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Most points scored in a CAA game since the UNH win in 2012 (64-35). Just trying to see if anybody is up or cares that I put "edged" in the title.

Good to see we’re not overreacting off the first game. No such thing as a bad win. If the sky is already falling after game 1, then I’m gonna stay away from the misery around here. I’m surprised we haven’t called for any firings yet.

I’ve always rooted for guys who left for greener pastures. Leaving to go to a conference rival. F that. He can kick rocks

You could be Boise State or TCU this morning and trying to figure out what THAT was. Or Auburn and Georgia Tech, thankful that your stupid basketball IQ didn't cost you a buy game. Expectations is the dirtiest word in the sports dictionary because it will skew your thinking on everything that happens. Having a first game against someone like Loyola allows for the wiggle room to figure out a rotation and see where the chemistry is. My eyes went to FG% defense and 3-pt FG defense in the box score and liked what I saw, especially from 3 which has been something our defenses have struggled with annually. Houston is not going to be a fun trip on Saturday because they play a brand of ball that sometimes belongs in a back alley more than an arena. However, maybe there's something on that Lehigh game tape that we can learn from to keep us in the ballgame.

I would be remiss if I didn't give a quick shout-out to my local friends at Kennesaw State University for clinching FBS Bowl eligibility earlier this week. What a tremendous story and accomplishment. Football program launched from scratch in 2015. Notable success at the FCS level over a several years, take a leap of faith into FBS in 2024 and become bowl eligible in their first season in which they could do so. Their success and path should be the blueprint for Towson. Eigenbrot, Ginsberg and staff should fly to ATL for in-person conversations with KSU's longtime AD, Milton Overton and KSU's President Kat Schwaig for a deep dive into how they've achieved what they've achieved so quickly. All of that, of course, assumes that Eigenbrot and Ginsberg even care about the long-term success & viability of TU's football program. Will KSU ever compete for an FBS Playoff spot? Highly unlikely. However, playing nationally televised games on reputable networks against teams people have heard of with the chance of making one of dozens of bowl games seems like a fun and rewarding existence. Go Tigers & Go Owls.

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Still here ..*SD. Why does every post you make have to be a sarcastic, childish comment. We get ityou want football dropped. You are constantly make fun of other posters, the players, coaches and staff( all programs). You have your opinion, but we’re entitled to have ours as well. I’m calling BS on you… enough.

The whole purpose to the play-in games should be for all those mediocre big conference teams who couldn't do better than 7-11 in their conference and get whacked before the quarters of their tournament. Oh hey, you're Texas or North Carolina so by name, here's a pass into the big Tournament no matter how terrible you were this year. And let's make sure while we're doing this, let's penalize the low-budget teams who have to take 4 or more guarantee games just to keep the athletic department afloat and EARNED their way into the Tournament. It's not about the competition anymore, it's about how much money we can make. Just goes to show that people in power often don't have the faintest clue what they're doing.

For context those D1 matchups were Towson's win against a mediocre Patriot League, Hampton losing to Milwaukee who is picked to win the Horizon (still can't make excuses against other mid-major leagues), Hofstra losing to a low-level Big 12 UCF (who we will get a shot at later), NC A&T losing to the predicted worse team in the SEC in South Carolina, Campbell losing to a middle-of-the-road Big Ten team in Wisconsin and an alright Big 12 West Virginia team, and Northeastern dropping a close winnable game (and one where they were favored) to a team picked second in the Patriot League. Not exactly stellar, but the Northeastern one is the only game you could argue where a CAA team should have won. Hofstra was +9.5 Campbell was +21 against Wisconsin and +16 against West Virginia Towson was -9.5 NC A&T was +22.5 Hampton was +6 Northeastern was -2.5

https://towsontigers.com/news/2025/11/2/towson-mens-basketball-opens-season-against-loyola-at-cfg-bank-arena.aspx https://towsontigers.com/documents/2025/10/31/Loyola.pdf Love the new game notes. List wingspan and projected starters (only because it was St. John's).

