AtlantaTiger

Smooth mover for being as tall as he is. Hope we land him. Keep recruiting these Georgia boys, they can ball!

A direct excerpt from the press release announcing Tyner’s retirement…. “The Towson Athletics department has formalized a search committee and will conduct a nationwide search for its next head coach.” How convenient and miraculous that of all the coaches the “committee” researched and interviewed in their exhaustive nationwide search, the perfect option was just a few short miles down the street. 🙄 Our athletic department leadership is a joke.

This seems like a very “Towson” hire. I really hope Liam Bowen is the answer to turning around our program but….

Very interesting! Of course, that could mean anything from a current sitting HC at a high school, DIII or NAIA program, but interesting nonetheless.

On account of the fact that Brendan Sorsby is a confirmed scumbag who has wagered on his own teams/games in the past, the legitimacy of our game against UC in 2024 should be called into question......thereby I'm retroactively awarding us a W against the Bearcats. 😉

Completely agree. That’s why I half-seriously floated Casper Wells’ name in this thread a few weeks ago. A quick LinkedIn search shows that he’s back in the greater Baltimore area, after some time out west, selling insurance. Might not hurt for Steve to place a quick call to gauge his interest in getting back into the game.

Any updates or rumors on where things stand with the new coaching search? Potential candidates, etc.?

7p kickoff at South Carolina. Giddyup!!

What's Casper Wells doing these days? I can't imagine Towson will be a highly desirable opportunity for a well-established and proven coach.....maybe give an accomplished (young) alum with a passion for the school an opportunity to reinvigorate the program. The program can't get much worse under his leadership.

Nice! Would love to see us recruit more Georgia boys.

Towson men's basketball finished the 2025-2026 season ranked 278th in NCAA Division I for free throw percentage. The Tigers shot 69.5% from the line as a team, making 421 of their 606 attempts over 34 games. Rank: 278th (out of 365 teams) Why were free throws such a challenge for the team in 2025-2026? How does the staff and the team look to improve upon that number?

Well, apparently whatever he said in May 2025, 2024, 2023, etc., wasn't quite good enough, I guess. He needs to go back to the drawing board in May 2026.

What now? Now we hope that Pat Skerry uses the remainder of this "off-season" to focus on improving at his own craft. Just as there are expectations on the players in get in the gym, work on their shots, get bigger, stronger, faster, develop team chemistry, etc., there should be an expectation that Coach Skerry and his staff put in the same effort to develop, or at least consider, new strategies, philosophies, study film, connect with other coaching staffs to talk shop and exchange ideas, attend coaching clinics, etc. Do anything but remain status quo. Business as usual is not acceptable. The idea that we could just plug-n-play this new cast of players into the existing system and achieve better results is highly improbable. If we're being honest, a side-by-side comparison of this new squad's talent and potential, compared to this past season's team, is not even close. We'll be heading into the season with a lot of unknown, unproven pieces. When we had the returning preseason CAA POY in TT and his more established running mates, we still couldn't achieve the ultimate goal. Duke's starting 5 could transfer to Towson and they'd be stymied and handcuffed by Pat's coaching. Understanding that Skerry will be our coach for the next 38 years, he needs to at least consider mixing things up. His style hasn't gotten it done. Time for a new style. Bring in a new assistant or two....blow-up the playbook and start from scratch....lob in a phone call to Luke Murray and ask for a few tips & pointers for creative in-bounds plays, etc. Is someone here able to ask Pat what he plans to do to improve as a coach between now and October?

Agreed, absolutely horrific. In reality, it's a glaring & jarring indicator of how poorly we've done in developing our brand recognition. No recruit ever says "I'm blessed to have received an offer from ClemPson University". Everyone knows it's "Clemson" because of their well-established athletics pedigree and extensive brand exposure. A great way for us to address this would be for us to get to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament every few years so that millions of people are seeing our name in the brackets they fill out for their office/school pools. Also, periodically take down a premier basketball team in OOC play every November/December leading to additional coverage on ESPN/SportsCenter. People will start getting our name right when we're a more "household" brand.

As we all know and have discussed, schools/programs like Towson have a lot of challenges when it comes to attracting & maintaining consistent student fan support. I personally believe that at the forefront of those challenges, is our reputation, or lack-there-of, of being a "sports/basketball" school. We have no meaningful history as a basketball program. If you're a mildly interested college hoops fan as a TU student, does a Tuesday night matchup against Elon really get your juices flowing? Are you making Saturday night plans around a game against Hampton? Some of us on here were lucky enough to have witnessed the Michigan game at Towson in the late 90s. Without question the most epic Towson sporting event I've ever experienced. Packed to the rafters, completely bananas crowd, going toe-to-toe with a bona fide "Blueblood". Despite the loss, there was a palpable energy and pride across the campus for what we all experienced. Sadly, we will never host a game like that again. In my opinion, the only way Towson hoops begins to consistently draw respectable crowds is to slay more dragons when we have those opportunities, even if it will never be at home. Those 2-3 OOC opportunities we get every season need to start turning into occasional wins. Winning a game against even a bottom-feeder from the B1G, SEC, ACC, Big XII every year, or even every other year, can create some buzz. We also need to get to the NCAA Tournament.....desperately. Even if we only get to the Big Dance every 4 or 5 years, that would do wonders for building up our credentials, I don't think that should be an unreasonable expectation. Just think, if we had made the NCAA Tourney every 5 years since our last appearance in 1991 that would equate to SEVEN additional tournament appearances in our history. There ain't nothing sexy or buzzworthy about CAA regular season games, nothing that should get 18-22 year old students excited. But start building a reputation as a potential giant killer and we'll start to see a more loyal and proud fanbase. People want to be associated with winners, upsets, viral moments.....we haven't provided much of that in our history.