I have no inside knowledge, but it seems to me that the AE has totally forsaken football, which resulted in both UA and SBU making the moves they did and Bryant and CCSU their response as well. If the AE had moved football forward, as some us hoped, they might have attracted some fine additions, but that didn't happen. Now I hope we migrate to the CAA. Maybe this will spur the NEC to increase their football Scholarship levels, perhaps Monmouth could pull a URI and go back to the NEC.