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YES! I said the same thing yesterday to my wife at dinner....she rolled her eyes at me.

YES! I said the same thing yesterday to my wife at dinner....she rolled her eyes at me.

Agree it will likely be closer to 1/2 million mark for a mid season SEC game. That seems to be the general going rate but hopefully even higher. https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/6/22/11648368/scheduling-cupcake-guarantee-games-cost Do we keep track of our payout game amounts someplace? My buddy that I watched the Wake game with, and went to Wake, was asking how much we got paid for the game. I personally am a fan of the payout games; it really helps fund the department and it's nice to say "hey, you paid us to be here" while seeing the our boys in larger/historic stadiums.

I don't love this matchup, we have nothing to gain from this as a home and home. Only reason we should even play them is with 2:1. but cool website shows us playing Florida next year in the week leading up to the FL-Georgia game. Anyone know how much we are getting paid to be UF's tackling dummies?

Watched the game at a Wake bar in DC.. so many golf shirts and khaki shorts. Kept the game close early but the D just couldn't keep up with their QB and Dortch. Kick coverage was just bad, hopefully we fix that this week, we can't do that poorly vs FCS teams or it will be along season. Penalties, Special Teams, and not winning the turnover battle means we had no chance for the upset over the full 60. O looked good, I'm a bit concerned about the running game but it was already a shoot out in the 1st so we'll see next week if we can move the ball and control the clock.

Hopefully ESPN + works for me up at the lakes in Minnesota this weekend. I can't image a world without streaming sports online anymore.

Always read the updates and love them! just don't always have a comment to add. I agree we gotta get the page poppin again like it was in the CAAZone days. I remember learning about the zone via a promo during a media time out at a football game. It would be nice if the school could show us some promotion love. "Connect with fellow tiger fans online at towsonfans.com"

i'm doing it...going rogue!!! 11-0 No, I do not actually believe we are going 11-0 but you have to approach each game like you want to win it. (You play to win the game...) We expect the players and coaches to do so. I'm not a fan of predicting L's. Regardless, we need to make the playoffs otherwise a shake up needs to happen.

Yes!! My guess would be AU or Howard would be the host or maybe G-town will play their smaller non-conference games at the new arena and not Cap One. Or WILDCARD we do a neutral site game with JMU or GMU..try to get both schools to get the DC alumni out. (one can dream...maybe one day the alumni department will give a shit about building up the DC alumni community and not treating it like an extension of all the Baltimore events)

ummm okay? kind of random thread to start. yeah i think we all want to have more people come to football (and basketball) games and i agree most of the short coming fall on the administration and their lack of ability to build a powerful athletics and education brand. but for a school of our size the goal should be to fix those issues not downgrade to D3. I personally HATE that we try to only brand ourselves as Baltimore's school. The focus should be beyond Baltimore and Maryland.

Yes! I hated Deb during my time at Towson and that was almost 10 years ago. She has single handily killed tailgating for students. Other than Deb here is my list: Make a NCAA bball run or return to FCS championship game - winning solves all problem Better football and basketball scheduling. Play local power 5 teams more often. Improve marketing of improved scheduling ^ people need to know about above Improved perks for fundraising... I donate at least $200 each year and have football tickets + pakring and all I get is a Tiger Club sticker. How about a tshirt or % off in the team store/concessions. (take notes from the Caps, I'm a Caps season ticket holder and have gotten boat loads of stuff over the year) Sell booze in the seats

i'm okay with this. much better than the recent years. thinking about going to the Bahamas tournament.

I think I said this on the FB post but wooooooooooooooooooooooo! Metroing to the games for me!! As someone that owns a home in NE DC (Brookland) the city is transitioning fast but that area (Congress Heights) still has a LOOOOOONG was to go. Set up some shuttles to official tournament hotels in Navy Yard,Waterfront or Downtown and people will be fine. If an NBA team can practice there, a NBA G League team and WNBA can play there security will no be an issues around the facility and game times. I'm totally okay playing our conference tournament in the HQ of an NBA team, as much of a joke as the Wiz are.

Gotta have hope at some point we get our shit together?....right?.....right? one has to dream big. But seriously as someone that works in advertising the current start of our self promotion is just sad.

