(01-20-2022 12:22 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(01-20-2022 12:20 PM)MattBrownEP Wrote:  Been asking around today...hearing multiple AE ADs are really against CCSU.

That's rough for CCSU

Did they give reasons? Such a natural fit

"Poorly run, poorly funded, poor fan support and poor metrics."

(01-20-2022 12:26 PM)MattBrownEP Wrote:  

(01-20-2022 12:22 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(01-20-2022 12:20 PM)MattBrownEP Wrote:  Been asking around today...hearing multiple AE ADs are really against CCSU.

That's rough for CCSU

Did they give reasons? Such a natural fit

"Poorly run, poorly funded, poor fan support and poor metrics."

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

(01-20-2022 12:26 PM)MattBrownEP Wrote:  

(01-20-2022 12:22 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(01-20-2022 12:20 PM)MattBrownEP Wrote:  Been asking around today...hearing multiple AE ADs are really against CCSU.

That's rough for CCSU

Did they give reasons? Such a natural fit

"Poorly run, poorly funded, poor fan support and poor metrics."

What schools would past muster for America East? 8 is a scary place to be be if they do indeed lose Stony Brook.

Maybe the AEC just adds Merrimack and stays at 9.

(01-20-2022 02:40 PM)shizzle787 Wrote:  Maybe the AEC just adds Merrimack and stays at 9.

And LIU

(01-19-2022 10:19 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Schools in the northeast that can be targeted.

Post U. private and they just turned their sprint team to varsity football.
Thomas Jefferson private
Mercy private
Molloy private
Pace private Can we have some chips with Pace Peconti Sauce?
Adelphi private
New Haven private looking to D1.
Bentley private rumored to want to go D1.
Saint Rose private
Le Moyne private
Stonehill private
University of Charleston
Queens public
Staten Island Public
Southern Connecticutt State public
West Chester public
Indiana, Pa. public
Kutztown public
Rowan Public

There are a lot of large schools in the northeast.

no Dominican College or St. Thomas Aquinas? both small D2 schools with BB success in metro NY

Speaking of the America East and the MAAC, this was in an article published Wednesday night in Newsday:

Quote:According to published reports, Stony Brook is only one piece of the puzzle. The CAA also is looking to bring on Monmouth from the Metro Atlantic and Hampton from the Big South.
The move would be geared largely toward men’s basketball. Other schools could be in play, among them Albany of the America East and Iona of the Metro Atlantic. To add coach Rick Pitino’s Gaels would be considered an impressive addition.

Apologies if already been discussed elsewhere, but I had not seen Albany and Iona mooted as potential CAA candidates before. Is this just a writer's rambling, or could there be something to it?

(01-20-2022 06:08 PM)Sandlapper Spike Wrote:  Speaking of the America East and the MAAC, this was in an article published Wednesday night in Newsday:

Quote:According to published reports, Stony Brook is only one piece of the puzzle. The CAA also is looking to bring on Monmouth from the Metro Atlantic and Hampton from the Big South.
The move would be geared largely toward men’s basketball. Other schools could be in play, among them Albany of the America East and Iona of the Metro Atlantic. To add coach Rick Pitino’s Gaels would be considered an impressive addition.

Apologies if already been discussed elsewhere, but I had not seen Albany and Iona mooted as potential CAA candidates before. Is this just a writer's rambling, or could there be something to it?

Interesting. That’s the first time I’ve seen Iona and Albany from a source (as opposed to speculation). Wonder if the guy’s connected or is just spitballing.

(01-20-2022 06:08 PM)Sandlapper Spike Wrote:  Speaking of the America East and the MAAC, this was in an article published Wednesday night in Newsday:

Quote:According to published reports, Stony Brook is only one piece of the puzzle. The CAA also is looking to bring on Monmouth from the Metro Atlantic and Hampton from the Big South.
The move would be geared largely toward men’s basketball. Other schools could be in play, among them Albany of the America East and Iona of the Metro Atlantic. To add coach Rick Pitino’s Gaels would be considered an impressive addition.

Apologies if already been discussed elsewhere, but I had not seen Albany and Iona mooted as potential CAA candidates before. Is this just a writer's rambling, or could there be something to it?

I’ll take what is the former, Alex, for $200.

(01-20-2022 06:08 PM)Sandlapper Spike Wrote:  Speaking of the America East and the MAAC, this was in an article published Wednesday night in Newsday:

Quote:According to published reports, Stony Brook is only one piece of the puzzle. The CAA also is looking to bring on Monmouth from the Metro Atlantic and Hampton from the Big South.
The move would be geared largely toward men’s basketball. Other schools could be in play, among them Albany of the America East and Iona of the Metro Atlantic. To add coach Rick Pitino’s Gaels would be considered an impressive addition.

Apologies if already been discussed elsewhere, but I had not seen Albany and Iona mooted as potential CAA candidates before. Is this just a writer's rambling, or could there be something to it?

It wasn't. But I said how Iona should be going to the CAA with how good they've been in the MAAC even before Petino.

If the CAA for sure goes to 14 and the MAAC goes to 12. I don't know how all 3 of NEC, MEAC, AEC survive. One would have to get picked apart w/ only Stonehill, New Haven, Bentley as D-II move up options. Along w/ Chicago St. from D-I

AEC is as safe as can be. They’re firmly higher on the pecking order relative to the NEC/MEAC.

(01-20-2022 07:50 AM)whittx Wrote:  

(01-19-2022 10:19 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Schools in the northeast that can be targeted.

Post U. private and they just turned their sprint team to varsity football.
Thomas Jefferson private
Mercy private
Molloy private
Pace private Can we have some chips with Pace Peconti Sauce?
Adelphi private
New Haven private looking to D1.
Bentley private rumored to want to go D1.
Saint Rose private
Le Moyne private
Stonehill private
University of Charleston
Queens public
Staten Island Public
Southern Connecticutt State public
West Chester public
Indiana, Pa. public
Kutztown public
Rowan Public

There are a lot of large schools in the northeast.

U Charleston is private and out of the way. The only WV schools that might be NE are Shepherd and West Liberty St.

University of Charleston fits the profile for the Big South as well. What I am going to see are more D2 schools in the northeast to be called up. Queens would fit finely in the AEC. They have better academics than CCSU.

(01-19-2022 10:19 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Schools in the northeast that can be targeted.

Post U. private and they just turned their sprint team to varsity football.
Thomas Jefferson private
Mercy private
Molloy private
Pace private Can we have some chips with Pace Peconti Sauce?
Adelphi private
New Haven private looking to D1.
Bentley private rumored to want to go D1.
Saint Rose private
Le Moyne private
Stonehill private
University of Charleston
Queens public
Staten Island Public
Southern Connecticutt State public
West Chester public
Indiana, Pa. public
Kutztown public
Rowan Public

There are a lot of large schools in the northeast.

David drops the hammer.

(01-20-2022 07:58 PM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  

(01-19-2022 10:19 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Schools in the northeast that can be targeted.

Post U. private and they just turned their sprint team to varsity football.
Thomas Jefferson private
Mercy private
Molloy private
Pace private Can we have some chips with Pace Peconti Sauce?
Adelphi private
New Haven private looking to D1.
Bentley private rumored to want to go D1.
Saint Rose private
Le Moyne private
Stonehill private
University of Charleston
Queens public
Staten Island Public
Southern Connecticutt State public
West Chester public
Indiana, Pa. public
Kutztown public
Rowan Public

There are a lot of large schools in the northeast.

David drops the hammer.

On his head?