Alverno had cancelled their soccer and basketball seasons this year, and are scheduled to restart in 2026. Those games against CNU are going to be hard to watch.

I'm disappointed about this, as the C2C has a nice core (6 of 7 members) in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina now. What's next, are they finally going to get Trinity Washington and Maranatha Baptist to join?

Quote from: Ralph Turner on October 13, 2025, 02:22:01 PM

Quote from: WLCALUM83 on October 08, 2025, 10:09:33 AMNews about another change here:

https://athletics.alverno.edu/news/2025/10/3/general-c2c-welcomes-al

Quote from: Ralph Turner on October 13, 2025, 02:22:01 PM

Quote from: WLCALUM83 on October 08, 2025, 10:09:33 AMNews about another change here:

https://athletics.alverno.edu/news/2025/10/3/general-c2c-welcomes-alverno-college-as-newest-member.aspx

Thanks to WLCALUM83.

That United East/Colonial States merger is looking like a genius move. Four UEC colleges going under or dropping all athletic programs in less than 3 years!

Quote from: CNU85 on July 09, 2024, 03:31:18 PM

Quote from: jeffconn on July 09, 2024, 12:34:15 PMTo be honest, the only option i see for CNU is moving up to Division 2 and joining the CIAA or Conference Carolinas. UMW and Salisbury may have the NJAC and United East (CIAA or Central Atlantic if they decide to move up) as at least possible places to go. Whether any of these are feasible or not i don't know.

D1 is a better option for CNU than D2. Neither one will happen anytime soon. CIAA consists of HBCUs.

Chowan was a member of the CIAA and isn't a HBCU. Anyway, CNU cannot make the jump from Div. 3 to Div.1 without hanging out in Div.2 for at least 4 years. And that's assuming they get invites from a Div. 2 conference and then a Div. 1 conference.

To be honest, the only option i see for CNU is moving up to Division 2 and joining the CIAA or Conference Carolinas. UMW and Salisbury may have the NJAC and United East (CIAA or Central Atlantic if they decide to move up) as at least possible places to go. Whether any of these are feasible or not i don't know.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on March 27, 2024, 11:39:30 AMThe UEC/CSAC merger was ahead of the curve on this, for sure.

I'd toss in the USA South split and subsequent alliance with the Collegiate Conference of the South as being ahead of the curve too. The NCAA might have to revisit their ban on umbrella conferences like the Middle Atlantic Conferences.

The CSAC and UEC had almost identical footprints. The same footprint as the Atlantic East, Middle Atlantic, the Centennial, and the Landmark. There's a helluva lot of small colleges in eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey! The colleges in the South, on the other hand, are way more spread out geographically.

Quote from: Inkblot on March 26, 2024, 03:12:59 PMBirmingham–Southern is closing. https://www.d3sports.com/notables/2024/03/birmingham-southern-to-close

The Southern Athletic Association will drop to 7 schools this fall, and rise to 9 in 2025. As far as i can tell, none of the team sports will drop below 6 participants.

Is it time for the SAA to talk to the 5 remaining members of the American Southwest Conference? They have to see the writing on the wall, with multiple small liberal colleges closing every year. In my opinion, all lower division conferences with small private colleges should be looking to boost their membership above 10 members, as a buffer against future school closings.

Quote from: Caz Bombers on October 10, 2023, 02:47:15 PM
Dean football to the MASCAC. Only Gallaudet unaccounted for now.

Gallaudet should go to the Landmark. It's the best fit geographically. The Landmark has only 7 football playing members, 6 full members plus Keystone who's also from the UEC. And Catholic U is only 3 miles from Gallaudet. Those two could have a great rivalry.

Quote from: KnightSlappy on October 02, 2023, 03:21:35 PM

Conference Changes Starting in 2024-2025

Texas-Dallas leaves the ASC for D2 (application process pending)

This move is supposed to happen in 2025, right?

Here's Regent's press release about exploring NCAA D3 membership. It doesn't mention anything about an invite from any D3 conferences. Isn't that a requirement to join D3 now?
https://regentroyals.com/news/2023/9/18/general-regent-university-athletics-pursues-ncaa-division-iii-membership.aspx

Quote from: Ralph Turner on September 19, 2023, 11:46:23 PM
Where does Regent (Virginia Beach VA) land about 2028-29?