https://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=610233&_gl=1*y6mqly*_ga*MTAzNzU3MjY0MS4xNzU2MzkwNDA1*_ga_2ZWVK1X7BJ*czE3NjIyMjEwMjMkbzQzJGcwJHQxNzYyMjIxMDIzJGo2MCRsMCRoMA.. Tyler Tejada scored 24 points on 8-of-14 from the field in 39 minutes to lead the Tigers over Loyola 67-56 on Monday night. It was an ugly first half where both teams shot poorly in the first half as the game was tied at the half 28-28. But Towson, who went 0-for-4 from three-point land in the first half, made 3 of 7 in the second and hit 14-of-18 free throws to take the game by 11. Towson shot 43.9% from the field and held the Greyhounds to just 34% shooting and 4-of-22 from the three-point line The Tigers outrebounded the Greyhounds 40-29 and committed just. 10 turnovers (nine assists). Dylan Williamson had a solid game with 14 points and five assists, with 3 turnovers. Jack Doumbia did not start, but started the second half and wound up with 13 points and 7 rebounds in 30 minutes. "There's nerves, expectations. Excellent second half. Really guarded them. We fouled too much. Got the ball to Tyler and Dylan. Still figuring some things out," said Pat Skerry after the game on Monumental. "We took care of the ball, defense looked good, Ndefo and Womack did some good things as a freshmen. Liked the second half. Threw us off with some zone stuff in the first half. Embeya is a key guy. Has to stay on the flor. Mor Seck did a nice job. Trying to figure out the rotation." "Trying to find a rhythm. Started out slow," said Tyler Tejada after the game. "This one was for real. There were some nerves and once we settled down, we played our game".

Don’t think anyone said the sky is falling. Simply not happy with the result. We are a good enough program to expect more than just a tight win against a Ken Pom 200 team.

I'll say this. Ndefo whiffed that dunk earlier and then Tejada had him for an ally oop in the second half and Embeya clipped him. We were all out of sorts and Embeya's offense is just dreadful at times. I know PS loves him but Seck is a little more aggressive on offense. Yeah, I get it. This doesn't look like a top team in the CAA. Same thing last season. We looked like dreck in November. We just have to keep getting better before conference play and win a few non-conference games against middies. We have to play a lot better than we did tonight, especially in the first half, to beat anybody decent. I think, until guys like Womack, Schmid and whoever steps up, it's Tyler and Dylan's team with Doumbia contributing as a 3rd option.

I've been complaining about the website for years, especially the facilities page that shows one picture from about 10 years ago. Check out every website in the nation, even the mid-majors, low-majors, almost every one is very braggy about their facilities and are not to be kind. They have videos, pictures, stories, etc. This is not 1990 when I was there and we had nada. We had our largest margin of victory since 1983 yesterday. That was in their recap, but it should have been all over social media. Is it a big win or that important? Not really in the grand scheme of things, but you need to brag when something spectacular happens. BTW, I don't think anything was posted on Twitter/X about our MBB tomorrow against Loyola. I mean a preview. I had to check the website and it's up there.

I think the way the athletic department handles their social accounts is below average. The main athletics page should be reposting EVERYTHING that each sport individually posts. But that doesn't happen. I don't follow the women's soccer or field hockey accounts so I had no idea that they both had elimination games in their final regular season games until I looked at the CAA standings page. Regardless of result, those things need to be reposted by the main athletics page. So I can certainly see why there'd be zero connect between the sports.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't agree about giving bulletin board material to the opponent, whether it's calling Delaware "Chickens", which is not why they beat us. The A&T tweet was dumb but irrelevant and not why we EDGED them. I'm sure it didn't start a fight, but we were running up the score in the fourth quarter. Not very Shinnick-like and calling a timeout with 5 seconds let to get the players on the bench to the locker room to avoid another fracas at midfield. Something happened. I'm not lying or bullshitting. They also have more things to worry about than a Tweet.

ESPN+ is also included in a number of streaming bundles. Hulu, Disney, Fox etc with and without commercials. Flo is not. Add Flo as an option to Paramount+, then maybe I'd consider upgrading. But as a standalone not integrated into smart TVs, it's just so small time. Yes! M-F tournament was much better.

I’m stunned. A legit P5 kid , with all of the measurables. Alabama camp time was 4.61! He held offers from Texas A&M, Houston , Cal, K State, Arkansas, App State, Arkansas State, Tulane, Oklahoma State , Texas Tech, Baylor, Colorado State, S Miss. UMiss , TCU and Towson. Strong interest from U Alabama and LSU. Grant is 100% committed and will be here in January. There are no games being played this late in the recruiting period. Commitment is solid.

The optimist in me says that Shinnick has a knack for recruiting talented freshmen QBs and that Grant Smith likes the idea of being a very big fish in a very small, algae-filled CAA pond. The pessimist in me says that Grant Smith is only verbally committed to Towson and is playing some kind of bizarre game of poker with other programs and will ultimately sign somewhere, much bigger and more notable, on signing day.

They need to win. They need to get better games at home. Attendance always upticks for Saturday games and ones in Feb for obvious reasons. There is a DJ for what it’s worth. My issue is the student being next to OUR bench with the actual seats, instead of near the opponents bench. Towson did a great job with marketing and promotion last year. There were some good changes from the past. This coming from me.

