University Athletic Association

[DagarmanSpartan]

Query: With NYU adding baseball, does the UAA become an automatic bid league?

[ExTartanPlayer]

Click on the game time for future games listed on their website for a link to directions.

Duquesne and Robert Morris also have baseball facilities which might be utilized.

I heard CMU's SID was at the UAA tournament.  With NYU getting baseball next year thanks to merger with NY Tech, CMU is the only UAA school without baseball.

Interesting.  I did as you said to check the directions to games, and as you've no doubt noticed, CMU plays their "home" games about half an hour away from campus.  Not saying that entirely precludes having a varsity baseball team, but it does add the logistical complication that the school would have to pay for a charter bus to take the team to every home game as well as road games.  To be sure, other teams at other schools may do this; I'm not saying that it RULES OUT having a baseball team - but it no doubt would come up in a discussion of whether CMU would add a baseball team or not.  Someone would have to convince the AD that it's worth the extra dough when the team has to "travel" for their home games.

[ADL70]

Query: With NYU adding baseball, does the UAA become an automatic bid league?

Only if Chicago can go to Florida (doesn't match their spring break) and Rochester declares UAA not LL.  Or CMU adds the sport, which is why I started this fantasy.

[ADL70]

CWRU reports class of 39 from 14 different states:

http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2014-15/releases/20140502wc2r5r

Per Coach Debeljak: most talented class since 2006

[Gregory Sager]

Query: With NYU adding baseball, does the UAA become an automatic bid league?

Only if Chicago can go to Florida (doesn't match their spring break) and Rochester declares UAA not LL.  Or CMU adds the sport, which is why I started this fantasy.

The only thing that the NCAA requires for a league to have an automatic bid is seven participating teams, so NYU adding baseball would indeed make the UAA an auto-bid league, as long as Rochester consents to take part in whatever sort of schedule structure the UAA implements. (It would still be possible for the Yellowjackets to simultaneously remain in the Liberty League, if the schedule allows.) How the UAA determines who gets that automatic bid is the UAA's business, not the NCAA's; the league can be as creative with scheduling as it likes.

[ADL70]

Greg
The only UAA team Chicago plays is WUStL.  Only five teams currently play for the UAA Championship.   Chicago does not.

[Gregory Sager]

That still doesn't mean that Chicago has to go to Florida to play UAA teams.

Again, leagues have the right to determine their AQ however they wish, provided that they have seven members that play the sport. It certainly doesn't require that leagues must play a full round-robin so that every team plays every other team. D1 football is replete with examples of that.

[ADL70]

The Handbook does not list Chicago as being in the UAA (although the Handbook is far from infallible).

The UAA competition takes place in Fla in March.  It's unlikely that will change. If Chicago doesn't participate, I can't imagine the NCAA would count them as part of the UAA.  The UAA doesn't count their games vs WUStL as conference games.

[Gregory Sager]

The NCAA will count Chicago as part of the UAA if the UAA (and Chicago) says that the Maroons are in the league. That's all that matters. Again, the NCAA isn't the defining party here; the league is.

If the UAA really wants to count Chicago as part of the league for baseball purposes, it can (and will) find a way to accommodate the Maroons with regard to scheduling.

[DagarmanSpartan]

ADL70,

Which players from this recruiting class are regarded as being real standouts?

Which ones do you think will have the most immediate impact?

I sure wish that we could convince a sufficient number of UAA teams to play conference baseball such that the UAA would become an automatic bid baseball league.  The UAA has gone too long without that distinction.

[ADL70]

The pressing need is OL, and the class has ten lineman.  Of those Gage Blair (6'2 285) was a two-year starter for powerhouse St Ed, Ryan Merlau (6'2 255) was All-NY HM, and Dominic Adams from Lake Cath looks good for the small tackle (6'2 240).  Then there's the 6'4 360 Brandon King, although last year's 330+ lineman wasn't with the team after camp.  By game two I can foresee as many as three Fr starting on the line.

With all these OL additions either Corey Long or Sean Carson or both could move back to TE, the only position missing from the class.

Connor Simpson and Rob Cuda both seem to be quality QB prospects.

RB is also a need as Sicre and Hanzlik are both seniors.  Canganelli and Burke could be a good tandem.

The D standouts include Mentor LB Justin McMahon (All-Ohio DI first team) and Columbus Watterson S Cody Calhoun, who played in the Ohio North South All-Star game.  McMahon, Canganelli, and Perry WR/CB Zak Hurd have been selected for the News-Herald Senior Bowl.

[ADL70]

CMU 43 from 21 states.

http://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/fball/2013-14/releases/20140507200su0

[ExTartanPlayer]

CMU 43 from 21 states.

http://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/fball/2013-14/releases/20140507200su0

Wow.  Quite a diverse crew there.  21 states in one recruiting class, only six PA boys and three OH boys?

I'm a little dismayed to see zero Eastern PA boys (all six PA kids are from the Pittsburgh area) and so few Ohio kids.

Ah well.  I'll have to do a bit more research later.

[ADL70]

CWRU had only four PA kids and only two were WPA, must not have been fertile ground this year.  Spartans usually get numbers from Pa that rival those from Ohio. 

[ExTartanPlayer]

Just realized that my comment may have sounded a little negative - I don't mean to imply that national recruiting is a bad thing, I love to see kids from all over the country. I'd just love to see those kids from all over the country PLUS more PA and OH kids