(12-16-2016 10:18 AM)EvanJ Wrote:  

(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.

My prediction and what I would like to see happen, based on recent ESPN trends, is selling the entire package of TV rights to ESPN. The majority of our games will be on ESPN 3, like the MVC and Horizon, with some on a national ESPN national. Some games will be sublicensed to ASN and Comcast Sportsnet but those games will still be available on ESPN 3, like the ECU game last night. I think they will shutdown CAA.TV once that contract runs out. However ESPN requires individual schools to pay to get production up to ESPN 3 standards so that could be a road block. We could end up staying where we are now with the championship on ESPN, package to Comcast, a package to ASN, and the rest on CAA.TV

(12-16-2016 10:18 AM)EvanJ Wrote:  

(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.

I love the old school feel of the round robin and how the round robin works in general. The problem is a round robin conference from Boston to Charleston at our financial level JUST DOESNT WORK FINANCIALLY. Divisions would cut travel significantly and less conference games would open up opportunities for our top teams to not be crushed by lower RPI ranked teams and having to play them twice.

Is Hofstra still anti Stony Brook?