Iām with ya.
Hey, Mason fan here. Iād just like to point out that (1) The Mason Bench is the go-to blog for Mason hoops, we donāt really associate too much with the gmuhoops.com, and (2) that mid major basketball one has absolutely no connection to Mason basketball; I have no idea what that is or where it came from. And yes, itās atrocious, I looked at it yesterday. The analysis sounds like it was written in a middle school newspaper.
Anyway, Iām looking forward to this matchup, particularly to see if/how we can contain Spears in the frontcourt. We donāt have a lot of depth in that department and if our starting frontcourt players get into foul trouble, it could spell serious trouble for us. We have a lot of respect for your program and thereās been some chatter in recent years of how weād love to swap Charlotte for Georgia State in the CAA.
Cheers to some great college hoops, and good luck this season.
[quote=āJBiggs, post:22, topic:24348ā]Hey, Mason fan here. Iād just like to point out that (1) The Mason Bench is the go-to blog for Mason hoops, we donāt really associate too much with the gmuhoops.com, and (2) that mid major basketball one has absolutely no connection to Mason basketball; I have no idea what that is or where it came from. And yes, itās atrocious, I looked at it yesterday. The analysis sounds like it was written in a middle school newspaper.
Anyway, Iām looking forward to this matchup, particularly to see if/how we can contain Spears in the frontcourt. We donāt have a lot of depth in that department and if our starting frontcourt players get into foul trouble, it could spell serious trouble for us. We have a lot of respect for your program and thereās been some chatter in recent years of how weād love to swap Charlotte for Georgia State in the CAA.
Cheers to some great college hoops, and good luck this season.[/quote]
Im sure you guys want Ga State out as much as we want Fodham out of the A10.
Haha, yeah Fordham is quite the stain. But hey, maybe Pecora can muster up some kind of turnaround for that program. He did bring a few good players with him from Hofstra, lightning bolt Chaz Williams and Halil Kanecevic.
I think the CAAās RPI would jump close to A10 level if we could dump GA State and Delaware. But, I donāt think that will happen anytime soon.
[quote=āJBiggs, post:24, topic:24348ā]Haha, yeah Fordham is quite the stain. But hey, maybe Pecora can muster up some kind of turnaround for that program. He did bring a few good players with him from Hofstra, lightning bolt Chaz Williams and Halil Kanecevic.
I think the CAAās RPI would jump close to A10 level if we could dump GA State and Delaware. But, I donāt think that will happen anytime soon.[/quote]
Since you are a Mason fan, about 4 years ago at my old school we were trying to start a club football team, and we talked to the Mason club team. At that time there was an article written about building a new soccer stadium (which I believe you guys did) that would eventually be the home of a scholarship football team. It sounded to me like 5-7 years down the road Mason was going to have a football program. Its been 4 years and havent heard anything elseā¦whatever happened to football talk? Not enough support??
I donāt know too much about it, but itās a bit of a sore subject for a lot of alums that want to start up a scholarship team. The main problem currently is that the university President is against it, and has made it clear that it wonāt be happening while heās around. There was a thread going on recently about some interest from other university admins (you can find it here: http://boards.caazone.com/showthread.php?t=99297), so the wheels may now finally begin to turn since the current President is on his way out in 2012 (I believe).
I think the support is there, but itās going to take a large amount of private and institutional donations to get it off the ground, plus about $500 in additional student fees, per student. Partly, because a stadium has to be built from scratch (the soccer stadium wonāt be used for it, I think due to a lack of space). Another issue is the Title IX requirement that we either drop a menās sport or add a womenās sport. Anyway, thatās about all I know of it myself, but maybe some others will chime in on the subject (I can send PiKappPatri8 you way and heāll fire away).
[quote=āJBiggs, post:24, topic:24348ā]Haha, yeah Fordham is quite the stain. But hey, maybe Pecora can muster up some kind of turnaround for that program. He did bring a few good players with him from Hofstra, lightning bolt Chaz Williams and Halil Kanecevic.
I think the CAAās RPI would jump close to A10 level if we could dump GA State and Delaware. But, I donāt think that will happen anytime soon.[/quote]The A10 would have been the 4th best conference last year if not for LaSuck and Fordham.
The CAA wants us, I say we send Fordham, Duquesne and LaSalle to the CAA. and Bring in Mason, ODU and VCU. Weād all be happy I think.
Donāt think the rest of the CAA would be too please, lol.
That would a nice league, with a great geographic footprint and good rivalries too. GW-Mason, VCU-ODU coming over, VCU-UR paired back up again. The A-10 office just hasnāt seemed too interested in mixing things up, though.
I endorse the CRAP out of this. Not to mention the A10 would be a lot more regionally relevant to our programā¦
Lol probably not. But even with those teams its a 1 bid league, an without them, its a 1 bid leagueā¦ so nothing seriously changes I guess. Letās start a petition to swap teams!!!..lol well I guess with those new A10 rules about scheduling maybe things will change. Id like that league even better if Mason and VCU had football. Charlotte, Mason, VCU, ODU, UMASS, Richmond, Rhode Island wouldnāt be a bad FCS league either. Maybe one or two more schools for football only.
Lol probably not. But even with those teams its a 1 bid league, an without them, its a 1 bid leagueā¦ so nothing seriously changes I guess. Letās start a petition to swap teams!!!..lol well I guess with those new A10 rules about scheduling maybe things will change. Id like that league even better if Mason and VCU had football. Charlotte, Mason, VCU, ODU, UMASS, Richmond, Rhode Island wouldnāt be a bad FCS league either. Maybe one or two more schools for football only.[/quote]The has gotten one bid on more than one occasion. It even got three teams in once. I think the year GMU went to the Final Four. I think VCU, GMU, and UNCW made it that season.
Lol probably not. But even with those teams its a 1 bid league, an without them, its a 1 bid leagueā¦ so nothing seriously changes I guess. Letās start a petition to swap teams!!!..lol well I guess with those new A10 rules about scheduling maybe things will change. Id like that league even better if Mason and VCU had football. Charlotte, Mason, VCU, ODU, UMASS, Richmond, Rhode Island wouldnāt be a bad FCS league either. Maybe one or two more schools for football only.[/quote]The has gotten one bid on more than one occasion. It even got three teams in once. I think the year GMU went to the Final Four. I think VCU, GMU, and UNCW made it that season.[/quote]
2006 is the only year I can think of and that was Mason and UNCW