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5 hours ago, Tiger93 said:

I am with everyone else who wishes we could get a big name team to SECU, but overall Monmouth, Penn and UNC Greensboro are the type of teams I like to see us play in the non-conference, especially at home. Penn and UNC Greensboro have both made the NCAA Tournament within the last few years (UNC Greensboro last year), and Monmouth had a couple of seasons in 2016-17 and 2017-18 that I would kill to see Towson have. Overall a pretty solid schedule. I actually liked our schedule last year, we were just awful and the pauses hurt us as well.

No idea what to expect this year, but at least the transfers seem better on paper based on the stats at their respective previous institutions. Of course that is no guarantee of anything. Football and basketball both are complete wildcards this year in terms of what they could do. I am not trying to be overly optimistic, but both definitely have some upside on paper and if you remove some of the recent disappointment there are some things to get excited about. That being said, we all know the reasons to wait and see before buying into anything that is too optimistic. 

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. 

On 6/16/2021 at 4:30 PM, Bay Area Tiger said:

TCU at SECU in a coming season couldn’t hurt either. Make it happen coach.  

Would love to finally get a marquee game at SECU

On 6/19/2021 at 7:37 AM, LatinaHeat20 said:

Thank you! So JMU is the North Dakota State of the Valley and the CAA is also a powerhouse conference. This is great!! Can’t wait for the season!!! 

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 😁

5 hours ago, Godfather18 said:

Thanks appreciate that yes u will hear about Adrian very soon he already has great news can’t wait to see him play this fall.

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.

3 hours ago, mat1992 said:

 

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

23 hours ago, mat1992 said:

Knew he was a long shot 

 

maybe next year 😂

13 minutes ago, mat1992 said:

 

YESSSS SKOL!!

4 hours ago, TuTigers2012 said:

Hahah. Due to athletic department incompetence or actually making the playoffs and winning there??

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

3 hours ago, mat1992 said:

Offensive. Remember who the head coach is.

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

On 5/17/2021 at 7:38 PM, mat1992 said:

Getting close to announcing another new QB

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

On 5/23/2021 at 6:33 AM, TUTigers said:

Chris Ferguson?

ready to hear about this QB

2 hours ago, mat1992 said:

No, but he didn’t want to sit behind whomever the starter will be.

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.

15 hours ago, TuTigers2012 said:

Sure assuming that there are no other expenses. Just doesn’t seem like the best idea to play this team all the way across the country for that pay. 
could easily play an acc/aac team more local for the same money 

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.

On 3/27/2021 at 12:54 PM, TuTigers2012 said:

Lol. 
not sure how Ndsu will travel to the same east coast area twice in a 4 year period but athletics should not sell individual game tickets to that one. Make it part of a mini plan.  But they likely won’t due to the incompetence of the dept

100% but sadly I expect more incompetence 

On 3/26/2021 at 3:51 PM, TigerFan54 said:

Hmm. The national championship isn't on the line, as was the case seven years ago. But it is a BIG game, that's for sure

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

On 3/27/2021 at 3:02 PM, TUTigers said:

The announcers call was a little weak to say the least. 

LOL