The C2C, if anywhere. Since radical fundamentalist college Bob Jones had no conferences wanting to take them, I don't see Regent doing any better. I live near there, and they have a LONG way to go to be anywhere near a D3 school. Regent has NO on-campus athletic facilities, no dorms, no field, no gym for basketball or volleyball, no baseball field. All their home games take place at local Christian private high schools and rec centers. I can't see the ODAC or USA South even glancing their way. They are best staying in the NCCAA, or maybe the USCAA if they get some facilities.

Quote from: jlog3000 on August 31, 2023, 10:10:22 AM
Maybe the remaining SUNYAC schools would like to have greener pastures on other nearby conferences like the Empire 8 or the NAC (i.e.: North Atlantic). Or even the UEC (a.k.a. United East) where Morrisville and SUNYIT were former members back when it was the NEAC, as well as Cobleskill.

Plus, the UEC has 4 members out of 17 now (due to its 'merger' with the CSAC, when in actuality it was technically an amalgamation) that are from the State of New York.

In the case of the NAC, if any of the SUNYAC schools would like be next in line to be future expansion members, then it would solidify a newer NAC West (and the rest of the other schools that are east of the NY state boundary line (mostly the New England ones) be a newer NAC East).

As in general, many conferences are on the verge to be squandered with under 6 full members, and lesser than that to keep automatic bids alive, thanks to recent conference realignment changes in this decade alone. So I wonder if somewhat of a 'superconference' format would work on some of the growing conferences like the E8 or the NAC or the UEC, at least in the Northeast U.S. region. Or if any of the schools would like to move upto D-II, which that division hadn't had a school from the SUNY system in ages (the last ones were also former SUNYAC members Albany, Stony Brook and Binghamton before all eventually moved to D-I and compete in the AmEast (I mean America East)).

None of the current UEC members are from New York. Wells and SUNY Morrisville left this summer.  The UEC has 3 affiliates from New York, although that might change with the UEC/CSAC merger.  One of the stated reasons for the merger was having to find affilates to flesh out some sports numbers. And Sweet Briar is no longer a field hockey affiliate as of this fall. UEC's footprint has shifted south, so the New York schools might not be attractive to the UEC.

As far as superconferences go, I figure it's inevitable. When Division 3 conferences see the number of schools closing or on the verge of closing, they have to be thinking that they need numbers. All the talk about "like-minded" colleges, national academic rankings, and sticking with schools of your particular religious affiliation (or lack thereof) will go out the window when the conferences are in danger of losing automatic bids in sports.

Quote from: CNU85 on August 09, 2023, 08:11:30 AM

Quote from: jlog3000 on July 30, 2023, 10:56:10 AM
Also, even with certain safe perks in terms of automatic qualifiers for some sports, hope the C2C and the ASC (both having 6 and 5 respectively, in the C2C's case it has 5 men's & women's and 1 women's-only) would need to find member schools as expansion candidates to remain alive in the long term; or otherwise they are in the brink to be squandered and be in favor to join more nearby regional friendly conferences.

Ummm....the sole reason the C2C exists is because this has already been explored and there is no place to go. But hey - I'm open for suggestions!

I have two suggested conferences for CNU, but it involves jumping to NCAA Division 2. CNU is just too isolated to get an invite from a D3 conference that wants state schools.

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on August 23, 2022, 10:58:29 AM

Our list has MUW in the SLIAC this year, but the Lyon announcement has them joining in 2023-24 (along with Lyon) - plus, the MUW MBB schedule is posted and it doesn't include conference games, so it's likely they're still a year off.

Yep, MUW's other sports schedules still finish with the respective USCAA championships, and MUW isn't listed in the SLIAC standings for any sport.

The Collegiate Conference of the South now has an official website.
https://collegiateconferenceofthesouth.com/index.aspx

Quote from: Caz Bombers on July 27, 2022, 02:31:17 PM
Coast 2 Coast adds Warren Wilson: https://c2csports.com/general/2022-23/releases/20220718odnmbk

This one surprised me. I thought USA South or CCS would have grabbed Warren Wilson. Maybe those conferences wanted to see how the USAS/CCS split played out before they added new members, or perhaps they wanted to wait until WWC became a full NCAA member.