Chris Datres

Make the f'ing play. Know the snap count. Catch the damn ball. Play your position. Stop committing penalties. Coaches can only do so much with the scheme. They were in position to win the game and the players burped it up again. And just once I'd like to see a Towson football team that isn't cut down by their special teams play. Every single year it seems that some aspect of special teams hamstrings our season's progress. You have one damn job as a kicker and if you're on scholarship, you'd better do that job. If the snap is bad or the hold is bad, you get a pass. It didn't look like that on the final play. EXECUTE PROPERLY

Would you say that Lowery is cut from a similar cloth as Guthrie was?

If most of the rest of the country was any indication, Week 2 was a week where teams had to do a little bit extra to get their bearings underneath them. Look at all the home teams that struggled or even lost to what would be considered lesser competition -- Penn State, Alabama, Oklahoma, Florida State, Notre Dame, and so on. Everyone was so hyped up to get their season underway in week 1 and then they come back in week 2 and it's a bit of a letdown. From my ear's standpoint, it seemed like the penalties were the biggest issue with us last night. Gotta get the discipline ironed out. I know we put a lot of trust in the offensive line in those short yardage situations but what if there was a little trickery involved and had a bootleg/tight end option when everyone thinks the dive play is gonna get run? The biggest encouragement comes from the defense's effort. Other than that long TD run to start the 2nd half, they kept things under control and had to come up big when the offense couldn't muster anything. Now if we can just keep those injuries at bay...

Solid comeback from down 2-1 to whack Lehigh tonight.

Looks like we're going to LeBron's alma mater for a game against Duquesne, who is coached by LeBron's buddy. https://x.com/RoccoMiller8/status/1823470201259893129

Did we anger the scheduling office that they gave us Charleston and UNCW as road games only? Probably a back-to-back trip too. At least we don’t have to go to Hofstra.

Turned us down? They scared or did we ask for too much money? One group I'm largely disappointed with is the A-10 schools. We've had UMASS, Temple, GW do home-and-homes (or 2-for-1's in Temple's case) in the past. What's wrong with Mason, VCU, St. Joe's, and teams like that? It keeps costs down since it's regional and it's a similar game to what you'd find in your conference. There are so many teams and coaches running scared and I get that they're also trying to maintain a bottom line but where does it help your team and build your fanbase by playing Directional State A&M versus playing someone like us?

I'd rather try to schedule a terrible D1 program than have to schedule a D3 program. I would hope our marketing department will do something similar with the elementary schools that they did with last season's D3 game so there can be some semblance of a crowd that day.

Who or what has been the cause of the beef between us and Loyola? The Hounds released their schedule and they've got Lancaster Bible on there as their 2nd game of the season. I get that there wouldn't be a home-and-home series in season with them but doing a constant home-and-home with them would at least check one home game box for each side every other year. It's also kind of absurd that two schools that close in proximity don't play each other anymore.

That's a good get to have JMU for a home-and-home. I'm sure they're as strapped as we are to get opponents to schedule them. That Bryant game will be a nice one to attend over Xmas.

Not going to be any different from the tourneys we played in Savannah and Ft. Myers the last few years. In both arenas, there might have been more workers than there were fans.

Can't wait to see Penn State (York) on this schedule!! 😎

Brian swims a 1:00.29 in the semifinal and that was 12th out of the 16 swimmers in the round. An insane 10 swimmers were below a minute and 2 of those won't even get into the final. A great run for Brian as he swims his two personal best times today but he was just beaten by better competition.

Benzing with a 1:00.16 in his preliminary heat in the 100M Breaststroke in today's Olympic Trials. That was the 7th best time of 81 competitors and qualifies him for the semifinals tonight at approximately 8:45pm on Peacock. Semifinals is 2 heats of 8 and the top 8 times will qualify for the final on Sunday night.

And then they’ll wonder why they start 2-6 in conference having given away 3 of those games in the last 3 mins because they don’t know how to play in clutch situations.