Exit fee to 1 million

[a-fan]

Mason is CAA for life now. No way Mason let's go of $1M. The focus of the new administration is research not sports. Stanford of the East is the new motto! Who will be our Tiger Woods, Andrew Luck and John McEnroe

More like Carnegie Mellon south of the Mason Dixon...

[gurgle274]

Mason plays UMD, UVA, Northern Iowa and has perhaps a game with UCONN at the Virgin Island tournament. Also, UR on the schedule and another big conference game yet to be announced (hoping). If Mason takes care of business in the OOC portion of the schedule, it wont matter (and really, it never did matter) if VCU and ODU are in the CAA or not. Mason's 2 at large bids came on the strength of what they did OOC, not necessarily what they did in CAA play.

I disagree.

Who did they beat OOC that clinched GMU an at-large in '11? Harvard? GMU's resume was based on the CAA, by avoiding bad losses and winning their share of games against the other top CAA schools. Take out VCU and ODU from the schedule, and GMU doesn't even play another NCAA team besides Harvard.

Everyone remembers the win @Wichita State in '06 but few remember the losses to Wake Forest, Creighton, and Miss. St. OOC. GMU again dominated the CAA and swept NCAA team VCU...tell me they make that historic at-large without those wins.

GMU has never won enough OOC games alone to merit at-large selection. They balanced it with beating the top of the CAA. You can't remove multiple top-100 (at-worst) RPI games from the conference schedule and pretend GMU will be fine. GMU/ODU/VCU propped each other up.

[Jollay]

swept NCAA team VCU...tell me they make that historic at-large without those wins.

Not saying your point itself isn't valid, but VCU finished 6th that year and wasn't in the NCAAs...

[jimp]

I disagree.

Who did they beat OOC that clinched GMU an at-large in '11? Harvard? GMU's resume was based on the CAA, by avoiding bad losses and winning their share of games against the other top CAA schools. Take out VCU and ODU from the schedule, and GMU doesn't even play another NCAA team besides Harvard.

Everyone remembers the win @Wichita State in '06 but few remember the losses to Wake Forest, Creighton, and Miss. St. OOC. GMU again dominated the CAA and swept NCAA team VCU...tell me they make that historic at-large without those wins.

GMU has never won enough OOC games alone to merit at-large selection. They balanced it with beating the top of the CAA. You can't remove multiple top-100 (at-worst) RPI games from the conference schedule and pretend GMU will be fine. GMU/ODU/VCU propped each other up.

Agree. Especially w/ '11. No way an OOC win over Harvard got them in the tourney. They got in by dominating a solid CAA.