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Message: [QUOTE="EricLA, post: 3164667, member: 26"] Scott Van Pelt did a segment on this on ESPN last night. He was disgusted with the league for booting the team out. He noted that St. Thomas was one of the founding members of the league, started in 1920. He also noted that St. Thomas lost 2 games to conference rivals last season. The conference foes cited the size of the university as one of the main reasons. But size has nothing to do with ability to recruit good players. UCONN, with an undergraduate enrollment of under 20,000, has nothing on Liberty (75K), Cal State Fullerton (70K), aTm (67K), UCF (66K), tOSU (60K), Maryland (60K) etc etc, yet our men's and women's hoops teams historically have run circles around those schools. The best football schools in recent years - Alabama (38K), Clemson (23K) and LSU (31K), so I'm not really sure that size matters even in football. Maybe in tiny schools like some others noted, but it would seem like a good solution for the "smaller" schools would be to grow. [/QUOTE]