Disclaimer: I did not watch the whole game. What I did see was a lifeless team, which is especially disappointing given the off week. I guess Kent made it interesting at the end, but too little, too late. I’m not so sure Indorf starts next week. If I’m Shinnick, I want to puff up my record with a chance to beat another HBCU. Remember, of his 15 W’s, 8 are vs HBCU’s. Speaking only for myself, it’s hard to muster a great deal of enthusiasm about next week, or the remainder of the season for that matter. No running game; special teams that aren’t special; uneven play at QB; and a defense that’s offensive. The sad train 🚂 rolls on. Next stop, Fayetteville

I think after 13 games and the likes of Wilson College and Notre Dame of MD it will all even out. Thank god we play Houston & Kansas.

I’m not sure why Elon is so good at destroying our perfect seasons, but it isn’t a big surprise that this team got caught on a rough day and dropped one. Despite a pretty rough loss on Sunday wherein the Tigers were up 14-12 in the 5th set, they still remain in first place in the conference. They will pick up two free wins on the road at Hampton next week, and will go into Stony Brook and Hofstra sitting at 11-1. Not a bad place to be.

CAA closing the gap on the top conferences in basketball. Unfortunate football side of things are disastrous, but CAA basketball seems to be making headway.

Look, Monmouth is really not a good football team. This is what happens in a watered down FCS and a horrible CAA. Yesterday’, We allowed Monmouth ( yes, Monmouth) to run for 200+ yards at 5.0 per carry! How could the coaching staff think that giving the ball back to “the #1 offense in FCS football”😉with 5 minutes remaining, was gonna give us a chance to win?

Not CAA related anymore…

https://towsontigers.com/news/2025/11/5/mens-basketball-introducing-docs-block-annual-membership.aspx

Not going to get into unsubstantiated rumors, but something happened before the game for the players and coaches to get into it and for Shinnick to call a timeout with seconds left in victory formation to get his team off the field at the end of the game to avoid another confrontation. We'll see if the CAA (Joe D) handles it, which I doubt. And I seriously doubt that that unprofessional Tweet had anything to do with the fight in pregame. It was just a little shocking when I saw it posted before the football game. It's fine to show confidence but if you aren't good, why would you do that? Good teams don't do that or shouldn't.

For anyone interested, the league was paid $2,470,054 last year for FLO. Split amongst 14 members is ~$175,000 per institution (or half of what Joey D makes) For CAA Football, the league was paid $529,000 for FLO. Split amongst 14 members (honestly don't know who is or is not in league anymore) is ~$37,000 per institution Much more than Patriot and SoCon are paid for their streaming deals.

“Benedict May Night”

I already anticipate being pissed off when Christian May somehow regains his shooting stroke this year. I really liked May. He was a very solid all-around player who was a strong defender. Hard to explain why his shooting stroke just abandoned him after his freshman year. I hope it comes back and that he is good, but not when he plays us.

Could be us too. We saw what that could look like the last 2-3 games of the season last year. School needs to promote to the students on campus better, as well as reach the great area of Baltimore. Why should people watch? Towson is essentially Baltimore’s representation for basketball, UMBC,Morgan etc are all secondary to what Towson has built. It’s up to Steve and co to drive this point in to resonate with residents. We aren’t in the middle of nowhere, there’s so much in the surrounding metro area. I keep going back to the game day experience, we don’t have the name brand that UMD or a Penn state would have. Add something unique to the stadium, make it hype and fun to be at a game even if we’re losing, add a DJ, light show, player intros etc.

Slap in the face… Liberty & High Point over us. Towson vs everyone. Paybacks are coming.

K-State; TX A&M; Ark; TX Tech; Baylor; Houston; TCU; Cal; Tulane; Colorado State and…Towson. Which one doesn’t fit with the others?🤔🤷‍♂️ What am I missing here? In any event, if we really beat out these programs, kudos to Shinnick and his staff. With this kid and the QB commit out of Indiana (Jacob Davis), I’m not sure what this says about the long term future of Indorf. Actually, I think I might know what it says come to think of it

I don’t always agree with you, but if your thesis is that football has been irrelevant since Frisco, you’re right. We’re in our 11th season since Frisco (2020 season was cancelled due to Covid). Our record in that time is 59-63. If you look up “mediocrity” in Webster’s, it’ll read “see Towson football post-Frisco.” And this is over a decade, so it’s not a small sample size. And Mat is 100% correct; this is on Eigenbrot and Ginsberg (at least the Shinnick phase of this extended period of crappiness). If Shinnick is an example of the quality of their coaching hires, I hope Skerry outlasts them both.

