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What the heck happened in the Morgan State game?  No Towson team should ever get beat that bad against any Morgan team in any sport.  Hopefully bounce back tonight.

WOW!

19 hours ago, mat1992 said:

Sounds familiar 

 

As I am a big time Philadelphia guy I used to give Villanova a lot of $hit for ruining the traditional Big 5 back in the late 80's early 90's by backing out of the traditional round robin.  The way the scheduling climate is now I do have to give them props for coming back and remaining in the regular round robin Big 5.  Although they may be coming back to the Big 5 pack now that Wright is gone and even though they just lost to Temple they are still heads and shoulders by far the best team in the city, but it does provide not necessarily Temple because I think they can schedule whoever they want, but Penn, La Salle and St. Joe's an opportunity to have a name school on their schedule every year.  

It's idiotic that URI or Providence wants nothing to do with Bryant.  I know there was past history between the schools but how doesn't Maryland and Georgetown not play every year?  GW should be on both of those two schools schedules as well.  

5 minutes ago, Blounge said:

I thought it was punny Pat buying the Pat’s but yeah there are better options. Where is your favorite spot for a Philly cheesesteak?

A ha the pun went right past me!  It's a shame that Abner's in University City is closed.  It all depends of course where you are in or around the city.  Jim's Steaks on South St. was my go to before it caught on fire.  Hopefully they reopen.  Can never go wrong with Dalessandro's.   I'm not a John's Roast Pork guy but people seem to like it.  I could be here all day Shenk's on Delaware Ave is underrated.  That's enough for now its close to lunch and I'm getting hungry.  One more Laspadas if you are in the Philly burbs of Delco!

54 minutes ago, Blounge said:

I hope Pat or Dr. E bought the boys some hard earned cheesesteaks from Pats

Wait they won the game, so they deserve a better place for cheesesteaks than that Pats/Ginos tourist traps.

Those that wager are noticing.  Line opened at Towson -1 now line moved and Towson +2

#stoptheFlo

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14 hours ago, mat1992 said:

 

I am glad that they are doing what they can to try and promote the opener, but Marketing has to get on the same page to 1) Not look foolish and 2) not frustrate/insult anyone who want to take advantage of a ticket deal.  I was in ticketing for over 20 years and the one thing I know is that you can have as many different ticket promotions you want but whatever you do the cost needs to be the same.  Earlier on this thread there was an offer for alumni to get $5 tickets and now they drop this "promotion" offering a ticket deal that is actually double the cost.  Sure the "Alumni" promotion is supposedly for alumni only but ANYONE can use the code to get $5 tickets.  Now what happens if a supportive alum wants to go to the game and uses "Four" promotion instead.  Whether it is $5 a ticket of 4 for $40 all promotions at the end need to cost the same.

11 hours ago, mat1992 said:

 

Steve doing a trial run of letting someone go before he has to let someone else go in another Towson program that plays in the fall.

Stevie using his South Carolina ties for something!

13 hours ago, Moleman1 said:

My most memorable game was where we hosted the Blue Jay's in '91, despite that we lost it 9-12. Itz most memorable because with the game starting and a long line of fans still waiting to get in, Towson ticket vendors.. ran  out  of  tickets!! So myself and about 10 other guys walked counterclockwise around from the ticket windows 180° to the north side of the stadium. There we climbed the 8' chain link fence and dropped inside the (then) undeveloped area of the stadium. We had to ford around thru stickerbushes to find spots where we could see most of the field. Towson security came, but they didn't bother most of us. 

I was at that game as well.  Fortunate enough to get a seat but there were so many people in that undeveloped area.  Tremendous atmosphere.  

Was it Glenn Smith's or Rob Shek's shot that if it was a quarter of an inch lower and goes in instead of denting the crossbar against North Carolina we would have won the national championship in 1991 and no one can convince me otherwise. 

Yes, please keep information like this coming we are reading it!  The more the team succeeds the more novice like myself will want to know more and more stuff like this to understand just how well the players and team is doing.

Then he should not mention it in his post game.  From my knowledge no one knew about it.  Was there a mention of anything happening on this board?  Not that this board knows everything but there have been whispers of things happening in the past.  Did anyone in the press conference press him on it?

I am kind of wishing I did not promise to meet a friend of mine at the Blue Chickens game this weekend.  Not looking forward to going to watch getting our "arses" kicked.  Different sport of course but I had enough of that while going to watch us play Drexel under PK. 

I follow the board to get insight on our teams as I remain an avid supporter.  I refuse to buy into Flosports so I usually cannot watch any of our games so my only knowledge of players on any of our teams is strictly from what I get on this board.  For as long as I have been on this board this maybe the first time where there is overwhelming agreement on something and it seems like almost everyone thinks that Rob has to go.  His quotes post games this year almost seem like even he knows he is a lame duck.  If Rob mentions "off the field issues this week" he has to expound on them.  He can't drop that nugget and walk away.  Seems like there is no respectable leadership whether it be from the coaches or players when "off the field issues" start to get out of hand whatever they were.  I know we are not like other schools that can eat buyouts of coaches and just let him go now, but if he knows and the AD knows, the player know and the fans know, can't we at least right now announce that this is Rob's last year so we can start moving forward now?

