danefan

I'm sure they'll go as long as they can into the winter. The digging will need to get done before the ground freezes, but I don't think that should be an issue if they start soon. And if we have a winter like last year, I'm sure they'll work the whole winter. They are still saying a finish date by May. McElroy confirmed that on Wednesday.

I see trucks and flatbeds and bigger piles of dirt!

http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2012/08/09/sports/doc502336f87c964248720991.txt From the same story:"That increase of scholarships will allow the program to schedule games against Football Bowl Subdivision teams as early as 2015." I'm hoping that despite not being a counter until 2015, we can get an FBS game in 2014.

http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2012/08/09/sports/doc502336f87c964248720991.txt

This is a great article. http://shar.es/vA0aV

I thought we were on a year-to-year contract? It would stink for the seniors not to get the AQ this year, but at the same time whatever happens is for the better of the program in the long run.

Seems like bigger piles of dirt and other materials coming in in the last few days.

Live press conference today at 12:30 on Danezone Also streaming live at http://www.caasports.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?&db_oem_id=8500&catid=0

UAlbanysports.com I'd suggest you keep hitting refresh between 6:15 and 6:25pm

Still haven't seen the email...I must not have made the list.

I really hope the second phase is finishing the lower bowl in the north endzone and adding a second deck to the away side with more suites.

I'd like to see us to alternative between a BCS school and a winnable FBS game every other year. 2013 - Army; 2014 - UConn; 2015 - UMass; 2016 - Rutgers As far as the stadium goes, I am hopeful we'll be pushing 15,000 seats within 5 years. But only if we're filling it up constantly. I'd rather have a smaller full stadium (a la Richmond) than a a large half-empty stadium. Smaller capacity could give rise to our tickets being the hot ticket. That creates excitement.

Sportsnetwork article will get picked up nationally by the AP usually http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/news/news.aspx?id=4519490

Santillo on Twitter

Giants had to get specific permission for an exemption. It was part of their agreement to return after the last contract was up.

There is some interesting thoughts that could effect what the CAA would look like. Rumor mill is stirring that Delaware, James Madison, Liberty, Jacksonville State, Georgia Southern, and Appalachian State may join the dying WAC to form an East Coast FBS conference and piggyback off the WAC's FBS status. The WAC has to find 6 schools before May 2013 or it's dead. That will obviously diminish the Southern tier of the CAA, but it will still be a great FCS league. In my opinion, JMU and UD are going to move up within the next 5 years anyway.

Lots of press today post-CAA Media Day. Nothing really new though. http://www2.timesdispatch.com/sports/sport/2012/jul/26/tdsport01-caa-football-schools-waiting-for-stabili-ar-2084727/ http://www2.timesdispatch.com/sports/college-sports/2012/jul/25/tdsport01-caa-stays-silent-on-expansion-details-as-ar-2081393/ http://www.dailypress.com/sports/colleges/dp-spt-caa-football-media-day-20120725,0,3097506.story http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/07/25/in-fcs-huddle-caa-hopes-it-drawing-toward-stability/ http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120725/SPORTS/707269957 http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20120726/SPORTS07/307260056/Hens-not-considering-switching-conferences?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CSports%7Cs

Start writing positive letters to the editor now. I'm sure they'll get flooded with negative ones soon.

College of Charleston Board meeting was today. Some interesting tweets from their local beat writer. http://twitter.com/Jeff_fromthePC

I'd like to be wherever SBU is. If SBU is in the CAA all-sports, than so be it. If not, then I don't think we need to go to the CAA now for all-sports.

Welcome to the board, Tribal. IMO, its with great pleasure to accept an offer from the CAA football conference. Where did you hear the rumors? http://boards.caazone.com/

Well, we don't have a president Probably the provost. Didn't seem to take much when golf moved to the MAAC. Football, needing larger subsidies from university funds, probably has to show that the budget and Title IX issues can be worked out, but otherwise it's mainly an internal athletic department problem. Changing conferences in one sport isn't on the same magnitude as, say, moving from D-III to D-I. Philip still has decision-making authority until a new President is hired, doesn't he? I thought he agreed to stay on until then.

No announcement before CAA media day http://www.caafootballblog.com/2012/07/caafb-commissioner-tom-yeager-pre-media.html

No clue on the timing, but there are some major events coming up: July 24, 2012 - College of Charleston Board of Trustees Meeting (Special Meeting on Conference Affiliation) - http://news.cofc.edu/2012/07/20/bot-committee-meetings/ July 25, 2012 - CAA Football Media - 10am-12pm - Live feed here: http://www.caasports.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=8500&KEY=&SPID=4660&SPSID=48484 I would guess an announcement may come shortly after the completion of both of those events.