(04-17-2021 11:10 AM)Florida tribe fan Wrote:  How does Wm & Mary undergrad enrollment stack up against Patriot League and CAA members?
How do Wm & Mary coaching salaries compare against those for Patriot League and CAA?
What is the comparative Olympic sports overlap for each of the conferences?
Which conference is likely to have more stable membership going forward?
What are the likely future rivalry opportunities for each league. And along those lines would, for example, would alumni events at Georgetown and Fordham football games turn out more than at Albany and Towson?
What is anticipated impact on basketball attendance?

In order:
Not gonna spend that time.
Not gonna spend that time.
Doesn't really matter.
Not possible to make anything that's remotely a good prediction.
CAA = existing rivalries, including some of our historically longest. Patriot = none at all. Patriot includes the bad Georgetown fanbase, i.e. not basketball, and does any other school there have a fanbase?
Basketball attendance impact would be best case unchanged. Nobody in the Patriot League is bringing more fans than we already get.

Is the opinion being peddled that W&M can't compete in the CAA? If so, I would point to the total CAA championships, and the purported competitiveness of the olympic sports that were just spared the axe. It cannot be argued that we were losing championship caliber programs and also that we can't compete in the conference that we are in.

In summary, these are the types of threads that start when football and basketball aren't in season. They're not worth serious examination.