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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
(01-14-2022 09:00 PM)82hawk Wrote: (01-14-2022 08:38 PM)Seahawk2010 Wrote: So is Hampton the “surprise” team? I’ve heard them mentioned before. This isn’t incredibly surprising.
https://collegehoopstoday.com/index.php/...ces-radar/
Interesting since Stony Brook already has football, which means they make room for a non football school addition if they come on board. If these were full adds, we would have 11 CAA football schools and 12 basketball schools. Add one more team with football and one without football and you are to 12 in CAA football and 14 in basketball.
Basketball
North - Hofstra, NU, Stony Brook, Monmouth, Drexel, Delaware, Towson
South - CofC, UNCW, Elon, W&M, Hampton, UNCG, Campbell
Now, I am not at all excited about adding any of those northern schools or Hampton, but if we could bring on Campbell and UNCG to create a South division i'm good.
Campbell??? Hell no. Winthrop.
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
(01-14-2022 09:11 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: So. The CAA is adding Hampton (likely for sure), hoping to get Stony Brook and Monmouth.
The rest is speculation and fan hope.
Bottom line…
This conference is trash and getting worse.
Yep. Poor leadership and vision leads to poor results. We were never going to just stumble into a functioning, strong CAA.
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CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
Hope we dip out and go join the SoCon. The CAA is a freaking disaster.
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CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
Not only that, but it entertains me how many of you thought/think that any sort of CAA expansion is going to work out.
The CAA is about to add Hampton. Lmao.
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
Hampton left the MEAC for the Big South 2-3 years ago. A&T followed them a year or two later. A&T hosted Hampton this week in what is supposed to be the new rivalry for both schools.
It would be strange for Hampton to switch conferences so quickly.
Winston Salem State and NC Central will always be A&T's biggest rivals.
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
It looks like the north is going to get Fairfield, Monmouth, and Stony Brook while the south gets Howard and Hampton with Towon being in the south division
CAA North
Northeastern, Farfield, Monmouth, Stony Brook, Hofstra, Drexel, Delaware
CAA South
Towson, Howard, Hampton, W&M, Elon, UNCW, Charleston
Baltimore to Charleston is better than Boston to Charleston
Other than that benefit id still say that UNCW and Charleston joining the SoCon would be my preference
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
lmao that's terrible.
82, you finally ready to leave the CAA, or....
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CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
(01-15-2022 03:00 AM)solohawks Wrote: It looks like the north is going to get Fairfield, Monmouth, and Stony Brook while the south gets Howard and Hampton with Towon being in the south division
CAA North
Northeastern, Farfield, Monmouth, Stony Brook, Hofstra, Drexel, Delaware
CAA South
Towson, Howard, Hampton, W&M, Elon, UNCW, Charleston
Baltimore to Charleston is better than Boston to Charleston
Other than that benefit id still say that UNCW and Charleston joining the SoCon would be my preference
Gross.
All of that sounds awful.
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CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
(01-15-2022 03:10 AM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote: lmao that's terrible.
82, you finally ready to leave the CAA, or....
Lol
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
I don't mind the idea of the SoCon. Especially if Charleston goes too. But once again, unless something has changed, they will not take non football schools. UNCG is there because they are grandfathered in.
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
(01-15-2022 03:10 AM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote: lmao that's terrible.
82, you finally ready to leave the CAA, or....
As usual, I always wait until the product is on the floor. We'll see. If we go N/S I really don't care who is added in the north. But if the Hampton add is true, they would be an awful add to the South.
Hampton, W&M, Elon, UNCW, CofC plus 2. Unless we added two powerhouse basketball schools, Elon, Hampton and W&M are perenially bad and do nothing for UNCW.
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
Potential SoCon East:
VMI, UNCG, UNCW, Charleston, Citadel, WCU
Potential CAA South
Towson, Howard, Hampton, W&M, Elon, UNCW, Charleston
Which is more desirable?
I'm thinking our administration leans with the latter
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
Depends on what CofC does. The CAA South probably looks like trash to them
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CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
(01-15-2022 11:51 AM)82hawk Wrote: Depends on what CofC does. The CAA South probably looks like trash to them
To them?
I don’t care what they do.
This looks like trash to me, and should look like trash to UNCW.
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
(01-15-2022 12:33 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote: (01-15-2022 11:51 AM)82hawk Wrote: Depends on what CofC does. The CAA South probably looks like trash to them
To them?
