University Athletic Association

[ADL70]

Word on Wooster's site is that this is the last year of the NCAC-UAA agreement and that the NCAC is going to a full round-robin.  That would mean only one OOC game for each team.

CMU seems to be the one for five of the NCAC teams.

http://www.cmu.edu/athletics/sports/football/schedules/2012.html

Would the four UAA teams hook up with the five football-playing teams that are leaving the SCAC (Millsaps, Centre, Rhodes, Sewanee, and Birmingham-Southern) and have a shot at an AQ?

[DagarmanSpartan]

ADL70,

Perhaps I don't know all the rules, but wouldn't they have to actually form a CONFERENCE in order to be an automatic berth?

If not, then I think that that would be an interesting arrangement.

[Ralph Turner]

Word on Wooster's site is that this is the last year of the NCAC-UAA agreement and that the NCAC is going to a full round-robin.  That would mean only one OOC game for each team.

CMU seems to be the one for five of the NCAC teams.

http://www.cmu.edu/athletics/sports/football/schedules/2012.html

Would the four UAA teams hook up with the five football-playing teams that are leaving the SCAC (Millsaps, Centre, Rhodes, Sewanee, and Birmingham-Southern) and have a shot at an AQ?

The conference must sponsor the sport.

It must have 4 core members playing the sport.

There must be a minimum of 7 participants in the sport.

I believe that it would take a 2-year period for that conference to earn the AQ.

A scenario that I could see would be this.

2012 -- UAA-4 sponsor foootball and invite the SCAC-5 to join as affiliates. Compete as Pool B teams.

2013 -- second season of the "new UAA". Compete as a 9 team conference, but gain access to the playoffs thru Pool B, against Wesley, Huntingdon, Macalester, etc.  Pool B bids will be determined by the number of Pool B teams divided by the access ratio (number of Pool A teams divided by the number of Pool A conferences) and the quotient is then truncated to the next lowest integer. A quotient of 1.750 would be truncated to 1 Pool B bid.

2014 -- UAA gets its Pool A bid.  The 9 teams move from Pool B to Pool A for consideration.  That bid probably moves from Pool B to Pool A in the scheme of things. 

[DagarmanSpartan]

OK.

So if we had five "affiliates," would they be considered UAA "members," or would they be considered something else altogether?

I mean, adding five small, liberal arts colleges as "members" would change the "Egghead Eight's" character as a conference of all research universities/AAU members, would it not?

I'd be in favor of admitting them as something other than "members" so that our conference's distinctive character does not change, if that's possible.

[ADL70]

If it came to pass, they would be affiliates for football only.

It has been pointed out though that reducing travel was a major reason they are breaking away from the SCAC.  So they may be more inclined to look more locally for two additional football members.

[ADL70]

CWRU preview

http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2011-12/releases/20110714nvoonq

[E.115]

CWRU preview

http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2011-12/releases/20110714nvoonq

Whoa, d@mn good preview for pre-august.  I didn't realize so much of CWRU's defense had so much coming back.

Plus, I'm very interested to see what that new transfer QB can do for this offense.

[DagarmanSpartan]

I think that that's the key.

If that new DII transfer can come in and be productive, then we'll likely have a successful season.

I've got a little hypo.  Suppose we were playing THIS season in a scheduling arrangement that includes the five former SCAC members.  How do you think the final standings would turn out?

[Case04]

We will see how things pan out....could be an interesting year with the Spartans somewhat under the radar. This transfer QB could make a heck of a difference along with avoiding the key injuries.

[E.115]

^Side note.  It looks like that transfer QB has three years of NCAA eligibility.  He red-shirted his Freshman year at Cal PA.

[jam40jeff]

CWRU preview

http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2011-12/releases/20110714nvoonq

When did John Carroll University move to East Cleveland?

[ADL70]

Give 'em some slack.  The SID is from B-W, thinks anything east of downtown is East Cleveland.  IMNSHO, he does a much better job than his predecessor.

[ADL70]

Interesting number reassignments for the Spartans:
(apparently some were tentative/premature)
1-Metlesitz
6-Mackie
8- Coleman
33-Magister

Do we read anything into Olson being assigned #5?  It was his hs # but I didn't see that coming.

[DagarmanSpartan]

ADL70,

Has training camp started at CWRU, and if so, what is the buzz?

[ADL70]

Should be later this week.

I'm in Columbus, so I hear no buzz here.

I'm planning on going to the scrimmage on the 25th.  I'll PM any Spartan supporters who are interested in what I see.