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So, I think anyone who reads my posts knows that I’m not a big fan of the changes that have taken place recently in college athletics (“not a big fan” is putting it mildly 😆). Notwithstanding, I recognize that these changes, including NIL, are likely here to stay. With this in mind, I just set up my contribution to Goh Collective, the TU NIL. I don’t hesitate to bitch & moan about MBB (and football) when I feel it’s warranted, but at the same time I want to put my $ where my mouth is. We’re never going to generate NIL revenue in the amounts the blue blood P5’s will, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be successful at our level, given the number of grads the University has pumped out, and will continue to pump out. At least now, when I gripe, I’m doing so as a stockholder 😆. Anyway, I’m curious to know if anyone else on the board has contributed (you needn’t disclose the amount). I’d also like to challenge those who haven’t, to do so. You don’t have to give until it hurts; a bunch of small-medium donations add up. Let’s face it, our ability to retain existing players, and attract new recruits & transfers is going to depend in a significant way on how much NIL money we can pony up. So, who else is in?

I saw the news today that Denny Crum passed away at the age of 86. Condolences to his family and those that knew and loved him. Two things come to mind as a Towson fan. The first is that he is a criminally underrated coach historically having won two national titles at Louisville. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/37589221/hall-fame-men-basketball-coach-denny-crum-dies-86 Second, and the one we all remember here, is that he gave us the opportunity to have what I would consider a top 5 (if not higher) Towson sports moment on January 30 1995 at the Towson Center. Such a fun game. The only true court-storming at Towson I was every part of and a game that our team played with such a passion in a year where we otherwise underachieved. The Jason Crump free throw line jumper and Deron Robinson's uber-athletic performance off the bench really stand out to me. Ralph Blalock also went for 26 points and five steals that game. Here is the boxscore. https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sidearm.nextgen.sites/towsontigers.com/documents/2020/10/15/Towson_Louisville_Box_Score_1995.pdf I don't mean to turn this into a negative, because I always enjoy looking back and celebrating that day. However, I don't know if our program has experienced a collective day of joy with that many fans since that time. The closest to me in basketball is the 2021-22 regular-season title, but the difference was how much campus was buzzing, how many fans were in attendance and the national attention the victory got. The only comparable thing in any sport was our run to the national title game in the 2013 FCS Playoffs, which was probably the biggest deal of any sport accomplishment in my time associated with Towson. It is funny because the Eastern Washington win was the biggest, but because the Eastern Illinois game was on a Friday and we were not competing with a lot on TV, that felt like the most amount of national attention a sporting event has gotten us since I have been around Towson (since fall 1993). I am sure I am overlooking something else. The off-the-wall one, might have the Oregon State game that Obama attended.

What an awesome run for a five seed! Amazing turnaround to go from 14-33 and 4-16 a year ago to 30-23 and 14-10 and this run. Now we can let the chaos unfold and figured out who we play tomorrow. I am assuming we need to beat whoever emerges from the chaos once while they need to beat us twice. No guarantees, but we are in the driver's seat. I don't think I realized that we have finished as a conference tournament runner-up 11 different times in the ECC, Big South, America East and CAA collectively. I believe in 1999 and 2001 in the America East we were in the same spot where we needed one win and our opponent needed two. This would be cool to get conference tournament title for Coach Costello.

And if you were there that night and stormed the floor, here's your chance to find yourself:

So they fired the football coach with a mediocre record. They aren making additions and renovations to the field house. Steve isn’t here to hire or keep mediocre coaches. Way too early on whether Shinnick is good, bad or mediocre. I’m not the most optimistic person in the world, but if I didn’t have some hope for the revenue sports, I get the eff out and give this up because in 30+ years, I feel like a failure when it comes to shit like this. Trying to get people to care about Towson sports has been like pulling teeth at least on here. We HAVE to win in football and basketball. We have no other options to get people in the stands and to donate. I’ve seen pretty good signs in hoops and football has shown signs of drawing nearly a decade ago.

Blew a two run lead and lost on a walk off…. Tough way to end the season. The story of Towson athletics.

When you haven’t won anything in 30 years at the same job, you make dumb decisions like saving your ace for Game 2. Lost this opportunity in the most Towson way possible.

