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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Future of CAA Football

The future of CAA Football, soon to be a 14 team behemoth, will be discussed when the leagues athletic directors meet later this month. ODU and Georgia St. will be joining in 2011 and 2012 and the main topic will be what to do about with a football league of 14 teams. There are a number of options that will be discussed with the likely scenario being (2) 7 team divisions based on geography. The other is more interesting in that it could include the creation of 2 separate leagues, although the CAA would likely sponsor both.

The scenario often discussed by fans but unlikely to occur anytime soon is the sponsorship of football by the America East conference. This would require an upgrade by Albany, and an agreement with current Atlantic 10 members UMass and URI and possibly Villanova of the Big East. Richmond is as much a wild card as Villanova since they are in centered in the CAA South footprint while their A10 partners UMass and URI are in the north. A potential lineup would look as such:

America East:
Maine
UNH
Stonybrook
Albany
*UMass
*URI
*Villanova
*Richmond

CAA:
Northeastern
Delaware
Hofstra
Towson
JMU
W&M
ODU
Georgia St.

posted by Matt Peloquin # 7:19 PM

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Comments:

Three things to ponder: One, do any of these guys remember the 16-team WAC? 14-teams especially with such disparate talent levels will prove very difficult to manager.

Two, Northeastern is making noise about dropping football. What will that do to this beast of a conference?

Three, when oil inevitably rises toward $200 a barrel and gasoline pops the $5 mark, how much will anyone of this make sense? Oh, yeah. NJIT plays in a conference that stretches to the tip of Texas. Never mind.

# posted by

Michael : January 9, 2009 11:39 AM

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