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On 9/15/2022 at 3:19 PM, mat1992 said:

 

and yet not picked up by NBC Mid-Atlantic 

1 hour ago, mat1992 said:

So about that ESPN+? BTW, there are other threads to talk about the coach and the program.

The production quality was bad as always and the PxP guy was a total homer (the color guy was much better) but hey it was free for me since I have the Disney, Hulu Espn bundle and was able to pull it up on my TV through Hulu with no issues. Being able to do that and not some hack job streaming service DC United cut mid-season years ago made me feel like I was a real college football fan for maybe the first time since 2013 when with our playoff games on ESPN2 or U and going to Frisco felt like what I imagine a bowl game feels like.

It was only a few hours for one game but a man can dream...

is it time to get the tshirt ready? I still have the Gordy graphic.

On 9/1/2022 at 11:33 AM, sr16 said:

atleast they are trying a different campaign

true, but I'm ready for this one to be over

5 hours ago, Blounge said:

The Baltimore accent adds a strong O in words like home, phone, ocean, etc so it’s just the slang Baltimore dialect way to pronounce “go” also it’s a spin-off of LSU’s geaux tigers

Personally not a fan. Again, we are never going to be Baltimore's anything it also alienates the rest of the state who can pronounce words correctly.

On 8/25/2022 at 8:39 PM, TuTigers2012 said:

Pat on Twitter is good. He’s been engaging with other fan bases too. 
NCAA or bust.

Yes NCAA or bust. For his twitter, it's cringy to me.. just give an intern the login.

Yes, good more changes, please. Even if they all fail at least we are trying to not just be status quo. 

It's clear we are never going to be in the new college football Super League so for me I like us being good at this level; whatever that is. I see FCS (likely non-Super League FBS too ) just becoming like minor league baseball or hockey. Those teams turn over every year and most players don't make it to the show but the community gets excited when the team is good.  Every once in a while a kid clearly will become a star and you follow them and cheer for them as they move along. I never cared about UVA but when Shane went there for the covid season I followed them.

Super League = MLB/NHL
FBS Group of 5 = AAA/AHL
FCS = AA/ECHL

Who doesn't love a good Baysox game? Just be that and people will be happy.

Now Marketing, realizing, becoming that, and listening to fans, etc. - that's the achilles heel of Towson. We are always caught in the middle with endless higher education bureaucrats either 1) thinking we are going to be something to the greater Baltimore area or 2) will kill any sense of fun/school pride the second a drunk student sets foot in a parking lot.

If we can ever realize no one in Baltimore or even Towson city cares about Towson unless they went there and focus on building our alumni and student engagement we can have an avid fanbase without being on ESPN in with a 100,000 person stadium.

2 hours ago, mat1992 said:

 

We can basically guarantee a game vs JMU. the lazy broadcaster "they used to be rivals in the CAA" is too easy for them to pass up. Queue talking about JMU moving to FBS football and the power 5 blowing up the NCAA after that for the following 5 minutes.

If they can win I don't care transfer or not.  Long term it would be nice to have a better development pipeline but I'm fine being Transfer U

On 8/9/2022 at 8:48 PM, mat1992 said:

It’s all about finances at this level.Well, at any level. I do like the creativity. TV is always going to be the center of everything. I think what we need is creativity in the TV part. CBS Sports is fine if we can get 25-30 hoops games and a football game once a week. But get rid of Flo. Find a streaming service to carry everything else. I don’t care if it’s Paramount or Peacock. Probably impossible for them to cover all games with their crews. Put a Game of the Week or have a DHer on Thursday. Everything else would have to be on free schools network. Have a highlights show and an hour coaches show with a short taped segment with every coach.

Yes! we need to figure the TV thing first and foremost.  Everything not on a normal (aka anything but Flo) streaming platform should be free on the school digital networks or CAA TV. I never minded the old TSN broadcast because they were free.

