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I still think it’s too early to proclaim Shinnick a bad hire. Things weren’t always rosy with Gordy and Rob and there were some mind boggling losses with them as well. I’m one of those that pretty much wrote this season off before it began. Need I remind you that Ambrose went 3-19 in his first 2 seasons.

Actually, the ‘11-‘13 campaigns saw 5k in student attendance. Sure, they may have left at halftime, but it was a great atmosphere. Tailgating means everything to college football and the general student population. Winning is not as big a factor as you may believe. Nobody cares about Towson vs Norfolk or Bryant or Monmouth. The average student would have some interest in a game against ‘Nova, JMU, Richmond, W&M, ODU and Delaware. The current CAA not a sustainable model.

I attended TU about the same years you did. I was also apart of that marketing team. We definitely had the tools that made it easy to market sports but we also put in work work. We contacted every football alum with letters and calls to assure they attended the Lehigh game. We were miles better than what we have now. We hit endless community events, had a social media plan, and put docs page to use. We had a presence on campus with posters, fliers, and player participation. Sports had a slight increase in attendance before the winning. We had great leaders too, Mike Hollis was an engine. It shows because he’s worked in the NBA with the nets and is now working in the NHL. As soon as he left I started to see marketing decisions that made zero sense. Waddell came and we went into overdrive, he didn’t play around but was great. He once sent an intern home for wearing Terp gear and I loved it. The Waddell & Hollis combo was unmatched.

Oh yeah miss Debbie (I think that’s her name) was always a sweetheart. Like an IHOP/Waffle House waitress asking “how you babies doin?”

Nice win. Clearly making progress each week with signs of improvement across most (not all) position groups. Will this most likely be a 3 or 4 win season? Yes. Is that unexpected or unacceptable for a first-year coach? Of course not. Still very bullish on Shinnick and his long-term plan. Go Tigers!

Well it does say "this weekend" and with the Twerps finally venturing out of the state this weekend... As for the tailgating video posted earlier, great atmosphere but if only 50-75% of those there went into the stadium for the game then it is not tailgating but just a place to gather and have a party. If that is the case then yes I can see why admin made changes. I'm showing my age here but "back in my day" when I attended there was no tailgating and from the looks and sounds of it when it was brought back they gave the naysayers plenty of opportunity to shake their heads and say see "told ya". Tailgating is not the end all be all for why more students do not attend games, yes it helps, but consistent winning needs to be a part of it too. It would help if they could somehow find more "idiots" like myself and maybe some on this board that are sports enthusiast that come out and support their school in person no matter how they are doing and come out to Minnegan/The U even if it meant missing whatever ranked vs, ranked game was on TV. This was pre smartphone days too so I sacrificed many Florida St. v Miami type battles to partake in Towson v Northeastern, Liberty, Buffalo (pre their moves to I-A), Central Connecticut to name a few type duels.

Geez, I woke up expecting this place to be burned to the ground only to find balloons and presents (well, sort of). I guess we put the torches down for this week?

Towson qbs and point guards, more rare than Bigfoot and the Lochness monster put together

When should we start to care about wins and losses? Towson athletics may be #1 in terms of most seasons that don't count/matter.

My biggest surprise is that the ‘Fire Pete’ thread hasn’t been started. I thought that’s how it worked around here.

