(12-14-2016 12:38 AM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote:  Kind of a shame Hofstra and SBU can't play twice per year.

It's rare, but there's nothing preventing two teams in different conferences from choosing to play twice per year. Hofstra played Fairleigh Dickinson twice in 2013-2014.

(12-14-2016 07:27 PM)solohawks Wrote:  To be fair the CAA had a contract with HTS, now Comcast Midatlantic, prior to the northern schools joining the league. I do think having schools in Comcast sportsnet markets helps though with coverage. However as a uncw fan our games are rarely if ever on a Comcast network. Most of our tv games under caa contract are on ASN making the Comcast sports contract less impactful for us

In the New York City area, there's no permanent ASN channel. Some games on ASN are chosen to be shown by SNY (a Comcast channel). Given that the contract with NBC Sports Network ended, I don't think any CAA conference games in 2016-2017 will be on a channel available in the New York City area other than SNY and if people get regional sports networks from other markets via satellite. If I didn't get SNY, I wouldn't be able to watch Hofstra on TV the rest of the season unless they had a televised postseason game in March. When the Mets created SNY, I thought four regional sports networks in one area was too many, but now I'm grateful for SNY because they show the CAA.

(12-14-2016 09:02 PM)solohawks Wrote:  My ideal caa is a 12 or 14 team league with 2 More noerthen schools and 2 more southern schools. Stony brook and Albany for y'all and UTC and ETSU for us. Would save a bundle on travel and would create much needed stability

I like having 10 teams. In the CAA, everybody plays everybody twice, and everybody has the same number of conference games played at the same time. I like having 18 conference games per season, and many conferences agree with me. In 2015-2016, 22 out of 32 conferences played 18 conference games, including all of the top eleven of the Conference RPI. Furthermore, it's the "Colonial," and Tennessee wasn't a colony. Some teams don't fit the conference name of the conference they are in like Notre Dame in the ACC, but I don't want to add to that.

Here's a CAA attendance comparison counting all teams equally regardless of how many home games they played:

2006-2007 northern five: Average of 2,380
2006-2007 southern seven: Average of 4,410

2015-2016 northern five (the same teams as in 2006-2007): Average of 1,766
2015-2016 southern five (three of them were in the CAA in 2006-2007):
Average of 2,902

Comparing seasons that were nine seasons apart, that's a decrease of 25.8 percent for the northern five and a decrease of 34.2 percent for the southern five or seven. In 2006-2007, George Mason led in average attendance after being in the 2006 Final Four. UNCW led in total attendance at 105,851, which is the last time a CAA team who is still in the CAA had at least 100,000 in a season. I used groups with unequal amounts of teams for 2006-2007 for two reasons. I think the two northern Virginia schools at the time, James Madison and George Mason, fit better in the south both because they were in the same state as the southern Virginia schools and because they had been in the CAA a lot longer than the northern five.