DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jun 13, 2005 21:28:06 GMT -5
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jun 14, 2005 4:51:55 GMT -5
Yes! New Homecoming opponents! If they aren't available we can always just schedule Cornell again ...
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Jun 14, 2005 9:05:25 GMT -5
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jun 14, 2005 21:39:58 GMT -5
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jun 15, 2005 4:10:48 GMT -5
What is that a stadium for ants? How can they play football if they can't even get into the stadium? |
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Post by thebin on Jun 15, 2005 7:11:43 GMT -5
What is that a stadium for ants? How can they play football if they can't even get into the stadium? The stadium in the ODU photo? Are you at all familiar with IAA football? That stadium looks more than adequately sized for IAA. |
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Post by thebin on Jun 15, 2005 7:18:56 GMT -5
DFW- do think GMU/ODU IAA football could have any implications on PL membership?
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Post by TrueHoyaBlue on Jun 15, 2005 9:12:51 GMT -5
What is that a stadium for ants? How can they play football if they can't even get into the stadium? The stadium in the ODU photo? Are you at all familiar with IAA football? That stadium looks more than adequately sized for IAA. Umm, I think it's a quote from Zoolander... |
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Jun 15, 2005 9:22:13 GMT -5
"Umm, I think it's a quote from Zoolander... "
If there was an emoticon of a head hanging in shame, I would put it right here....
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Post by david on Jun 15, 2005 17:06:48 GMT -5
shake it off, it happens to the best of us.
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Post by TigerHoya on Jun 16, 2005 13:49:16 GMT -5
DFW- do think GMU/ODU IAA football could have any implications on PL membership? ODU is going CAA. If GMU were to add it would they go to CAA also or would they look at Patriot? |
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jun 16, 2005 19:23:42 GMT -5
DFW- do think GMU/ODU IAA football could have any implications on PL membership? It could, but it's not apparent how forward-thinking the PL leadeship is going to be on this. With ODU joining, there would be 13 inthe CAA, assuming the other schools stay in. George Mason would be 14 (and they're not looking at any other place but the CAA, given its Virginia core of schools), and a possible entrant of Georgia State, which joins the league this fall. At that point, another southern team (Coastal Carolina, Liberty, App. State) may be in the mix too. Sixteen teams may be too many for basketball but it certainly is too many for football. At some point the rumor mill about dropping the northern schools and building an all-sports CAA will start to rev up (sound familiar?) At that point the schools of the old Yankee Conference (UMass, URI, Maine, New Hampshire) could either build a league of their own with state schools like Albany and Stony Brook and bring along Villanova and Richmond, or seek other choices. The PL seems very reactive to conference changes, so I'm not sure they'd want a 12 team setup with four or five larger state schools. Another Internet topic out there is a new A-10 football league with reduced scholarships, pairing current A-10ers UMass, URI, Fordham, Duquesne, Richmond, Dayton, and LaSalle. I don't buy that one because the disparities are considerable between a UMass and a LaSalle. Where Villanova and UR end up, I really don't know. For every Nova fan who talks about investing the millions to go I-A, there's probably another that would live with the PL. Of course, Richmond recoiled on PL football the same way Georgetown fans would if someone was promoting PL basketball for the 2010 Hoyas--the PL's reputation as the home of "the last amateurs" does not always sell itself to schools with success at higher level conferences. Any other ideas out there? |
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Post by kghoya on Jun 16, 2005 20:13:49 GMT -5
george mason would need to add seating to the other side of the soccer/lacrosse field...i think the caa is really going towards a league where they want their schools involved in all sports... with odu getting football...i guess that leaves just mason and uncw w/o the sport gomason.collegesports.com/facilities/gmu-stadium.html |
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jun 16, 2005 20:48:03 GMT -5
Mason would likely build an entirely new stadium, probably in the area of 10-12,000 seats.
With GMU, ODU and maybe Georgia State on the gridiron, the remaining CAA schools without football would be: Drexel (played until 1973), Virginia Commonwealth (played a club schedule through at least 1979) and UNC-Wilmington (has never fielded a team).
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Post by TigerHoya on Jun 18, 2005 12:58:08 GMT -5
Coastal is rumored to be going SoCon down here. In fact, D-II Presbyterian (10 miles from where I currently sit in my dad's hometown) is adding both lacrosses and women's golf so they can move up to I-AA and take Coastal's place in the Big South.
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