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Date Posted: 20:45:16 04/28/03 Mon
Author: NU Hoop Fan
Subject: Re: Future AE membership?
In reply to: mainejeff 's message, "Re: Future AE membership?" on 17:49:23 04/28/03 Mon

Bentley has a committee and the Board of Trustees tabled a vote on moving to D-1 in 2002. The people I know there told me that they weren't going to move unless they knew a conference would accept them.... wake up and smell the coffee.

No way in hell would NU and BU allow Bentley in the back door to Boston and the AE.

As the one of people at Bentley I know told me, "they want to be D-1 without any concept of what it would cost to go D-1." Their Women's Hoop Team would probably be near the top of the AE right away, and their women's field hockey team would also be highly competitive, as it won the D-2 title a couple of years ago.

I can't think of anything else they'd be competitive in right away.

Mercyhurst and Gannon are both in Erie, PA and have toyed with the idea of a D-1 shot, but as Fogel told me when he got fired, "they want to be Harvard during the week and UNLV on the weekends" and won't sacrifice any admissions standards for athletes.

One thing to remember about Quinnipiac, they had something that a lot of schools don't have.. money.... For a small school, they had cash and access to cash (how, I have no idea).

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