mainejeff

Sounds about right.......

AE baseball, softball, lacrosse and field hockey are officially on death watch...........

lsbal84

I forgot.....we will also get Longwood.

Aceinthehole

Nope, the Big South already snatched them up for 2012-13.
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ecasadoSBU

OT: Last night at Stony Brook for me. Graduation/Commencement tomorrow

Glenn Dubin, who donated 4.3 million for the Strength & conditioning center will deliver our commencement address. I think thats pretty cool, I wonder what he is going to say. He is also getting an honorary doctorate...

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mainejeff

Phew.......what a relief!

mainejeff

The MAC is reportedly interested in JMU.

If CAA Football loses one more member, I predict that America East WILL sponsor football and invite Central Connecticut, Bryant, and Monmouth as all-sport members. URI will be football member #8 as an affiliate. W&M and Richmond will end up in the Patriot League. Not sure what happens to Delaware and Towson but they want NOTHING to do with AE.


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Aceinthehole

I know people might have mixed feeling about this, but it's not a bad plan considering the other options.

The CAA FB-4 want nothing to do with the AE for all sports, but they will certainly try to snatch up SBU, and others to play FB in "their" league. Then they will jump FBS.

UVM Hoop Cat

I'm seeing BU's name come up as a potential new CAA member- curious from the BU people, but does BU even want to move into what the CAA is now?

It's a step up from the AE still, but at this point only marginal. I don't know if BU wants to trade being one of the core AE programs in all sports- certainly in basketball where they will usually be top 4- to what may be mediocrity in the CAA.

That being said, if they would like to get invited to the A10 one day (where as we've seen BU would be waaayyyyy down the A10's expansion list) then I suppose they are going to need to move somewhere.

I see why SBU would move for football obviously and they want to really grow- but BU?

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ccd494

Don't forget about academics- BU sees itself as too good for the AE academically too.

UVM Hoop Cat

There are some great academic schools in the CAA, but I just don't feel like that's a reason why anyone is moving conferences these days- and the school's are not overwhelmingly better relative to the AE. William & Mary, Delaware, Drexel, and Northeastern are good schools. Rest are "meh".

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Redwyn

I gotta say - I just laugh whenever someone mentions an FCS program with a big stadium and "purported" interest from a low tier FBS conference (MAC, SBC, and the C-USA trying their damndest to join that rank).

Fact is, any top FCS school is VERY similar to a low tier FBS school. It's a very similar cohort - a basic cost/revenue analysis will confirm that. The CAA is such a great FB conference because it's a league of programs who would likely do fine at low tier FBS, but instead are upper cusp FCS. The top tier of the Big Sky (Montana / Montana State, maybe Cal Poly / UC Davis) are similar.

Frankly, it doesn't bother me that these programs have ambition to play FB at a higher level. But it won't stop me from wanting SBU to join that cohort. Just being in a certain membership changes things, just as much as being in a poor match (aka Big South) can be a negative in terms of attendance and visibility. Plus, there wouldn't be any interest if we couldn't potentially be able to say the same in the next 10-15 years.

TerrierNation

Honestly, it may depend on what the other schools intend on doing. For example, if BU declines a potential offer, does the CAA poach two AE schools like SBU and Albany or UNH and Maine for all sports? Then BU will be opting to stay in a totally different league that will have to poach the NEC. It's probably pretty tough for AD Lynch to predict but I think we'd be pretty happy to affiliate with Drexel, Northeastern, W&M, Hofstra and George Mason for now. It also isn't as risky to move for a basketball only program I feel.

I think the impact on Olympic sports is a huge factor since this would not be a clear cut decision if the CAA is in fact interested. Not knowing much about those, I'd hope Lynch would heavily factor those in. And whatever additional monies the CAA can bring in would have to offset most of the additional travel costs incurred.

There would be the loss of New England rivalries, but BU draws students from so many different places, the CAA is in some ways a more sensible geographic profile in terms of northeast corridor representation. Of course, reviving a H&H rivalry with Northeastern would be great too. I don't know...

UAalum72

This would cost the NEC its autobids in football and men's lacrosse unless it can hang on to at least one of your three invites (Bryant for lacrosse).

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usslider

No, not really interested. I personally care more about Albany, Hartford, Vermont than any school in the CAA aside from NU. It's not a big step up. Though personally I'd get to see them more often

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TerrierNation

But I think it comes down to the strength and unity of the AE conference as a whole. If AD Lynch knows/suspects SBU and Albany are ready to jump ship for FCS football purposes, or UNH stands to get an all sports invite, he has to start lobbying at some point or BU could end up in a 6 team league that is forced to try and poach the NEC. That is not a good position to be in.