On 8/9/2022 at 9:44 PM, Blounge said:

I appreciate the creativity, but can’t see this happening. Would be cool tho. They have referred to the CAA as the SEC of FCS football so it would make sense to get all the big players in one conference 

I think the MVFC is not the SEC of FCS but I do remember and miss those days. Right now the CAA is maybe the big 10 but more likely the big 12. I also doubt it will happen but Texas and OU left the big 12 or the SEC; so a package of W&M, UD and Towson to the MVFC would be too different of an idea.

On 8/10/2022 at 8:33 AM, TuTigers2012 said:

Money.  Plain and simple.  Maryland and Rutgers have the DC and NYC markets for big ten network. Vandy, while awful in football, brings academics and a nice thriving city to the mix. They would never want to leave the SEC as they make too much money and there isn’t a league they’d fit into otherwise.

the playing hardball thing is interesting but uri and Richmond could careless if they are playing fcs football in the caa or elsewhere. Basketball is king there and if forced out would cut football or just move to another conference. The caa hand isn’t as strong as it used to be in that negotiation 

the like minded conference of teams close geographically that play the same sports would be nice… just a lot of work 

The MVC idea is interesting but I don’t think any of those caa teams want to travel to Murray Kentucky and normal Illinois every other year for football and yearly for other sports.  Wm wants to be in a conference where they have alumni bases and pull students from(so they currently don’t like their proposed position in the new caa south) 

when I was in school the only Three caa teams that required a flight for us were NE (typically buses back), Uncw (occasionally buses back) and Georgia state. Busing saves so much money

 

Agreed it's all money for the Power 5 but what I don't agree with is UMD and Rutgers bringing the DC and NYC markets. Maybe 20 years ago when DMAs mattered for TV but now everything is streaming so it doesn't matter where you live. I'd also very much argue Maryland barely has the DC market, no one in VA cares. Rutgers even less for NYC. I bet Penn State gets higher viewership in DC than UMD. Let alone with the fact with Maryland and Rutgers will never be competitive which will drive down interest even more in urban areas with other, better entertainment.

Non of these are perfect ideas but if I'm Dr. E i'm on the phone constantly looking to work on something better than the current CAA. We look even better if we are a package with W&M and UD.

I never understood a couple of things related to all this conference realignment stuff

1. why keep rehashing old conferences instead of starting a new one? the power 5 on down.
   1. ie what does Vandy bring to the SEC? Rutgers and Maryland in the big 10, etc. Smaller is better...because you might be able to actually win once in a while. The power 5 is trying to be the NFL 2.0; who cares, that isn't going to be us. 
2. Why does the CAA keep bailing out schools from the A10 and Big East with football? Play hardball, if they want to play football at this level join the conference in all sports
   1. I realized Villanova and Richmond will never do this but make that the Patriots league problem. Rhody would have to at least consider if the CAA 2.0 was attractive

Let's assume we need 10 schools for a conference. Find 10 like-minded schools and stick together. State schools, in Northeast that play FCS football:

Towson
Delaware
W&M
UNH
Maine
Albany
Stony Brook
VMI
Youngstown (i'm sure they would rather come east than go to the Dakotas)
Rhody

Backups
The Citadel
Central Conn

Another option is to try and join the Missouri Valley Football Conference and break away as an all sports league with an east and west. Work out some deal for the Illinois schools to always play each other and that is a great looking conference to me. Again, sizeable state schools that play FCS football. This might even be a multi bid basketball league in some years. It's far better in MBB than the new CAA. 

East:
Towson
UD
W&M
Youngstown
Murray State
Indiana State
Illinois State
Eastern Illinois (from the OVC)

West:
North Dakota State
North Dakota
South Dakota State
South Dakota
Northern Iowa
Missouri State
Western Illinois
Southern Illinois

not excited about this. can we leave already

3 hours ago, mat1992 said:

Interviewing him next Monday. Obvious topics (Flo, new CAA, marketing, getting students at games, etc.). If you have any other suggestions or topics, leave them here.

