Yeager: CAA realignment, expansion in next couple of weeks

[BDKJMU]

"Yeager expects CAA realignment, expansion in next couple of weeks

Expect the Colonial Athletic Association to unveil its new look in the coming weeks, commissioner Tom Yeager said, as he and his conference mates enjoy a blessedly private respite from the public anguish and upheaval of the previous couple of months.

"We're making progress," Yeager said. "But at this time of year, you're working around other people's schedules, with things like graduations and vacations. It slows some things down, but everyone still understands how important it is."

Yeager, as expected, wouldn't bite on specifics of membership discussion or possible candidates. He wouldn't even get into the north-south or basketball-football dynamics of an all-sports conference that, for one more year, stretches from Boston to Atlanta, and a football league that extends from Maine to Atlanta......"

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[clenz]

Please be YSU.....

[danefan]

Though the CAA figures to absorb schools both north and south of its mid-Atlantic base in attempts to shore up both marquee sports, Yeager said that the primary criteria for expansion candidates is "institutional fit."

"We're all different in a lot of ways, but we have a lot of institutional similarities, as well," he said.

He talked in general terms about bringing in schools that will suddenly become part of a different geographic footprint than that to which they're accustomed (Southern Conference? Big South? America East?).

There are academic components, he said, as well as competitive factors, in areas of talent, track record and facilities.

"These are schools that want to compete, that want to be successful," he said. "They want to be able to match the resources and some of the bells and whistles that the schools they'll be competing against have. They don't want to be just another body on the schedule."

[89Hen]

Please be YSU.....

[Seawolf97]

Growing number of votes for YSU.

[93henfan]

Where is YSU mentioned anywhere?

[Gil Dobie]

YSU please don't go

[danefan]

Interesting tweet from Jim Fiore (Stony Brook AD)

The hypocrisy in leadership decision making throughout D1 athletics is numbing & disappointing. Selfishness will be demise of our profession.

http://twitter.com/JDFiore/status/221028999101558784" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[bluehenbillk]

Yeager is a tool, I'm not holding my breath to be too impressed....

[dbackjon]

Interesting tweet from Jim Fiore (Stony Brook AD)

The hypocrisy in leadership decision making throughout D1 athletics is numbing & disappointing. Selfishness will be demise of our profession.

http://twitter.com/JDFiore/status/221028999101558784" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Translation - Hofstra blocked Stony Brook. Other AD's too big of pussies to override.

If I were the CAA, I'd much rather have Stony Brook than Hofstra.

[dbackjon]

Yeager is a tool, I'm not holding my breath to be too impressed....

What is not to be impressed by Davidson and Quinnipiac?

[AZGrizFan]

Please be YSU.....

YSU belongs in the OVC.

[ASUG8]

Yeager is a tool, I'm not holding my breath to be too impressed....

What is not to be impressed by Davidson and Quinnipiac?

Davidson is a good basketball program and will probably raise the average CAA SAT scores by 40 points.

[Ibanez]

THE College of Charleston had a July 4th deadline to announce it's decision on if it will remain in the SOCON or go to the CAA. I don't see any news on the official website, but they would be a full member (obviously not in football. They don't field a team). But with the CofC, the caliber of baseball and basketball is surely to increase.

[LeadBolt]

Where is YSU mentioned anywhere?

As far as I can tell, only in this thread.

[State Line Liquors]

Interesting tweet from Jim Fiore (Stony Brook AD)



http://twitter.com/JDFiore/status/221028999101558784" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Translation - Hofstra blocked Stony Brook. Other AD's too big of pussies to override.

If I were the CAA, I'd much rather have Stony Brook than Hofstra.

Doubt it.

[dbackjon]

Translation - Hofstra blocked Stony Brook. Other AD's too big of pussies to override.

If I were the CAA, I'd much rather have Stony Brook than Hofstra.

Doubt it.

Which part?

[State Line Liquors]

Doubt it.

Which part?

