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I am sick and tired of these Big East, CAA, ETC. conferences inviting schools for only one sport. The CAA and Big East have almost a completely different roster for their basketball conferences than their football. Since the schools only are committed to one sport, their is no major hurdle in bolting.

I say the schools who are all in should join together and start a new FCS conference, and maybe get a few other schools to join as well...

Eastern Athletic Conference....ALL SPORTS...

JMU New schools:
William and Mary App State
Delaware Holy Cross
Maine Georgia Southern
New Hampshire Coastal Carolina/Stony Brook
Towson

There. 10-11 teams right there. Good bye Villanova, Rhode Island and Richmond for football ONLY.

And as for George Mason, Drexel, Hofstra, Wilmongton and Northeastern...

You all want in? Then get your butts on the Gridiron!

The team list got a little jerked up when I submitted.

JMU, W&M, Delaware, Maine, UNH, Towson
Possible new schools: App. State, Holy Cross, Georgia Southern, Stony Brook and/or Coastal Carolina

Delaware State would want in. We would take UD's place after they and JMU bolt from this new conference in 3 years...

they would have to seriously upgrade. JMU's basketball stadium holds more than DSU's football stadium.

jmu1-A wrote:they would have to seriously upgrade. JMU's basketball stadium holds more than DSU's football stadium.

I haven't been there in about 25 years, but Dover High School's football stadium may hold more than DSU's.

At least the manure field behind the visitor bleacher has been replaced with a shopping mall.

I'm guessing new guy is a young'en, but he's correct. I've wanted an all sports conference forever.

jmu1-A wrote:The team list got a little jerked up when I submitted.

JMU, W&M, Delaware, Maine, UNH, Towson
Possible new schools: App. State, Holy Cross, Georgia Southern, Stony Brook and/or Coastal Carolina

Why would W&M, Maine, UNH, Towson, Holcy Cross, SBU or Coastal join that league knowing JMU, App State, Georgia Southern and possible UD have one foot out the door before they even start?

danefan wrote:

jmu1-A wrote:The team list got a little jerked up when I submitted.

JMU, W&M, Delaware, Maine, UNH, Towson
Possible new schools: App. State, Holy Cross, Georgia Southern, Stony Brook and/or Coastal Carolina

Why would W&M, Maine, UNH, Towson, Holcy Cross, SBU or Coastal join that league knowing JMU, App State, Georgia Southern and possible UD have one foot out the door before they even start?

It has to do with the name recognition of the brand and .... the great vision of Tom Yeager

jmu1-A wrote: There. 10-11 teams right there. Good bye Villanova, Rhode Island and Richmond for football ONLY.

I realize you're new, but Rhode Island is already saying goodbye......

93henfan wrote:

jmu1-A wrote:they would have to seriously upgrade. JMU's basketball stadium holds more than DSU's football stadium.

I haven't been there in about 25 years, but Dover High School's football stadium may hold more than DSU's.

The high school is moving to a new location on Rt. 8, so in a couple years that might not be much of a stretch. At the rate DSU has been with facility improvements.

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pantherrob82 wrote:

jmu1-A wrote: There. 10-11 teams right there. Good bye Villanova, Rhode Island and Richmond for football ONLY.

I realize you're new, but Rhode Island is already saying goodbye......

Ha. Dude the only thing more irrelevant than your posts is Rhode Island football...oh and the state of Iowa, of course.

Where did Holy Cross come from ? I heard maybe Elon or Furman now also but the Crusaders? They are waiting for the Big East or the ACC to dial them up . Thats the only way they leave the PL -so i would expect HC stays put for a few seasons.

Seawolf97 wrote:Where did Holy Cross come from ? I heard maybe Elon or Furman now also but the Crusaders? They are waiting for the Big East or the ACC to dial them up . Thats the only way they leave the PL -so i would expect HC stays put for a few seasons.

Don't try to think rationally when analyzing this conference. He'll tell you you are irrelevant, and maybe the state you're from if he can figure out what school you represent.

pantherrob82 wrote:

Seawolf97 wrote:Where did Holy Cross come from ? I heard maybe Elon or Furman now also but the Crusaders? They are waiting for the Big East or the ACC to dial them up . Thats the only way they leave the PL -so i would expect HC stays put for a few seasons.

Don't try to think rationally when analyzing this conference. He'll tell you you are irrelevant, and maybe the state you're from if he can figure out what school you represent.