Before I get to Pete's quotes, let me say this. For those critiquing the program after this horrible loss, it's well-deserved. For those scratching their heads about this hire? Give it a minute. It's his second game. I've said this all off-season. You take over a program that went 6-5 last season. That's fine. You retain most of the key players that had eligibility left. Ok. They added a QB in the portal that they won't play and we're using a former walk-on as the starting QB. We're also using the same two running backs as RA used last season. Hunter is pretty dynamic but he's limited due to his size. He's an exceptional returner. Matthews had a nice 23-yard run and then there's an illegal procedure and the team is held to a short FG. The seven penalties and four turnovers are inexcusable against an explosive offense. Say what you will about Monmouth, but they have a great FCS running back and a pretty good offensive line. Not great, because he can make them better, but they opened up a hole when they were at their own one-yard line and who wasn't surprised when he ran for 10 on the first play? This offense just can't play with explosive teams right now. Last season, they actually could as Piggy arguably had his best game in that shootout. We had a guy named Isaiah Perkins, now Zay. He caught 30 passes as a freshman with a pretty inaccurate QB. Now he's M.I.A. in this offense as Nathan Kent has focused on DK James and tonight Lukkas Londono who had a bizarre game. Londono was mainly a punt returner last season and the former HS QB has some pretty good hands. But unfortunately, he fumbled the punt return from that rugby-style kicker and then in the only trick play of the game, he threw a pick on an option pass at the one. I didn't mind the play overall, but we're moving the f-ing ball. We didn't need a big play there. Just needed to score. That was devastating and you can say the Kent fumble was devastating as well. I've watched 30+ seasons of Towson football. This has to mark extremely high in disappointing home openers that I've seen though I can't say I had high expectations or low ones. I didn't really know what to think after the first week. We actually tackled better against Maryland (save for the QBs), than we did against Monmouth. Our secondary still has issues even with a pretty good pass rush (5 sacks). When a QB had time on 3rd and long, it appears we nearly always give up the first down. Kent is a game-manager. In a game like that, you need a gunslinger. The Air Raidish offense ain't happening with him. But why not run the ball more with Kent? To make matters worse, Mason Woods appeared to suffer an arm injury. I like some of the LBs off the bench, but I don't love this 3-3-5 defense. They went to 4 linemen on that long TD run, so that didn't work. A lot of things didn't work on offense, defense and special teams. But I'll have patience or at least try in this first season. Also, and this goes to OC Sheppard or maybe it's Pete on the calls on 3rd and 8 when you run the ball it's kind of defeatist to me. We're basically saying we can't complete a 10-yard pass. Against a team like Monmouth, you can't be that conservative.

Don’t talk shit about TOWSON ATHLETICS SPONSOR LEDO PIZZA! I suggested those local businesses because they are current sponsors and that’s clearly more fun than SECU. Do you have any better suggestions? You sure are great at complaining they better not sell to NewDay USA

Is it time for basketball? Lol sheesh season is over. William & Mary is gonna kick our ass. Delaware is gonna come here and dance on our grave. We are gonna poop our pants in New Hampshire. Albany is in a rock fight with Morgan state so maybe we have a chance in that one? NC A&T is gonna greek stroll and step all over us. It’s their homecoming party and they are gonna have a sell out crowd laughing at our ineptitude. Villanova and Rhode Island are gonna beat us and lose all respect they once had for us as a program. im so glad i didn’t pay for FloSports to watch that bull shit excuse for a D1 football team.

Disgraceful, disgusting, pathetic, pitiful effort all around by everybody today. Why would anyone buy season tickets to sit through THAT? Especially when you have UMD who is 4-0 and has an NFL QBs brother as a starter. You have Penn State who’s ranked every year.(they actually let you tailgate freely with 107,000 other friends no sweat) i thought I’d try to be a fan of this program because i went to school there but Jesus Christ it’s tough to support such a limp dick program. Pete Shinnick is a thief and a con artist for how much money he took to lose to Norfolk state and Monmouth. Just barely scraped by Morgan state and gave the players a trophy for beating the hbcu next door for the 6th time in a row. Rob Ambrose is probably sick to his stomach that he slaved over this program for a decade just for this shit to be the end result. They either need massive change now or shut the program down entirely

Get us the hell out of this bush league conference.

