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Subject: Re: Where do you want to see Fordham football in 5 years? ... how about 10? Author: RamRay [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 10:45:47 03/09/05 Wed In reply to: PA Ram 's message, "Where do you want to see Fordham football in 5 years? ... how about 10?" on 09:17:07 03/08/05 Tue As I stated on the PL board, in 2006 the A-10 football will effectively end and the CAA will be a 12 team league with most, if not all of the former A-10 schools. Whatever dreams some Fordham fans may have had to go to the A-10 are over and the CAA is mostly southern, public schools where Fordham would not really fit in...even when the A-10 absorbtion brings in a lot of eastern schools. Forget the CAA as they already have a full compliment of 12 scholie schools waiting. I don't see Fordham leaving the PL now that the A-10 on the verge of collapse. The answer is to beef-up the PL so it becomes attractive to schools on the bubble, deciding where to go. While the PL is non-scholie, if ALL the member schools vote for it, the charter can change. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date I'm with you. One thing - please type all of your stuff into the "Message Subject" line so we don't have to go into every post to see what's been posted. I did the same and received similar guidance when I first posted here, so I figured I'd pass it along. Good points, imo. (NT) Ramalamadingdong 10:55:03 03/09/05 Wed The Patriot League will never go scholarship. It's a moot point. Already discussed by the Presidents and rejected. A recent quote from a Patriot League official: "You will not see scholarships in the PL in our lifetime". And the CAA Football Conference will not be a "southern" conference. As a matter of fact, most of the schools will be north of Wash. DC. The dreams of Fordham fans of joining the CAA Football League are far from over. I predict that within 3 years we join the CAA in football and Holy Cross joins us there. (NT) Rambacker 14:02:23 03/09/05 Wed What is the basis of the HC to the CAA prediction? Is their administration making noises about actually moving their moribund football program up to the next level? (NT) -- DamnRam, 14:32:36 03/09/05 Wed See my response above. (NT) -- Rambacker, 16:10:37 03/09/05 Wed well this is like banging one's head against the wall. Fine, predict all you want but when Fordham and HC are still in the PL in 3 years and the CAA didn't come begging for you, please come back an apologize. And smarty pants, it still is a Southern league. Sorry, that's the brand. Oh, and Hofstra's not going to support you joining either. (NT) -- colgate13, 15:21:52 03/09/05 Wed Hofstra is irrelevant - they don't come close to carrying the NY market. We do. And it's time for a geography lesson. Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware are not "southern" states. Fordham will be offered membership in the CAA Football League. (NT) -- Rambacker, 16:08:47 03/09/05 Wed Your geography isn't the problem. It's your definition of the CAA: Delaware, Drexel, George Mason, Hofstra, JMU, ODU, Towson, UNCW, VCU, W&M and soon to be Northeastern. The weight of that conference is south my friend. Football is an add-on. And FU will still be in the PL for the long haul. Feel free to eat crow in a few years. (NT) -- colgate13, 09:30:38 03/10/05 Thu Man, are you stretching here to find an argument. The CAA basketball schools have nothing to do with this - this is a football league we're talking about. Nothing else. And most of it is north of Wash DC. End of argument. Let's see what the future brings. (NT) -- Rambacker, 10:15:58 03/10/05 Thu "Hofstra is irrelevant - they don't come close to carrying the NY market" What's important is not whether or not they control the NY market, it's whether or not they can influence CAA expansion that they oppose. The fact that they're a full time member and we would only be a f-ball member (at most) makes it way more reasonable that they can keep us out of the CAA. (NT) -- PA Ram, 09:48:17 03/10/05 Thu They can't and won't keep us out of the CAA Football Conference. They have very little juice in the league. That's a fact. (NT) -- Rambacker, 10:17:44 03/10/05 Thu Re: "A recent quote from a Patriot League official: "You will not see scholarships in the PL in our lifetime"." Since you put it in quotes, it must be exactly what was said. Out of curiousity, who said it and, in the name of the linky poster, is there a link that has the quote? (NT) -- PA Ram, 10:03:53 03/10/05 Thu Re: I can't imagine Femovich saying anything like this. I have met her on several occasions and she is very careful of what she says. So who was the source? (NT) -- Go...'gate, 11:22:42 03/10/05 Thu Another league official. Believe me - it was said. I heard it in person. (NT) -- Rambacker, 12:47:37 03/10/05 Thu