Albany and Stony Brook

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Legit interest - Fairfield wants full membership, to include football, in the CAA.

[nj alum]

Fairfield dropped football; are they re-starting it?

[Tribe14SF]

Legit interest - Fairfield wants full membership, to include football, in the CAA.

Where'd you pick this up? They played I-AA from 97-03 in the MAAC and dropped because of financial issues.

[-Tribal-]

Where'd you pick this up? They played I-AA from 97-03 in the MAAC and dropped because of financial issues.

Minor detail.

Read it on another forum but didn't fact check.

DISCLAIMER: My posts are for entertainment purposes only.

[WMTribe90]

The A-10 is a hoops conference. It doesn't have football, and all-sports are not as good as CAA.

The CAA is a football and all sports conference...with hoops.

Hofstra and N'Eastern were brought in to the CAA for football. They chose to drop it. They can not be allowed to hinder the proper growth of the conference.

The CAA needs to focus on what it does best ... Football and all sports...and it will be fine.

The CAA chasing hoops is fool's gold...let's call it a day.

Agree with this 100%.

First move should be to add SBU and Albany as all sports members and then look to peel off one or two football playing SoCon members (Furman, Elon and/or Wofford). Once added, none of these schools would be short-term flight risks.

[nj alum]

This stuff is too funny!

AE apparently has a $1 million buyout if a school leaves with less than one-two year's notice.

I have this image of the A-10's $1 million check on behalf of GMU being signed over by the CAA to the AE to "free" Albany to join the CAA for 2013-2014...only there are problems with the A-10 check, and that is holding everything up! :-)

What else could it be? :-)

[Sitting Bull]

This stuff is too funny!

AE apparently has a $1 million buyout if a school leaves with less than one-two year's notice.

I have this image of the A-10's $1 million check on behalf of GMU being signed over by the CAA to the AE to "free" Albany to join the CAA for 2013-2014...only there are problems with the A-10 check, and that is holding everything up! :-)

What else could it be? :-)

So how did BU exit so abruptly?

[nj alum]

No idea...perhaps amount was put in place after BU announced it was leaving.

BU did have to hang around for a year.

[DistrictBaller]

Or Albany not coming could be the hold-up: http://blog.timesunion.com/collegesp...ca-east/16115/

The University at Albany will remain in the America East Conference in almost all of its 19 sports, athletic director Lee McElroy said on Thursday, dismissing as “pure speculation” Internet rumors that the school was prepared to leave for the Colonial Athletic Association.

Asked if UAlbany would stay in the America East for the 2013-14 academic year, McElroy responded, “Absolutely, and for the foreseeable future.”

The Great Danes compete in the America East in every sport except for football, which is joining the CAA in the fall, and women’s golf, which is a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

“We feel very, very strong about the academic values and all of the other assets that the America East brings to the table,’’ McElroy said.

It certainly looks like the northern voting bloc (if it exists) effectively blocked Albany as well as Stony Brook. It seems they are a pair in this and if there is no Stony Brook, there is no Albany.

This may end up being good for W&M in that Tom Yeager can look towards the South without the northern members having anything valid to complain about with appealing northern options off the table. Furman, UNCG, Coastal Carolina, Wofford etc. could all be potential options that would favor W&M geographically.

[Sitting Bull]

Whatever the reason, you have to feel a little bad for UAlbany. There was too much smoke to deny they were at worst flirting with the CAA. It sounds like to me they just couldn't afford it. Not a lot of money running around AE schools.

Now they may have blunted any future chance to join and have pissed off their AE counterparts.

I would be fine with Fairfield if there is still a desire to fill a team north.