Quote from: Caz Bombers on November 21, 2023, 11:43:36 AM
SUNY Poly from NAC to Empire 8 next season.

https://wildcats.sunypoly.edu/general/2023-24/releases/20231121f2vkw4

NAC West division now seems untenable for Delhi and Cobleskill, wonder what their plans are.

Talk about a turn of events. And no kidding with the NAC West being a bit unbalanced compared to the NAC East.

And out of hindsight, but who knows if these SUNY schools would someday apply to join the SUNYAC; while the NAC refocuses on being a New England-based conference?

Quote from: Caz Bombers on October 10, 2023, 02:47:15 PM
Dean football to the MASCAC. Only Gallaudet unaccounted for now.

https://twitter.com/mascacsports/status/1711803793430491301?t=a7LRyoIVm6xWSUIJkpaZlQ&s=19

Looks like that's official. Maybe Gallaudet would be an Indy for football for now until then.

P.S.: There goes for my predictions, according to one of my posts, lol: http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=5831.msg2090065#msg2090065

Quote from: Gregory Sager on October 09, 2023, 09:41:59 PM
SUNY-Old Westbury is on Long Island, SUNY Maritime is in the Bronx, and SUNY-Purchase is in Westchester County. They really belong in a league based in and around New York City (i.e., their current home, the Skyline Conference), not in the SUNYAC. It makes no sense for them to do all of the ridiculous travel involved in playing schools clear across the state when there's a plethora of local schools within an hour or so of campus.

Fair enough. Then putting the SUNY schools from the NYC area aside, would it work for Cobleskill, Delhi and SUNY Poly to be SUNYAC-bound, if that opportunity was to occur?

With all due to respect, but wouldn't it make it clearly more sense for the active SUNY schools (that are within D-III, excluding Brockport and Geneseo, and not including the top ones that are in D-I being Buffalo, Albany, Binghamton and Stony Brook) all join the SUNYAC?

Quote from: Caz Bombers on October 05, 2023, 03:06:44 PM
Which conferences do you think will take in Alfred State, Dean, and Gallaudet football?

In a football-affiliate membership status standpoint: Alfred State to the Empire 8 or Independent, Dean to the NEWMAC (alongside other GNeAC 'friend' Norwich) and Gallaudet to the Landmark (with UEC 'friend' Keystone). Thoughts?

On a sidenote, any link of Anna Maria moving to the MASCAC from the GNeAC? Just curious.

Quote from: KnightSlappy on October 05, 2023, 02:43:27 PM
SUNYAC is adding SUNY Canton and Morrisville State. (Updated list above).

https://www.sunyacsports.com/general/2023-24/releases/20231005jcgtfr

This has turned things around. So the NAC will only have SUNY Morrisville for just one athletics season, once spring 2024 ends. Meaning that SUNY Morrisville will rejoin the SUNYAC after an early stint before moving to the NEAC (now the United East) in the late 2000's.

For SUNY Canton, who also competes in the NAC, this is new to them, when it comes to joining the SUNYAC. Now the only SUNY schools to not being a part of that conference are SUNY Cobleskill (NAC), SUNY Delhi (NAC), SUNY Maritime (Skyline), SUNY Old Westbury (Skyline), SUNY Poly [formerly SUNYIT] (NAC) and SUNY Purchase (Skyline).

In the end of the day, this would offset the losses of SUNY Brockport and SUNY Geneseo.

Quote from: Ralph Turner on October 05, 2023, 01:26:37 PM
How many of the current D3 membership will not be with us in 2023?

To be honest, that's a fair and honest question. So far, like many others, I might not have a valid answer. However, is being within D-III very worth it (from a general standpoint)? Are they content to not have any scholarships and all the hard work and effort by the student-athletes on the field (depending on the sport) with the success and dominance may all be there for nothing, especially them to not even making a shot at the pros? Would any of the schools within athletic conferences (or even the conferences themselves) and independent schools either move a step up (being D-II) or a step down (being the NAIA or the USCAA) in order to compete for scholarship college sports?

Quote from: Caz Bombers on October 05, 2023, 11:23:38 AM
2025-26: Anna Maria from GNAC to MASCAC

Talk about another surprise move. And that would be the first time that the MASCAC has added a private school (or a school that is not a public state university (either regional or municipal named)) in its history.

Quote from: Ralph Turner on October 03, 2023, 02:17:10 PM
Which schools were rumored as candidates for expansion of the HCAC?
Thanks

I was just saying in hindsight as a figure of speech.

With the addition of Berea and the departure of Defiance, the HCAC will still have ten members. Talk about an offset, after many fans of the conference thought of hopeful expansion.

No wonder Bob Jones' tenure as a D-III member (even if it hadn't achieved to full membership status or had gotten invited to an athletic conference) was short-lived. If the school had stayed a bit longer, they would make a fit on either the CCS or the SAA or the USA South.

Although they are now full-time again in the NCCAA, would it make sense to attempt applying to the NAIA? There are many few conferences that would let BJ fit on their footprints, whether on the AAC (the Appalachian) or the SSAC.

Quote from: Caz Bombers on September 07, 2023, 09:10:39 AM
2024-25 is when the Brockport and Geneseo moves take effect, FYI

What he said, as both SUNY schools will leave the SUNYAC to join the Empire 8 (E8).

Quote from: Inkblot on August 31, 2023, 02:04:20 PM
Am I misunderstanding this? The UEC no longer has members in New York.

Hold on, never mind. I thought they did still. I mistook it by accident, and only noticed the affiliates from an outdated map of the current membership via its Wikipedia page.

Regardless though, the rest of my point was that the UEC would also be a suitable conference homes for the remaining "'YAC" members.

Maybe the remaining SUNYAC schools would like to have greener pastures on other nearby conferences like the Empire 8 or the NAC (i.e.: North Atlantic). Or even the UEC (a.k.a. United East) where Morrisville and SUNYIT were former members back when it was the NEAC, as well as Cobleskill.

Plus, the UEC has 4 members out of 17 now (due to its 'merger' with the CSAC, when in actuality it was technically an amalgamation) that are from the State of New York.

In the case of the NAC, if any of the SUNYAC schools would like be next in line to be future expansion members, then it would solidify a newer NAC West (and the rest of the other schools that are east of the NY state boundary line (mostly the New England ones) be a newer NAC East).

As in general, many conferences are on the verge to be squandered with under 6 full members, and lesser than that to keep automatic bids alive, thanks to recent conference realignment changes in this decade alone. So I wonder if somewhat of a 'superconference' format would work on some of the growing conferences like the E8 or the NAC or the UEC, at least in the Northeast U.S. region. Or if any of the schools would like to move upto D-II, which that division hadn't had a school from the SUNY system in ages (the last ones were also former SUNYAC members Albany, Stony Brook and Binghamton before all eventually moved to D-I and compete in the AmEast (I mean America East)).

Also, even with certain safe perks in terms of automatic qualifiers for some sports, hope the C2C and the ASC (both having 6 and 5 respectively, in the C2C's case it has 5 men's & women's and 1 women's-only) would need to find member schools as expansion candidates to remain alive in the long term; or otherwise they are in the brink to be squandered and be in favor to join more nearby regional friendly conferences.