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I think Towson should do another Zoom meeting about NIL for football and basketball to explain about giving to NIL. What it means and what's the difference between giving to TAF (Tiger Athletic Fund) and the TU Collective for NIL. From my understanding, these sponsors are mainly about giving these kids their products. There is not a ton of $$$ involved, but I don't know the exact details. In other words, we have to, for the current coach and future coach, to buck up and make payments towards NIL. I'm not saying pay something that you can't afford. I give a monthly/yearly fee in NIL for both sports because I want to do and I feel if I'm going to talk the talk, I better walk the walk. My understanding is that not everyone is on board with paying student-athletes. That's not even an assumption. It's the truth and I get it, but it's an arms race. If the few wealthy donors we have and the rest who can afford a modest amount, are not willing to give a nice sum for NIL, we're going to miss out on key transfers and will end up with the "meh" players we've added over the last two seasons (Jones, Tarke, Sulaiman, Sylla, Russell). I think what we have available is good enough to retain most of our young returners. https://towsontigers.com/feature/TowsonNIL?path=nil https://gohcollective.com/ https://gohcollective.doubleknot.com/registration/donate.aspx?activitykey=2973795

The best parallel example to Skerry is Tod Kowalczyk at Toledo. I outlined this a couple weeks ago -- He's been there as long as Skerry has been here and Toledo has been the 1 seed in each of the last 4 MAC Tournaments. They've lost every time. Their tournament drought is longer than ours. And I read today that Kowalczyk is being talked about for the job at Utah State.

I’m with 2012 & 88 now. Part of the New World Order for Towson Fans. I’m done with this coaching regime. Mr Optimistic no more. Zero confidence. I want change. This guy served and is counted. Time to pass the torch.

Impossible to watch Oakland take down Kentucky and not realize why some of us so desperately want new leadership for Towson’s program to possibly improve our chances for a similar shot at glory. But hey, I should just be grateful we get our coveted 20 wins a year. 😉

Is there a 3rd choice?

38-16 is equal to the Orioles dominating Spring Training....just something meaningless to talk about

Benzing gets the Silver medal in the 100 breast stroke https://x.com/towson_swimdive/status/1773861935588540648?s=46&t=nScacl1TWT-KyOwj5stBaw

I think it would be pretty to find a coach of his caliber except I am not sure there is one who in 13 years has not been to a conference final. A half million for a guy who cant even get to a mediocre conferences finals is not one worth retaining.

First of all, thank you for your financial donations. It is appreciated that you make that choice out of loyalty to the program. I can't argue with most of this, but I don't agree with propping yourself up as bigger fans than the rest of us. Everyone expresses fandom differently. I would probably have season tickets if I lived there, but I don't so I support them in a different way. What people do with their finances is their own business, and I don't view at as being bigger or better fans than others. I appreciate your call for a change and you have a lot of valid points, but it doesn't mean you are right, more knowledgeable or better informed than everyone else on here. There are a lot of different ways to run a program that can be successful. I actually agree that we may be hitting a point where there is not much room for improvement, however I think there are also arguments against that when you look at the last three years (I know that is slicing and dicing the argument that probably should be made over a longer time period). You also have to take into account that I believe there have been five presidents and three ADs since Skerry started. They will all have different views. Waddell hired him, Leonard extended him, and Eigonbrot has seen probably the best three-year stretch in this program's D-1 history since we actually made the NCAA Tournament. That doesn't mean it is good enough, but I think you all have a distorted view on how our AD should see things. He doesn't have the baggage the rest of us do. That doesn't mean we should hold back from expressing our disappointment. I have some of the same complaints and can't blame you for hitting a point where you are beyond frustrated, but I do think there are valid reasons for being supportive of Skerry too. I appreciate the different viewpoints on this board. It is the reason I still come here as an out-of-state fan. Also, anyone who is coming to this message board on a regular basis, which is generally an outdated way of doing this these days, deserves credit for being a pretty big fan of Towson. To rank where we all stand doesn't really make too much sense to me.

