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Football to Patriot League. Should basketball and rest of sports be concerned?

Well, the MWC was able to buy off UNLV and Air Force with the exit fees they're getting from the other schools heading to the Pac-12...$25 million apiece was enough to keep those two in the fold.

With the MWC firming back up and the AAC targets having said no already, where does the Pac-12 turn next? MWC of course also still needs to backfill. As some have mentioned, FCS move-ups could play a role there.

OT: Woj bomb!

The Bona release describes Woj's role fairly well: "a wide range of responsibilities including name, image and likeness (NIL) opportunities and as a liaison with collectives; transfer portal management; recruit, family and alumni player relationships; professional player programs; and program fundraising."

We do not have a general manager.

Chris Mooney, Spiders’ men's basketball coach since 2005, said in a Thursday interview that at this time, his program is not headed in that direction.

“As we see that happening more and more, I suppose that will be something everybody looks into,” said Mooney. “Basketball is a small amount of people. If you’re going to try to have a 15-man roster … I don’t think we would need to right away go and create an extra position.” [...]

“At the moment, I just feel like we’re able to manage it,” Mooney said of GM duties that in most cases include name, image and likeness allocation, roster management, monitoring the transfer portal, and other tasks.

“If someone would come in with some unique expertise, I’m sure that would be great.”

Mooney suggested that work assignments of his staff members commonly overlap. He also noted that the video-coordinator’s role used to be very time consuming with film exchanges that involved travel independent of the team.

“Well now, that job doesn’t take nearly as long because of the technology and all the games are on these computer systems and they’re immediately available for everybody,” Mooney said.

“And so, I just think with the evolution of things, that person now contributes to a lot of different parts of the staff …

“I think general managing, as it stands right now, is manageable by the current staff we have.”

VCU has one that serves both the men's and women's hoops programs. UVA and Tech do not for either hoops or football.

OT: Woj bomb!

This will be interesting to see how it this goes for St. Bonny. He is a big name with a lot of connections. I'm not even sure what the General Manager for the basketball team does. Do we have a general manager?

I guess because of NIL, it makes sense to have a guy who acts in this capacity, signing the guys and contracts that come in through NIL.

2024–25 schedule

The list of teams not doing one is pretty small:

Ivy: Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard
MAAC: Marist, Saint Peter’s
MEAC: Coppin State, Delaware State
NEC: Central Connecticut State, Wagner
Patriot: Lehigh, Loyola
SoCon: The Citadel, Western Carolina
SWAC: Florida A&M
Summit: Oral Roberts

I believe the Ivy has a rule where programs can only participate in MTEs twice every four years, so that's why they have a relatively high rate of non-participation in any given year.

Not going to go through them all, but I assume most or all of these schools have announced 29-game schedules already, so they'd have to cancel an already scheduled game in order to add a 3-game MTE. Many of course have games specifically scheduled on one or more of the Gulf Coast Showcase dates.

2024–25 schedule

Let's try this again. RE-did my chart: 1 plays, ABE, 2 CDA, 3 BCD, 4 EAB and 5 CDE. Problem, you likely cannot play more than 4 games in a day, and if so 1 team would play 2 on a day. So need to extend to at least a 4 day tourney,

May be moot as I was told today they are still pursuing 3 additional teams,
Why are u still confusing everyone with numbers and letters? U don't need both!!! And, now u have 1 playing A. And 3 playing C. And 5 playing E! Maybe if you just used numbers, it would help you see it better. Just call the teams 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The numbers don't work.
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