SPIDERS and Rhode Island have been announced by the CAA as Co-Champions of CAA football.

[mojo-spider]

To answer someone's question above, this Delaware thing was decided before the season, so this is not a last-minute decision -- it's just an absurd decision.

We knew before the season that DE could not be Champion and was not eligible for the Playoffs, but did we know their wins and losses would not be counted in determining a CAA Champion?

If so, I guess someone in our AD may have known that’s how determining the Champion would work and if so they, or the CAA should have announced it to avoid all this BS from what seems like a decision that came out of left field.

Go Spiders!

 

[SFspidur]

ODU had the best CAA record at 7-1 but like DE were ineligible for CAA Championship.

Richmond, Villanova and New Hampshire tied for 2nd place with 6-2 CAA records. The three teams were declared Co-Champions. Our overall record was 8-3 better than Nova’s and the Wildcats.

ODU was eligible for the FCS Playoffs and took an At-Large bid. I do not recall whether Nova or NH got the CAA Auto-Bid, but one did and the other got an At-Large.

We were left out of the Playoffs despite having a better overall record than the other At-Large team from the CAA!

Plain and simple we was robbed!

Go Spiders!

Yes, ODU was tops in the CAA but ineligible for the auto due to transitioning. Notably, they were eligible for the playoffs and got a at-large. Nova got the CAA auto bid.

We didn’t have a better overall record than the others that got bids…us, Nova, and UNH were all 8–3 and 6–2 in the CAA.

We were probably in a better position than Nova for an at-large but the convoluted tiebreakers gave them the auto and we were left without a seat at the table.

 

[VT4700]

Even if decided before the season, it's inexcusable for a conference commissioner to do what he did and go to their locker room with a trophy and call Rhode Island CAA champs. That is a big time piece of crap move. If the coach and team wants to pretend they are CAA champs, whatever, have fun with that even though it's pretty stupid, but a league commissioner has no reason to do that with the trophy and all that BS.

 

[SFspidur]

We were declared auto bid winners last week, which means the Delaware games counted for tiebreaker purposes one way or another. If UD games were thrown out entirely, we and URI would have both been 6–0 with tied common opponent record, pushing the tiebreaker to point differential which couldn’t have been locked up with a week to go.

Seems they played fast and loose with picking and choosing which aspects Delaware counted for.

 

[urfan1]

Even if decided before the season, it's inexcusable for a conference commissioner to do what he did and go to their locker room with a trophy and call Rhode Island CAA champs. That is a big time piece of crap move. If the coach and team wants to pretend they are CAA champs, whatever, have fun with that even though it's pretty stupid, but a league commissioner has no reason to do that with the trophy and all that BS.

interesting they had 2 trophies ready and league reps at both schools.

 

[whampas]

We knew before the season that DE could not be Champion and was not eligible for the Playoffs, but did we know their wins and losses would not be counted in determining a CAA Champion?

If so, I guess someone in our AD may have known that’s how determining the Champion would work and if so they, or the CAA should have announced it to avoid all this BS from what seems like a decision that came out of left field.

Go Spiders!

It's late and I'm old so it's highly likely that I'm confused but it was announced last week that even if we lost to the Indians we would share the championship and get the auto bid. If that happened and you throw out the Delaware results wouldn't the Rams win it outright? The whole thing seems to be fudged up.

 

[Eight Legger]

If they wanted not to penalize a team for losing to Delaware for the purposes of determining a tiebreaker against a team that HADN'T played Delaware, fine. That makes more sense. But if BOTH teams played Delaware, absurd. There's no need for it in that scenario.

 

[SFspidur]

It's late and I'm old so it's highly likely that I'm confused but it was announced last week that even if we lost to the Indians we would share the championship and get the auto bid. If that happened and you throw out the Delaware results wouldn't the Rams win it outright? The whole thing seems to be fudged up.

Yes, here I am delving into tiebreaker minutiae, and missing the forest for the trees. A Spider loss today would have given the Rams the sole championship and the auto if UD games were omitted entirely, which clearly wasn’t the case.

The UD games aren’t counted only in this one very specific aspect where URI losing to them cost them a share of the championship.

The UD games apparently count in every regard except for trophy purposes.

They clearly didn’t throw it out entirely for both of us because otherwise we couldn’t have clinched last week. They can’t just throw it out for URI because then we still win the sole champ with 8–0 vs 7–0. So they just wave their wands and make up a nonsensical way to give URI a trophy.

 

[whampas]

Maybe they ought to hand out 13 runners up trophies to make sure everybody gets one.

 

[32counter]

Commish Joey lives in Rhode Island full time.Spends little if any time at CAA HQ.

Bryant also in Rhode Island,given green light membership by Commish Joey to join CAA.

Never wants to buy a meal or drink again in the smallest state.

 

[Gallipoli]

On the other side of the coin, UR decided it was not happy with how the CAA added three schools we didn't like and that we think we are better than. We took our marbles to play with a a group we think are more like us, away from low lifes Ike Hampton, Campbell and NCAT. We are snobs and the rest of the conference resents that. UR has burned bridges.

The hypocrisy and pettiness is stunning and was directed at our players

Given that, the league's treatment of this team is abhorrent and petty. We proved it on the field that we are the best team in the conference and it wasn't even close.

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[spiderstudent17]

On the other side of the coin, UR decided it was not happy with how the CAA added three schools we didn't like and that we think we are better than. We took our marbles to play with a a group we think are more like us, away from low lifes Ike Hampton, Campbell and NCAT. We are snobs and the rest of the conference resents that. UR has burned bridges.

The hypocrisy and pettiness is stunning and was directed at our players

Given that, the league's treatment of this team is abhorrent and petty. We proved it on the field that we are the best team in the conference and it wasn't even close.

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Can we please at least not post doom and gloom stuff for today? We are celebrating going undefeated in CAA, back-to-back CAA titles, beating W&M in dominating fashion to go 16-5 against them past 21 years, winners of 10 straight, and being heavily considered by many for a top 8 seed in the FCS tournament, which will be announced later today. At least give us this day…

 

[Gallipoli]

Can we please at least not post doom and gloom stuff for today? We are celebrating going undefeated in CAA, back-to-back CAA titles, beating W&M in dominating fashion to go 16-5 against them past 5 years, winners of 10 straight, and being heavily considered by many for a top 8 seed in the FCS tournament, which will be announced later today. At least give us this day…

Our guys are tough. They don't care. They have pulled together through adversity and have accomplished something unheard of in the 130+ year history of Spider football. We proved it on the field that we are the best team in the conference and it wasn't even close.

 

[Dr. Spidey]

Now I see why we are leaving the fake news CAA.

 

[Dr. Spidey]

The Rhose Island board is certainly drinking the participation cool-aid.

 

[gcarter52]

Our guys are tough. They don't care. They have pulled together through adversity and have accomplished something unheard of in the 130+ year history of Spider football. We proved it on the field that we are the best team in the conference and it wasn't even close.

In our post game interview by ZPS and Coach, we knew what was being cooked up, we are ready to go! Thanks for the year we are having. Go Spiders 🕷️🕷️🕷️