For those of you who didn't see this little nugget buried up in the thread above...

Sept. 15 ROBERT MORRIS
Sept. 22 WILLIAM & MARY
Oct. 6 ELON
Oct. 27 STONY BROOK
Nov. 10 RHODE ISLAND

that's a very tough one to defend

wow... that looks awful

Just looking at it isolated like that it seems equivalent to a Patriot League conference schedule.
Going way out on a limb and saying the Dukes will have a perfect 5-0 home record regardless of who wins the QB battle after Schor.

I thought Elon was our rivalry school?

These are our peers?

It seems they are doing 3 clusters with us scheduling the mid and north clusters on a rotation and putting us with Elon, W&M, and RU every year.

Instead they need to break it into 2 clusters and have us play Group A every year and half of Group B in rotating home/home. That's 8 conf games and we should get 2 of W&M, Delaware, RU and Nova at home every year.

Group A
James Madison
Delaware
Elon
Richmond
Villanova
William & Mary

Group B
Albany
Maine
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Stony Brook
Towson

(11-01-2017 06:40 PM)2Buck Wrote:  It seems they are doing 3 clusters with us scheduling the mid and north clusters on a rotation and putting us with Elon, W&M, and RU every year.

Instead they need to break it into 2 clusters and have us play Group A every year and half of Group B in rotating home/home. That's 8 conf games and we should get 2 of W&M, Delaware, RU and Nova at home every year.

Group A
James Madison
Delaware
Elon
Richmond
Villanova
William & Mary

Group B
Albany
Maine
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Stony Brook
Towson

Yeah, that sounds about right with the CAA.
It’s a cluster **** for sure.

(11-01-2017 06:39 PM)Dukeman2 Wrote:  I thought Elon was our rivalry school?

These are our peers?

I thought all the winning and college game day appearances made you go back in your hole?

They left off Richmond as our sixth home game.

That home schedule is pretty tough to get excited for especially when compared to this year. But the softer schedule will help to get the younger guys (mainly on offense) some success under their belt. We have lost so many regional rivals to 1a the last five years or so that there aren’t many schools out of conference that would be exciting games for our fan base. I think the CAA games have lost some luster over time also as it’s become increasingly obvious that outside of Delaware the remaining conference programs are content to be CAA lifers. Just feels like we are out growing the Colonial.

I mean Elon and Stony Brook are probably #2 and #3 in the conference right now. I know they don't have name recognition but they'll be good games.

(11-01-2017 06:40 PM)2Buck Wrote:  It seems they are doing 3 clusters with us scheduling the mid and north clusters on a rotation and putting us with Elon, W&M, and RU every year.

Instead they need to break it into 2 clusters and have us play Group A every year and half of Group B in rotating home/home. That's 8 conf games and we should get 2 of W&M, Delaware, RU and Nova at home every year.

Group A
James Madison
Delaware
Elon
Richmond
Villanova
William & Mary

Group B
Albany
Maine
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Stony Brook
Towson

With 12 teams CAA should go back to what it did 2004-2009 I think it was- with 12 teams had 6 team northern and 6 team southern divisions. Same as what you have listed except VU would be in the northern division and TU would be southern. It worked well for everyone- play the other 5 teams in your division, and 3 of the 6 in the other division for 2 years on a home and home, then switch to the other 3. If that was the case JMU would play the other 5 most southern teams (Elon, W&M, RU, TU, and UD every season).

(11-01-2017 08:54 PM)BDKJMU Wrote:  With 12 teams since 2014 why doesn’t the CAA should go back to what it did 2004-2009 I think it was- with 12 teams had 6 team northern and 6 team southern divisions. It worked well for everyone- play the other 5 teams in your division, and 3 of the 6 in the other division for 2 years on a home and home, then switch to the other 3. If that was the case JMU would play the other 5 most southern teams (Elon, W&M, RU, TU, and UD every season).

No, if we only had any clout in our conference we could insist Towson went with the North and we split like I proposed. Villanova should be with us. Plus, it's pretty clear Nova and Delaware are rivals, not like we're going to take that over. It's Elon for us.

Group A
James Madison
Delaware
Elon
Richmond
Villanova
William & Mary

Group B
Albany
Maine
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Stony Brook
Towson

(11-01-2017 08:41 PM)DirtyDukes Wrote:  I mean Elon and Stony Brook are probably #2 and #3 in the conference right now. I know they don't have name recognition but they'll be good games.

Yep. But no 6th home game = major fail by Bourne. If only 5 home games instead of 6, then season ticket prices and Duke Club giving levels should be cut by 1/6th. Charging full price and only delivering 5/6th of a product is a crock.

I would hate to lose the annual game vs. Villanova. I don't mind so much that Towson gets rotated out, but it burns me that since we're close to Elon they are on our schedule every year and Delaware isn't.

Yeah, I have to admit, this schedule leaves A LOT to be desired. Robert Morris?

I move back to the area and this is the schedule next year? Ugh...at least I'm here for the best part of the schedule this season...

But hey, at least I get to trash talk the in-laws playing Elon again.

(11-01-2017 09:03 PM)DooX Wrote:  I would hate to lose the annual game vs. Villanova. I don't mind so much that Towson gets rotated out, but it burns me that since we're close to Elon they are on our schedule every year and Delaware isn't.

Someone may have already done this, think I saw it somewhere. If it's really set up in 3 pods like this (not sure if URI is the 4th in the middle group) then that means we'll only be playing Nova and Delaware in the same season during only half the rotation. So 4 years with both, 4 years without both.

(3 games every year)
JMU
Elon
RU
W&M

(3 games every year)
Delaware
Towson
Villanova
URI

(2 games every year)
Maine
New Hampshire
Stony Brook
Albany

(11-01-2017 09:02 PM)BDKJMU Wrote:  

(11-01-2017 08:41 PM)DirtyDukes Wrote:  I mean Elon and Stony Brook are probably #2 and #3 in the conference right now. I know they don't have name recognition but they'll be good games.

Yep. But no 6th home game = major fail by Bourne. If only 5 home games instead of 6, then season ticket prices and Duke Club giving levels should be cut by 1/6th. Charging full price and only delivering 5/6th of a product is a crock.

That's what happens when you do a home/home with one of your cupcakes. Never should do it during an 11 game season.

Surprised no UD. Oh well, just win and get into the playoffs. That is what matters most.