What nobody is mentioning here as far as this article is concerned is this small paragraph; The CAA appears to be making a bid to become more of a multi-bid conference; its television broadcast rights could be considerably more valuable if it is viewed as more than a one-bid conference.Jojogunne wrote:Newsday has a story, titled "Stony Brook in negotiations to join CAA, where Hofstra competes."
Pretty much a rehash of everything we know. Says that a decision could come next week and that a stronger northern presence might move the CAA tournament to the USB Arena.
https://www.newsday.com/sports/college/ ... 1.50481959
Is this just fanciful or is there merit to this. While the addition of Iona could really hurt us on the one hand would it be enough to put the CAA over the top in helping us to get a 2nd BID. All of the extra school additions would be offset in terms of making the NCAAT if the conference could get a second bid. I'll leave that discussion for others here who have more concrete info. on what it takes to make that 2nd bid happen. Without that second bid this would be a watered down conference with it being difficult to get into the tournament.