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Has a team still in the league not named nova won a playoff game in the last 5 years? CAA is and has been medicore since the year or so before covid.

the irony is TL was supposed to be the donor guy. SMU and Towson money hit different.

I think it's 8 for FBS. According to this it's still six for FCS but who knows with everything changing all the time. According to Wiki it's 7 for MBB so would need to pick up one more outside of my list.

I thought it was 8 but if so, meh. That doesn’t do anything for either sport besides a landing spot I’m not trying to be an asshole, just pointing out those things are probably more likely to happen than us find a solid home. It’s tough when you don’t being much to the table, in comparison to the other schools that are in competition with

If that scenario plays itself out, well truly be left out in the cold, unless we could somehow join C-USA

SoCon would be a slight improvement but they are a weird mix of private and public schools on the smaller size. I've said this in other threads before, I think the only real option is a breakaway league some of some of the other American East football schools. Only need six in the sport for a conference but it's getting harder and harder to find football playing public school in the northeast. Football Towson Albany Maine UNH Stony Brook Rhody - AFF Football since they are not leaving the A10 MBB Towson Albany Maine UNH Stony Brook Vermont - no football

Totally tone deaf response, which is probably a rehashed response similar to that used when JMU, DE & Richmond left. Well, at least he already has a canned response for when Villanova leaves

Good grief. We should have seen the writing on the wall years ago and had some exit strategy. Now, I have no clue what, if any, viable (notice I said viable) options exist

UNH, Maine, URI, Bryant, Stony, Albany, Monmouth, Stonehill & Merrimack form a New England based conference. Hampton & A&T go back to the MEAC Elon & Campbell join SoCon. Nova goes to Patriot League to make it 10 teams. If 12 game schedules become the norm, a 10 team league makes a lot of sense. Where does Towson fit in... hmmm. no where

Wholeheartedly agree, but this begs the question, “to where”? Is Conference USA even still an option? Can you imagine the costs involved in sending our women’s LAX team (just one example) to travel to El Paso and Las Cruces? What other football conferences are out there? We’re not an option for the Patriot League. SoCon? It would certainly be better than staying in the CAA, but that’s not a compliment to the SoCon, but rather a stinging rebuke of the CAA. Am I missing other options?

So what were the options previously? It was Conference USA to bolt to FBS for all sports or join another FCS league, which was not much better than what the CAA was at the time, and would now be considered better after Delaware and W&M just left. The options are not great or perfect, but life isn't easy. Time to bolt.

There’s truth to this. With Richmond, W&M, and maybe Villanova soon to follow, the Patriot League may be just as good, if not better in football than the dregs left in the CAA. Problem is we’re not an option for the Patriot League, as it has no state schools amongst its members. I wonder if Elon might be another member that might abandon CAA football in the near future?

Too late we are already left behind. At the minimum schools are packing up while we are on the phone having trouble getting a moving company to even pick up the phone.

Look, let’s face the facts-CAA football, as we once knew it, is dead. It’s a stunning fall from grace from being the SEC of the FCS to what it is now. It’ll only get worse once Nova bolts, which seems to be a question of when, not if. As I see it, we need to somehow turn this situation into an opportunity to get the hell out of the CAA, at least as far as football goes. This is a test of the President and the A.D’s helmsmanship. I think one thing everyone can agree upon is that maintaining the status quo is not the solution

we need to do something about exiting the CAA or we'll get left behind.

That was a harbinger of things to come. https://tribeathletics.com/news/2025/2/28/tribe-athletics-william-mary-to-opt-in-to-house-settlement-in-2026.aspx

Ding. Also another two of our conference mates, may be looking to go back to their old conference, regain those historic rivalries. Meh. It's better than the current situation but not ideal. Not sure the SoCon would want to add another member. 9 is the perfect number.

Only for football. It wouldn’t be the worst idea until we can figure out a plan to move up or down to limited scholarships

If football is sincerely a long term priority for TU, maybe we should consider a way to get into SoCon. They currently have 9 programs for football….we could make it a nice even 10. Some decent teams with some degree of history and pedigree. The southern footprint is good for recruiting and there’s generally more support and interest for college football in these states.

I’m afraid you’re spot on, in this regard. JMU, gone; DE gone; Richmond gone; W&M gone; Nova probably a short timer. We seem to be reactive, not proactive, like other institutions. Our attendance is spotty, at best, and no one is going to be terribly motivated to come watch the rest of the flotsam and jetsam left over in the conference. I love Saturday home football games at Johnny U, so it pains me to say this, but I’m becoming increasingly pessimistic about the future of TU football. The cost of running the program, by virtue of the equipment, travel expenses, and number of scholarships (I’m probably leaving out other factors) has got to be staggering, and to what end? We squandered the momentum of the trip to Frisco, back in 2014, and I have reservations about the current coach, although that’s an issue for a different day. We also know that the most successful basketball programs in the conference have been the ones that don’t have a football program competing for resources. When was the last time the CAA was represented in the MBB tournament by a school that also had a football team? What can the football program do? Stay in the crappy conference we’re in? We certainly can’t move up, as I see it. Our current President came to us from George Mason, which as we know had a historic run in MBB, without a competing football program. I don’t know what the end game is-continue to tread water in a capsizing ship; move up (HOW???); move down; disband? I think we could be approaching a tipping point & I assume the powers that be at TU will soon have to make some decisions that will impact the future of the program profoundly

Time for a change.

I’ve occasionally pondered whether C of C and/or UNCW will leave the CAA. While I have no insight into their collective thoughts processes, one thing I come back to is why would they want to leave? They’re big fishes in a relatively small pond and where would they go? The convenient answer is A-10, but the A-10 is basically a 1-bid league now (just like the CAA) and is dominated by VCU

It does make sense and will give them a landing spot for all sports, when Charleston and uncw leave for a basketball conference. CAA football is a Frankenstein league. look at that schedule this year. Less than 5 years ago we were playing JMU Delaware, Richmond nova wm. Now we will play Bryant Maine Hampton. Campbell. North Carolina a & t. Monmouth. Those will draw the fans!! be careful with that last statement around these parts…