Probably missed some here, but this is the updated list from what I can tell: All-Conference Teams Joshua Rivera (Lafayette) 6-7, 200 – Patriot League All-Rookie Team, 10.6 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 45.3% (134-296) FG, 20-61 3pt FG, 51-64 Asst-TO Nendah Tarke (Coppin) 6-4, 205 – Second-Team All-MEAC & All-Defensive Team - 12.5 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 66-85 Asst-to-TO, 42.6% (141-331) FG, 32.7% (37-113) 3pt FG Kam Woods (NC A&T) 6-2, 185 – Second-Team All CAA – 17.3 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 3.3 apg, 1.6 spg, 101-76 asst-TO, 38.5% (177-460) FG, 83-246 3pt FG/33.7% DeLonnie Hunt (Wagner) 6-0, 170, Third-Team All NEC – 11.1 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 36.5% (108-296) FG, 28.7% (31-108) 3pt FG, 1.2 spg, 76-42 (Asst-TO) D-2 All-Conference Isaiah Wyatt (Chadron State D2) 6-3, 200 – 14.9 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 45.3% (149-329), 46.1% (77-167) 3pt FG, Second-Team All-RMAC John Korte (Wheeling D2) 6-6, 215 – 19.6 ppg, 7.3 rpg, 50.7% (171-337) FG, 28.9% (22-76) 3pt FG (Team was 6-23), First-Team All MEC Khalid Gates (Slippery Rock D2) 6-7, 215 – 13.9 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 49.5% (159-321) FG, 10-53 3pt FG, 2nd-Team All PSAC (Team Record 17-12) Zayon Marsh (Goldey Beacom D2) 6-6, 195 – 18.7 ppg, 10.1 rpg, 45.8% (190-415) FG, 10-30 3pt FG, 1.3 spg, 1.3 blpg, Asst-TO – 49-75, Second-Team All CACC (Team Record 10-18) Austin Fadal (Sonoma State D2) 6-4, 180 – 12.0 ppg, 3.8 rpg, (38-46 Asst-TO), 44.6% (103-231), 13-46 3pt FG, Honorable-Mention All CCAA (Played three season at Eastern Washington 2018-2022)) No All-Conference from what I can tell Marcus Watson (NC A&T) – 6-6, 235 – 14.2 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 41.5% (165-398), 28.4% (44-155) 3pt FG, 60-100 (Asst-TO) R.J. Blakney (Dayton) 6-6, 195 – 6.1 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 44.0% (62-141), 24.2% (16-66) 3pt FG, 36-35 (Asst-TO) Mohamed Keita (St. John’s) 7-1, 220 – Played only seven games Robert Carpenter (Kent State, Did not play in 2022-23, also played for Mississippi Valley State, Pearl River CC, St. Bonaventure) – 6-7, 210 – 17.8 ppg, 4.8 rpg, 38.7% (74-191) FG, 32.1% (25-78) 3pt FG. Noels Slivackis (Texas-Rio Grande Valley) 6-5, 200 – Reshirted last year, averaged 18.7 points, 9.3 rebounds, 5.1 assists, 2.4 steals and 1.4 blocks in seven games for Valkas Sporta in the Latvia U19 league … Averaged 11.4 points in five games for Vef Riga in EYBL U20 … Averaged 9.3 points in 11 games for Vef Riga in Latvia LBL2 (second division) … Played five games for Latvia in 2021 FIBA World Cup U19. Kevon Voyles (UMES) 6-3, 180 - 12.9 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 2.0 spg, 15-25 Asst-TO, 49.2% (98-199) FG, 32.6% (28-86) 3pt FG (shot 40.5% previous year) 1.4 3pt per game De'Sean Allen-Eikens (CSNU) 6-6, 215 – 11.1 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 40-55 Asst-TO, 45.4% FG, 31.5% (23-73) 3pt FG Kuany Kuany (Cal) 6-9, 200 – 9.0 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 35.9% (83-231) FG, 29.8% (28-94) 3pt FG Josh LeBlanc (many schools) 6-7, 230 – DNP for Nicholls State, 4.6 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 1.0 blpg, 62.6% Career FG (38-64 (59.4%) for UAB in 2021-22) - ranked No. 117 in nation in 2019 recruiting class Owen McGashen (D2 Saint Anselm) 6-7, 205 – 12.5 ppg, 7.1 rpg, 46.3% (132-285), 40.6% (56-138) 3pt FG, 66-62 Asst-TO (Team was 22-8, Regional Final) Kaine McColley (D2 Nova SE) 6-5, 212 – DNP 2022-23 (36-0 national title) Anthony Morales (Boston U.) 6-8, 195 – 5.1 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 35.2% (45-128) FG, 19-71 3pt FG Bo Montgomery (Holy Cross) 6-5, 193 – 11.3 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 42.7% (140-328), 34.3% (36-105) 3pt FG, 81-66 Asst-TO Daniel Nixon (GW) 6-7, 225 – only played on game for GW in 2022-23 Pavo Pavlidis (Hartford) 6-8, 220 – 8.0 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 56.9% (95-167), 8-33 3pt FG, 1.3 blpg Jasmine Sangha (Texas A&M CC) 6-8, 225 – 2.6 ppg, 1.7 rpg in 14 games LaTrell Tate (West Florida) 6-0, 165 – 16.5 ppg, 3.5 rpg 44.8% (152-332) FG, 56-127 44.1% (56-127) 3pt FG, 90-52 Asst-TO, Jordan Wood (Howard ) 6-9, 200 – 8.6 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 37.2%, 64-173 3pt FG/37% Kyle Cuffe Jr. (Kansas) – 6-2, 185 – Played two games, four-star (ranked 117 nationally out of high school) Amillion Buggs (Central Missouri State) – 6-4, 180 – Played 10 games for Central Missouri State and averaged 2.3 ppg and 0.8 rpg. Off the Board Justin Amadi (James Madison) 6-7, 225 – returned to James Madison Myles Foster (Monmouth) 6-7, 240 – Illinois State Josh Uduje (Coastal Carolina) 6-5, 175 – Utah State Ray Quawndis Mitchell (UMKC) 6-5, 200 - Penn State Steve Settle III (Howard), 6-10, 180 - Temple Tedrick Wildcox Jr. (St. Francis-NY) 6-6, 185 – Hampton Jordan Riley (Georgetown) – 6-4, 200 – Temple Richie Springs (UConn) 6-9,235 – Quinnipiac Brandon Suggs (UCF) 6-6, 185 – New Mexico State

