towson2006

If we had a following this thread doesn’t exist. It’d be cool to see it happen.

Barstool might not be the best place to go to promote the institution...but whatevs. I don’t mind trying to win, but I think we’ve demonstrated that, in rare circumstances only, does winning really matter that much. All that being said I’m helping recruit someone today.

Newton makes a lot of sense at Towson. No idea what kind of student/person he is, but the not quite big enough for BCS yet talented enough to win seems to do well in the FCS.

We have to schedule 2 and 1s and have been reluctant to do so since the mid 90s...outside of temple and Oregon state. We also need a dance partner. The game now seems to be tournaments.

Uhhh who could forget that big win over East Tennessee State after taking out USC-Upstate in 2014? Seriously though this isn’t a Pat Skerry thing. Since we moved to DI in 1980 what is our signature OOC win? Louisville in 1996?

this board and thread are not meant for such a mindset...we need to dream and spend big and then one day we will be just like Alabama

We also have construction fees @ $1200 or so, and every other school does too. The point wasn’t to complain about the fees, that’s just what colleges charge to register for classes. Rather, it’s the idea that if more students knew just how much athletics and construction was costing them maybe they would be more inclined to go to games. We’ve legit tried just about every strategy to get people to games over the years and it hasn’t worked maybe straight up telling them you are being charged X per year for athletics and Y for construction (SECU is like on a $56 million bond that will get paid off by the students over the next 25’years) may as well go.

This thread asked for ideas so how about the athletic department makes a big deal out of the fact that the games are not actually free to students but that they are paying $2100/year for SECU and to be season ticket holders for every single team on campus? Instead of looking at it as the games being “free” maybe more students would be inclined to go if they looked at it as “well I’m paying for it anyway may as well go”?

That office is largely staffed by interns...e.g students who are paying for the privilege to work for free to sell tickets to teams that they pay for in student fees in stadia that they pay for in student fees in return for academic credit. Oh yes and by doing a job for free that someone should get paid to do they also undercut their entry level salaries...Do you really think they care about one of the 274 season ticket holders needs? Would you? I get that it sucks not to get the care you should for the money you pay but that’s going on as well.

The problem with this vision was Caret/Waddell wanted to make Towson to UMD as NC State is to UNC or Michigan State is to UM which is basically an impossible analogy to fulfill. We are in the CAA with a $70 million endowment whereas they halve endowments at or near a billion and play in the ACC and BIG. They are also R1 institutions and Towson is not, which means big grants and nonsense that matters to them doesn’t to Towson as much. Plus the USM would have to approve of us being a true sister school to UMD which wouldn’t go over well with other institutions in the consortium. My favorite part of this whole thing is Caret and Waddell also often said sport was the front porch to this school, but the former presided over our largest period of student population growth in 30 years and we sucked at the “revenue” sports. Must have been the reverse front porch or something...or sport means jack all to Towson students outside of the select few who post here, go to games, etc. There really isn’t a lot that can be done about that.

The fact that the michigan game was in 1997, and marked the first time we had hardwood floors, is one of the most amazing things to me. It means we beat Louisville on Kemturf (and they agreed to come play us) as well as went to the tournament by winning at least once on that floor.

There is another little brother out there who is looking to transfer and prove himself at the DI level with immediate playing time, and a major that Towson has.

Have you read his contract?

But if history shows, relative to energy and expense spent, no one really cares about football or basketball at Towson as evidenced by the myriad posts on here with the same explanations for why: beds on campus, bad coaching, no outreach, no connection with Greek life, administration shutting down any fun to be had at tailgating, students historically behaving in ways that lead to tailgate shutdowns (burning a band float in the 80s leading to a decade of no tailgating, throwing beer cans at cop cars in the mid 2000s, backflips off trucks and landing on your face, etc), then why don’t we, at Towson, enjoy and celebrate success in all our sports. Then again actually knowing this history and understanding that we’ve literally struggled with an apathetic fan base since the inception of sport on this campus with numerous failed attempts at fundraising, threats to cut teams (sometimes successfully), and the absurd amount of money students are charged to pay for the teams they don’t care about in buildings they don’t fill for an athletic department they pay money to work for in return for college credit makes me a know it all. We aren’t a private institution that can do super shady stuff like Grand Canyon, we aren’t the number one show in town with college park to the south, and a better band to watch across town, there’s a ton of fun stuff to do around here besides watch fcs football or mid-major basketball. There’s no magic elixir that is ever going to change that. Given the aforementioned, I’d rather enjoy the cool stuff we have going on here. If it’s a 7-win football team that occasionally makes the playoffs in a tournament that almost always ends with NDSU as the winner great, if it’s a MBB team that wins 16-23 games a year in a middling conference that literally has no teams in it now that have reached the Final Four fantastic, win a CAA tourney in WBB and get smoked by UConn that’s actually our ceiling. When you change the metric for success to something that is reasonable and achievable it’s easier to enjoy what’s going on around here that’s all.

What an excellent post to celebrate the first undefeated VBall team in CAA history!