23 hours ago, Chris Datres said:

I'd imagine Mr. Bard is going to find that trying to market Towson athletics will be very similar to marketing LaSalle athletics.  Just took a peek at LaSalle's hoops attendance figures from last year and they averaged 2100 for 16 home games with a high of 5800 for Villanova (most likely a large majority of Nova people).  Hopefully he can unlock some ideas that will attract people to SECU and Unitas this season and that the teams are successful enough to make people want to come back.

Similar challenges but I think he has a better chance of success here as compared to La Salle.  You think we have problems, I think although yes in a better basketball conference, La Salle would love to have our "problems".  It should be much easier to get people to come to Towson/SECU/Unitas than getting people to come to North Philadelphia and a gym that is arguably below Drexel's Dak.

I'm sure Ari ran not walked to take this opportunity to leave La Salle.

19 hours ago, mat1992 said:

 

I assume he is a better coach than actor.  Yes it is good to celebrate a Regular Season Conference Championship but we all know it means nothing as far as the NCAA Tournament is concerned.  Let's get a ring to celebrate the making it to the dance in 2022-2023 season.

19 hours ago, Blk&goldfan said:

Yep, thought the same thing 🙄

All credibility is lost.  I know it is a bigger program but no one refers to Memphis as Memphis State any more.  It's just lazy, do your job!

2 hours ago, mat1992 said:

 

Virtual?  So typical of CAA.  Where is the Aunt Flo link?  Only good thing is that it brings us a step closer to having games to talk about.

18 minutes ago, Tiger93 said:

3. 1993 Tony Vinson - 293 carries, 2,016 yards, 23 TDs, 6.88 yards per carry, 202 yards per game (this was the most yards per carry that I found of these seasons. I am biased because I watched this one with my own eyes while I was in college, but an awful weather/performance game at Hofstra derailed this season. As did the homecoming game to Howard, which is still one of the greatest college football games I have watched, despite the awful result)

Tony Vinson was a beast obviously that year.  Hey Mat since Tiger93 mentioned the homecoming game vs. Howard, which was incredible even though a devastating loss, how about your next list be Top 10 all time games?  I am sure the I-AA quarterfinal and semifinal games will be 1 and 2 but this Howard game and the Miracle at Minnigan in 1992 are right up there.  Two of the best in person games I have seen.

2 hours ago, mat1992 said:

Ok, so home is Albany, Navy, Coppin State. No UMBC or Morgan. They won't play us. Morgan and Loyola want to be paid. That's not our philosophy. 

Road: Clemson, UNCG, LIU, Penn. Also Savannah Tournament. Working on a few more with some pretty good teams, but most of the big boys on the East Coast won't play us. 

It is frustrating that "most of the big boys on the East Coast won't play us."  I guess the teams that could "afford" to play us, not financially afford, but more so taking a chance of losing to us, and still being a basic lock for the tournament say Villanova, would rather take their open dates and play other ranked teams.  The "bubble" type teams like say Rutgers, those are the type of teams that cannot afford an "L" against the Tigers.  Rutgers losses to Lafayette at home and UMASS last season on the road are probably the reason they were in the First Four.  It would be nice if we could somehow play top teams from high mid-majors but the risk there is just like the CAA you may think a team is going to be good and then they are not.  This is not a true example of what I mean, but I think Albany was supposed to be better than they ended up last season.  Hopefully down the road the New AD can use some of the relationships he built by working in the SEC to try and get a lower SEC school to do a home and home.  The team should bring people to the SECU but besides that what team listed above gets anyone but the hardcore fan to come or even pay attention?

19 hours ago, TuTigers2012 said:

Was Charleston playing for anything??  Seems Strange. Hopefully we can get better (can’t be much worse)

I'm sure they rested some players, but to take such a hit on their RPI hurts if they happen to win the CAA.  Was a rough season for Towson good way to go out, hopefully they can work their way back to be somewhat relevant.  They were not even in most games this season.

Let's hope Joey D is not involved in the discussions!

On 4/18/2022 at 7:26 PM, TuTigers2012 said:

What can be done to get this team better and fully funded again?? 9-26 and 0-9 in the caa being out scored 27-76 in conference games. I know that it got cut, or almost did and was resurrected to a point but we are getting beat badly. It’s a shame, we had that one run right after to get to the ncaat and even win a game or two, but since it’s been pretty awful.  

2012 thank you for this post.  I actually was in the process of writing something similar about the baseball program but then decided to delete, didn't know if there were any baseball fans on here.  Outside of their extra inning loss the other day against the Twerps, not only are they losing a lot, they really are not completive in most games.  Hopefully as Mat eluded to, some improvements may be coming.