I don’t care what they do.
This looks like trash to me, and should look like trash to UNCW.
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Don't disagree. But I can't see CofC sticking around for that CAA South group, which means we wouldn't either.
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
While I'm definitely not a fan of how this is looking, I suspect both UNCW and Charleston stay, even if the SoCon is interested
Geographically the divisional footprint is a bus league that has a footprint of the original ACC. That is a major improvement over what we have now.
Looking at institutional likeness, I just don't see UNCW and Charleston choosing to affiliate with two Southern military academies and Western Carolina over W&M, Elon, and Howard. UNCG, Charleston and UNCW being in a division together would be nice, but I just don't think the university leaders would want to be trade W&M for VMI and Elon for Western.
The fact that not one Carolinas based school is looking to be added is garbage, but I believe the university leadership will still see the CAA as our best option
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
Let's go fighting Brandon Beane's!
I know it would never happen, but I don't understand why we don't form a non football conference. Plenty of schools in NC, SC, VA, MD, PA, TN and FL that could make it work. I hate the mixed up football/basketball conferences. I'm sure someone's mentioned it before, but if so I missed it, and was thinking about it tonight.
NC - UNCW, UNCG, UNCA, High Point
SC - CofC, Winthrop, Upstate
VA - Longwood, Radford. GMU/VCU aren't leaving A10
FL - Florida Gulf Coast, North Florida, Jacksonville
MD - Loyola, Middle Eastern Shore, Mount Saint Mary, UMBC
TN - Lipscomb, Belmont
PA - Drexel
Pick 12 or 14 teams and get the hell out of the CAA.
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
(01-15-2022 09:54 PM)Boogie Woogie Wrote: Let's go fighting Brandon Beane's!
I know it would never happen, but I don't understand why we don't form a non football conference. Plenty of schools in NC, SC, VA, MD, PA, TN and FL that could make it work. I hate the mixed up football/basketball conferences. I'm sure someone's mentioned it before, but if so I missed it, and was thinking about it tonight.
NC - UNCW, UNCG, UNCA, High Point
SC - CofC, Winthrop, Upstate
VA - Longwood, Radford. GMU/VCU aren't leaving A10
FL - Florida Gulf Coast, North Florida, Jacksonville
MD - Loyola, Middle Eastern Shore, Mount Saint Mary, UMBC
TN - Lipscomb, Belmont
PA - Drexel
Pick 12 or 14 teams and get the hell out of the CAA.
Because you can't just form a conference and be recognized by the NCAA and participate in their tournament. They have rules based on longevity of your conference. The ASUN has come the closest to forming this type of conference, but their plan takes too many schools to commit to what amounts to a leap of faith.
So you're left with being part of an existing conferenc
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
(01-16-2022 07:39 AM)82hawk Wrote: (01-15-2022 09:54 PM)Boogie Woogie Wrote: Let's go fighting Brandon Beane's!
I know it would never happen, but I don't understand why we don't form a non football conference. Plenty of schools in NC, SC, VA, MD, PA, TN and FL that could make it work. I hate the mixed up football/basketball conferences. I'm sure someone's mentioned it before, but if so I missed it, and was thinking about it tonight.
NC - UNCW, UNCG, UNCA, High Point
SC - CofC, Winthrop, Upstate
VA - Longwood, Radford. GMU/VCU aren't leaving A10
FL - Florida Gulf Coast, North Florida, Jacksonville
MD - Loyola, Middle Eastern Shore, Mount Saint Mary, UMBC
TN - Lipscomb, Belmont
PA - Drexel
Pick 12 or 14 teams and get the hell out of the CAA.
Because you can't just form a conference and be recognized by the NCAA and participate in their tournament. They have rules based on longevity of your conference. The ASUN has come the closest to forming this type of conference, but their plan takes too many schools to commit to what amounts to a leap of faith.
So you're left with being part of an existing conferenc
Yup. New conferences go 8 years without an auto bid. Just not feasible to start a new one
That's why I think our administration will be content with a division from Baltimore to Charleston, even though we look to be getting screwed by not getting at least a Campbell or Winthrop to throw us a bone
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RE: CAA Expanding to 14 per Matt Brown
UNCW, CofC, Elon, and W&M need to apply for SoCon membership asap!
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