(05-10-2021 03:43 PM)Dukester Wrote:  The three "Newest Conference Rumor" threads have been the waste of so much time & data the last decade.

About 10 years ago Jeff said not under this administration (Rose Era) will JMU move up. I think under Alger there is less a chance.

Maybe if we get a new pres.....

Nick Langridge has a much stronger passion for college athletics.

(05-10-2021 03:35 PM)Longhorn Wrote:  

(05-10-2021 02:32 PM)orange-to-purple Wrote:  

(05-06-2021 09:32 PM)NJDuke97 Wrote:  Apparently Hartford is dropping to D3- they just made the NCAA tourney. American East would now be at 9.

If I was a conference czar I wonder if these moves would make sense for all involved

Northeastern to American East as 10th school
Hofstra and Drexel to Maac
Monmouth, Wofford, Furman and Winthrop to the CAA
Maine, Stony Brook, Albany, UNH, URI leave CAA football to form American East football

Just because they're dropping to D-III doesn't mean they can't play in the AE. All it means is they aren't giving athletic scholarships. They can be D-III schools electing to play in D-I, the way Ivy League schools are. It doesn't make sense, for the most part, but they can.

The Ivy League doesn’t play DIiI. They play DI and just don’t offer athletic scholarships. Not offering scholarships doesn’t make a conference or program DIII.

(06-09-2021 11:22 AM)DukeQuin Wrote:  "ESPN and the Big Sky Conference have announced a new multi-year, multi-platform media rights agreement, adding hundreds of Big Sky live events to ESPN’s college sports portfolio. More than 600 Big Sky events in both men’s and women’s sports will stream on ESPN+ and the ESPN App. ESPNU will televise two football games each year, in addition to a regular season men’s basketball game, and the championship games for the Big Sky Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments are slated for ESPN networks."

https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2021/06/espn-reaches-multi-year-multi-platform-rights-agreement-with-big-sky-conference/

(06-09-2021 11:22 AM)DukeQuin Wrote:  "ESPN and the Big Sky Conference have announced a new multi-year, multi-platform media rights agreement, adding hundreds of Big Sky live events to ESPN’s college sports portfolio. More than 600 Big Sky events in both men’s and women’s sports will stream on ESPN+ and the ESPN App. ESPNU will televise two football games each year, in addition to a regular season men’s basketball game, and the championship games for the Big Sky Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments are slated for ESPN networks."

https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2021/06/espn-reaches-multi-year-multi-platform-rights-agreement-with-big-sky-conference/

(06-09-2021 12:44 PM)bobbyjmu Wrote:  Man, we get Joey Bag of Donuts and Flo Sports in the CAA. We carry the conference, and don't get out what we put into it. Please, We need an Exit Strategy!

(06-09-2021 03:22 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  SoCon and ESPN just reupped their deal through 2026 to stream 4200 games on ESPN+

The SoCon also retained their 2nd/3rd tier rights and sold some basketball games to CBSSN. They'll have aroudn a dozen basketball games on ESPN2/U/CBSSN next year. If 2021-2022 is the same, they'll have between 3-6 football games on regional broadcasts too.

(06-10-2021 07:26 AM)Rock House Duke Wrote:  Dennis Dodd tweeted yesterday and wrote an article about expansion of the college football playoff is all but a done deal. With athletic departments searching for revenue the best way to create more TV money is by expanding the college football system and expand the NCAA tournament field. Expanding the CFP will create a chain reaction and start another round of conference realignment because the SEC, B1G, ACC, and Big 12 will want to add quality teams to improve their odds of getting two teams into the field. I expect the Pac-12 to be raided because the conference has really underperformed in the CFP era. The Pac-12 has the smallest media deal of the power conference and with schools searching for more revenue, a few will likely leave for a new conference with better TV rights.

There are talks about giving one of the eight or twelve seeds to a non P5. It this is true then we can have our cake and eat it too by moving up to FBS.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/momentum-rapidly-growing-for-college-football-playoff-expansion-to-eight-or-more-teams/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

(06-10-2021 09:30 AM)JMUsince89 Wrote:  Why would the NCAA keep FCS ( Championship Series), when they can do the same in FBS. If we stay CAA they may as well brand us Div A1 again..

(06-10-2021 10:31 AM)JMUNation Wrote:  

(06-10-2021 09:30 AM)JMUsince89 Wrote:  Why would the NCAA keep FCS ( Championship Series), when they can do the same in FBS. If we stay CAA they may as well brand us Div A1 again..

There are more small public and private schools in FCS than there are schools like JMU. So many of the schools don’t emphasize athletics like we do. I would like to see those schools drop down to D2. It would open up scheduling and lead to more competitive games for P5 and G5 fans to watch. Some of the schools P5 programs schedule are just ridiculous. We do the same when we schedule Pioneer schools.