(06-21-2022 03:42 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(06-21-2022 01:53 PM)Sitting bull Wrote:  

(06-21-2022 01:28 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(06-21-2022 12:14 PM)Sitting bull Wrote:  

(06-20-2022 01:56 PM)solohawks Wrote:  The CAA is a 7 team basketball division from Boston to Baltimore and a 6 team basketball division from Williamsburg to Charleston joined together by history and FCS football.

The only people who see the CAA that way are constantly disgruntled UNCW fans and posters. First, leave Williamsburg out of this. W&M has rivalries as strong - maybe stronger - with those north of Baltimore (Delaware, Hofstra) than many of those south of it. Second, Elon and Charleston joined to actually be part of conference that stretches up the coast, not restricted in a secondary tier below your Mason Dixon line mentality,

The CAA is an east coast conference with a mid Atlantic core. It’s pretty easy.

Seriously, as much as I admire UNCW, I think you would be so much happier in the Big South. The rest of us enjoy the membership and geography of the league.

Elon and Charleston joined the CAA because there was a mass exodus in the SoCon and the CAA looked like a better bet

No one liked a 1 bid round robin no TV money conference that stretched from Boston to Charleston. It was dumb and the new additions should help minimize travel costs. If there is no money financing an ACC like footprint, there is no point in having one. Divisions are the only way forward for such a geographically spread out CAA

No need to try rewrite history. Elon and Charleston left because they wanted to broaden their appeal up the East Coast. They stated that. They pull students from the northeast. There was no pressure for either to leave the So Con. if playing in a southern only conference was their goal, they would have stayed. It wasn’t.

And you don’t need Divisions. You can pod schedule like the A10. Most would probably prefer that.

I get your angst at UNCW. You don’t like the geographical stretch. That’s fine. I just can’t understand why you don’t leave. You have options - the Big South, ASun, So Con. Everyone else in the CAA is pretty happy and it’s not like there aren’t other schools who would consider taking your spot.

As i get barked at for saying on the UNCW board, the CAA is the best of option available for UNCW at this time. The A10 would be ideal as it's a basketball conference. The CAA evolved into a football focused conference. However the A10 is at best a long term goal.

If the CAA can get to 14 and institute divisional scheduling for Olympic sports that would help. I'm I different as to whether there are hard divisions but reducing travel costs should be a primary goal for all 13 members. This is why the next addition should be at DC or below

A10 stretching from Mass to N Carolina… and to the west St Louis, Ohio, Chicago and Pittsburgh. No divisions. Tourney unit money mostly goes to the bid winners. And that’s your long term goal. Assuming UNCW gets an invite, won’t you be unhappy with the members locations which is way worse and spread out than CAA? What about travel cost in A10?