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Gross. Possible future (boring) CAA matchup and we already can't get the win.

Charleston is 45mins close to Towson than Orono driving time. I don't see that as more awful than what we currently have. We are already going to Boston for Northeastern. At least if you get a cluster of new england schools you have travel partner options and flying comes into play. We already fly to Orono for football as it is. Charleston's travel partners opportunities are UNCW and Elon. 3.5 & 5 hours away driving. Orono to Boston is 4 hours for context. Albany to Burlington is 3 hours. Again no worse.

I'd also added about UNH and Maine + Vermont. UNH & Maine bring good football and Vermont decent basketball. (maybe charleston doesn't leave then?) Also, travel partners for Northeastern. Hartford is dropping to D3; rapid the football schools of the AE.

None of these schools are something we should be excited about. The CAA we joined had Mason, VCU, ODU for basketball, and JMU for football. All local rivals.. with a marquee sport. The (lack of) conference and our athletic leadership is a HUGE concern for me. We should be pulling out all the stops to be package deal with W&M and UD.

https://hbcugameday.com/2021/10/26/could-hbcus-be-in-play-for-new-look-caa/ https://www.app.com/story/sports/college/monmouth-university/2021/10/28/monmouth-nj-athletics-caa-expansion-maac-big-south/8572218002/

if the CAA dies no more FLO!!! woooooooooooooo D'Antonio killed the league and we should be looking to leave ASAP

Monmouth, Fairfield and Greensboro is sooo dumb. At least in the north why would you not add two schools that are already in the CAA for football. Just add all the CAA football members that are willing to come. (URI, UR and Nova are not going down leagues in bball) North: Albany Maine UNH Stony Brook Hofstra Northeastern (+ whatever NE school you want) South: Charleston Elon UNCW Delaware Towson Drexel W&M FB only: URI, Richmond and Nova + I bet UConn or UMass might come back if the ever give up on FBS

this did and did not age well. As much as I can dream of a 11-0 season one day the QB play has been trash+💩 and we ended up with the 'much worse' scenario.

Did not watch but saw the score. Just pathetic. Start only the second unit for the rest of the season.

I guess TU football is now Metro. 😂 We shouldn't be surprised - Paul Wiedefeld (the metro CEO) is from Baltimore. He also ran the MTA for a while - what a shit show all around.

Yes!!! I've called out the stupid scheduling before and that is something we can control. (don't get me started on basketball here too) This year my very well be the LSU year all over again. (2012) One of our best teams ever and we miss the playoffs because of two FBS losses and the committee loves UNH. We lost to Kent State - who finished ranked 25 and LSU ranked 12th. You know San Diago state is a top 25 school and NSDU might as well be FBS at this point. Why would you schedule them both in the same year and BACK TO BACK weekends?

Just gotta keep taking it one week at a time. I was expecting the game to be closer but clearly, URI is not a top 25 team at the end of the season. Also I really enjoyed the Pats plane BS because I was able to make soooooo many bob kraft jokes this past week.

One week at a time but we have hope. We knew with our schedule we'd likely have 3 L's built in (JMU, NDSU, SDSU). UNH is better than we expected (plus we gave them the game with the turnovers). Win the game in front of you and move on should be the teams focus. If for some reason we shock JMU we could be a top 10 team by the end of year and everyone would be happy with the season. If we drop the JMU game and go 7-4 I think we are still happy and a playoff team. If we drop another game at 6-5, then it's the LSU year all over again. Two (basically) FBS loses and miss the playoffs despite being a very good team. I fault the staff a bit for this schedule. NDSU is basically an FBS team, SDSU is a top 25 FBS team - we played our two hardest games of the season back to back after a conference road game. It's up to the talent in the locker room to decide what type of team they want to be.

Missed the game but watched the highlights. What was the attendance like? Seems like some crowd noise on the final play which was nice to hear.

I want to watch the game but do not want to give Flo Sports any of my money. Does anyone know if NDSU has a stream? If not, does anyone know if you can just trial Flo then cancel or only do a month and cancel? There is literally no pricing on their website w/o giving them your email and I'm trying to avoid getting spammed

No one is talking about the 4 turnovers! You can't win a game (even more so on the road) when you are minus 3 in the turnover battle. The turnovers and lack of discipline are on Rob and I love crushing Towson coaches (remember I started the Fire Gordy stuff) but I also think we need to keep in mind this is ONE GAME vs a quality CAA team on the road. UNH is good; had a big crowd. It's also their first home game in two years. We clearly had this effect us and were not as prepared as we needed to be. I thought the D played fine. Yes the UNH kicker is not great but we forced him into longer kicks which he missed Opening with cupcake Morgan and playing NDSU next likely had us overlooking this game. (again on the coaches) Look at the box score, we had the name number of first downs, out rushed UNH and had more TOP We lost because we threw 4 picks and had 3x the penalty yards. Our talent is fine; just need to stop making mistakes. If the team (and coaches) and use this as a wake up call we will be fine. If we tailspin from this time to get the Fire Rob shirts ready.

The turnovers are killers. I think you need to give Amendola some snaps. He seems to be the best fit for our system. We need someone to extend plays and escape pressure. Listened to the game on the radio and it seemed like Ferguson would get pressured then hurry the pass.

I want to know more about this stadium stuff. Would love to remove the track and sink the field + new front sectons to get the seats closer to the action.

Wonder want our vaccinations % looks like considering we sat out the spring? Best way to avoid a forfeit is to get vaccinated.

Picked right in the middle of the pack. Not shocked by this at all since we didn't play in the spring and have a ton of new pieces. If the team can gel and avoid injuries we could be top 3 but with any setbacks we finish middle to back of the pack.

100% agree but we know that isn’t going to happen with this administration

Mascots and logos are cartoons so I just kind of expected that. It's not the classic T logo (which I also like) but hard to run out of an inflatable T.

Love it. Wish we had gear with the frontal tiger view on it after seeing the pictures of the tunnel.

Don't love this. As a non-Baltimore area native, i'm not excited by this since I have no local connection. I want to see use play more competitive games but I understand the need for warm-up games I honestly doubt anyone without a connection to either school will care. I'm tired of us trying to be 'Baltimore's team - It's just not going to happen. Focus on being better connected to alumni and build our Towson community that way not trying to lean into the geographic area. I've said this before it's crazy to me that we have zero DC area alumni events; it's all Baltimore and some NYC and the one Orioles spring training thing in Florida.

I got the "Towson Athletics Stakeholder Survey" emailed to me last week. Did other folks get it? How did you respond? I was pretty critical in my responses that getting a SWOT analysis done by an outside consultant (Carr Sports) isn't the answer. We need creativity, energy, innovation, fire... winning... literally any signs of life. All things that Towson Athletics has struggled with for a while (other than maybe Waddell, and he almost burnt us to the ground). I just don't see any motivation to be better in our current staff at all.