TuTigers2012

Games against Bryn Anthe and Goucher.

Oh man. 2024, so I guess it makes sense. A lot of us here have seen the same old story year and year out with hoops and football, and it seems like you have not. "8.5 point dawg" and got run out of the gym by 20, while not even breaking 40 points is embarrassing. The teams we have played this year (I don't count the major two teams as those are expected L's), have been; Bad, a Bad D3, Solid MM, Solid MM, Bad, Awful and Solid MM. Those views are off of watching the games, seeing the teams play multiple games, and your Kenpom. So the 3 really tough games that were evenly matched, we blew a late lead in a tight game at home in OT, hacked up a lead with 1.45 left on a neutral court and got smoked on the road. These are the types of teams we will play in conference where every point matters and comes down to a single possession, where we don't have the coaching, and go to player to win the close ones.

I think everyone is missing the point... The first year we needed to play that style because we didn't have the players and skills. This team has some guys who can score and can shoot. We are not going to score 80 a game, but Fobbs, Betrand, Sanders can score a bit. It's the coaching and philosophy that's the problem. Rarely do we switch defenses. Rarely do we show a press or even a token press (even with a stopped clock and 5 seconds left, we let them roll the ball up! Infuriating! Make them catch it moving away from your hoop!). Rarely do we run or push the pace, this is especially bad, since we do typically play good defense and create lots of misses. Rarely do we run good sets that result in a good shot. We run late crap, like horns, which leads to at best a 1-1 contested shot. Just look how easy it is for teams to get good looks off us as we over-rotate many times. They don't work particular hard for good looks, especially down low. Players get lost and free for high percentage shots. We always have to work incredibly hard for semi-decent looks. Always have, always will. Is some of it the players, not moving the ball enough and quick enough? Absolutely. But at some point that's on the leadership to change that culture/selfishness issue. Is some of it on the coaching staff for not calling great plays to run? Absolutely.

Fun stat. Since the 2012-13 season, we are 19-15 when holding opposing teams to less than 58 points a game. I would venture to say that is probably the worst winning % in the country.

Can't have a shoot around when you arrive just before the game! HAHAHA It's the same cycle EVERY single year: Slight optimism, Beat local teams, lay some stinkers with no offense, player leaves program, blow late leads, lack of creativity offensively and adjustments, No Alpha on the team, go on a 3-4 game strong run middle of CAA play, peak and go back to struggling towards the end, first round CAA exit, Excuses from TL and PS lovers (wait for next season), PS excuse of "just 5-8 close losses defined the season, new players come in, slight optimism returns. RINSE WASH REPEAT. It's literally the same thing every year.

UNCW also ran a pretty high powered offense and he penetrated and had players to kick it out to.

We have needed this for years.. It's the same cycle over and over again.

Well the program was dreadful from mid 90's to 2012, so... We have been close a number of times, and have leads late and then in typical Towson fashion, choke it up. To be fair, you also have to schedule good/decent OOC games, to get wins. But we are Towson and content on playing Morgan, Coppin, UMBC, Loyola and D3's every year... YAWN

It was 2011. And it was miserable. Leaving at 2 for a 7pm game in fairfax is inexcusable. If the plane couldn’t take off.. get a damn bus. You have to try and try really hard to only score 38 in a game. Vermont isn’t uva. Numerous sub 50 point games under skerry is ridiculous and embarrassing

It was 2011. And it was miserable. Leaving at 2 for a 7pm game in fairfax is inexcusable. If the plane couldn’t take off.. get a damn bus. You have to try and try really hard to only score 38 in a game. Vermont isn’t uva. Numerous sub 50 point games under skerry is ridiculous and embarrassing

Ivies do it. It’s another excuse by the old timers on here. Play better

38 points?! Half this board could shoot that. If this program wasn’t below average it could be an excuse. Leave earlier. 7pm on a Friday ?when classes end by noon latest. Come on. We used to fly out by 1.

Don’t fly up day of game? That could help. We are d1 sheesh. 38 points is fucking embarrassing

38 points lol loss number 25 under ps allowing under 60

I’m sure they both will play. B Interesting that we flew up day of game.

Good win

This will be a tough one. They have some players missing time and stats look like they aren’t a great 3 point shooting team. Maybe mix some zone in again

Shocker!

I'm not going to get into it with our resident sports management professor, but college is expensive and the athletics fees suck. But 2006, your employer nickle and dimes its students for almost everything (as does every other college), and there are some fee's for services that other students don't use buy are stuck paying. Fees per year of similar and conference schools: Towson $998 in state $956 out of state (2019) University of Maryland $812 (2018) William & Mary $1,980 per year (2018) James Madison $2,058 (2019) VCU $828 (2018 not sure if per semester or yearly) College of Charleston $1,236 (2016) UNCW $750 (2017) George Mason $1,752 (2019; other items included, not solely athletics) UMBC $1,074 (2017) Univ of Albany $582 (2017) Univ of New Hampshire $1,075 (2019) Stony Brook $572 (2019)

Maybe doing the grunt work, but not the actual ticket staff that are to be calling. They typically have 2-3 that are not interns, however there is high turnover in that. $2,100?? Are you speaking of student athletic fees?

Game Tuesday against UMBC. A team, most fans/students, know due to locality and the NCAA tournament. What are they doing to put butts in the seat and promote this game? Crickets?

Not surprising. No promotions, no advertisements, awful ticket office (I had to call them numerous times to renew my season tickets that I've had for 6+ years!). Seems like they put all their eggs in one basket, for the Villanova football game (which they did a great job for that one, and it worked as the crowd was very good), and then nothing for the rest of the season or for hoops.

Tim grow a pair. Save your job and go to the board and ask for a buy out. Less than a mill is chump change. We are paying a bit out for a coach who killed one of his players from the big ten.

It's both. Attendance at 95% of sporting events, pro or college, is down. That is a fact. The University does a bad job promoting and the students don't care/won't care. That's also a fact. Baltimore and Maryland itself is not a great sports area. It just isn't. UMBC coming off the UVA upset, and a brand new arena, barely average 1,450 people last year. Maryland is (and it pains me to say) very good and even they aren't drawing.

Agree with your first point. But America East would increase travel costs. Some of those schools are a haul.