(10-25-2015 01:52 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  We've beaten them and they will. It agree to play us anymore since the early 80's

Now in English...

Ha. In a hurry and auto correct issues.

What I meant was, UVa will not play us anymore and have refused sin mice the early 80's. We can beat them , obviously something SU cannot do.

(10-25-2015 02:52 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  Ha. In a hurry and auto correct issues.

What I meant was, UVa will not play us anymore and have refused sin mice the early 80's. We can beat them , obviously something SU cannot do.

Congrats on your 4 point victory against a 2-9 UVA team back in 1982...But your logic is pretty stupid. We have played UVA 5 times over the last 40 years and the series is 3-2.

BL: You lost to Richmond at home who you called D3.

(10-25-2015 07:03 AM)chargeradio Wrote:  Ironically, if VCU adds football, it would be the seventh school in the Atlantic 10 sponsoring FCS football - but four of them play in leagues that offer less than the full 63 scholarships, if any at all (Dayton, Davidson, Duquesne, and Fordham).

The Atlantic 10 actually sponsored FCS football from 1997 to 2006. During its short existence, it managed to rack up 3 National Championships by 3 different teams, despite no A10 member having previously won a football championship. However, of the 7 full A10 members playing FCS football at the time, only 3 actually played in the A10 football conference. There were 11 football-only members.

This is probably the best example to point towards when people in the Conference Realignment forum argue that NCAA rules require you to play football and other sports in your own conference if that sport is sponsored. They don't. It just doesn't happen very often because there's an incredible lack of imagination in conference structure. Everybody wants to duplicate the Big Ten model. You're not going to beat the Big Ten by doing what the Big Ten is best at, any more than you'd beat them on the football field by using the exact same game plan as them but with worse recruits. You win by playing to a strength they don't have. Having separate conference affiliations for football, basketball and non-revenue sports would be much more advantageous, especially at the non-P5 level. Putting everything under a single big box brand helps the Walmarts, not the little guy.

Sorry for the OT rant. Remembering the demise of A10 Football brings back old arguments. 10 years later everyone is still playing the conference realignment game the wrong way.

(10-24-2015 10:01 PM)bostonspider Wrote:  No the city still owns it. The Richmond Kickers soccer team plays there currently. I don't think UR has a chance of going FBS now, but staying I-A in 1983 in what would have been an almost new stadium might have lead to some interesting possibilities...

Along those lines I often wonder what The Citadel would look like today if in the early 1950's they had decided to align themselves with South Carolina, Clemson, and the other publics rather than Furman and the small private schools in the Southern Conference. At the time there wasn't that much difference between the size and missions of them and Clemson.

(10-28-2015 06:42 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 10:01 PM)bostonspider Wrote:  No the city still owns it. The Richmond Kickers soccer team plays there currently. I don't think UR has a chance of going FBS now, but staying I-A in 1983 in what would have been an almost new stadium might have lead to some interesting possibilities...

Along those lines I often wonder what The Citadel would look like today if in the early 1950's they had decided to align themselves with South Carolina, Clemson, and the other publics rather than Furman and the small private schools in the Southern Conference. At the time there wasn't that much difference between the size and missions of them and Clemson.

That doesn't speak very highly of Clemson.