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William and Mary Heads to the Patriot League for Football
DIR By: Wolffan
Date: April 25, 2025, 4:31 pm
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Although most expected the next school to exit to the Patriot
League following Richmond would be Villanova, this is not a
shocker.
William & Mary is leaving the Colonial Athletic Association's
football roster to join the Patriot League as an associate
member beginning in the 2026 season, the school announced
Friday. The Tribe will remain members of the CAA in all sports
but football and gymnastics.
HTML https://footballscoop.com/2025/04/25/william-mary-caa-patriot-league-football#google_vignette
Any chance The Patriot League is becoming the strongest football
conference in the east?
#Post#: 45596--------------------------------------------------
Re: William and Mary Heads to the Patriot League for Football
DIR By: Chairman of the Board
Date: April 25, 2025, 5:57 pm
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the pat is great and all that, but what's the allure here?
dont they not allow scholarships, or limit them? how's W&M
gonna deal with that? NIL money?
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Re: William and Mary Heads to the Patriot League for Football
DIR By: Robert Monroe
Date: April 26, 2025, 5:41 am
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--- Quote from: Chairman of the Board link ---
>
> the pat is great and all that, but what's the allure here?
>
> dont they not allow scholarships, or limit them? how's W&M
gonna deal with that? NIL money?
>
--- End Quote ---
I’’m guessing both Richmond and W&M admins were unimpressed
with the recent arrivals/departures in CAA football. Amongst
other concerns. And now see PL as a better ‘fit’. Schollies/NIL
not impacted.
Obviously, the departure of these two strong (athletic and
academic) football programs to another FCS conference is quite
a blow. In a way it is a tougher pill to swallow than the
departure of JMU and Delaware.
Right now Nova admins/fans have to be eyeballing PL. They would
be the tenth PL football member.
#Post#: 45603--------------------------------------------------
Re: William and Mary Heads to the Patriot League for Football
DIR By: Redwyn
Date: April 26, 2025, 1:42 pm
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It's simpler than that.
Look at enrollment. Look at media market. Look at school
mission.
W&M is a public, but public like Binghamton.
They are not going to be able to afford the pay model the CAA
and most of D1 have bought into. I suspect that they'll be
leaving the conference once the championship season ends so they
don't get banned this season.
Does anyone know if the PL has "opted in" for athlete pay? I
suspect they haven't or it is very limited.
That's it. Nothing to see here. I'm not sure if Villanova can
follow bc I'm not sure if they can selectively opt out for
single sports. Not clear to me.
This was to avoid dropping the sport.
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Re: William and Mary Heads to the Patriot League for Football
DIR By: Wolffan
Date: April 27, 2025, 10:42 am
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--- Quote from: Redwyn link ---
>
> It's simpler than that.
>
> Look at enrollment. Look at media market. Look at school
mission.
>
> W&M is a public, but public like Binghamton.
>
> They are not going to be able to afford the pay model the CAA
and most of D1 have bought into. I suspect that they'll be
leaving the conference once the championship season ends so they
don't get banned this season.
>
> Does anyone know if the PL has "opted in" for athlete pay? I
suspect they haven't or it is very limited.
>
> That's it. Nothing to see here. I'm not sure if Villanova can
follow bc I'm not sure if they can selectively opt out for
single sports. Not clear to me.
>
> This was to avoid dropping the sport.
>
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This was the discussion a few weeks ago at W&M when they put off
"opting in". As a prestigious public university (with 10K total
enrollment) revenue sharing is affordable (remember, there is no
minimum unless CAA football sets one and it is unlikely to be
significant) but really seems to stick in the craw of the admin
there. They've always prided themselves on the student aspect
of student athlete and speak on this almost constantly. The
fact that their three biggest CAA football rivals already left
the CAA (for various reasons) smoothed the path for football
departure. Of course they could have stayed in CAA football and
the league would have been much happier if they did.
(Fun fact; W&M was a founding member of the football Colonial
League along with Holy Cross, Lehigh, Bucknell, Colgate,
Lafayette but dropped out to be replaced by Davidson...that
league is now the football Patriot League.)
#Post#: 45712--------------------------------------------------
Re: William and Mary Heads to the Patriot League for Football
DIR By: Campi47
Date: June 5, 2025, 9:48 pm
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By the way Albany hasn't signed into the new model yet and may
be thinking of going back to the NEC
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