The bookends to the CAA basketball season are being impacted in middle June. An important October event, and an important March event, were both in yesterday’s news.

Mlodinow was right–randomness rules our lives.

First, there was this WaPo report that said the DeeCee ESPNZone is being closed.

(My personal opinion: good riddance. The place was an arcade with $14 chicken fingers. Just terrible.)

However it was also an ideal home for the conference’s media day every October. It was spacious, offered different rooms for interviews and such, and the location cannot be topped. Logistics were smooth, and that includes getting in and out of DeeCee.

What’s next? I’ll try to ferret it out at lunch today.

And then, I was directed to this beauty about a study to determine what to do with the Richmond Coliseum.

Here’s an update.

Hilarious to me: didn’t we just do this six months ago?

Finally on this point, I stumbled into this very interesting website as I was researching information.

It will take me approximately three days to put all these links into one PowerPoint presentation. I’ll take my check for $150,000 now. (Don’t we have some floodwall or Civil War argument to get moving?)

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Brian Mull drags himself off the golf course long enough to file this report about CAA APR ratings.

WaPo gave me the best outline of APR:

The two key components to a team’s APR score are the eligibility and retention of each scholarship student-athlete. Teams calculate their APR scores each academic year, with 925 — out of 1,000 — set as the benchmark for possible penalties. Each APR score is based on a team’s showing over the past four years.

Delaware and Georgia State are below the line and I assume receive a warning. (We’ll find out.)

More interesting to me than some academic ranking, curiously published in the middle of realignment hilarity is this:

According to Dave Berst, NCAA vice president of Division I governance, 40 percent of men’s basketball players are no longer at the program with which they originally signed after two years for a variety of reasons, including transfers and departure into the professional ranks.

Look at it this way–on  15-man roster, that’s six players. Eye-popping, to say the least.

As for realignment, doesn’t it feel a little like NCAA Program Fantasy Football?

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The cool kids up at Northeastern are joining the fray, and good for them. The student radio station will begin a weekly CAA Radio Show this fall–in all seriousness, we need to support things like this. Rising tide lifts all boats and such.

They’ve already added themselves to the Facebook Revolution. Combined with the good work the kids at the Hofstra student radio station are doing, we are starting to churn out some whippersnappers who hopefully don’t turn their backs on our world when the Big Geographical Mess Conference calls.