PilotOnline article proposing a potential expansion of the CAA with Fordham and Stonybrook. This would put 8 northern schools in a division (Maine, UNH, Northeastern, UMass, URI, Fordham, Hofstra and Stonybrook) and 8 schools in a southern division (Villanova, Delaware, Towson, Richmond, JMU, William & Mary, ODU and Georgia St.).
It's not that much of a stretch despite the league growing to 16 schools. The reason why you here ideas like this more than a split is because of the logistics. Ideally, you'd have (2) eight school conferences. The problem is that you have (2) CAA schools in the North (Hofstra and Northeastern). The CAA would not want those schools competing in a non-CAA football league is the conference sponsored the sport.
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Stony Brook and Fordham are not ready to compete at the CAA level. As to the two northern members of the CAA - Northeastern and Hofstra - words on the street is that Hofstra would consider a return to the American East. At that point, Northeastern is probably done with the CAA.
Also, Northeastern has entertained the thought of dropping football.
At 8 and 8, the CAA is as stable as the last 16 super conference.
I would be shocked if Hofstra returned to the America East and gave up their CAA afilliation. And yes Fordham and Stonybrook have a ways to go in football but in other sports they would hold their own in the CAA. Interesting idea though.
The only way that those schools would leave the Colonial would be if they could play football in the America East, which might happen because they would have enough members of that conference to do it. They could also get more schools to make that move since it would get them out of that monster football conference, not to mention making it easier to get an at-large bid to the AFKA 1-AA playoffs.
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