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Another crazy (or brilliant) conference expansion idea: East meets West

A little over a year ago I wrote about a crazy and/or brilliant conference expansion idea that used an EPL-style relegation system to expand the league to 20 teams broken into two divisions, or truth be told, tiers in this particular conference. Some loved the idea, others hated it. Some loved to hate it. Well …

A down year for the A-10 or par for the course?

We’re inching closer and closer to March Madness, meaning it’s bubble talk time across the college hoops landscape. At this very moment, most of the discussion for the Atlantic 10 includes just three teams: Dayton, VCU and Rhode Island, perhaps no big surprise as those three were your predicted top-three heading into the season, both …

Fordham, Duquesne…we need to talk

Sad stat I stumbled upon this morning while searching home attendance numbers for A-10 teams: both the Fordham Rams and Duquesne Dukes are averaging fewer than 1,000 fans per game. Insert: sad face emoji + gun emoji. There’s no way to sugarcoat just how embarrassing that is and how unacceptable that should be for a …

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conference realignment Archives

Another crazy (or brilliant) conference expansion idea: East meets West

A down year for the A-10 or par for the course?

Fordham, Duquesne…we need to talk