danefan Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 Here's an interesting chart which may give you an idea of the leap we'd need to take to make the financial committment needed, IMO, to compete year in and year out in the CAA. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/schools/finances/ I don't see it happening personally, although you can see why all of us would probably support the move if it was accompanied by an institutional committment to increase investment in the athletic department. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madDOG Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 We are so far behind SB, it's sickening. Bing isn't much lower than us and they don't even have Football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danefan Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 (edited) We are so far behind SB, it's sickening. Bing isn't much lower than us and they don't even have Football. Agreed. Adding full scholarship football and a stadium will bring that number up, but I suspect we'll still be multiple millions of dollars below Stony Brook, Delaware, James Madison, etc... It all comes down to what the University wants. We all know what the Athletic Department wants, but like most Athletic Departments, it is dependent on University Subsidies. Our subsidy is is almost 80%. What will President Jones and the Board of Trustees decide to do? Edited May 8, 2013 by danefan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danefan Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 Not sure how much it really matters, but Davidson is officially going to the A10. The one interesting thing is that the A10 now has 6FCS football playing schools in 4 different conferences. Amazing. Dayton - Pioneer Duquesne - NEC Fordham - Patriot League Rhode Island - CAA Richmond - CAA Davidson - Pioneer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan_Dane Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 Stony Brook is getting $6M more in subsidy over Albany. That alone would push us up to MAC level of $21M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danefan Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 (edited) Stony Brook is getting $6M more in subsidy over Albany. That alone would push us up to MAC level of $21M. That just means the SBU has decided to allocate $6m more to the athletic department than Albany does. That is what I mean by a greater insitutional committment to athletics. Also, remember - operating budgets are different than Capital funding. Moving $6m to athletics means taking it from somewhere else. Imagine the political repercussions of that. Maybe Dr. Jones would like to do that for us too? Who knows. Edited May 8, 2013 by danefan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UA_MA_2000 Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 If it turns into a question of spending 5mil a year to compete in the CAA or spend 3-4 mil over three years to finish Fellon Field, renovate the SEFCU and start on PhaseII...stay in the AE and build up facilities... I'm most concerned about SEFCU...it's just not good enough to compete with Bingo Events Center and what SBU is building... Agreed. SEFCU is next up on the upgrade buffet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clickclack Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 This whole CAA thing is really starting to stick to me/unattractive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danefan Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 This whole CAA thing is really starting to stick to me/unattractive. We'll have to wait and see. Like we've said all along - making a move for the sake of moving is short-sited. If the money is there to make an all out committment to athletics then the CAA could benefit us. There is no sense in going to the CAA and having the same athletic department as we have now. The AEast/CAA Football is fine for now to have a $15-18m budget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madDOG Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 Are there updates? I haven't been paying attention to the other boards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clickclack Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 Are there updates? I haven't been paying attention to the other boards. Just more rumors...on message boards... - Apparently as most people I think speculate that JMU is looking to go FBS ASAP...CUSA or SunBelt - Hofstra and MAAC are apparently talking... - W&M and Patriot League are dancing as well... Begs the question...what's left? Not that those three were awesome but losing them further weakens the CAA... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clickclack Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 "Hofstra has reached out to the MAAC in the event that the CAA misses on Davidson (which happened) and expansion shifts focus back to Stony Brook, which they have said they do not want to be in a league with." - CAA Board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan_Dane Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 Could the CAA petition to upgrade from a FCS conference to a FBS conference? http://www.vuhoops.com/2012/05/03/caa-football-could-become-new-fbs-league/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dane96 Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAalum72 Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 Could the CAA petition to upgrade from a FCS conference to a FBS conference? http://www.vuhoops.c...new-fbs-league/ No. Not only has it been discussed on AGS and pretty much decided that a league by itself can't break into the FBS cartel, this article mentions New Hampshire as one of the movers - anybody who mentions UNH and their 77-year-old, 6,500-seat stadium as ready for FBS isn't thinking clearly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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