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This upcoming season is his last season

http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-tom-...story.html

I'll spare you all my run of videos and gif's, that I posted here: http://csnbbs.com/thread-740064.html

"During his time, the CAA has won 19 national championships." Is that true? It doesn't seem true.

(06-11-2015 01:50 PM)zablenoise Wrote: [ -> ]"During his time, the CAA has won 19 national championships." Is that true? It doesn't seem true.

Olympic sports + FCS?

(06-11-2015 01:54 PM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote: [ -> ]Olympic sports + FCS?

So the article mentions the 4 football championships. But I don't know what Olympic sports are accounting for the other 15. Or who would have won them. I know it wasn't us.

(06-11-2015 01:56 PM)zablenoise Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-11-2015 01:54 PM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote: [ -> ]Olympic sports + FCS?

So the article mentions the 4 football championships. But I don't know what Olympic sports are accounting for the other 15. Or who would have won them. I know it wasn't us.

Old Dominion's wikipedia page claims they've won 28 national titles in their history. It doesn't mention which sports or which of them occurred when they joined the CAA.

It's kind of pointless to brag about it. UCLA, USC and Stanford all claim to have won over 100 national titles in various sports through their history. I don't think I've once heard the PAC-12 or their fans claim/brag about their top 3 members winning over 300 combined national titles.

******* ODU man...

Yeah - think most would be ODU with their field hockey and/or women's lax programs being very dominant but not positive

Yeags has been here for 35 years. As someone pointed out, 10 of those national championships were in frickin field hockey.

Mens Gymnastics
Ramon Jackson - 2004, 2005, 2006 (2004 National Parallel Bar Champion)
Scott McCall - 1996 (National Ring Champion)

National Champions Womens Tennis
1998 - Lauren Nikolaus (ITA National Clay Court Championship)
2006 - Megan Moulton-Levy/Katarina Zoricic (ITA National Indoor Championship)
2007 - Ragini Acharya (ITA Summer National Championship)
2008 - Ragini Acharya (ITA Summer National Championship)

Do these count?

If the WM quidditch team won I think they'd count it.

All in all I believe he's done a credible job.

His biggest accomplishment is holding the CAA together, especially after the losses of ODU, VCU and GMU for which there was little he could do.

My friends in DC tell me that GMU regrets leaving, hurting under the extended travel and its costs and missing the rivalries it had in the CAA.

His second accomplishment is the NBC and Comcast television contracts. There is more CAA TV game coverage for basketball than any of us might ever had expected. And his football contract os also good.

(06-12-2015 06:34 AM)Big Tribe Wrote: [ -> ]His biggest accomplishment is holding the CAA together, especially after the losses of ODU, VCU and GMU for which there was little he could do.

My friends in DC tell me that GMU regrets leaving, hurting under the extended travel and its costs and missing the rivalries it had in the CAA.

That's Yeager's legacy; attempting to fix something that wasn't broken with the America East expansion without even so much as finding a way to split into a North/South Division to save on travel costs.

Did the northern schools really add so much that it justified the decision, eventually leading 3 of the 5 core Virginia schools to bolt at the first opportunity? We ended up a 1 bid league, right where we started. He might never have had to "keep the CAA together" to the extent we had to if it hadn't been for that decision.

It will be interesting to see who is picked. I assume the new person will do the same double role Yeager did of CAA and CAA Football. With some CAA Football members hoping to jump up to the oblivion, or a more drastic realignment with the P5 splitting off altogether (and the trickle down effect that would have on us), there are a lot of potential moving parts in the next 10 years.

The cynic in me thinks there's about to be a lot of schools leaving the CAA soon and Yeager is getting out while he can.

(06-12-2015 07:07 AM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-12-2015 06:34 AM)Big Tribe Wrote: [ -> ]His biggest accomplishment is holding the CAA together, especially after the losses of ODU, VCU and GMU for which there was little he could do.

My friends in DC tell me that GMU regrets leaving, hurting under the extended travel and its costs and missing the rivalries it had in the CAA.

That's Yeager's legacy; attempting to fix something that wasn't broken with the America East expansion without even so much as finding a way to split into a North/South Division to save on travel costs.

Did the northern schools really add so much that it justified the decision, eventually leading 3 of the 5 core Virginia schools to bolt at the first opportunity? We ended up a 1 bid league, right where we started. He might never have had to "keep the CAA together" to the extent we had to if it hadn't been for that decision.

My memory is this.

Initially, it was a mega merger with the heart of the SoCon that fell through when Richmond bolted.

Then, the Hofstra and Northeastern additions backfired when those schools dropped football.

The bottom line is that the best of the SoCon, CAA, and AE need to merge, and north / south divisions created. I would include Coastal in the "merger".

(06-13-2015 01:29 PM)nj alum Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-12-2015 07:07 AM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-12-2015 06:34 AM)Big Tribe Wrote: [ -> ]His biggest accomplishment is holding the CAA together, especially after the losses of ODU, VCU and GMU for which there was little he could do.

My friends in DC tell me that GMU regrets leaving, hurting under the extended travel and its costs and missing the rivalries it had in the CAA.

That's Yeager's legacy; attempting to fix something that wasn't broken with the America East expansion without even so much as finding a way to split into a North/South Division to save on travel costs.

Did the northern schools really add so much that it justified the decision, eventually leading 3 of the 5 core Virginia schools to bolt at the first opportunity? We ended up a 1 bid league, right where we started. He might never have had to "keep the CAA together" to the extent we had to if it hadn't been for that decision.

My memory is this.

Initially, it was a mega merger with the heart of the SoCon that fell through when Richmond bolted.

Then, the Hofstra and Northeastern additions backfired when those schools dropped football.

The bottom line is that the best of the SoCon, CAA, and AE need to merge, and north / south divisions created. I would include Coastal in the "merger".

I'm good with this power FCS conference merger.

North:
Villanova
Delaware
Richmond
James Madison
Towson
Us

South:
Liberty
Coastal Carolina
Furman
Mercer
VMI
Wofford

Would be a solid conference. Wilmington and CoC could be non football members, as Nova and Richmond would be football only. For non football sports, Wilmington and CoC would be in the south division, with Liberty and VMI moving to the North. Wofford/Furman/Mercer could be swapped for Western Carolina or Elon or someone else. If wither Georgetown or Davidson could improve their programs a lot, theyd also make good football onlt members.

(06-13-2015 04:17 PM)TDenverFan Wrote: [ -> ]North:
Villanova
Delaware
Richmond
James Madison
Towson
Us

South:
Liberty
Coastal Carolina
Furman
Mercer
VMI
Wofford

Would be a solid conference. Wilmington and CoC could be non football members, as Nova and Richmond would be football only. For non football sports, Wilmington and CoC would be in the south division, with Liberty and VMI moving to the North. Wofford/Furman/Mercer could be swapped for Western Carolina or Elon or someone else. If wither Georgetown or Davidson could improve their programs a lot, theyd also make good football onlt members.

What happened to Elon?