Dane96 Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Not that...just an end to having room in the conference. That said, the football league is at 12 teams. Don't know how they would go to 14. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UA_MA_2000 Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 I would prefer not to be in a conference replete with private schools located south of the Mason-Dixon line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan_Dane Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 We belong in the MAC. Focus on building out the stadium and beating up the AE. Hopefully when they look for an addition, we'll look strong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UA_MA_2000 Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 We belong in the MAC. Focus on building out the stadium and beating up the AE. Hopefully when they look for an addition, we'll look strong. Agreed. And in basketball focus on building a program of consistency like UVM has for the past decade. Then we will be ready for a league like the MAC in all sports or, who knows, a yet-to-be-formed league that suits us even better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UA'08 Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 We belong in the MAC. Focus on building out the stadium and beating up the AE. Hopefully when they look for an addition, we'll look strong. We don't have the funds to go caa where would we get money to move fbs? I can't see that happening for a longggg time. It'd be awesome to be able to. I don't know why, but I just feel like we took a step back just now. I probably would have been better off just not knowing about the whole caa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dslyank Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 As long as we are talking about pretty reliable sources, the last couple of days have showed just how reliable a lot of those are. My reliable source says BU did not pay one plug nickel to leave the AE. Maybe not reliable but I am pretty sure that it is true. Also, as far as leaving the CAA for football for the ALL NEW AMEAST FOOTBALL Conference, generally associate members do not pay an exit fee. We did not pay to leave the NEC and in fact I believe we were on one year contracts with them for the most part. I do not really know what our contract with the CAA specifies, but for an all sports northeast conference we WILL pay to get out if we have to. I have said all along, we need a northeast ALL sports quality institution conference. No need to reiterate what the schools are, we have all speculated/hoped. Leave the South to the CAA or whoever; spend whatever (if anything) we saved [by not jumping the AmEast] on facilities; continue to dominate in a righteous way; and work for the above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UA_MA_2000 Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 (edited) Dream FBS (or future FCS Tier 1) America East Football Conference: North Division: Maine UNH UAlbany UMASS Buffalo Army South Division: Stony Brook Rhode Island UCONN Delaware *need two more state schools or suitable programs from the A-10, former Big East, or CAA. CCSU and Towson State if we had to. Thoughts? Edited May 24, 2013 by UA_MA_2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UA'08 Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Dream FBS (or future FCS Tier 1) America East Football Conference: North Division: Maine UNH UAlbany UMASS Buffalo Army South Division: Stony Brook Rhode Island UCONN Delaware *need two more state schools or suitable programs from the A-10, former Big East, or CAA. CCSU and Towson State if we had to. Thoughts? Never will happen. Why would UMASS, Buffalo, UConn and Army ever want any part of that. Never in a million years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UA_MA_2000 Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 (edited) Dream FBS (or future FCS Tier 1) America East Football Conference: North Division: Maine UNH UAlbany UMASS Buffalo Army South Division: Stony Brook Rhode Island UCONN Delaware *need two more state schools or suitable programs from the A-10, former Big East, or CAA. CCSU and Towson State if we had to. Thoughts? Never will happen. Why would UMASS, Buffalo, UConn and Army ever want any part of that. Never in a million years. If they were losing money at the FBS level or if the FBS becomes only the BCS conferences as we have read about on the blogs. For this to happen the FCS schools would have to up their commitment to football, and UCONN/UMASS/Army would realize and accept they are not Big Ten or ACC schools and can't make the jump to BCS FBS. Edited May 24, 2013 by UA_MA_2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UA'08 Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Dream FBS (or future FCS Tier 1) America East Football Conference: North Division: Maine UNH UAlbany UMASS Buffalo Army South Division: Stony Brook Rhode Island UCONN Delaware *need two more state schools or suitable programs from the A-10, former Big East, or CAA. CCSU and Towson State if we had to. Thoughts? Never will happen. Why would UMASS, Buffalo, UConn and Army ever want any part of that. Never in a million years. If they were losing money at the FBS level or if the FBS becomes only the BCS conferences as we have read about on the blogs. For this to happen the FCS schools would have to up their commitment to football, and UCONN/UMASS/Army would realize and accept they are not Big Ten or ACC schools and can't make the jump to BCS FBS. I just can't see that happening. Has a current BCS school moved back down to FCS yet in the modern era? All I'm hearing is schools doing whatever they can to move up to BCS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAalum72 Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 This last probably has to do with speculation that Division I splits into three levels - the Power Six BCS-type conferences, the lower FBS merging with the top, fully funded FCS, and then the partly-funded (NEC, Pioneer) and non-championship-participating leagues (Ivy, SWAC). Also a very long shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan_Dane Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 (edited) We'll see what happens. UA will be making a larger commitment to football as part of our move to the CAA. According to the USA Today, there were plenty of FCS universities funding above existing FBS universities. Most of the MAC was in the low $20Ms. Albany was at nearly $15M. SBU was actually ALREADY spending more money than MAC members Toledo, Ball State, Kent State and Bowling Green. With our move to CAA football our expenditures would have to rise to the upper teens... once again, not far off the MAC 2012 NEC Albany - $15M 2012 MAC Ball State - $21M That spread will be even smaller when 2013 is calculated. One more round of stadium expansion and we've not that different from existing MAC schools like Ball State and Kent State, geographically, financially or institutionally. Edited May 24, 2013 by SoCal_Dane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patch Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 6 million dollar difference isn't exactly "Chump Change" and who knows if the State will fork over the money for the rest of the phases, not exactly a priority for Sheldon Silver or Ken Lavalle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan_Dane Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 The stadium alone will help to close the revenue gap. It's not a cure all but it will help. 1) More seats equals more revenue 2) Better seats equals higher ticket prices and more revenue 3) More merchandising revenue via the stadium store 4) Naming rights potential revenue 5) Leasing revenue via concerts, events 6) Revenue potential if UA could lure a minor league team (soccer, lax, etc) 7) Box seat revenue Add in revenue from guarantee games now that we're a counter or will be a counter I don't think the gap between UA and Ball State will remain $6M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B9j2j6s Posted May 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 If you build it they will come should be our motto, if UB in a sub 500 year can draw 18k (2011) then Albany if we build our stadium (all phases) we should be able to meet that. As for basketball we should have a few games each year at the TU center. It would give us a recruiting edge over all other AE institutions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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