Then St. John’s is going to hire a REAL Athletic Director, and spend money on a REAL basketball coach.

Boom, St. John’s now has the NY College Hoops market back.

Yes, Hofstra is in a difficult spot, but you know what, so are some of other the teams in the CAA.

NU has College Hockey (where the last 2 National Champions are from Boston) and Boston College Hoops, plus pro sports.

Drexel has The Big Five, plus pro sports.

GMU (and Towson to some degree) has MD, Gtown, GWU, plus pro sports.

GSU has UGA, Tech, plus pro sports.

That’s four teams who are in similar situations as Hofstra.

Let’s layer on W&M with their academics.

Six of the 12 schools have some form of “obstacle” in their way of being the center of attention where they are.

While we’d all like to be #1 in our market, it’s time for many of the CAA schools to realize, “you are who you are.”

Is there a perfect conference for NU, and Hofstra, and GSU, and W&M, and Drexel, who knows.

All of this is just coming to a head because of a recession. I think schools are making long term decisions because of short term problems.