TheGoldCrotchPiece

Great recap as always. Glad you are feeling better. The write-up has me more excited than usual for MBB but I think we are all desperate for Tiger men's basketball to relevant again, so hoping it's not false excitement. The Skerry quote about "my AD" was interesting and a weird way to phrase it. I'm shocked TL would put any pressure on results given the lack of them we have seen in the major sports during his tenure. Maybe seats are warming up? I got the "Towson Athletics Stakeholder Survey" emailed to me last week and I was pretty critical in my responses that getting a SWOT analysis done by an outside consultant isn't the answer. I'll actually start another thread about this.

switch the home and road schedule and i'm buying season tickets. our home schedule is still so weak. at least try to get an A10 team or low Big East team in the building.

Would love to finally get a marquee game at SECU

Yup, for many years people said the CAA was the SEC of the FCS. I think the MVFC has taken over within the last couple of years that but until recently it was only NDSU then a huge drop-off. The other Dakota schools have improved recently to give them the crown IMO. Before the A10/CAA, run as the best conference the Big Sky would have been the best in the mid 90's. Appy State won a bunch and had the Michigan before they moved up to FBS but Appy State was really the only team in the SoCon of any value. If you look at the national championship games for the last twenty years it was more likely than not a CAA team playing Appy State in the 00's and NDSU on the 10's. MVFC = SEC CAA = Big 10 Big Sky = ACC Southland = Big 12 After that hard to tell, maybe the Ivy League is the Pac 12. Hard to know because the Ivy does not do the playoffs so it's only a handful of OOC games to start the season for comparisons.

Nice. Maybe we can get a TV game out of it.

I don't follow Baltimore high school basketball. Is Calvert Hall any good?

nice to know all college apartments still look the same 😁

Bummer to hear. Wishing you and Adrian the best. Others might poke fun but I always enjoyed your passion for your godson and TU football on the message board. It sucks to lose a pretty active poster in our small Towson Fans community. Hope you stick around and keep an eye on Towson as a casual fan.

curious why he wants out? he was up for more playing time this year. Must have not impressed in the spring.

maybe next year 😂

YESSSS SKOL!!

athletic department incompetence.....100% that is a given making the playoffs and deserving to keep his job...50%?

Is Rob still going to call plays this year?

11-0! 😁 More realistically the best case I see is 8-3 but could be much worse and depends on the QB play. It's hard to know what we have as it will be ~18 months since we last saw tiger football

what are we waiting on the kid to sign or us to do PR?

ready to hear about this QB

Any idea of players we are targeting?

I don't really care and I'm assuming most of their alumni don't as well. They are a small school in the northeast and they don't play football so I think it's up to their community to see if the costs are worth it for basically keeping basketball as a revenue(ish) sport. I could see a better fit in the MAAC for them (all private schools) vs the America East (Hartford is the only private school) Also, they have 'esports' as an official team on their athletics website so I doubt they care all that much about physical sports..... I get that esports is now a thing but it's not an NCAA sport.

getting hot at the right time.

I don't get this team. How do you score zero goals in the second half?

5 mvfc teams in with the reduced playoff size... gross. Since this is clearly a playoff based on names only they should have cut the auto bids. feel bad for richmond and rhody who are clearly better than half of these teams. one caa loss each. southern illinois getting in with a 5-3 record is a joke (4-3 if you don't count the fall win) they were blown out by north dakota and SD State. Missouri Sate isn't as bad if you throw out the fall season (3Ls). But are we throwing out the fall season or no? Seems like the fall season helped one team and the committee ignored it for another.

You are assuming those local teams are willing to play +pay us. There are plenty of other FCS teams in the area looking to do the same and unfortunately, the two FBS teams in the state are not going out of their way to help us out. (Navy - sure based in MD but really a national university; UMD 💩....has never done anything for the betterment of other state schools). We don't have the sweet hook-up like the VA and NC schools. While I agree it's no LSU or Florida game it's nice to give the team an interesting trip once a year and the entire goal is to not get half the team injured. Looking at FBS games in years past: LSU/FL/WVU = Hi, happy to be here! SDSU = Wake/UMD/USF/IU (could maybe win with the perfect game; likely lose but not get overly embarrassed) UCON/Kent St/ECU = winnable...will still likely lose I don't want to become one of those MEAC schools that travels all over the country to be a preseason SEC game just to fund their athletic department. We missed out on the playoff the LSU year because we played two FBS games.

100% but sadly I expect more incompetence

Should have added home game. The national championship game was amazing but we had like 5% of the fans. Hopefully, we actually get a majority of fans in the stadium this time