CAA expansion

tigersharktwo · **Joined:** Fri Nov 15, 2002 12:21 pm **Posts:** 1916

What happened to Northeastern's move to CAA?

rcs1014 · **Posted:** Sat May 29, 2004 8:50 am

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What happened to Northeastern's move to CAA?

http://www.boston.com/sports/articles/2004/05/29/northeastern_close_to_move/

westwolf · **Posted:** Sat May 29, 2004 4:23 pm

Orange you glad you beat Hopkins?

rcs1014 · **Posted:** Sun May 30, 2004 8:31 am

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Orange you glad you beat Hopkins?

Amen to that Westwolf!

Don't get me started on the whole "Orange" issue...

Reiko Suave · **Posted:** Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:36 pm

Does anyone think the CAA would be better off not spreading itself from Boston to Atlanta? Maybe this league should have tried to mirror the "footprint" of the ACC.

The CAA should have continued to seek a travel partner for UNC-Wilmington by adding Coastal Carolina, which has football. A non-football member could have then come from the north to help Hofstra, but not as far north as Boston. Maybe a school like Fairleigh Dikcinson, which is in New Jersey.

Missed Opportunity CAA Line-Up:
CAA NORTH
- Hofstra .................... FB
* Fairleigh Dikcinson
- Drexel
- Delaware .................... FB
- Towson .................... FB
- George Mason
CAA SOUTH
- James Madison .................... FB
- Virginia Commonwealth
- William & Mary .................... FB
- Old Dominion
- UNC-Wilmington
* Coastal Carolina .................... FB

New York to South Carolina is more compact than Massachusetts to Georgia, but ... oh well ... good luck to the new CAA with Georgia Southern and Northeastern, anyway. Maybe the America East will pick up Fairleigh Dikcinson to replace Northeastern. Coastal Carolina is left to continue trying to beg its way into the Southern Conference.

Ruiner · **Posted:** Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:11 pm

Farleigh thingyinson?

Also, did anyone notice that Northeastern article's hints of a "master plan to move to I-A" and that it listed Saint Joseph's as a participant in last year's Final Four?

Reiko Suave · **Posted:** Tue Jun 08, 2004 7:41 pm

The computer automatically changes FDU's full name to "Fairleigh thingyinson" so I purposely misspelled it as Fairleigh Dikcinson. I guess the computer automatically interprets certain four-letter combinations as cuss words and censors all "offensive" posts.

Ruiner · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:37 am

Well, whatever, why is FDU suited to the CAA? That was the essence of my question...

tigersharktwo · **Joined:** Fri Nov 15, 2002 12:21 pm **Posts:** 1916

Still waiting on Northeastern to CAA.

Reiko Suave · **Posted:** Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:20 pm

It might be time for the CAA to say "screw this crap" with Northeastern and look south for its 12th member. There's a big gap now.

Ruiner, FDU was simply tossed in to illustrate the north-south thing. It's a decent school but probably not a CAA type school yet.

NU to announce move · **Posted:** Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:16 am

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031776179655&path=!sports!colleges&s=1045855934926

NU to announce move · **Posted:** Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:02 am

http://www.boston.com/sports/articles/2004/06/23/northeastern_is_on_the_move/

bige · **Posted:** Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:40 pm

NU officially welcomed into the CAA with their own messageboard

http://www.caazone.com/boards/viewforum.php?f=28

footballgodaway · **Posted:** Wed Jun 23, 2004 4:32 pm

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=1827026

NU joins the CAA

footballgod · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:31 pm

So are they going to start a football conference? It seems to me that Yeagar "Alabamas #1 enemy" is not the football type because he and the confeence are a basketball conference. So to hell with yeagar.

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