9 years of out of conference games

[TSU88 1,070]

After last night’s scintillating 38 point output vs Vermont, we are close to wrapping up our 9th season of out-of-conference games during the Skerry era, which begs the following question: what is our signature OOC W during these 9 years? 

2012 vs Oregon State? The Beavers won 14 games that year. We actually did beat Vermont on the road 6 or so years ago. That Catamount team went to the NIT that year. Iona, a few years ago in Vegas? Temple, at home in 2013? I think Temple won 9 games that season. I can’t think of any other candidates off the top of my head. The choices are few & far between 
 

 

[towson2006 9]

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? 

[TuTigers2012 1,061]

2 hours ago, towson2006 said:

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? 

Well the program was dreadful from mid 90's to 2012, so...  We have been close a number of times, and have leads late and then in typical Towson fashion, choke it up.  

To be fair, you also have to schedule good/decent OOC games, to get wins. But we are Towson and content on playing Morgan, Coppin, UMBC, Loyola and D3's every year... YAWN

[towson2006 9]

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.

[griggey20 178]

Downplaying a win vs a power 5 school coming off a 1-31 season is pretty hilarious.  I don't care how good or bad they were. 

[TuTigers2012 1,061]

1 hour ago, griggey20 said:

Downplaying a win vs a power 5 school coming off a 1-31 season is pretty hilarious.  I don't care how good or bad they were. 

I agree. That was by far the best win. Across the country. Down double digits. Off to a bad start on the season. We were like 3-5 or something at that time and it catapulted to like a 15-5 finish   

[TSU88 1,070]

2012-13 season. Since then?

[TuTigers2012 1,061]

42 minutes ago, TSU88 said:

2012-13 season. Since then?

“Doesn’t matter. They did it once. This is Towson, not duke or unc or even Maryland. Just be happy we have a team. Who would you even hire if he got canned? It takes two teams to schedule. He’s one player away. Next year”

[Chris Datres 423]

11 hours ago, TuTigers2012 said:

Well the program was dreadful from mid 90's to 2012, so...  We have been close a number of times, and have leads late and then in typical Towson fashion, choke it up.  

To be fair, you also have to schedule good/decent OOC games, to get wins. But we are Towson and content on playing Morgan, Coppin, UMBC, Loyola and D3's every year... YAWN

We should play the other locals.  You think Villanova likes the idea of having to play an Ivy, two below-average A-10 teams, and a who-knows-what-you-get Temple team every year?  For a while, Nova thumbed their nose at the rest of Philly and their rep in the city took a hit.  We don’t have a rep to take a hit on if we skipped out of the local scene but those games are still always tough tests to prepare for conference season.  
 

On the rest of the OOC front, there has to be better effort to get someone with a name to SECU.  Look across the landscape and see all the power conference schools going to mid-majors.  NC has gone to Elon and UNCW the last two years.  Illinois went to Grand Canyon.  Arizona State went to Princeton ffs.  You have to likely schedule 2 (or 3) for 1s to make it happen but if you stagger the years, you can get a name team into SECU every year.  Even if that ‘major’ team is a Temple, VA Tech, Rutgers, Wake Forest, those guys are looking for a footing in the Baltimore recruiting market too and might have a strong interest in a trip.  But it’s annoying to see all the schools on par with us conference-wise get one marquee home game every year or every other year while the best we can do is a first-division MAC team.  

[TuTigers2012 1,061]

7 minutes ago, Chris Datres said:

We should play the other locals.  You think Villanova likes the idea of having to play an Ivy, two below-average A-10 teams, and a who-knows-what-you-get Temple team every year?  For a while, Nova thumbed their nose at the rest of Philly and their rep in the city took a hit.  We don’t have a rep to take a hit on if we skipped out of the local scene but those games are still always tough tests to prepare for conference season.  
 

On the rest of the OOC front, there has to be better effort to get someone with a name to SECU.  Look across the landscape and see all the power conference schools going to mid-majors.  NC has gone to Elon and UNCW the last two years.  Illinois went to Grand Canyon.  Arizona State went to Princeton ffs.  You have to likely schedule 2 (or 3) for 1s to make it happen but if you stagger the years, you can get a name team into SECU every year.  Even if that ‘major’ team is a Temple, VA Tech, Rutgers, Wake Forest, those guys are looking for a footing in the Baltimore recruiting market too and might have a strong interest in a trip.  But it’s annoying to see all the schools on par with us conference-wise get one marquee home game every year or every other year while the best we can do is a first-division MAC team.  

I get what you are saying but it’s apples and oranges. 4 of those 5 teams have good histories.  A loss by nova to penn isn’t as embarrassing as a loss to umbc or Coppin. The Philly 5 are all repeatable programs that play in good conferences not the meac and America east. 

Lsu went to Charleston. Michigan state went to ne. Nova played at Nassau coliseum  vs Hofstra. Duke played Elon in Greensboro and split the gate. Uva goes to jmu next year. Notre Dame went to Delaware. Some are old coaches and colleagues but pats been everywhere before Towson. You’d think we could get someone to do a 2 game trip to either a philly team or a dc team with us.  We won’t kill anyone’s rpi as we are an average team.