bluehenbillk wrote:BJuice wrote:
That's ok. CCU people struggle with the same thing. They think they are bigger and more important than they are.
CCU to the SoCon or the CAA would be a step down for either conference. Both of the conferences have academic reputations and expectations to uphold along with athletics. CCU would fit the model for academics associated with the SoCon or the CAA.
When you ask the question, "What does the SoCon or the CAA stand to gain from adding CCU?" The answer is pretty clear, not much, if anything at all.
With ODU & JMU already in the CAA - CCU isn't going to do much to drag down the conferences academic reputation.
I beg to differ. ODU, GST, and VCU may drag down the CAA's academic reputation, but JMU is certainly in the top half of the CAA academically.
US News & World Report rankings. Included the I-AA schools that had their ranked published in one of the 4 categories below (I might have missed a few), plus the CAA non football:
Regional US University Rankings- South (95 schools ranked, 39 Rank Not Published):
#2 Elon
#4 Samford
#5 Citadel
#6 JMU
#10 App State
#11 UNC W (3 way tie)
#29 Hampton (3 way tie
#32 WCU (3 way tie)
#47 Gardner Webb
#49 Tenn Martin (tie)
#51 Morehead St
#51 UTC
#54 UCA (tie)
#63 EKU (5 way tie)
#59 CCU
#75 NCCU (5 way tie)
#80 Liberty
#82 Winston Salem State (3 way tie)
#85 Alcorn State
#85 JSU
#85 McNeese St
#89 Charleston Southern
Regional US University Rankings- North (142 schools ranked, 51 Rank Not Published):
#1 Villanova
#16 Bryant (tie)
#49 Towson (3 way tie)
#82 RMU (9 way tie)
#110 CCSU (6 way tie)
#136 Del State (7 way tie for last among the 143 ranked)
National US University Rankings (202 schools ranked, 78 Rank Not Published):
#1 Harvard
#1 Princeton
#3 Yale
#4 Columbia
#5 U Penn (5 way tie)
#11 Dartmouth
#15 Brown
#15 Cornell
#22 Georgetown
#33 W&M(tie with NYU)
#38 Lehigh (4 way tie)
#53 Fordham (tie)
#75 UD (7 way tie)
#88 Drexel (tie)
#94 UMass (3 way tie)
#101 Dayton
#101 UNH (10 way tie)
#111 Stony Brook (4 way tie)
#115 Howard (4 way tie)
#119 Duquesne (5 way tie)
#128 Hofsta (4 way tie)
#138 George Mason
#138 Albany (5 way tie)
#150 SC State (tie)
#152 Maine (5 way tie)
#160 URI (4 way tie)
#164 N Dakota (6 way tie)
#170 VCU (7 way tie)
#181 NDSU (9 way tie)
#190 Montana St (4 way tie)
#194 SDSU
#194 Montana
#194 UNCC
#194 S Dakota (9 way tie at 194 for last among the 202 ranked)
ODU & GST among those with rank not published.
National Liberal Arts Colleges (182 schools ranked, 69 Rank Not Published)
#21 Colgate (3 way tie)
#27 UR (tie with Colorado College)
#40 Lafayette (tie)
#42 Furman (5 way tie)
#64 Wofford (4 way tie)
#71 VMI (10 way tie)
#121 Presbyterian (6 way tie)
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