Anyone has any insights into the deal? Hopefully we are expanding the gear for sale and the local marketing partnership. Does UA have a press release or are we that much of an after thought to them? I was kinda hoping we would have shocked the local community and gone with adidas. adidas has some cool stuff coming out right now with the retro trefoil logo.

Lame! this is why we are never going to make the tournament again. We can never seem to schedule more than one good OOC opponent each year and never at home.

We had some rebuilding after last year's run but I'm okay with the progress made. Now time to keep building.

Jammer needs to go for any changes of the coaching staff to matter.

Not getting an agent so still hope but not a good look. my guess is he is trying to be get a scouting report from the NBA then graduate quickly to be a grad transfer at a power 5.

+1

tunit!! the free wings! we had something going there for a bit with student leadership, then athletics and student affairs (aka Deb Moriarty, the fun police) killed it with that stupid docs army thing.

Amazing. Funny all around! I love that Towerlight kid called out the big two sports for not winning. Totally true and something I joke about all the time at work with coworkers from power 5 schools (duke, wake, umd, florida, az state, uva, va tech) jmu and mason. But like many times with amateur journalism he lacks facts when he is trying to call out the entire athletics department. Going to the final four was awesome for MLAX, clearly they are head and shoulders above the other sports as our number 3 behind only football and MBB on our give a crap factor. I also love that TL gave a sh*t to comment back same with the intern...go intern...someone hire that kid. We need more passion coming out of that department. TuTigers2012 questions the marketing and promotions department and I totally agree. As someone how makes a living in Marketing and Advertising it's pretty laughable. I believe TL was hired for fundraising and from what I can tell he does okay at that but for Marketing we are just plain boring. TL is too cookie cutter and low energy. We can all laugh now at MW for mismanaging the department long term but the guy could sell. That football playoff game atmosphere vs lehigh was amazing. (I saw people scaling tickets! scaling at towson!!) Crushed any atmosphere during the 13 finals run and I went to dallas for the game. Also if anyone remembers the caazone days I've had my issues with both the towerlight (getting misquoted over tailgating) and the athletic department (fire gordy shirts) so I'm super amused all around since I don't have a strong option either way. Both are right and wrong in some ways. Downside of the internet - everyone gets an option to share...including us

Awesome!

Not trying to make this a political issue more a focus on the quality of the product for the price and it's just not worth it. I'll continue buy gear for whoever is the official supplier of Towson because I'm supporting Towson not the athletics brand. But outside of anything TU branded UA is not my jam. I do think it's in UA best interest to continue to support us, building that local fortress but I don't think we should bend over backwards for them, in fact we should leverage UA short comings to get a better deal. If we get a better deal from another brand do it, simple as that. Don't care about Plank being a Marylander...I'm a Washingtonian and will continue to see bmore as a second city. (sorry it's just the view of anyone south of route 32) Baltimore is cute in it's historic pockets but just isn't a true international city. Plank was at one point a Washingtonian first too then he was able to get ploy bmore to fork over Millions in tax breaks. Regarding CEO of major companies not being Dems.. that is just ridiculous and has nothing to do with us coming into an athletics brand contract renewal. CEO typically keep political affiliations on the DL because they do not want to alienate customers on either side. Being a Republican or Democrat does not quality you as more or less business savvy The data literally says the opposite.

If it's true I'm sure it's UA leaving Towson since we bring basically no sponsorship value to them. UA is just coming out of their 5 year low on stock price; I'm sure their execs are not trying to give us any deals and I'm sure we are wanting the bmore hookup. The current deal is up at the end of this semester. https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2013/01/08/towson-university-under-armour-extend.html I am personally losing interest in UA as a consumer, the gear just isn't better than the competition at this point and with Plank being a Trump homie no thanks. I stopped buying any non-Towson UA gear after their failure into low quality shoes. If we can get Nike or Adidas to give us a sweet deal to basically give UA a big FU on their home turf I'm all for it. Even FILA is coming back into style. Give me the adidas trefoil or FILA logo on Towson gear and that will sell like crazy with students and younger alumni.