I’ve been up all day researching this disaster that is SBU vs. AEC. I feel like Charlie Kelly searching for Pepe Silvia. ADULTS who are supposed to be in charge of the conference to protect the KIDS end up proving how childish and immature they are. Lets look back at the JMU situation that happened last year. When JMU decided to leave the CAA conference, they were banned from conference championship play, and the world went nuts. Covid abruptly ended the previous season and these players were potentially going to have their season cut short once again. Cut short because of an idiotic bylaw that could have been over turned by the board of presidents. The ego of these “adults” to make this decision to take more away from the student athletes is disgusting.
Its in the bylaws that a team that is leaving the conference will be ineligible to compete in the conference championships. My question to this is simple, WHY? Lets take stony brook women’s lacrosse for example, a very successful top 10 team in the country. When coach Spallina would have ultimately won this conference and gone on to the quarter finals, semi finals, and potentially all the way to championship weekend, isn’t that good for the America East? Who cares what they do next year, isn’t it more important to have that AE flag fly on the back of a top 10 team into the playoffs than punish this them for something they are doing next year. Another problem the women’s team now runs into is losing the AQ Bid. They have 5 top 15 teams in the country on there schedule. If they lose three or four of those games, they no longer have an AQ to fall back on to make the playoffs. Now, it seems like we are punishing a team for competing with the best teams in the country. This is such a sad and embarrassing precedent to set going forward.
To the board of presidents for the America East Conference, I hope you can wake up and see what you are doing is wrong. This is not about you, your ego, or even the conference. This is about the student athletes who have worked their entire lives for an opportunity to compete for a conference championship and beyond. Has it not been great for the conference for all the NCAA playoff games the men’s and women’s team have played in and hosted over the last 20 years? This conference was built on the players like Kevin Crowley, Jordan McBride, Tom Compotello, Ryan Hughes, Larry Cerasi, The Thompsons, Brendan Mundorf, Luke Daquino, Connor Fields, Blaze Riordan, Kasey Mitchell, Kylie Ohlmiller, Michelle Rubino, Ally Kennedy. Why are we hurting these players when we should be promoting them for as long as we have them
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