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CAA Football adds Sacred Heart
By: Delaware Campus Correspondent Date: July 22, 2025, 11:00 am
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Re: CAA Football adds Sacred Heart
By: Accelerator Date: July 22, 2025, 11:08 am
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I'd have to imagine we're examining all exit plans at this
point. What an embarrassment the CAA has become, picking up the
most bottom barrel northeast schools that we would always
schedule for free OOC wins.
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Re: CAA Football adds Sacred Heart
By: iBOsbu Date: July 22, 2025, 12:00 pm
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We will probably hear SHU to AE all-sports soon. At least that's
the rumor in other boards.
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Re: CAA Football adds Sacred Heart
By: Chairman of the Board Date: July 22, 2025, 1:08 pm
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you mean coastal right?
i keep saying it- but academics aside*, we are more like SHU
than the schools we like to count as peers. UVa, Mich, Texas,
Cal, etc.
*because this is an athletics discussion
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Re: CAA Football adds Sacred Heart
By: iBOsbu Date: July 22, 2025, 1:36 pm
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[quote author=Chairman of the Board
link=topic=1180.msg45811#msg45811 date=1753207714]
you mean coastal right?
i keep saying it- but academics aside*, we are more like SHU
than the schools we like to count as peers. UVa, Mich, Texas,
Cal, etc.
*because this is an athletics discussion
[/quote]
lol at Mich, Texas..
But I did mean AE.. mos likely outcome: SHU football to CAA
Football and SHU all-sports to AE. Basically pulling a Bryant.
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Re: CAA Football adds Sacred Heart
By: Wolffan Date: July 22, 2025, 2:38 pm
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I would've guessed Merrimack to begin the backfilling of
Richmond, William & Mary, and Villanova. Sacred Heart isn't a
complete shocker.
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Re: CAA Football adds Sacred Heart
By: Chairman of the Board Date: July 22, 2025, 4:40 pm
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ohh, i see, yes that makes sense.
and i meant peers from an academic standpoint. maybe not yet
the stanford/duke/MIT/ivy types yet, but for our academics, why
not put us up with the best of the state schools?
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Re: CAA Football adds Sacred Heart
By: iBOsbu Date: July 22, 2025, 9:01 pm
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[quote author=Chairman of the Board
link=topic=1180.msg45814#msg45814 date=1753220403]
ohh, i see, yes that makes sense.
and i meant peers from an academic standpoint. maybe not yet
the stanford/duke/MIT/ivy types yet, but for our academics, why
not put us up with the best of the state schools?
[/quote]
Sorry if it came across like I was laughing at you. I wasn�t. I
was just reacting to the sad reality you mentioned: that all our
peer schools, academic and large public flagships, are in FBS.
Even Northeast programs like Rutgers, UConn, UMass, Temple and
Buffalo are in the FBS, even with how bad their football records
are.

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Re: CAA Football adds Sacred Heart
By: iBOsbu Date: July 22, 2025, 9:07 pm
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I really hope the CAA stops adding every Tom, Dick, and Harry
just to keep football afloat. Legacy programs are leaving, and
it's clear the league needs a total rethink. Honestly, I�d
rather the CAA just stop sponsoring football altogether. Let the
America East take it over and turn it into a Northeast-focused
league. Southern teams with football like Elon, Campbell, and NC
A&T etc. can find football homes in conferences that make more
regional sense, like the Big South or MEAC.
That way, the CAA can put all its energy into improving
basketball� where it still has potential to be a good mid-major
again.
Or maybe, just maybe, we finally convince the MAC to re-invite
us� the offer we foolishly turned down 13 years ago. Us plus
another northern school could form a solid eastern wing with
UMass and Buffalo. And when the power conferences eventually
break away and the next tier of realignment settles, maybe even
Temple and Delaware could join too. I can only hope.
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Re: CAA Football adds Sacred Heart
By: Chairman of the Board Date: July 23, 2025, 7:35 am
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[quote author=ibosbu link=topic=1180.msg45818#msg45818
date=1753236114]
[quote author=Chairman of the Board
link=topic=1180.msg45814#msg45814 date=1753220403]
ohh, i see, yes that makes sense.
and i meant peers from an academic standpoint. maybe not yet
the stanford/duke/MIT/ivy types yet, but for our academics, why
not put us up with the best of the state schools?
[/quote]
Sorry if it came across like I was laughing at you. I wasn�t. I
was just reacting to the sad reality you mentioned: that all our
peer schools, academic and large public flagships, are in FBS.
Even Northeast programs like Rutgers, UConn, UMass, Temple and
Buffalo are in the FBS, even with how bad their football records
are.
[/quote]
yes, that is the point i fumbled.
our academic peers are VERY different than our athletic peers.
i shoulda just wrote that!
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