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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...