The first part is what I doubt. I'd say it's more likely Fiore's more disappointed in some of the administrators in the America East. Why declare allegiance to the AEast a few weeks ago, and then turn around and say you're pissed at the CAA for not letting you in? The day after Fiore's tweet, Dave Fairbank had his article in the Daily Press about Yeager saying things were basically buttoned up, and that the most important consideration was 'institutional fit', which everyone pretty much universally agrees is Stony Brook's wheelhouse. Hofstra would be completely insane to block Stony Brook....their ONLY other option if the CAA doesn't continue to exist is the AEast.

The second sentence, I'm in complete agreement on.

[danefan]

Which part?

The first part is what I doubt. I'd say it's more likely Fiore's more disappointed in some of the administrators in the America East. Why declare allegiance to the AEast a few weeks ago, and then turn around and say you're pissed at the CAA for not letting you in? The day after Fiore's tweet, Dave Fairbank had his article in the Daily Press about Yeager saying things were basically buttoned up, and that the most important consideration was 'institutional fit', which everyone pretty much universally agrees is Stony Brook's wheelhouse. Hofstra would be completely insane to block Stony Brook....their ONLY other option if the CAA doesn't continue to exist is the AEast.

The second sentence, I'm in complete agreement on.

Could SBU have been blocked from full-sport membership but included as football only?

There are a million ways for flip-flopping to creap into this discussion.

[dbackjon]

Which part?

The first part is what I doubt. I'd say it's more likely Fiore's more disappointed in some of the administrators in the America East. Why declare allegiance to the AEast a few weeks ago, and then turn around and say you're pissed at the CAA for not letting you in? The day after Fiore's tweet, Dave Fairbank had his article in the Daily Press about Yeager saying things were basically buttoned up, and that the most important consideration was 'institutional fit', which everyone pretty much universally agrees is Stony Brook's wheelhouse. Hofstra would be completely insane to block Stony Brook....their ONLY other option if the CAA doesn't continue to exist is the AEast.

The second sentence, I'm in complete agreement on.

OK - good points

[State Line Liquors]

The first part is what I doubt. I'd say it's more likely Fiore's more disappointed in some of the administrators in the America East. Why declare allegiance to the AEast a few weeks ago, and then turn around and say you're pissed at the CAA for not letting you in? The day after Fiore's tweet, Dave Fairbank had his article in the Daily Press about Yeager saying things were basically buttoned up, and that the most important consideration was 'institutional fit', which everyone pretty much universally agrees is Stony Brook's wheelhouse. Hofstra would be completely insane to block Stony Brook....their ONLY other option if the CAA doesn't continue to exist is the AEast.

The second sentence, I'm in complete agreement on.

Could SBU have been blocked from full-sport membership but included as football only?

There are a million ways for flip-flopping to creap into this discussion.

Sure.

The only conclusion that can absolutely 100% be made at this point is that Stony Brook's AD has officially surpassed Towson's AD in terms of juvenile social media usage.

[danefan]

Could SBU have been blocked from full-sport membership but included as football only?

There are a million ways for flip-flopping to creap into this discussion.

Sure.

The only conclusion that can absolutely 100% be made at this point is that Stony Brook's AD has officially surpassed Towson's AD in terms of juvenile social media usage.

Well perhaps but I'd rather have juvenile passion than no passion at all......

[danefan]

CAA expansion is going to be very very very interesting in the next few days and/or weeks.

[93henfan]

Sure.

The only conclusion that can absolutely 100% be made at this point is that Stony Brook's AD has officially surpassed Towson's AD in terms of juvenile social media usage.

Well perhaps but I'd rather have juvenile passion than no passion at all......

As a longtime subject of the UD AD, amen.

[State Line Liquors]

CAA expansion is going to be very very very interesting in the next few days and/or weeks.

When all is said and done, I'll be very interested to see who exactly it was that Fiore was tossing his used feminine hygiene product at with that tweet on the 5th.