3 outlier examples out of hundreds upon hundreds of coaches. Good things might come to an extremely small (see microscopic) group of coaches, but, with all due respect, that argument is weak tea. If you want to settle for 6-12 in the conference tournament, without ever having played in the title tournament game, god bless you. I’ve let the man work and support the F’ing team with yearly season tickets, TAF and NIL donor. If this is his best, his best ain’t good enough. Good grief. “Good things come to those who wait”? That’s the defense of this guy? If I wait much longer, I’ll be watching from behind the pearly gates (I hope) When does this ceaseless argument, from his small handful of supporters, about Pat Kennedy, have an expiration date!!! Unbelievable

Gymnastics win the EAGL today for the second straight year https://x.com/towson_gym/status/1771724072923144586?s=46&t=nScacl1TWT-KyOwj5stBaw

https://x.com/towson_fb/status/1773796849331372407?s=46&t=nScacl1TWT-KyOwj5stBaw

Sorry. 😂😂😂

The Towson 9 hung on and got a win yesterday against GW!

I don’t know if the program can recover from this loss. Just devastating

If he becomes official at Louisville 4 of the current ACC coaches were from the CAA. I bet you can guess the two schools… lol

Citing James Jones in that list might be pushing it a little bit because it's the Ivy League. They'll fire a scientist for not producing a Nobel winner faster than they'll fire a basketball coach. Here's the last time each Ivy League school fired their basketball coach for on-court performance: Penn -- 2009 (Jerome Allen had some shady stuff going on and ended up getting a 15-year show cause from the NCAA) Princeton -- at least 1945 Columbia -- 2003 Cornell -- 2016 (contract not renewed) Yale -- at least 1947 Harvard -- 2007 Brown -- 2012 Dartmouth -- 2016

Some of you guys are ridiculous, but its the same thing year after year. Look at Oakland University and Greg Kampe. He began his career at Oakland in 1984 (granted they were D2 at the time) and he was at the school for 21 years and they first made the Tourney in 2005. They have now made it 4 times in the last 20 years. Jim Larranga was a head coach for 13 seasons (btwn Bowling Green and GM) before one of his teams first qualified for the Tourney. His GM team then made it to the Tourney 5 times in the next 13 seasons before he left for Miami. James Jones of Yale, his first season was 99-00 and in his 17th season his team first qualified. His team has now made the Tourney 4 of the last 8 seasons. In Pat's 13 seasons we have not yet made the Tourney, but that 2012-2013 team was good and I bet would have won the conference tournament had it not been for Pat Kennedy and the shit show we had in place before Skerry. For Skerry's 13 seasons at TU (including that first one) we've had a winning record 9 of 13 seasons. When we have good players they generally stay in the program and don't transfer out at the first opportunity. Moreover, this year we have two players on the all-rookie team. What I'm trying to say is that good things come to those who wait. He's been putting a pretty consistent/competitive team out on the Court and our time will come. Skerry has made this team semi-relevant and he's the reason I actually care about TU sports again. (I graduated in 1999.) Let the man work and support the fing team.

Ugly wins are better than pretty losses. We'll take it 12-10 on the road in ugly, rainy conditions. Nilan struggled in the first half, but allowed just two goals in the second half. Fairfield with 19 turnovers, Towson with 16. The game changed late in the third quarter when Roussel finally went back to attack and they put him behind the goal. He found Villagomez for the layup and then he scored himself. Fairfield never recovered. Nilan had seven saves, most of them off his body. Not sure he's the answer, but defense also has to improve whomever is in net. Matt C. just 50% on face-offs, but won a few big ones in the second half. Fairfield and the rain held DeMaio to just 2 assists, Mikey W. with 3g, Villagomez with 2g, Webber 1, Mauer 1g, Chop 1, 2a, Duccomon 2g.

Alabama at SECU oops I mean Pizza Palace Arena for the 24-25’ season. Make it happen! We will show you them what CAA ball is really about. PS- Colorado & Florida are not welcomed.

Stayed up late and got the complete Nick experience. Makes a few shots early and FTs, struggles defensively and winds up in foul trouble. He sits early in the second half, scores some, gives up some, makes a late three, misses a front end of a one-and-one and then is fouled with KU up one on a block from behind that was no foul. But to his credit, he made both FTs. Was left open all night and it helped to have Dickinson back on the floor.

Screw Izzo. Go Oakland Golden Grizzlies!

Whoever UVA turns down....add them to the list

Not an apples to apples comparison because it’s football but even Nick Saban eventually relented and changed his offensive philosophy years ago to be more uptempo because he knew his offensive system was falling behind and becoming passe. The game had changed and evolved. Pat Skerry is a relic from yesteryear but he’s so enamored with his own philosophy and approach he’s willing to sabotage his own program’s success to try to prove it still works in today’s game. Tony Bennett got the wake up call last night…..meanwhile, Skerry is still asleep at the wheel.

#skerryball4evee