No objective analysis could conclude anything other than we’re mediocre, at best. This season is particularly disappointing given that there was a degree of momentum after going 7-5 last season, and being within a missed very make able FG of being 8-4. It’s hard to optimistic at this stage about the short term outlook. This is Shinnick’s 3rd season. By now, one would think he’d have his system & players fully in place. It looks like there will have to be almost a complete makeover for next season. That kind of roster shuffling is generally not conducive to on-field success, though perhaps this is the new normal, in the NIL era, even at our level. If I’m not mistaken, Nova, Richmond and W&M will all be ghosts next season, leaving the door open, ostensibly, for us to fill the void those departures create. I am not a Shinnick fan at all. I think the play calling is generally poor as well as the schemes on both sides of the ball. His recruiting is either lacking, or his ability to develop players is poor. Likely a combo of the two. If we play 2 FBS teams next season (Navy and I believe S. Carolina), our chances of making the playoffs are slim, as we’d have to go at least 8-2, if not 9-1, in our remaining games, unless we somehow get the AQ by winning the conference. Attendance is mediocre, which is not surprising considering the product on the field. This board is a microcosm of the apathy surrounding the football program. On the post game thread regarding yesterday’s game, I believe only 4 posters (Mat, myself, sr16 and 2012) even bothered to post. If I left anyone out, I apologize. Add to all this that we’re in a conference which is a shell of what it once was, replacing the likes of JMU, DE, W&M, Nova and Richmond with NCAT, Hampton, Bryant, Campbell and Sacred Heart. Although DE didn’t view us as their rival, we viewed them as such, and generally won enough games vs them for it to be considered a rivalry (it’s not a rivalry if 1 team wins all the time). Now, we’re on an island, with no semblance of a rivalry. We’re too far north of the southern bloc (Campbell, Hampton, NCAT, Elon…) and too far south of the northern bloc (URI, Maine, UNH ….) With all this being said, Shinnick isn’t going anywhere, so the best we can hope for is that the watered down conference provides us a path to dominance. I personally doubt that this will come to fruition, but I guess we have to cling to this idea

Seems like we need to double our football budget to stay competitive with our conference rivals

Towson (3-4, 1-2 CAA) Team stats in the CAA Scoring Offense 10th in scoring offense 22.71 points per game 10th in total defense 395.4 yards per game 6th in scoring defense at 26.7 points per game Last (14th) in Total offensive plays at 325.43 12th in Total offensive yards per game at 325.43 10th in total offense at 325.4 yards per game 13th in rushing offense per game (98.1ypg) 13th in rushing TDs (5) 4th in pass efficiency (145.40) 7th in rushing defense (159.1ypg) 8th in pass defensive efficiency (133.36) 12th in yards per rush (3.17) 3rd in pass completion S% (62.2%) 10th in pass defense (236.3ypg) Penalties 3rd with 45.9 yards per game 8th in red zone defense (83.87%) 13th in red zone offense (76%) LAST (14th) in sacks by with 1.14 per game (8). Individual Passing Andrew Indorf is completing 61% of his passes for 1,458 yards with nine TDs and three picks at 208.3 yards per game. *Has 43 yards rushing (lost 122) Rushing Al Wooten II has 306 yards rushing to lead the team with 3 TDs *Averaging 3.6 yards per catch and 43.7 yards per game (one fumble). Has 6 catches for 49 yards. Kemarion Battles has 227 yards rushing with one TD *Averaging 4.1 yards per carry, Has 8 catches for 75 yards and a TD. Receiving John Dunmore leads with 31 catches for 338 yards and four TDs *Has one passing touchdown to Battles Jaceon Doss leads with 453 yards receiving (18 catches) with three TDs and averages 25.2 yards per catch Nobody else has more than 13 catches (Lukkas London had 13 for 140 yards and 2 TDs). No tight end has more than six catches. Tackles Jasin Shiggs leads with 44 tackles *Has an INT and PBU Ja'Mez Drummer adds 41 tackles and two sacks with 2.5 TFLs and 3 QB hurries CJ McClendon also has 41 tackles with 5 TFLs, 1.5 sacks and 1 PBU LB Aldred Thomas leads the team with 4 QB hurries and has one fumble recovery. LB Rodney Roane has 26 tackles, 3 TFls, 2 sacks and 2 QBH in four games. Has misse the last three with an injury. Special teams Bryce LaFollete is averaging 44.3 yards per punt with 9 inside the 20 Kicker Caden Williams is 9 for 11 on the season with a long of 50.

Talk about liftoff! He probably needed an air traffic controller to clear him before he took off. The 25-26 season hasn’t started yet, but I can’t help but think about what a 1-2 punch Sajid & Womack might make in 26-27

Top non-P5 is what it said

Of course. I think SHU will be an intimate gathering, as well as Hofstra. That’s the one that concerns me, as I’m not sure we’re going to have much of a home court advantage, in what could be an important conference game

Monmouth, stony Brook, uri. Elon have all joined and passed us by. Embarrassing. What’s the excuse? NIL (lol).? How are other schools consistently getting better players and winning much more? See one more possibly win so Pete does get up and beat Hbcus. It’s everyone else he can’t.

Spin. Just hope they didn’t copy and paste another weeks story in..

Doubt it.