MBB: Conference of New England

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

It looks like we're going to have to change the name of this board.  Apparently we're now The Commonwealth Coast Conference.  According to the website the new acronym is TCCC.  They've even changed the domain name to reflect this change.


I can't exactly figure out why this is a big deal, but it seems to be the way of things.  Regardless, the new website is very nice and I think TCCC will really benefit from the new, full-time commissioner.

[Pat Coleman]

For some reason the CCC dropped D3Scoreboard.com, which seems silly. Now the schools will have to do more work.

[Pat Coleman]

(And no, we don't get any money when conferences use D3Scoreboard.com. We don't own that site.)

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

For some reason the CCC dropped D3Scoreboard.com, which seems silly. Now the schools will have to do more work.

Now they have a commissioner to do the work for them. 


(I'm not serious.)


I have no idea what's going on there.  The new website does look nice.

Perhaps they dropped d3scoreboard.com because even with that some of the schools waited two weeks to post scores?

[Pat Coleman]

No system can force schools to participate. But participation was far higher last year than before.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I still don't get the acronym change, Pat, is there another CCC out there they want to differentiate from?

[Pat Coleman]

No, though I wonder if the various encroachments of the MAC on various other conferences is related.

The Middle Atlantic Conference, aka the MAC to everyone in the Mid-Atlantic region, officially now calls itself the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Conference, aka MASCAC.

Never mind that there's already a MASCAC.

They also now attempt to brand their individual conferences the Commonwealth Conference and the Freedom Conference, both of which overlapped New England names. (Though, since, the Freedom Football Conference has disbanded.) Formerly they were the Commonwealth League and Freedom League.

To reduce confusion and protect the MASCAC's acronym, we refere to the MAC, the MAC Freedom and the MAC Commonwealth.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The MASCAC would never notice, even if you stopped covering them on the site altogether, but I see the point.  It's awfully odd.  I sent Joe a PM to see if he could shed light on the thought process, but he's not been around here for a while, so I don't know when I might hear back.

Overall, it will save a couple of keystrokes typing TCCC, rather than the CCC.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I got the scoop on the name change, which now actually makes sense.  They were registering the conference and there was another entity with the legal name "Commonwealth Coast Conference" on the books in Massachusetts, so they went with the official, legal name: The Commonwealth Coast Conference.  I'm not sure that any of the acronyms on this site need to change.  I'm sure the conference will use the official name and TCCC, but I don't think anyone will care if others don't.


Apparently the decision to drop d3scoreboard was not made by the SIDs and with the express purpose of driving traffic to TCCC website.  We'll see how that works, I guess.

[Pat Coleman]

I'm not sure that any of the acronyms on this site need to change. 

Don't worry. We have no intention of changing them.

[Bill Gorman]

For some reason the CCC dropped D3Scoreboard.com, which seems silly. Now the schools will have to do more work.

That one is not entirely etched in stone.

Apparently the decision to drop d3scoreboard was not made by the SIDs and with the express purpose of driving traffic to TCCC website.

That's part of the issue.

[Pat Coleman]

Well, no -- they won't have to do more work. Past practice shows that most just won't report to us anymore.

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On a side note, Wentworth has their schedule up

[Bill Gorman]

Well, no -- they won't have to do more work. Past practice shows that most just won't report to us anymore.

No, the dropping of D3Scoreboard is not eched in stone.

[Pat Coleman]

Ahh, good news, thanks for the heads-up.