RE: Fire the caa commissioner
The conference in the southeast that doesn't play Football is the Atlantic Sun, but it's bad at Men's Basketball and still would give you long travel. It has New Jersey Tech (who is geographically out of place and joined because they were the only Independent), Liberty in Lynchburg in southwestern Virginia, Lipscomb in Nashville, North Alabama, and four teams in Florida.
Hofstra is like that also. I don't want Hofstra to leave the CAA because there's not a good alternative. Even if the A10 wanted Hofstra, I wouldn't want to be in a 15 team conference, and I wouldn't want to be in a conference of majority Christian schools, which the A10 and MAAC are. The best fit for Hofstra in terms of travel and quality in Men's Basketball isn't possible, because it's the Ivy. The Patriot, Northeast, and America East are worse than the CAA in Men's Basketball. The Patriot gives fewer scholarships, the Northeast is horrible at Men's Basketball, and the America East has only one private school. Given that the America East has 9 teams and Hofstra is better than the AE average, I'm guessing the AE would take Hofstra, but I don't want to go there. I made up a hypothetical conference from New England down to Towson with the five northern CAA teams, and possibilities of Monmouth, Rider, Wagner, LIU, Stony Brook, Quinnipiac/Hartford/Central Connecticut State (to have one team in CT), and Bryant to have a team in Rhode Island and maybe give Northeastern a rival closer than Hofstra. Could you make up a ten team conference with some or all of the five southern CAA teams and teams from other conferences who would be willing to join?
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