com/local-sports/story/1073667"I hear and appreciate Cosgrove’s defiance when he bristles at the suggestion that Maine deemphasize its program or move into a perceived lesser conference. But how much longer does it make sense to stay in the Colonial, where William & Mary, James Madison, Richmond and Delaware each contend for the national championship every year and all are 600 or more miles away?
In an economic climate that sees schools even dropping the sport, sliding into the Northeast Conference would be a wise preemptive strike. Shorter travel, a more manageable schedule and an easier route to the national playoff every year are a win-win-win."
Another University of Maine football season started this week. Can you feel (or contain) the excitement?
Didn’t think so. Maybe your enthusiasm, along with mine, is tempered by a preseason coaches’ poll that slotted Maine ninth out of 11 teams in the Colonial Athletic Association, just ahead of expansion Old Dominion and perennial non-factor Towson.
Really?!At last check, the Black Bears boasted more active NFL players than any other Football Championship Subdivision (I-AA, for my fellow old-timers) program.
Thought it would have been a school like Montana, App State, Eastern Washington, JMU, etc. 
Can anybody but the Steelers, Pats, Cowboys, and Eagles PLEASE win the super bowl this year?!Tom Brady. Brian Hoyer. Ryan Mallett. No NFL team has a stronger quarterback depth chart situation going into the 2011 season than the New England Patriots. It isn’t even close.
I son't see anything that these small college conferences have to clap about.alvin kayak wrote:The SOCON, Big Sky, and Missouri Valley are clapping their hands right now.
Okay, let me explain.The SOCON, Big Sky, and Missouri Valley are clapping their hands right now. I son't see anything that these small college conferences have to clap about.
That was in response to a wishful hypothetical he proposed whereby the CAA loses Nova, UD and UNH. As it is, trimming UMass and URI from the top and bottom doesn't change anything, conference pecking order-wise.kemajic wrote:I son't see anything that these small college conferences have to clap about.alvin kayak wrote:The SOCON, Big Sky, and Missouri Valley are clapping their hands right now.