Do you approve of the move to the Patriot League?
- By SpiderAlways
- UR Football Board
- 40 Replies
CAA is headed down. We saw that, we moved. Let’s work on Villanova. Then, we have them and Georgetown to work on getting us in the Big East baby!!
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Delaware-gone,richmond-gone, Nova will leave as they're big east for everything else ...not as bad of a move as many will see ..CAA is a sinking shipOnce again, the idiots in the Administration are screwing the Football program at UR. They tried this crap in Jim Reid's last season. He quit and we fired the school president. A few years later we won the national championship. This president needs to be fired. There were 4 teams in the post-season from the CAA last season.
I doubt we end up being good in the patriot after the first few years. We’ll have enough talent early on but after recruiting inevitably drops off and with that support of football we’ll be toast. This is the excuse the administration needs to completely push football off to the side and neglect it. I’ve heard people say that level of investment won’t change but I have a hard time believing that. If anything I expect us to eventually not offer scholarships or at least cut the amount of them in half. You don’t make this move if you’re actually serious about football.I like you optimism about the AQ, but it’s only true if we can continue to recruit an occasional Lauletta, Turner, Wheeler and the solid FCS players we have attracted over the years.
Our coaching staff will have a big challenge overcoming the PL’s long standing reputation as a lower level League and keeping our current team motivated in our CAA lame duck season.
Looking forward to seeing how this all unfolds in the long run.
Go Spiders!
Interesting about the recruiting we do against PL. I wonder how many of those recruits we won in the past due to CAA vs PL affiliation. He was careful with his answer.Football to Move to Patriot League Login to view embedded media
I like you optimism about the AQ, but it’s only true if we can continue to recruit an occasional Lauletta, Turner, Wheeler and the solid FCS players we have attracted over the years.We barely beat Colgate a few years back in a home and home series with Lauletta.
I think that Holy Cross could have handled us in the past few years.
And so why are we complaining about this move?
The AQ should be ours every year and we should be highly ranked.
Does WM even have an option to leave for football only?The four AE schools plus URI could be a decent group, but they need a few more. Merrimack and Sacred Heart are currently homeless for football as they transition from NEC to MAAC for their primary affiliation, but NEC had a max of 45 'ships for football, so those two would have to step up if they wanted to join the AE/URI group.
Villanova and W&M seem to be what's holding things together at this point. If they too explore other options, the CAA will be in bad shape. It would feel like a missed opportunity for us if W&M ends up going to the SoCon, but if Villanova went Patriot that would be a decent consolation prize. Villanova has been the subject of FBS rumors seemingly forever though, so I wonder if there will be any renewed momentum for that.
Besides Villanova. Are there any other available private northeastern academically elite schools that also do well at FCS football the PL can add?Gonna need to up our spelling and grammar game in the Patriot.
who's their rival now? Delaware is gone. Maybe they'd rather play Georgetown? but hey, There is always Bryant Monmouth Hampton and NC a&tNOVA has better sense than to throw away its football program.
They shut it down before.NOVA has better sense than to throw away its football program.
NOVA has better sense than to throw away its football program.Hoping Nova comes over to Patriot and maybe the Patriot can get more than one bid.
Are redshirts permanent or was that only for duration of Covid. I don’t know and we will see.I believe they allow non med redshirts now. But they do have an Academic Index that affects recruiting but idk if much different than our own standards. I know little about it their rules fwiw I'm just going by a few comments of Pat League posters over on AGS when I glanced at reactions over there.
IDC about leaving the CAA. It was on borrowed time. What I cant accept is the lack of public due diligence save a suggestive post from JOC last week eerily similar to 2005 only lacking similar outrage from the fan base. I have no doubt the admin made sure the move was made so there couldn't be any debate over this.
Yes the CAA is not what it once was, I was fine with leaving it too. Culturally from a FOOTBALL perspective the SOCON would of been a better immediate choice. Some more forward thinking could of brought back A10 football with a combo of UR, Fordham, UNH, Maine, URI, Duquense and Villanova. Either would of been better options of spearheading the de-emphasization of football at UR. Maybe NOVA moves to the PL and we keep the
Advantage Richmond. Always want to be southernmost school in conference.I think the point is that the entire league was not north of us. The entire Patriot League is.
Which team folded on Gameday? I forget…Welcome back DD
On Sagarin, SoCon was actually rated only slightly higher than Patriot last year, but SoCon clearly gets more respect...four ranked teams and three playoff participants last year compared to only Lafayette out of the Patriot.
Sagarin Ratings last year:
CAA (19th - 47.14)
93. Villanova
116. Albany
142. Delaware (leaving)
145. UNH
167. Elon
168. UR
171. W&M
172. Bryant (incoming)
174. Monmouth
177. URI
190. Towson
196. Campbell
208. Maine
228. Hampton
230. NC A&T
243. Stony Brook
Patriot (22nd - 42.91)
135. Holy Cross
154. Lafayette
188. Fordham
198. Colgate
207. Georgetown
219. Bucknell
229. Lehigh
SoCon (21st - 44.33)
130. Furman
159. Western Carolina
161. Chattanooga
166. Mercer
181. Samford
209. VMI
221. Wofford
232. ETSU
252. Citadel
The last home bb game I saw in person. Will come back when Mooney retires.I've been heavily medicated ever since.
Wow, we never traveled up north in the CAA? where is that football power Maine exactly?People who do not care about the football program really could care less. Those of us who are passionate about it are hurt the most. The quality of the Patriot League programs and commitment to football is definitely not at the level of the current CAA or Southern Conference. I hope our alumni that will now have more opportunities to view games as the President’s letter stated will enjoy attending all those games up north!