1. Alumni engagement
2. If he plans to stop trying to be "Baltimore's team" (it's never going to happen) and focus more on the Towson community
3. Bringing back something like T-Unit - student leadership to help drive attendance
4. Engagement with more avid fan (aka us on here - does he even know about this site)
   1. I remember I only learned about the old CAA Zone because they used to advertise it during football games on the PA
   2. It's always been strange to me that we don't have like a fan engagement townhall, forum, or survey. When I was a season ticket holder for the Caps they would survey me and ask me questions about my experience all the time.

1 hour ago, mat1992 said:

Look, I've been with this through Bill Hunter, Wayne Edwards, Mike Hermann, Wadell, Leonard and now Dr. Steve. All I ask for is some effort, energy and creativity when it comes to drawing more fans. I'm not talking students. That's a bonus if you can get them to hoops game and they will tailgate for football, win or lose. They may never come in full or even half force with a winning or losing programs and yes, the minimester crushes basketball. But I do like the ideas of enhancing the facilities including parking, to the point where you can bring more than just the women's world lax tournament and Turkey Bowl here. High school football is a start along with high school hoops. Baltimore Blast hasn't really increase attendance probably because most of those are soccer fans or just don't care about local college hoops. Most in the Baltimore metro area only care about the Terps. The key is getting the alums out. Maybe get an AAU Tournament here in the summer. Lax quarterfinals in men's and women's. Promote the shit out of the athletic program when you have big crowds. That's what I would do.

Also look to minor league baseball for ideas. People love antics.

9 hours ago, mat1992 said:

I don’t think she’s around anymore. 

Really? If so we need to celebrate. 

2 hours ago, Tiger93 said:

Hopefully Wake Forest is more like Xavier, who took 30 minutes before they decided to show up yesterday. Just looked at some of Wake's stats in ACC play, and they were third in rebounding margin, first in field goal percentage and I believe second in field goals percentage defense. Hopefully, our shooting efforts can be closer to resembling the Hofstra games then the Delaware and Northeastern games. 

Yeah, I think it all comes down to what type of teams show up. Who is more motivated by missing the NCAAs vs dejected.

Really sad. Do we know what happened? Gotta be so tough for his family.

i'm happy with the NIT. we still get a banner to put in the arena from this millennium

actually watched the game and got my hopes up - still unsure if that is a good or bad thing

good - I started to care and had hoped we could actually win something for the first time since the 2013 FCS championship game 
bad - we Towson'ed like always

silver lining - this team got me to care AND my emotional investments are much lower each year 

Not super shocking for a noon game vs the 8 seed. I'd still be sleeping by the time the bus left if I was still in school. Hopefully, they keep sending the buses for whoever will get on.

I never understood why we basically don't require greek kids to go. Tie game attendance to whatever funding they get

So you are telling me all I had to do was to move 3000 miles away and we'd win something????? If I knew that I would have moved away years ago. 🤣 

It is legit a bummer that I used to be a 10 minute metro ride from the arena where we for the first time since I was 4 have a real chance to make the tournament.  Regardless if we make the NCAAs I'm going but San Diego or Portland would sure be a nice trip.

wow I was expecting this search to take a year. seems like a good get on paper but we'll see.  MW was a marketer, TL an admin/fundraiser (not sure that held up). SE seems to follow the TL path, major gifts, but he did oversee ticketing so maybe he gets the concept that you have to actually promote the programs for people to come.

it's one thing to sell tickets and fundraise at an SEC school with no pro sports team in the state; it's another to have to create demand at a mid-major/FCS school

21 minutes ago, TuTigers2012 said:

it’s been cold, warm, humid not humid etc before. This is year 10 of the arena and the first time it happened, so….

Right, this does not happen without a failure in oversight. PS mentioned in his press conference the women's team has noted this issue before. 

59 minutes ago, Tiger93 said:

It is inexcusable and should not happen. I get that the point of message boards are to speculate and second-guess, but directing criticisms at specific areas without knowing all of the facts and basing them on people or parts of the department we might suspect is somewhat unfair. I would think we will get more information sometime soon, and we can direct our blame and comments once we have more information. 

The issue is we don't have more information so logically speculation will happen.

The real question is 'who does the buck stop with?'  Until that question is answered Towson will always be a circle of finger-pointing.