Meet The Conference of New England

CCC rebrands as CNE

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Steve Ulrich
August 05, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 11 minutes


AUGUST 5, 2024 | written by STEVE ULRICH

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TOP STORY
1. Meet The Conference of New England

After 40 years of being known as the Commonwealth Coast Conference, the membership has rebranded as the Conference of New England (CNE).

“This is a historic day for our conference as we announce our commitment towards a deliberate and comprehensive philosophy that effectively equips our campus leaders with the ability to collectively support our student-athletes and institutions,” said Commissioner Patrick Colbert.

The CNE is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed of 10 full member and five associate member institutions throughout the New England region. The Conference administers championships in 20 intercollegiate sports.”

» What They’re Saying. “This new identity builds on the strength of our history as a conference while also highlighting its forward momentum and growing reach, including our geographic footprint, reputation, and quality of the athletic experience we offer student-athletes,” said Marisa Kelly, President of Suffolk University.”

HISTORY

2. How a Supreme Court Case Changed College Football Forever 

by Seth Emerson, The Athletic

“Andy Coats loves telling his classes about it. It’s one thing to teach antitrust law. It’s quite another to tell his Oklahoma students there once was a case, one that went all the way to the Supreme Court, that involved the school they attend — and it was about football.

Then Coats, almost 90 years old and still sounding as sharp as he was half his life ago, looks at his students and makes the big reveal.

“I’m the guy who screwed up college football,” he says.”

» Situational Awareness. “It all stems from one lawsuit, 40 years ago, when Oklahoma — joined by Georgia, long before they became conference mates — teamed up against the NCAA to challenge its stranglehold on television rights. When it ended, the NCAA lost control of football, and the financial floodgates opened.”

» Alternative History. “If the NCAA had simply negotiated a better deal, or allowed the CFA to proceed with its deal with NBC, the case would not have gone forward. Chuck Neinas and Coats won the case, but speaking decades later, they wish the NCAA had made a deal with them. “We learned that NCAA stood for Never Compromise Anything Anytime,” Coats said.”

» The Bottom Line. During question-and-answer arguments, White said that antitrust law was never meant to apply to college athletics. Another justice sympathetic to the NCAA, William Rehnquist, asked Coats whether the NCAA was meant to be a profit-making organization. “It wasn’t intended to be, but it certainly is,” Coats replied. That argument won out.”

» Quotable. “The chaotic state of college athletics today was not in our vision,” Neinas said. “It is beyond any control.”

CONFERENCES

3. Women’s Soccer Champions 2018-23

As we close in on the start of the women’s soccer season, let’s take a look back at the conference tournament champions over the last six seasons from 2018-23.

AMCC: Penn State Behrend (3), Pitt-Greensburg (2). AEC: Cabrini (2), Marywood (2), Marymount. A-R-C: Loras (4), Wartburg. ASC: Hardin-Simmons (5), Mary Hardin-Baylor (2). CCIW: Illinois Wesleyan (3), North Central, Wheaton. C2C: Christopher Newport (4), Mary Washington. Centennial: Johns Hopkins (3), McDaniel, Swarthmore. CUNYAC: John Jay (3), CCNY, Staten Island. CCS: Maryville, Piedmont. CNE: U. of New England (2), Endicott, Gordon, Western New England. E8: Nazareth (3), Sage, Stevens, Utica. GNAC: Johnson & Wales (4), Saint Joseph’s ME. HCAC: Hanover (3), Rose-Hulman (2), Mount St. Joseph. LAND: Scranton (4), Susquehanna. LL: William Smith (4), Ithaca. LEC. Southern Maine (2), Western Connecticut (2), UMass Boston. MASCAC: Westfield (4), Worcester. MIAA: Calvin (3), Adrian (2), Hope. MAC Commonwealth: Messiah (5). MAC Freedom. Misericordia (4), Stevens. MWC: Beloit, Grinnell, Knox, Lake Forest, Monmouth. MIAC: Carleton (2), St. Thomas (2), Augsburg, St. Catherine. NESCAC: Amherst (3), Middlebury (2). NEWMAC. MIT (4), Emerson. NJAC: TCNJ (4), Montclair State, Rowan. NAC: Maine Maritime (3), Maine-Farmington, SUNY Delhi. NCAC: Denison (2), DePauw, Kenyon, Ohio Wesleyan, Wittenberg. NACC. Concordia WI (2), Dominican (2), MSOE. NWC: Pacific Lutheran (5), Puget Sound. OAC: Ohio Northern (3), John Carroll, Otterbein. ODAC: Lynchburg (2), Virginia Wesleyan (2), Bridgewater, Washington and Lee. PAC: Grove City (3), Chatham (2), Westminster. SAA: Centre (4), Rhodes, Sewanee. SCAC: Trinity (5), Southwestern. SCIAC: Pomona-Pitzer (4), Occidental. SKY: Farmingdale State (3), Mount Saint Vincent, Sarah Lawrence. SLIAC: Westminster (2), Fontbonne, Greenville, Spalding, Webster. SUNYAC: Geneseo (3), Cortland (2). UAA: Washington (4), Case Western Reserve. UMAC: St. Scholastica (3), Wisconsin-Superior (3). UEC: Penn State Berks (4), Penn State Harrisburg. USA South: Covenant, Maryville, Methodist, Piedmont, Southern Virginia. WIAC: La Crosse (3), Oshkosh, Whitewater.

NEWS

4. Lightning Round ⚡️ 

🗞️ News. “Ripon College will cover the cost of tuition for in-state undergraduate students whose families make $75,000 or less a year, beginning fall 2025.”

🗞️ News. The NCAA is soon to lose if not its best man in Washington, at least a Good one. Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), who sponsored legislation earlier this year that would prevent college athletes from obtaining employee status, officially lost his primary race to state Sen. John McGuire following a court-certified recount. 

» 🗞️ News. “Starting in the fall of 2025, the women’s college’s “Hollins Opportunity for Promise through Education” scholarship will cover tuition, on-campus food, housing, and fees for first-time, first-year undergraduates from low- and moderate-income families across the country.”

TRANSACTIONS
5. Comings and Goings

1 THING

6. Pin-demonium Hits Paris

“On the other side of the Atlantic from Wall Street, a market — more wholesome than cutthroat — has sprung up at the Paris Olympics. The commodity at the center of it all? Pins.

The city has seen an influx of collectors from all over the world, each eager to begin or expand their Olympic pin collection and share their stories.

“People are wired to trade. Human beings, we want to trade,” asserts Craig Robbins, a passionate pin collector from Los Angeles. “In life, if you cannot exchange, you die.” (AP) 

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