This is a waste of time and a show.Florida State really wants out. They’re suing the ACC over GOR and exit fees. They estimate it would cost them 572 million to leave the ACC.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39167937/florida-state-sue-acc-grant-rights-withdrawal-fee
Why do you say that?This is a waste of time and a show.
The WCC extended invitations to OSU and WSU in 12 sports, with both institutions set to compete as affiliate members in men’s basketball, women’s basketball, women’s soccer, volleyball, men’s golf, women’s golf, women’s cross country and women’s rowing. Oregon State will also participate in the Conference in men’s soccer and softball, and Washington State will also compete in the WCC in women’s tennis and men’s cross country.
Looking at what's still homeless, WSU says:The orphans of the PAC-X, Oregon State and Washington State, are joining the WCC for two years in pretty much everything other than football.
https://wccsports.com/news/2023/12/22/general-west-coast-conference-adds-oregon-state-and-washington-state-as-affiliate-members.aspx
https://wsucougars.com/news/2023/12/22/wsu-athletics-ten-wsu-programs-join-west-coast-conference-as-affiliate-members.aspxWSU continues to work diligently to finalize the right competitive opportunities for the sports of men's and women's track and field, swimming and baseball.
https://osubeavers.com/news/2023/12/22/general-oregon-state-athletics-enters-affiliation-with-west-coast-conferenceGymnastics, wrestling, indoor/outdoor track & field and men's rowing will continue competing as members of the Pac-12 Conference.
Department leaders are in continued exploration of opportunities for the baseball program and an announcement will be made when there is more information to share.
Why not the ACC in baseball- a couple southern swings covers most of the schools? Those baseball programs that have to go to the West Coast every year or two for Stanford & Cal can make another stop.Looking at what's still homeless, WSU says:
https://wsucougars.com/news/2023/12/22/wsu-athletics-ten-wsu-programs-join-west-coast-conference-as-affiliate-members.aspx
While Oregon State says:
https://osubeavers.com/news/2023/12/22/general-oregon-state-athletics-enters-affiliation-with-west-coast-conference
I'm guessing "continue competing as members of the Pac-12 Conference" is code for independent, effectively?
Curious what the plan is for the baseball programs, since the WCC does in fact have the sport. Maybe they're thinking Big West would a better schedule?
Seattle's back to where they were in the 70s.Seattle and Grand Canyon are joining the WCC. Quality additions in hoops especially GCU.
As I shared in this post some time ago, http://sonsofsamhorn.net/index.php?threads/lawsuit-against-the-ivy-league.39051/post-5462854Many no, some possibly
Thinking wrestling and men’s cross country and swimming
This is the first realignment move that has me utterly surprised and confused. The Patriot League was a no-scholarship then a partial scholarship league not too long ago. I guess the CAA defections to FBS combined with supersizing the league had Richmond looking for a better fit or a better path to an AQ bid.Richmond is moving their football program from the CAA, where they've been a member since 1986, to the Patriot League.
https://patriotleague.org/news/2024/5/14/patriot-league-announces-university-of-richmond-to-join-league-as-associate-member-for-football.aspx
Yeah, it's pretty surprising. The CAA is just a mess and I think Richmond was over it. Fans aren't happy though. I think the big question is if any of the other football affiliate schools (Villanova? URI?) are going to follow -- that would help it make more sense, imo.This is the first realignment move that has me utterly surprised and confused. The Patriot League was a no-scholarship then a partial scholarship league not too long ago. I guess the CAA defections to FBS combined with supersizing the league had Richmond looking for a better fit or a better path to an AQ bid.
Q started raising serious cash about 20 or so years ago and it’s still going on. I don’t remember the full history but that arena was something like fifty million bucks.As I shared in this post some time ago, http://sonsofsamhorn.net/index.php?threads/lawsuit-against-the-ivy-league.39051/post-5462854
St. Francis (NY), as it used to be known in the chryon score scrolls to distingiush it from its NEC sister school St. Francis (PA), just nuked all of its athletic programs. These were nothing special - they had some hoops tradition, as you’d expect from a big city Catholic school, and oddly were the only East Coast school to feature in the national water polo rankings, due to a strong presence of Croats and Serbs - I guess water polo is the bees knees in that part of the world. And they had the usual batch of Olympic and team sports.
Just cancelled them all. No more sports. The Terriers fight no more.
It’s a topic of its own- some colleges are going to fold entirely- there is overcapacity and superfluity. A school could go one of two ways. It’s interesting to compare them to Quinnipiac, a school of roughly the same stripe in college athletics at one time, but with a bigger endowment and student body. Quinnipiac invested big time in its hockey program which got it a national title and lots of visibility. Hockey is a very expensive sport but it’s yielded dividends for the school. St Francis is fighting to stay viable as a school, period, and it pulled the plug. More money spent on sports might have hastened the schools death spiral.
we’re going to see more cuts.
But the hockey has given Q a national profile that dozens of similar schools don’t have. The trade off must be worth it.Q started raising serious cash about 20 or so years ago and it’s still going on. I don’t remember the full history but that arena was something like fifty million bucks.