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#Post#: 6727--------------------------------------------------
Re: Conference Shake Up!
DIR By: RecoveringHillbilly
Date: May 8, 2013, 2:27 am
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Someone had mentioned here MAC in non-FB sports, but that's not
allowed long-term. The MAC let UB join in every sport but
football for 1 season to give us another year to complete
stadium expansion. The MAC is all about affiliates so SBU could
easily join as #14 to balance UMass (moving BGSU to MAC West FB)
and leaving other sports wherever. Moving to full member could
wait until there is another school interested in joining fully.
UMass isn't, with the A-10 still strong.
Yep seawolf97 we got UTEP once and have a 2-2 deal with Baylor
that's cool. They came here a few years ago and their traveling
crowd was great. We play them in Waco this year then host next
fall. We've also hosted/host: Syracuse ('04), Pitt ('09, '12),
UConn ('00, '02, '03, '11, '13), Rutgers ('01, '05), and a long
H-H deal with Army visting often ('09, '14, '16, '18). We will
host Boston College in 2015 or 2016 as well. We get these deals
due to a 30K seat stadium and Buffalo-Niagara Int'l Aiport being
a 15 Min drive away. So based on that SBU could get all those
same teams from time to time. Even if SBU could not get an 'AQ'
team to Suffolk Cnty a home game at CITI/Yankee would likely
draw AQ looks in a 1-1 or 2-1 deal.
To iBOsbu, the MAC appears worse than it is in RPI because the
West schools who can't get anything right like NIU and EMU drag
us down. East teams have won 11 of the last 13 titles. Playing
our tournament at an NBA arena is very cool with title games
drawing 9K-12K fans.
*Ohio is the top program right now, getting over 10K to their
games and being ranked at times in the Top 25. In 2010 as the
MAC's 9th seed they won the MAC bid, then upset Georgetown a #2
seed. In 2012 they won another bid, upset Michigan and USF to
reach the Sweet 16.
*Akron hasn't won tournament games in its 3 recent trips but is
a strong mid-major which reached the top 25 last season.
*Kent St had a string of 10 straight years with 20+ wins, with a
tournament win vs Indiana in 2001, then being ranked and
reaching the Elite 8 in 2002.
*Those programs have been UB's foil as we had a string of 17-20
win seasons only to just miss in 2 title games, not dissimilar
to SBU's story.
#Post#: 6728--------------------------------------------------
Re: Conference Shake Up!
DIR By: joewillie
Date: May 8, 2013, 8:42 am
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--- Quote from: ecasadoSBU link ---
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> Pains you? Really? have you though about what the CAA offers?
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> Realtime RPI has the AE at 22nd in RPI, CAA at 24th...
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> No thanks
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--- End Quote ---
Really thinking more of Lax over hoops...would also love to see
the Hofstra rivalry back too. Also, if Albany moves there goes
another rival.
BU is already gone and if Albany is really going and we are just
replacing with UMass Lowell that blows IMHO.
#Post#: 6737--------------------------------------------------
Re: Conference Shake Up!
DIR By: Seawolf97
Date: May 8, 2013, 8:29 pm
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First welcome to our board Hillbilly! Went to Buff St 100
years ago so I'm familiar with Buffalo. Love to see SBU join
the MAC one of these days. We have to continue to develop our
football program a lot more and gain funding at the same time
for extra scholarships and stadium expansion. The MAC is for
the time being the most stable FBS Conference around right now
and that's important going forward. So hopefully in a few years
we will be conference mates.
#Post#: 6743--------------------------------------------------
Re: Conference Shake Up!
DIR By: GoWolvesGo
Date: May 9, 2013, 2:33 pm
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Not sure if this belongs in this thread but it is offhandedly
related to the conference...
The latest Sports Illustrated (with the Jason Collins
story/cover) has a long article by Pete Thamel about basketball
in India and a 7 foot teenager they are hoping will turn the
Indian masses onto basketball.
At one point in the story Thamel is writing about the current
Indian nation team and he says "As for the level of play, the
Indian team would struggle in the middling America East
Conference, against teams such as Maine, Hartford and Vermont."
That quote is in the story and then blown up for emphasis.
I guess it is good he left SBU out of a characterization like
that!
#Post#: 6747--------------------------------------------------
Re: Conference Shake Up!
DIR By: Seawolf97
Date: May 9, 2013, 8:22 pm
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As a conference we are not overpowering for sure. We have all
had our moments of glory or almost glory playing against
national powers or high mid majors. Now we may take a hit as
conference if Albany as rumored leaves for the CAA. So he is
partly right .
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