Need some better merch. But agree

Delaware was the No. 1 seed

You are lucky to have stormed in 1991. I arrived freshman year in 1993 and have never experienced what it is like for this program to play in a conference tournament final game. Someday.

I think we need to prepare ourselves that at least one of the remaining 2 openings could very well go to a NAIA, D2 or JUCO. In fact, I don’t think we can rule out the possibility that both openings will go in those directions. Speaking for myself, the “we’re not the only mid-major who doesn’t have NIL money” explanation is wearing thin. I’m not saying it isn’t true, I’m just wondering why we’re so far behind the curve? It’s not like NIL just started last month. I get it, new A.D., but shouldn’t we have been more proactive on this, instead of playing a losing game of catch up ball?

We need to spread that NIL money around 😂😂😂😂😂

I appreciate those who have given in the past and still give. Those who have $$$ issues or where family comes first. I get it. I hate to say put your money where your mouth is, but if I'm going to rip the program to shreds, I'm also going to try and be part of the solution as well. We can still whine, bitch and moan, but if you think it's all about PS, then fine. But the next coach is going to need NIL $$$ as well. It's become part of life. Same with football. I'd like to think a guy like Casey Cegles can help galvanize the football alumni, but the basketball alumni are likely fractured from the Jaz-to-Hunt-to-PK misery years. There's no doubt that we'd be ahead of the game if we had the ability to give a transfer a little bit of $$$.

C’mon Mat, admit it, you’re making this up. Amillion Buggs? I want this guy, if for no other reason than his amazingly cool name

I think y’all get the point that not every player that we are listed with that we are a serious contender or that we have serious interest. But if they want a young shooter, here is a player who put up 18 against us. Not sure he does much else but he can shoot pretty much from everywhere. Only odd thing is that he’s been in the portal for nearly two months. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/stats/_/id/5106596/marko-maletic

Well said. I’ve given and from what I’ve heard, the response has been pretty good for the Goh Collective. We’re going to lose recruits and transfers to the big boys, but I would hate to lose to mid majors due to NIL. I’m curious as well. Not about amounts, but about who has given. I understand that not everyone can, but for those on here who have the wherewithal, a few ducats won’t hurt. You can also give to the sport you choose to give to.

Would love to see us tourney bound.

Saw Tibo in person in Vancouver on Friday night. He alternated series with the other NG and he got himself a sack in the 3rd quarter of a 23-16 loss to Saskatchewan. I wasn't fast enough to get a picture of the jumbotron with the Towson listing on it.