CWRU takes 3 of 4 from #21 Chicago on the road to move into first place in the UAA.

That is VERY strange indeed.

Actually, it's a bit lazy.  How hard is it for the website manager to simply look at any school's athletic homepage and update the information?  Geesh.

Looks like next weekend's four game series between CWRU (6-2) and Chicago (7-1) could very well decide the conference race.

Doh.  CWRU drops the last game against Emory.

6-2 in UAA action.

This is the first year that the UAA is a full table baseball conference with an auto bid for the champion.

INAUGURAL season as a full schedule baseball conference.

CWRU won again today to move to 6-1 in conference.  7-1 if they complete the sweep of Emory today.

CWRU starts off the inaugural UAA season 4-1.  Ahead of Emory 2-1 thus far in today's double header.

The UAA can also have some pretty high travel costs from the NE and Great Lakes to Florida.

Obviously the UAA doesn't have that issue in football though.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on March 27, 2025, 12:37:59 PM

Quote from: DagarmanSpartan on March 27, 2025, 07:28:12 AMYa know, I am surprised that Saint Francis didn't consider joining the D1-FCS non-scholarship Pioneer Football Conference, which includes Butler, Drake, Stetson, etc.

To do that, you have to be in D-I for everything else.

Oh yeah, my whole point is that given how they just made the NCAA tourney at the D1 level in men's basketball, that would be a way that they could continue to build on that, while cutting scholarship expenses for things like football. 

I guess, in the end, any D1 sport competition proved to be a luxury they couldn't afford.

That said.............LONG LIVE THE PAC-12!!!!!

 

Ya know, I am surprised that Saint Francis didn't consider joining the D1-FCS non-scholarship Pioneer Football Conference, which includes Butler, Drake, Stetson, etc.

Based on a conversation I had recently with someone pretty high up in CWRU athletics, it appears that the PAC is CWRU's football home for now.

I just hope we can get CMU back on the schedule as an annual non-conference rival.

In my mind, an eight game PAC conference schedule, combined with annual OOC matchups with CMU (Academic Bowl Trophy), and Wooster (Baird Brothers Trophy) would be ideal.

Ah, my mistake.  I was operating under the assumption that they were not like Ivy League I-FCS, which is, officially anyway, non-scholarship, and were more like I-FCS teams in the Southland Conference (Stephen F. Austin, , Lamar, etc) which offer 60+ football scholarships, and actually play a rather high-level game.

So anyway, with 12 football members, will the Presidents' be, in effect, the REAL "PAC-12?"

 

 

Ya know, I can only assume that their current 65 scholarship football players will all have to attrit, with non-scholarship level jocks recruited in their place.

I am guessing they'll still be awfully strong in their first season before their talent (non-scholarship) begins to even out.

At only about 1600 undergrads, they must be among the smallest schools in all D1-FCS football.  I am guessing Wofford would be one of the few schools that is smaller.

That's an awfully tough non-conf schedule.  I'm worried that CWRU is losing a lot from this year's team and will be rebuilding.  Perhaps they should have looked for softer matchups, you know, like Oberlin and Earlham, or some such!

All right, good job by Yeshiva.  Won conference.  Good luck in the playoffs!!!