Did anyone at UR know a win by RI today would result in UR sharing the Championship title? CAA Commissioner seems to be making RI his retribution for Spiders leaving the CAA!
SPIDERS and Rhode Island have been announced by the CAA as Co-Champions of CAA football.
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Impossible. UR is undefeated and RI has a loss. Enjoy our championship and don’t worry about the haters. Back to back CAA Champions and leaving to go to a weak conference.
Is there a link? IIRC, wins over or losses to Delaware count in the league standings, but not in FCS standings and Delaware can't win the conference.
I’m sure it’s no coincidence that CAA football commissioner is in Rhode Island to give URI a fake championship.
This is a joke and shows that the CAA will not support us in getting a top 8 seed. I am so sorry for this team and all that they did to prove we are the undefeated champions. What a shame!
Don't intend to offend any Spiders, but this is precisely why anything coming from the Northeast is highly suspect.
Co -Champions? - What a complete frigging farce. If you ain't from New England, no one nationally believes you.
Co -Champions? - What a complete frigging farce. If you ain't from New England, no one nationally believes you.
Hope we meet them in the playoffs to settle this joke of a Championship
Not impossible.... it is true. Now UR athletic staff needs to clarify what was agreed to about counting the results of the Delaware game.
Anybody with half a brain knows we won the championship outright. It just makes this commissioner look like the fool that he is. Look forward to the years of beating the CAA reps in the playoffs. Fuel for the fire.
I agree. This is where Hardt needs to step up and represent for his university. He led the decision to leave for the Patriot League so he needs to show some leadership and stand up for this team publicly that we are the CAA Champions and advocate to the selection committee that we deserve a top 8 seed.
Bob Black mentioned this a week or two ago on his radio show. Just a ridiculous outcome. We both played them, we won and Rhode Island lost. The end.
Sour grapes on Us leaving the CAA
Right is Right and Wrong is Wrong
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
Right is Right and Wrong is Wrong
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
This is just dumb, if we had a PR group that could spell things correctly maybe they could put out a statement about how ridiculous this is and shows the ongoing pattern of great decision making by the CAA leadership which is why we are leaving the conference.
After selling the once proud CAA into the dirt through expansion, the Commissioner apparently wants to sell its championship relevance too. What a joke. League has lost JMU, Delaware, Richmond - 3 battle hardened fixtures for years. The league is atrophying.
Richmond. Record against common opponents. We beat Delaware, they lost to Delaware. I think. Christ, that may be overruled too.
I’m hoping AD Hardt will speak up about this joke! It is very troubling to wonder if we’ll get any support from the Commissioner for the top eight seed.
Go Spiders!
Agree. The CAA has had it in for us for years. The robbery in 2012 involved legitimate Co-Champs and we were the ones left out!
Go Spiders!
We weren’t going to get much if any advocacy from CAA but I get that w the departure. & that over the top speech from a league commissioner in URI locker room doubles down on it.
You’d expect it from Hardt but he’s not good at it. Not a lot of pull out there from what I’ve heard.
There is really no reason Incarnate Word out of #8 league Southland should get a bye seed over Richmond of #2 league CAA.
This article alludes to Richmond as co-champions.
richmondspiders.com
CHAMPIONS! Spiders Put Emphatic Cap on Undefeated Conference Season With 27-0 Capital Cup Victory Over William & Mary - University of Richmond Athletics
The Spiders, who earned a share of the CAA title for the second consecutive year and secured the conference's automatic bid to the postseason last week, defe...
The announcement on Twitter say UR and Rhode Island are co-champions. Seems like they just changed the rules on us.
Give us the bye and then two weeks from now I want to see us beat Rhody 80–0.
I don’t mean to take anything away from their solid season, but damn, there’s only one team with a perfect CAA record. Recognize it.
I don’t mean to take anything away from their solid season, but damn, there’s only one team with a perfect CAA record. Recognize it.
When did the league make this decision? With all due respect, this is bullshit. This team earned it.
Would like to know when it was decided. You’d think it might have been mentioned last week when we earned the Auto-Bid versus the Rams.
Go Spiders!
