(07-30-2013 07:21 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  

(07-30-2013 07:18 PM)mad_dog97 Wrote:  

(07-30-2013 07:10 PM)2caafans Wrote:  As you see, I am a CAA fan and hope that JMU remains in the conference. There will be winners and losers in the reshuffling of leagues. I cannot understand why the fans on this board are so obsessed with going to CUSA, Sunbelt or the Mac. I doubt that many of you can even name all the teams in those three conferences from memory and even fewer can name the towns where most of those schools are located. Will your fans turn out to see ULM (whoever they are), Texas State, Akron, Toledo, Louisiana Tech, North Texas State visit JMU? Or will your fans travel to such distances to see no-name teams? On Tuesday, Wed and Thurs.?

Speaking of winners and losers, you can already put U of Mass. and WVU in the losers' column for switching leagues. Let's see how happy ODU, UNCC, Appy. and Ga. State are after a year or two.

We hope JMU remains in the CAA. When the dust settles there will be many more losers than winners from reorganization.

Welcome to the boards Tom, but I think you're a little too late.

Haha, really quick, can you name the towns of the Big Ten or SEC??? Probably not without looking.

Ha, I'm actually going to try (and I promise w/o looking). I may even miss a school or two.

Big 10:
Michigan - Ann Arbor
Michigan State - East Landsing (or Lansing?)
Purdue - West Lafayette
Indiana - Bloomington
Northwestern - Evanston
Ohio State - Columbus
Maryland - College Park
Penn State - College Park
Illinois - Champagne
Iowa - Drawing a blank
Wisconsin - Madison
Rutgers - East Rutherford?

SEC:
Florida - Gainesville
South Carolina - Greenville(?)
Tennessee - Knoxville
Ole Miss -
A&M - Texas Station
LSU - Baton Rouge
Alabama - Tuscaloosa
Auburn - Auburn
Kentucky - Damn, I know I know this but I'm spacing
Miss. State - Starkville
Vanderbilt - Nashville
Georgia - Athens

Carolina plays on Columbia.... Sheesh!

(07-30-2013 08:35 PM)CharlestonDuke Wrote:  Carolina plays on Columbia.... Sheesh!

Ha, yeah I knew I'd miss some but I tried to keep it honest but I tried to go quickly and honestly. I swear I know where Iowa and Ole Miss are but just blanked out.

(07-30-2013 08:23 PM)HyperDuke Wrote:  

(07-30-2013 07:10 PM)2caafans Wrote:  I doubt that many of you can even name all the teams in those three conferences from memory and even fewer can name the towns where most of those schools are located.

I'm bored & going to take a shot. I'm only going to name football-playing schools & each league's to-date FINAL roster, not including teams that will be leaving in the next 1-2 years & including all teams in their league of destination, regardless of them playing out another season or two in a different league.

I'm sure it will be obvious by my mistakes, but I promise I'm not referencing anything for this except my own brain.

SBC
Troy
Arkansas St.
Georgia Southern
Appalachian State
G-State
USA
NMSU
Idaho
Louisiana
UL-M
Know there's 11, but I can't think of the last one.

C-USA
ODU
Charlotte
Marshall
Southern Miss.
Louisiana Tech
Florida International
Florida Atlantic
North Texas
Texas State (this is the only one I'm not certain about)
UTSA
UTEP
Rice
Western Kentucky
Middle Tennessee State

MAC
Akron
Eastern Michigan
Central Michigan
Western Michigan
Toledo
Ohio
UMass
New York (Buffalo)
Kent State
Northern Illinois
Miami
Ball State
took me too long to remember #13

Close -- Texas State is the 11th team in the Sun Belt, and UAB is in CUSA. And if I didn't see Texas State in CUSA on your list, it might have taken me a while to remember it.

(07-30-2013 08:39 PM)DoubleDDuke Wrote:  

(07-30-2013 08:35 PM)CharlestonDuke Wrote:  Carolina plays on Columbia.... Sheesh!

Ha, yeah I knew I'd miss some but I tried to keep it honest but I tried to go quickly and honestly. I swear I know where Iowa and Ole Miss are but just blanked out.

I bet Miami O Yeah knows the Ole Miss town....it's the same name as his college town....Oxford

Who cares what a bunch of freaks on a message board can do...the vast majority of people who attend SEC, Big Ten, Big XII and Pac-12 schools probably can't even name which cities their fellow conference mates are in.

Quick, think of your five closest female friends and ask yourself if they could name 1/3 cities the schools in any conference are located...hell, ask your five closest male friends and it probably won't be much difference.