Back in my day this is what a towson tailgate looked like. You and your new 18 year old freshman buddies would show up to the parking lot with whatever beer/liquor you had and a DJ was there providing the beats to jump up and down too. That was all we needed to have fun and look there were hundreds of us there having a great time! Too bad this was deemed so unacceptable we can’t allow this type of fun anymore

Good call 👍

A couple more things and my head has been kind of out it since I left the game at the half due to the death of a long-time co-worker and friend. Very few expected a win here other than maybe Atlanta Tiger. Morgan State did play well in their first two games. Akron might stink but they are still FBS and the Bears literally fumbled that game away. So it's a good win despite the major issues on special teams (blocking and snapping, not Vaughn) and the offense. Kent will be the focus but Brian Sheppard has to do a better job of managing the game and the clock when you have the game in hand. Kent is basically a game-manager so run the occasional QB draw. Our three running backs that we use are not big, I don't see them all of a sudden using Sabias Folley at 5-11, 235, but we did miss Bangda's size (5-10, 230). We miss him in terms of just ramming the ball up the middle with a nice lead though usually you have a fullback there. Dion Crews Harris is now a DL and so is Brockman Wallace. Can we move them to fullback in these late-game situations and go back to running the power? It's an offense that lacks an identity because I know Sheppard wants to throw a lot but we're not built for that. There was one great drive in that first half that was helped by a Daniel Thompson great run after the catch. IMO, we have to be precise to move the football and run long drives. We are not a very good running team though Morgan has a pretty good defense so I think they adjusted to those short passes to Perkins and James and took them away. Getting the ball to Perkins was great so see, but where is Cee Chosen? The burner from TCU should be on the field at least 1/2 the time and should run some end arounds. BTW, the right side of the offensive line is still in flux. I've seen a bunch of different combinations there, but we ended with a true freshman in K.J. Brooks at right tackle. Florian Staehler also played right guard. Maybe that's the combination we need but at some point, we need stability there. We're certainly not small, but we need more athletic and long linemen to eventually run that Air Raidish offense. But I have to give credit to Coach Dulin, who had his defensive backs on the Morgan receivers tonight. Even if their QBs were underthrowing and off tonight, their receivers were not open when they tried to go vertically. In the middle of the field? Sure, but it was nice to see Mason Woods out there manning the middle with the left hand wrapped up. Javier played about as well as a Towson CB could play since the days of Tye Smith and Jordan Love. He was fantastic. I thought Xavier Terry played well at safety and the combination of Charles Peoples and Shafeek Smith is somewhat promising. Don't love either but guess what? Norfolk State and the rest of the teams will be throwing away from No. 3. Impressive first half to an extent, but left too many points on the board on offense. It's all about getting better and they did that tonight.

The article states “ the best in all of HBCU”.

I think everyone needs to pump the brakes. Lots of overreactions after 2 games. Did people really expect this team to be good this season? Nothing against Nathan Kent, but he was 3rd string for a reason. He is not going to be the QB that carries the team to victories. I had low expectations going into year 1 of Pete so I’m not really surprised that this is where we are.

Weatherman b lounge comes through for now! No rain until around 7 which at that point all of the students will be long gone

I was at work and only caught bits and pieces of this one, but there’s no need for alarm after this one. This was a very good performance from the Tigers, and there are a lot of positives to take away. A game like this makes me think they’ve got a shot at beating Washington State, who is not as good as BYU. Of course, they have to play as well.

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Hey everyone, I know Mat does a great job at keeping everyone informed about what's happening with Towson sports, but if you have Twitter and want to ask any questions, feel free to reach out. It can be about football or any other sport at Towson. https://twitter.com/JakeShindel/status/1698698014863356037?s=20

I am not saying he has done anything earth-shattering, but what specifically has Eigonbrot done since March 2022 that gives you insight that he isn't qualified to try to tackle some of these issues, other than the tired retort of "Same Old Towson"? I am not specifically accusing you of this, but I just think we need to see what the next move is before we put forward the same assumptions from the past. I had enough data on Tim Leonard to not trust his vision or decision-making. I just don't have enough information to blindly cast the same judgements Eigonbrot's way yet.