FB: USA South Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

Regions don't really matter.

Salisbury and Mary Washington generally have dominated the non-basketball sports. Salisbury has won every softball title since 1996, every field hockey title but one since 1994. Mary Washington or Salisbury has won every tennis title in CAC history. Etc.

http://www.cacsports.com/information/recordbook/CHART_-_All-Time_CAC_Championships.pdf

[Allen C]

This is huge news....I look for Southern Virginia University to take their place at some point.

And why not Huntingdon?

Had not really considered them....would make sense if they were interested...I only said SVU as I know they had begun the process of transitioning to DIII....Its a long process however, so it will be a while. Huntingdon would be a good fit.

[jknezek]

Christopher Newport will continue to participate as a full member of the USA South Athletic Conference through the 2012-13 academic year. Thereafter, Christopher Newport will remain as an affiliate member in football for the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons.

The affiliate status for football thru 2015 for CNU tells me that the earliest that the braintrust in the Capital thinks that it can add football schools for an AQ will be 2016.

As it stands, Salisbury and Frostburg State or in the E8. Wesley is slugging along as an independent.

With Shenandoah joining the ODAC, you might be able to poach back Catholic. That gives you up to 5 with Wesley, Salisbury, Frostburg, and CNU. After that, I'm a bit stumped. Be a good, hard conference though. Maybe poach someone from the Centennial and someone from the MAC? Both those conferences are large enough to lose a member, but I'm not sure I'd want to join Salisbury and Wesley without making one massive commitment to football, and that's not mentioning Frostburg and CNU who have both been very respectable at times lately...

[HSCTiger74]

Christopher Newport will continue to participate as a full member of the USA South Athletic Conference through the 2012-13 academic year. Thereafter, Christopher Newport will remain as an affiliate member in football for the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons.

The affiliate status for football thru 2015 for CNU tells me that the earliest that the braintrust in the Capital thinks that it can add football schools for an AQ will be 2016.

As it stands, Salisbury and Frostburg State or in the E8. Wesley is slugging along as an independent.

With Shenandoah joining the ODAC, you might be able to poach back Catholic. That gives you up to 5 with Wesley, Salisbury, Frostburg, and CNU. After that, I'm a bit stumped. Be a good, hard conference though. Maybe poach someone from the Centennial and someone from the MAC? Both those conferences are large enough to lose a member, but I'm not sure I'd want to join Salisbury and Wesley without making one massive commitment to football, and that's not mentioning Frostburg and CNU who have both been very respectable at times lately...

  Might be able to get Stevenson, too, although they're scheduled to join the MAC in 2012 so it would be kind of a TCU-to-the-Big East situation if they went to the CAC. But they seem to be making a pretty strong commitment to football and are a great fit geographically, so it might be worth a look.
  A couple of the Centennial schools would be great fits based on proximity, but they all seem to be pretty firmly entrenched in the league and probably aren't looking to make a move. 

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[SUADC]

Christopher Newport will continue to participate as a full member of the USA South Athletic Conference through the 2012-13 academic year. Thereafter, Christopher Newport will remain as an affiliate member in football for the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons.

The affiliate status for football thru 2015 for CNU tells me that the earliest that the braintrust in the Capital thinks that it can add football schools for an AQ will be 2016.

As it stands, Salisbury and Frostburg State or in the E8. Wesley is slugging along as an independent.

With Shenandoah joining the ODAC, you might be able to poach back Catholic. That gives you up to 5 with Wesley, Salisbury, Frostburg, and CNU. After that, I'm a bit stumped. Be a good, hard conference though. Maybe poach someone from the Centennial and someone from the MAC? Both those conferences are large enough to lose a member, but I'm not sure I'd want to join Salisbury and Wesley without making one massive commitment to football, and that's not mentioning Frostburg and CNU who have both been very respectable at times lately...

  Might be able to get Stevenson, too, although they're scheduled to join the MAC in 2012 so it would be kind of a TCU-to-the-Big East situation if they went to the CAC. But they seem to be making a pretty strong commitment to football and are a great fit geographically, so it might be worth a look.
  A couple of the Centennial schools would be great fits based on proximity, but they all seem to be pretty firmly entrenched in the league and probably aren't looking to make a move.

I would like to see Salisbury, Wesley, CNU, Stevenson, Catholic, Newport News Apprentice (Not NCAA Institution, but allowed), McDaniel, Johns Hopkins, Averett, and Galudet.

As for the last four, I know that with the acception of Johns Hopkins that will be four playoff teams within one conferences, McDaniel use to play Salisbury in scrimagges from year to year, Averett was a constant matchup for the former ACFC conference, and Galudet would be perfect, it is located in DC. So the CAC would be represented by teams from DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Out of that last four, there is only a need for two. Out of those four, Averett could join the CAC and be replaced by Huntingdon in the USA South. Galudet could stop traveling hundreds of miles every week to play a game. There could be a rivalry between Stevenson and Johns Hopkins for the pride of Baltiomore. Another Rivalry for Frostburg State with McDaniel to see who is the best in Western Maryland. Also, Catholic v. Galudet for the Nations Capitol Trophy. 

[CNU85]

Narch,

Don't do it. I know you want to. But don't.

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[narch]

http://football-austria.com/home/single-news

i think congratulations are in order for tunde ogun...i think - my ability to read is limited to the english language (which isn't always typed on these boards...look just a few posts down for proof), so i'm not sure, but tunde must have done something good, otherwise uncle keeping it real wouldn't be posting

my thoughts on cac football are this: frostburg, salisbury, wesley, stevenson, cnu, galludet, catholic - i know that some of those teams are in other conferences, but it isn't beyond the realm of possibility

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[batteredbard]

Just two cents on CNU from The Daily Times.

http://www.thedailytimes.com/Marcus_Fitzsimmons/story/CNU-has-the-drive-to-survive-id-020823

[narch]

http://www.danubedragons.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=304:the-nigerian-nightmare&Itemid=398

Der Österreichische Football Leauge ist nicht gerade der NFL

[abnrgr]

Nicht schlecht (bad) Herr Narch. Ich verbrachte 5 Jahre dort und sahen viele amerikanische Theaterstück mit Deutschen. Kaput
ABNRGR
Fallschirmspringer

I checked my Deutch and I screwed this pooch.

[narch]

Nicht schlecht (bad) Herr Narch. Ich verbrachte 5 Jahre dort und sahen viele amerikanische Theaterstück mit Deutschen. Kaput
ABNRGR
Fallschirmspringer

I checked my Deutch and I screwed this pooch.

abnrgr - Ich kenne keine Deutsche, aber ich fand eine tolle übersetzung. Diese Leute aber nicht wissen, aber den Unterschied.

[HSCTiger74]

Nicht schlecht (bad) Herr Narch. Ich verbrachte 5 Jahre dort und sahen viele amerikanische Theaterstück mit Deutschen. Kaput
ABNRGR
Fallschirmspringer

I checked my Deutch and I screwed this pooch.

abnrgr - Ich kenne keine Deutsche, aber ich fand eine tolle übersetzung. Diese Leute aber nicht wissen, aber den Unterschied.

Ich spreche kein Deutsch auch nicht, aber bitte ... schon genug.   
(Mit Dank an Google Translate.)