NESCAC football always presents an interesting debate. Playoffs or no playoffs? I tend to side on the opinion that is just Ivy League wanna bee syndrome and that if Ivy League decided to join the playoff subdivision dance, NESCAC would cave as well.  I have always argued that there is a happy medium that NESCAC should explore as an alternative:

Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Tufts and Middlebury in one Division

Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Trinity and Hamilton in the other.

Championship game the Friday Night after the last week at Harvard Stadium.

I also think a nice expansion for NESCAC would be to ask MIT and Coast Guard Academy to join.   

I think you could easily schedule so that you play each team in division once and cross division rivals within the current eight game schedule.

That way only two teams need to extend their season by one week.

NESCAC because I played there in the old days.

Commonwealth Conference because I am friends with their head coach and his staff.

Little East conference because Salem State, like Endicott, is right next door. I also used to coach with their head coach on the high school level.

I have some former players at some of the schools in the Great Northeast Conference, so I follow them pretty closely.

I believe I could reach out to other coaches from conferences in the northeast to get some information as to what is going on in their conferences.

Any chance of a lacrosse section being formed. The game is expanding like crazy in Div III and will likely be from coast to coast in a few years.