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(05-08-2018 07:39 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(05-08-2018 06:13 AM)monarx Wrote:  

(05-08-2018 05:45 AM)T-Mac Wrote:  If you're dumb enough to include Navy and Richmond's runs, you must now include Memphis, Louisville, Marquette, Cincinnati, and the likes for CUSA. This debate ended once you were silly enough to chime in.

Fact is, the CAA was never as good as you misremember it being. It had 1-2 great regular seasons and 3-4 great postseasons in the 30 seasons we were a member. In that same span, CUSA has been better 95% of the seasons.


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It would be more fair to compare the old CAA to the Sun Belt (now CUSA) over that time since a lot of the teams now in CUSA were in the SB at the time we were in the CAA. In that case the CAA was better most of the time. Comparing old records should have the CAA vs the AAC (or old CUSA) in which case you are correct that 95% of the time they were better.

We are comparing the CAA when we were in it to CUSA today. Aside from maybe MTSU in '16-'17, nobody has come close to reaching the level of play that the top 4 of the CAA reached in almost every year between 2004 and 2011. Go to YouTube and watch the highlights for an eye test. Even some of the Hofstra, Drexel, and Northeastern teams that never made the dance played at a higher level. That is why GMU and VCU made their big runs. They were accustomed to stepping up their level of play and were able to sustain it. All of us were winning big games OOC as well, which is a rarity in CUSA.