(07-30-2013 08:49 PM)olddawg Wrote:  

(07-30-2013 08:39 PM)DoubleDDuke Wrote:  

(07-30-2013 08:35 PM)CharlestonDuke Wrote:  Carolina plays on Columbia.... Sheesh!

Ha, yeah I knew I'd miss some but I tried to keep it honest but I tried to go quickly and honestly. I swear I know where Iowa and Ole Miss are but just blanked out.

I bet Miami O Yeah knows the Ole Miss town....it's the same name as his college town....Oxford

I also screwed up Penn State by saying College Park when it's State College. That's pretty pathetic seeing as though I've been there for several games.

I don't know what Yeager is palying at suggesting that JMU should be playing at the FCS level.

Bottom line is that we have far more in common with MAC, Sun Belt and C-USA schools (from an athletic perspective) than anybody in the current CAA. I like being with Delaware, W&M, Richmond and Villanova but Richmond and Nova are only with us for football and Delaware and W&M are best left as academic peers (totally acknowleding W&M is superior to us). Buffalo, Miami (Oh), Ohio and Toledo are much more aligned with JMU than Elon, Albany, Stony Brook and Rhode Island when it comes to athletics.

(07-30-2013 07:10 PM)2caafans Wrote:  As you see, I am a CAA fan and hope that JMU remains in the conference. There will be winners and losers in the reshuffling of leagues. I cannot understand why the fans on this board are so obsessed with going to CUSA, Sunbelt or the Mac. I doubt that many of you can even name all the teams in those three conferences from memory and even fewer can name the towns where most of those schools are located. Will your fans turn out to see ULM (whoever they are), Texas State, Akron, Toledo, Louisiana Tech, North Texas State visit JMU? Or will your fans travel to such distances to see no-name teams? On Tuesday, Wed and Thurs.?

Speaking of winners and losers, you can already put U of Mass. and WVU in the losers' column for switching leagues. Let's see how happy ODU, UNCC, Appy. and Ga. State are after a year or two.

We hope JMU remains in the CAA. When the dust settles there will be many more losers than winners from reorganization.

Welcome to the boards do you prefer . Or

(07-30-2013 08:33 PM)DoubleDDuke Wrote:  South Carolina - Greenville(?)

Furman is in Greenville, SC.

(07-30-2013 09:00 PM)DoubleDDuke Wrote:  I also screwed up Penn State by saying College Park when it's State College. That's pretty pathetic seeing as though I've been there for several games.

Penn State is an odd case. From a postal perspective, Penn State sits within the unincorporated town of University Park. The boundaries of University Park and the boundaries of the university are one and the same. From a state legal perspective, the campus sits primarily in State College but also partially in College Township.

(07-30-2013 09:51 PM)MRD92 Wrote:  

(07-30-2013 08:33 PM)DoubleDDuke Wrote:  South Carolina - Greenville(?)

Furman is in Greenville, SC.

As does Bob Jones University.

(07-30-2013 08:39 PM)DoubleDDuke Wrote:  

(07-30-2013 08:35 PM)CharlestonDuke Wrote:  Carolina plays on Columbia.... Sheesh!

Ha, yeah I knew I'd miss some but I tried to keep it honest but I tried to go quickly and honestly. I swear I know where Iowa and Ole Miss are but just blanked out.

For the record... Oxford is the Paris of Mississippi.

(07-31-2013 07:50 AM)Madisonian Wrote:  For the record... Oxford is the Paris of Mississippi.

Oh joy.

(07-31-2013 07:34 AM)BSKB 24 Wrote:  

(07-30-2013 09:51 PM)MRD92 Wrote:  

(07-30-2013 08:33 PM)DoubleDDuke Wrote:  South Carolina - Greenville(?)

Furman is in Greenville, SC.

As does Bob Jones University.

My Dad went to Bob Jones University in the late 40's for a year. He hated every minute of it. Stated that he would have rather spent a year in prison.

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(07-31-2013 09:34 AM)JMU85 Wrote:  

(07-31-2013 07:34 AM)BSKB 24 Wrote:  

(07-30-2013 09:51 PM)MRD92 Wrote:  

(07-30-2013 08:33 PM)DoubleDDuke Wrote:  South Carolina - Greenville(?)

Furman is in Greenville, SC.

As does Bob Jones University.

My Dad went to Bob Jones University in the late 40's for a year. He hated every minute of it. Stated that he would have rather spent a year in prison.

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Prison = Bob Jones University

The 13th MAC team is Bowling Green.

(08-02-2013 10:37 AM)JMU_71 Wrote:  The 13th MAC team is Bowling Green.

Hahaha, yes!