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The religious affiliation or designation as "non-sectarian" is not so clear cut. For example, Duke University describes its ties with Methodism as "formal, on-going, and symbolic" [1] while Wake Forest University maintains "a dedication to the values rooted in its Baptist heritage" [2]. Both schools can be considered "non-sectarian" in that they are no longer under the direct auspices of their founding religious organizations. Likewise, Boston College maintains its Jesuit identity in spite of the fact that it severed its formal ties with the Jesuit Order (and thereby the Catholic Church) in the 1960s when it was independently incorporated under a lay board of trustees. Unlike the Catholic University of America, which is under the direct auspices of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, or the University of Notre Dame, which is governed by "fellows" who must be priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross, The Trustees of Boston College (BC's governing body) operate independent of any religious jurisdiction. This arrangement is probably similar to that at Duke or Wake Forest, except that the BC trustees have voluntarily chosen to elect members of the founding religious organization to the presidency (though they are not required to do so). In fact, similar arrangements exist at other Jesuit colleges and universities, where both women and non-clerics have been elected to presidency (most recently at Georgetown University). All of this is to say that I think the nature of a school's religious affiliation is beyond the scope of this article, and that "public" or "private" suffice in the context of the members table. -- 24.63.125.78 10:33, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks to whomever has contributed to this entry! It contained all the information I was looking for and more. A great job. -- Sometimes 16:41, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
There is a discussion to clarify our policy/guideline on the use of sports team logos. Please see Wikipedia_talk:Logos#Clarification_on_use_of_sports_team_logos if you wish to participate in the discussion. Johntex\ talk 16:39, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
The map highlighting where different schools are located contains an error - NJ should not be highlighted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.46.49.99 ( talk) 02:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC).
There's another error I just found. Virginia is highlighted but the portion of the state on the Delmarva peninsula is not highlighted. I dont know how to fix this, can someone do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:445:437F:3A40:E4DE:AEC3:72D7:C968 ( talk) 04:49, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
Is there a re-do underway? Seems like it's halfway done as of now. -- AndrewHowse ( talk) 16:47, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Some idiot keeps typing in "university" next to Virginia Commonwealth. All of these schools are universities, it goes without saying. Why would you add university to VA Commonwealth and not the others? It looks unparallel and stupid. I'm the one who created the championship games table and I do not want "university" written on there. Whoever it is, KNOCK IT OFF! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deconomou ( talk • contribs) 16:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
The capacity of the Georgia Dome is 70,000. The capacity doesn't change because of the availability of tickets. The building doesn't shrink because you only offer 20,000. Ever go into a club, theater, or restuarant and there is a sign somewhere in the building from the fire marshal announcing the capacity? It never changes, regardless of if you allow them all in or only sell half the tickets. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.245.226.51 ( talk) 20:30, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
AGAINST If anything, the women's tourney should be moved to this site. The CAA is not a big conference and it makes no sense to have a different page for each sport. All sports should be on the one page.
Agreed. I added it. For some reason the tables do not look correct. Strange.
I think we should eliminate the Tournament Champs column next to the Regular Season Champs because it is already displayed below in the History of the Tournament Finals. Why have it there twice?
You're welcome.
in the table for George Mason and ODU? I don't want to remove it if it means something, but I'm not catching the meaning. Sphilbrick ( talk) 17:07, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Glad I'm not the only one who's wondered this. I think it was just someone's misguided attempt to direct people to the men's basketball pages for these teams. I'm going to remove it and if someone comes up with a good reason why it's there and why only for 2 of the 12, it can be added back. Superman7515 ( talk) 18:11, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
I made the membership history timeline, but as you can see, it says "Invalid image map generated by EasyTimeline". I'm not sure what to do to fix it -- I've checked and re-checked the entire coding and have no idea what to do. If someone with more knowledge and know-how of EasyTimeline could help I'd be very grateful. Thanks. Jrcla2 talk 07:09, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Has anyone heard/read anything about the conferences being realigned? I haven't found anything but the South Division will obviously be overloaded 8-6 once Old Dominion and Georgia State begin play. The northern most team in the South Division is Villanova, but they have a long running rivalry with Delaware, the second most northern team in the South, and they have a long standing deal that they play the final game with each other every year. Doubt they'd want to give that up. So the next would be Towson. Anything? Superman7515 ( talk)
There was an article stating that Georgia State football will be moved to the North Division. The CAA said that they're the new team and don't fit in, so that's where they have to play. The reason behind this is that Georgia State was admitted in 2005 without the knowledge they wanted to play football and the league is basically stuck with them and the fact that every home game against Georgia State will require a team to charter a flight to Atlanta at a CAA predicted cost of $60k-$80k depending on the team. It also messes with the scheduling because the league will allow the GSU to play a modified CAA schedule - four games against each division. The remainder of the league will begin playing a five-and-three mix on a rotating basis in 2012. What this eventually means is that there will come a point when a school like ODU will find itself in a two-year loop playing a schedule without one of its natural rivals - William and Mary, for example - because it's forced to make room for Georgia State. An interesting part of the article states that to solve this the CAA is actually looking into adding 2 more teams, Fordham and Stony Brook in NY. Fordham has announced it will start giving scholarships for football, which is not allowed in the Patriot League where they currently are, and they may be forced out for breaking the conference by-laws/regulations. Stony Brook is playing in the Big South and has said it is a financial problem for them due to travel costs. The conference alignment would then be divided by New York City. Fordham and Stony Brook along with Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Northeastern, Maine, New Hampshire and Hofstra in the North Division. The CAA South with James Madison, Richmond, William and Mary, Old Dominion, Towson, Villanova, Delaware and Georgia State. The league isn't concerned with the playoff implications because they're already sending 5 teams to the 16 team playoff and with the playoff expanding to 20 games, by the time Georgia State gets there in 2012, it shouldn't matter and they'll be able to send 6-7 teams to the 20. Jrcla2 ( talk) 17:08, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
