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Delaware to CUSA

XStorrsion said:
For the B1G or SEC, sure it's just a league to play sports in. When it's paying $5mil to enter all sports into a league with a yearly $800,000 payout where only one one other team is within a 10 hour drive... Institutional fit kinda matters.

UD is also an institution historically so concerned with its image that it refused to even play Del State (the only in state competition) for decades as to not lower their image to that level.

Boots on the ground consensus seems to be that it's a poor fit and the MAC is preferred with maybe even Sun Belt ahead of CUSA.
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Better to be FBS in CUSA than Indy in FBS.

If the MAC isn’t an option then what else is there to say?
 
shizzle787 said:
The A-10 was a 1-bid league last year, but the was the first time in forever. It is usually a 2 or 3 bid league.

The A-10 is what I call a Tier 2 league. It is not one of the six power conferences, but it is usually a multi-bid league that is ranked between #7-#12.

CUSA is the #13 league. It is a Tier 3 league. It is always a one bid league. The gap between the #12 and #13 league this year is huge.
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A-10 is certainly trending in one direction. 1 or 2 bids for a 15 team conference. UMass has made the dance 1 time in like 25 years. I'm pretty sure most UMass fans are fine with tanking their A-10 conference standing if it means playing football in a G5 conference. If they aren't, they need a check-up.

2023 - 1 bid
2022 - 2 bid
2021 - 2 bid
2020 - 1 bid
2019 - 2 bid
2018 - 2 bid
2017 - 3 bid
2016 - 3 bid
2015 - 4 bid
2014 - 3 bid
2013 - 3 bid
2012 - 6 bid
2011 - 5 bid
2010 - 4 bid
 
noeynox said:
Honestly the answer is a league consisiting of UConn, UMass, Delaware, Army, Navy, (Air Force?), USF, Temple, Liberty or JMU for football. NCAA needs to allow FB only leagues.
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lol. I think Liberty and JMU are quite happy where they are.
And why on earth would USF prefer that over the AAC?
 
Matt Brown (Extra Points) seems to hint the #12 will likely be UMass.
 
ZooCougar said:
Better to be FBS in CUSA than Indy in FBS.

If the MAC isn’t an option then what else is there to say?
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Yes. CUSA for FB only. Again, soon there will be nowhere for us to go but down as an Indy sked will not be viable.
 
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The MAC would have been a better fit for Delaware. Maybe the MAC wasn’t interested? They turned down Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky last year.
 
Rufus said:
The MAC would have been a better fit for Delaware. Maybe the MAC wasn’t interested? They turned down Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky last year.
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No MTSU turned down the MAC, which burned WKU.
 
Probably more likely that none of MAC, CUSA, or Sunbelt would take UD without a partner and only CUSA would accept UMass football only as that partner.
 
XStorrsion said:
Probably more likely that none of MAC, CUSA, or Sunbelt would take UD without a partner and only CUSA would accept UMass football only as that partner.
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CUSA is not taking UMass for football only. They would have to join in all sports.
 
Delaware's 2023 105 man football roster was 85.7% from MA/CT/NY/PA/NJ/DE/MD/DC/VA. Their 2023 men's basketball roster is 100% from those states. The schools entire alumni base is also constrained to just the mid Atlantic / north east.

They'll now play entirely outside of that area.

Welcome to the reality of the NCAA in 2023
 
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XStorrsion said:
Delaware's 2023 105 man football roster was 85.7% from MA/CT/NY/PA/NJ/DE/MD/DC/VA. Their 2023 men's basketball roster is 100% from those states. The schools entire alumni base is also constrained to just the mid Atlantic / north east.

They'll now play entirely outside of that area.

Welcome to the reality of the NCAA in 2023
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The reality is they chose to upgrade from CAA where they can take a bus ti most games.

They won’t get any sympathy.
 
Big unknown out there is OSU/wazzou.

If they don’t merge with the MW, but instead cherry pick, that will leave the MW looking for back fill. And western CUSA couid supply those teams.
 
XStorrsion said:
Delaware's 2023 105 man football roster was 85.7% from MA/CT/NY/PA/NJ/DE/MD/DC/VA. Their 2023 men's basketball roster is 100% from those states. The schools entire alumni base is also constrained to just the mid Atlantic / north east.

They'll now play entirely outside of that area.

Welcome to the reality of the NCAA in 2023
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Well, they do have Liberty in VA, and their home games, and maybe UD will now recruit more kids from Florida and Texas due to playing in those states. It's all ball bearings nowadays.
 
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Vowelguy said:
Big unknown out there is OSU/wazzou.

If they don’t merge with the MW, but instead cherry pick, that will leave the MW looking for back fill. And western CUSA couid supply those teams.
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We already know what is going to happen. It was announced today.
 
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I've learned that UD has an almost $2 billion endowment, is a land grant, sea grant and space grant institution, is ranked fairly high for academics, and is a privately governed, state-assisted research university, whatever that means. That's what FBS does for your school! It's already above Maryland, as far as I'm concerned.

"UD points to its charter as evidence that it is a “privately governed, state-assisted” university. While the university must share information directly related to the expenditure of public funds, all other financial information is considered private. Because of this, taxpayers are largely kept in the dark about the school’s finances and business practices."

www.delawareonline.com

Is UD public or private? 'We're special,' lawyer says, and have to agree to charter changes

“We are a private corporation. But we’re not like other private organizations,\
www.delawareonline.com www.delawareonline.com
 
Kolumbo said:
I've learned that UD has an almost $2 billion endowment, is a land grant, sea grant and space grant institution, is ranked fairly high for academics, and is a privately governed, state-assisted research university, whatever that means. That's what FBS does for your school! It's already above Maryland, as far as I'm concerned.

"UD points to its charter as evidence that it is a “privately governed, state-assisted” university. While the university must share information directly related to the expenditure of public funds, all other financial information is considered private. Because of this, taxpayers are largely kept in the dark about the school’s finances and business practices."

www.delawareonline.com

Is UD public or private? 'We're special,' lawyer says, and have to agree to charter changes

“We are a private corporation. But we’re not like other private organizations,\
www.delawareonline.com www.delawareonline.com
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False. UCF invented outer space. They are the only Space Grant Institution.
 
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