Dude, the schools that you claim to represent (although I am starting to see it's impossible for you to have graduated high school, let alone a university) aren't CAA affiliated. Why don't you stop trolling and go back to doing what Iowans do best...finding "interesting" things to do with corn.

Seawolf97 wrote:Where did Holy Cross come from ? I heard maybe Elon or Furman now also but the Crusaders? They are waiting for the Big East or the ACC to dial them up . Thats the only way they leave the PL -so i would expect HC stays put for a few seasons.

HC dialed up by the ACC? Not a snowball's chance in hell. Not with schools like Uconn and Rutgers itching to jump in. The Big East is still too big to look at a school like HC. They may WANT to move up....but they will have to join APP state, G-Southern and JMU in line. Might as well join their conference.

andy7171 wrote:At least the manure field behind the visitor bleacher has been replaced with a shopping mall.

Why you gotta bring UCD into this? SH will not be pleased.

Screamin_Eagle174 wrote:

andy7171 wrote:At least the manure field behind the visitor bleacher has been replaced with a shopping mall.

Why you gotta bring UCD into this? SH will not be pleased.

SE, how long are you going to have that frightening vulture in your sig? I've had at least 1 nightmare where she was attacking me.

DSUrocks07 wrote:

93henfan wrote:
I haven't been there in about 25 years, but Dover High School's football stadium may hold more than DSU's.

The high school is moving to a new location on Rt. 8, so in a couple years that might not be much of a stretch. At the rate DSU has been with facility improvements.

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Yep, I knew about that. The site is near a fellow my dad and I used to visit. He may (or may not) have specialized in rolling back people's odometers back when they were analog.

jmu1-A wrote:I am sick and tired of these Big East, CAA, ETC. conferences inviting schools for only one sport. The CAA and Big East have almost a completely different roster for their basketball conferences than their football. Since the schools only are committed to one sport, their is no major hurdle in bolting.

I say the schools who are all in should join together and start a new FCS conference, and maybe get a few other schools to join as well...

Eastern Athletic Conference....ALL SPORTS...

JMU New schools:
William and Mary App State
Delaware Holy Cross
Maine Georgia Southern
New Hampshire Coastal Carolina/Stony Brook
Towson

There. 10-11 teams right there. Good bye Villanova, Rhode Island and Richmond for football ONLY.

And as for George Mason, Drexel, Hofstra, Wilmongton and Northeastern...

You all want in? Then get your butts on the Gridiron!

Seems the best solution would be for the CAA to drop sponsorship of football. The majority schools (non-football) will hopefully pull rank and shift the CAA into a more stable reality. Football schools won't suffer...they'll still have the smae football conference they are in: a mix of schools from the AE (UNH, Maine), A10 (Richmond), CAA (4 schools), Big East (Nova). Nothing the CAA does will change that they rely on non-CAA members to fill their membership ranks.

Face it, basketball as the focal sport for the CAA makes the most sense, as it's a sport all it's members have. Football is played by only 4 members and they are lucky to be in such a great football conference. But whether it's called the Yankee Conference, A10 Football Conference or CAA Football Conference, it's the same group of members.

Save yourself CAA, replace the HUGE losses of VCU and ODU with schools that will actually help the basketball product of the conference. So it means losing the NCAA voting rights if they have only 4 members. So what. MVFC seems to do fine (see banner at top of this page) with only 5 MVC members, 1 short of that key #6.

Fresno St. Alum wrote:

Screamin_Eagle174 wrote:
Why you gotta bring UCD into this? SH will not be pleased.

SE, how long are you going to have that frightening vulture in your sig? I've had at least 1 nightmare where she was attacking me.

I'll see what I can do.

Let's see if I have this right...

The CAA is too much like the Big East. So the CAA should drop football. Um, OK, so then NEITHER conference would have a hope of winning a national championship in football.

Yeah, this thread was just frustration at leagues who cherry pick schools. Of course the CAA is stuck inviting schools for just basketball or football because it is challenging finding schools now who bring both to the table at a high level like some of the schools currently in it. I think adding a davidson, college of charleston in basketball...maybe a stony brook and another decent football school is what the CAA will try first. I do believe UNH in basketball makes a lot of sense, but not sure if that will happen.

TribeFanInNC wrote:Let's see if I have this right...

The CAA is too much like the Big East. So the CAA should drop football. Um, OK, so then NEITHER conference would have a hope of winning a national championship in football.

haha, so true. I should have never disrespected the CAA by comparing it to the big east...sheesh, can it even be called the big east at this point?