TIME FOR UR FOOTBALL TO MOVE ON
So the University of Richmond finally caught on … that the CAA has become only a reasonable facsimile of what it was … and no longer is viable for SpiderNation. What Chuck Boone , Tom Yeager et al created 44 years ago with UR a charter member has become a hodge- podge of schools that, for the most part, generate zero interest here. We’ve got to believe UR knew what the conference originally called ECAC South then Colonial (now Coastal) had become after Yeager retired as its first commissioner and watched successor Joe D’Antonio open the CAA’ s borders to anyone and everyone. Come one, come all. You might have thought he was being paid by the school the way growth got out of hand. Of course, all college athletics, especially at the top, have changed … not for the better, we should add. Maybe Richmond will wise up some more and recognize what Boone, then UR athletic directo...