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Post by justahick on Jan 20, 2022 23:54:40 GMT -5
The MAAC has said they want to get to 12, which probably comes with picking off two schools from the NEC. Monmouth leaving gives them two openings, my guess is they go after Bryant and Sacred Heart. After that... A) America East hunts the NEC B) NEC hunts the America East C) WVB is the only sport in the AE that would lose it's AQ, so those 5 schools could drop the sport or seek affiliate membership elsewhere. (Albany, Binghamton, UNH, NJIT and UMBC). America East is working very hard to raid the MAAC. Currently in talks with about half the schools. From what I've heard, MAAc is much more like to get raided than it is to expand. |
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Post by vbnerd on Jan 21, 2022 0:22:07 GMT -5
The MAAC has said they want to get to 12, which probably comes with picking off two schools from the NEC. Monmouth leaving gives them two openings, my guess is they go after Bryant and Sacred Heart. After that... A) America East hunts the NEC B) NEC hunts the America East C) WVB is the only sport in the AE that would lose it's AQ, so those 5 schools could drop the sport or seek affiliate membership elsewhere. (Albany, Binghamton, UNH, NJIT and UMBC). America East is working very hard to raid the MAAC. Currently in talks with about half the schools. From what I've heard, MAAc is much more like to get raided than it is to expand. America East has been trying to add teams for years. They got UMass Lowell and NJIT. How does losing Stony Brook improve their bargaining power? |
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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Jan 21, 2022 0:43:20 GMT -5
Any Conference that contains a school without a WVB team is ridiculous.
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Post by n00b on Jan 21, 2022 0:50:11 GMT -5
Any Conference that contains a school without a WVB team is ridiculous. Seriously. The SEC and Big 12 are absolute jokes. |
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Post by jayj79 on Jan 21, 2022 6:08:44 GMT -5
there was some speculation earlier in the thread about the Big 12 creating "divisions" and how it would affect non-football sports.
but how many conferences actually extend their "divisions" to sports outside of football?
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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Jan 21, 2022 6:57:32 GMT -5
Any Conference that contains a school without a WVB team is ridiculous. Seriously. The SEC and Big 12 are absolute jokes. It was kind of funny that posters thought that the new Big 12 might be dividing 11 teams unevenly into two divisions for VB. |
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Post by milkmandan on Jan 21, 2022 7:12:22 GMT -5
Oklahoma State has the money. Any OSU fans here know if the admin is considering adding volleyball?
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Post by bluepenquin on Jan 21, 2022 8:20:37 GMT -5
there was some speculation earlier in the thread about the Big 12 creating "divisions" and how it would affect non-football sports. but how many conferences actually extend their "divisions" to sports outside of football? The WAC and Conference USA has divisions. Football divisions can have an impact on conference schedule for the non football sports. The Big 12 - back when they had 12 teams - would play a 16 game conference season in basketball. The teams played home and home in their division and just one outside the division. I don't know what VB did? Division scheduling makes more sense when there is a post season conference tournament. If the sport doesn't have a conference tournament, then it makes more sense to randomize the schedule (assuming you cannot play everyone twice). There is also the potential for travel partners or pods when trying to speculate the future B12 schedules, but having an odd # of teams makes all of this difficult. Edit: Looks like B12 volleyball did a full round robing 20 match conference season while basketball used divisions for scheduling. |
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Post by Wiswell on Jan 21, 2022 9:48:15 GMT -5
America East is working very hard to raid the MAAC. Currently in talks with about half the schools. From what I've heard, MAAc is much more like to get raided than it is to expand. America East has been trying to add teams for years. They got UMass Lowell and NJIT. How does losing Stony Brook improve their bargaining power? This is so strange. The MAAC at least for BB is a better conference than AE. Splitting the SUNY schools doesn't make sense so SUNY Albany should go to Colonial too. Even though Albany pre dates the colonies 😁. Stony Brook/Brookhaven had a lot of revolutionary era war transport and battles so Colonial is ok there... |
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Post by justahick on Jan 21, 2022 19:17:30 GMT -5
America East has been trying to add teams for years. They got UMass Lowell and NJIT. How does losing Stony Brook improve their bargaining power? This is so strange. The MAAC at least for BB is a better conference than AE. Splitting the SUNY schools doesn't make sense so SUNY Albany should go to Colonial too. Even though Albany pre dates the colonies 😁. Stony Brook/Brookhaven had a lot of revolutionary era war transport and battles so Colonial is ok there... The thing is there are several MAAC schools that are in very bad financial shape...the ones on more sound footing are talking about finding a safer home before the conference implodes |
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Post by Wiswell on Jan 21, 2022 20:20:22 GMT -5
MAAC and Northeast could merge. Colonial could pick up two more from somewhere.
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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Jan 22, 2022 11:13:19 GMT -5
Is CUSA the worst geographic conference? Well they haven't exceeded the bounds of their stated geographic footprint which is the entire USA, so not really. When the Big West had a bunch of Mississippi River teams, that was probably the worst. |
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Post by volleyballer8992 on Jan 22, 2022 11:48:34 GMT -5
Sounds like UIC to MVC confirmed as 12th team, likely next week?
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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Jan 22, 2022 14:23:05 GMT -5
Trying to dissect the WAC divisions here. Last year there was an all-Texas division (Southwest) and a non-Texas division (West). Assuming a similar format, you are looking at:
Southwest
1 Abilene Christian
2 Incarnate Word
3 Lamar
4 Stephen F. Austin
5 Tarleton State
6 UT Arlington
7 UT Rio Grande Valley
West
1 Cal Baptist
2 Grand Canyon
3 Seattle
4 Southern Utah
5 Utah Tech (formerly Dixie State)
6 Utah Valley
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Post by jayj79 on Jan 22, 2022 14:39:12 GMT -5
When the Big West had a bunch of Mississippi River teams, that was probably the worst. I mean, much of the country seems to consider the Mississippi River and everything West of it to be "the West", so it isn't that far fetched. At least it isn't just plain WRONG like a conference with "Ten" in its name having 14+ teams, or a conference with "Twelve" in its name having fewer than a dozen. |
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