In this edit, it claims that URI is reportedly leaving the CAA. Other articles have rumors that various teams are considering moving to an FBS conference. My feeling is that only official statements about teams leaving/joining the conference should be included in this article, not rumors. However, I don't know enough about the URI situation to feel comfortable reverting it. What do others think? GoingBatty ( talk) 02:30, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
There are three NCAA contestants and no 2010–11 Colonial Athletic Association men's basketball season article. Please consider creating one.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 06:12, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Delaware Stadium recently underwent a minor renovation which included adding handrails for ADA compliance. This reportedly reduced the seating to around 21,000 from the 22,000 listed, however, I'm unable to find a definitive number if anyone can find a reference. Superman7515 ( talk) 04:11, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
I think we should change the name of the History of Tournament Finals to Tournament Finals Results. -- InformationContributor11 ( talk) 19:07, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that conferences in List of NCAA conferences have articles, usually including a membership timeline. While some of the decisions made for each conference make some sense, there is a wide variety of styles for the various timelines, particularly involving color choices, but also other matters of style that could be more consistent.
for example, a school with a yellow bar means:
Some graphs have captions, some do not, and none are centered.
To see the variety of styles, review
Current conference timelines
I think it would be worth discussing how best to provide some measure of consistency, recognizing that there may be legitimate reasons for some differences from a standard presentation (for example, some conferences show the name of the new conference for former members. In some cases, this makes sense, in other, it may not.)
I've produced a draft of how the timelines would look with some consistency added. Please see Draft proposal of conference timelines.
I propose a discussion to see if there is consensus on improving the consistency.
Because it would not be practical to have this discussion on each and every conference talk page, I suggest centralizing this discussion at the Talk page of Project College football SPhilbrick (Talk) 01:39, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
See the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College baseball#Standardize conference pages' facility sections.
A discussion on the Project College Football talk page has been created to discuss the proper format of the overview maps that are used for the US collegiate athletic conference pages.
If you're interested, please join the discussion here: Athletic conference overview maps and their lack of consistency. Mdak06 ( talk) 23:50, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
There are no football associates in the CAA. The CAA all sports conference is separate from CAA Football, they have separate by laws and are incorporated separately. Here is a link to the CAA by-laws... Colonial Athletic Association By-Laws See section 4.03 when it talks about sports where championships are conducted, that says "[NOTE: Football competes as a separate corporate entity]." Also note that the state of Virginia lists two separate non-profit legal entities in Richmond, one as Colonial Athletic Association Football Inc. and the other as Colonial Athletic Association. Finally note that the Colonial Athletic Association and Colonial Athletic Association Football Inc. file separate Form 990's with the IRS, thus the federal government views them as two different corporations. Here is the link to the CAA 990... Colonial Athletic Association - Form 990 And here is a link to the CAA Football 990... Colonial Athletic Association Football - 990. If anything, these two should be split like the Missouri Valley Conference and Missouri Valley Football Conference, but the fact remains that there are no associate members of CAA Football because it is a separate conference. Superman7515 ( talk) 14:48, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Additional information, when going to the CAA website for the conference handbook... CAA Conference Handbook... you will see that all of the sports offered by the conference are listed together in the handbook. For football, it says see below and takes you to the CAA Football Conference Handbook which says in the very beginning: "ARTICLE I NAME 1.01 The name of this organization shall be "Colonial Athletic Association Football" ("CAA Football" or the "Conference"). ARTICLE II MEMBERSHIP 2.01 The members of CAA Football are: University of Delaware, James Madison University, Georgia State University (to begin play in 2012-13), University of Maine, University of Massachusetts (resigning 6/30/12), University of New Hampshire, Old Dominion University, University of Rhode Island (resigning 6/30/13), University of Richmond, Towson University, Villanova University and College of William & Mary." It is very clear that the conference considers them to be separate and that the conference does not see the members of CAA Football as associates. Superman7515 ( talk) 18:16, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Reluctantly restored. On that same note, shouldn't Richmond be a different color? The football team has been a member since the conference started in 2007, but the women's golf is also a member and has been an associate since 2004. Should it be changed to the Assoc Member (list sports) bar with notations of both football & golf? Superman7515 ( talk) 22:19, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Please join discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navbox for college basketball teams. CrazyPaco ( talk) 06:20, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
The timeline in the football section states Invalid image map generated by EasyTimeline. This message also appeared on the timeline before today's edits. What are the correct steps to take to fix this issue? Thanks!
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I was updating the Big East Conference article regarding UConn's move from the AAC, and saw that they announced last month that their women's rowing team would be joining the CAA. Here's a link if editors want to include this on the membership table/timeline.-- Patrick, oѺ∞ 17:22, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
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