AtlantaTiger

The more I think about it, with regard to the SoCon being some type of "lifeline" for Towson, the more I believe it's imperative that Towson act quickly in engaging with the conference to explore those options. In all reality, Elon and/or Campbell would be the far more logical fits to make that move from CAA to SoCon.....the southern footprint, the perceived academic fit, etc......I think it would be a race to see who could get in there first. I suppose since Campbell more recently made the move to the CAA they would be less inclined to jump conferences, but I'd be stunned if Elon isn't already kicking the tires on that option.

Wouldn’t be surprised if the CAA extends offers to the likes of Wagner and Merrimack before too long and tries to spin it like they’re worthy replacements for those who defected. We need to hit the eject button on the CAA ASAP. Moving up to FBS is not a realistic option….leaving us with few appealing FCS options. Pioneer League? No thanks? Missouri Valley? They wouldn’t have us and would make no geographical sense. NEC? Would be an obvious downgrade. We must explore ways to gain entry into SoCon for football. I see no other reasonable or semi-appealing paths forward for football.

I’m mostly bummed because TU leadership has been largely reactionary, passive and unimaginative in the modern collegiate sports landscape. Rather than taking the bull by the horns and actively shop our program around for a better opportunity our President, AD, admin, etc. seemingly sit on their hands and wait for things to happen around them. While making a move to SoCon might not be the sexiest play to make, it might be the only play left to make and I happen to think it would be a significantly better group of (football) schools to be associated with than the patchwork remnants of the CAA. Who knows if that’s even an option but if I were Steve I’d be on a plane to wherever their league offices are and be groveling for entry into SoCon.

If football is sincerely a long term priority for TU, maybe we should consider a way to get into SoCon. They currently have 9 programs for football….we could make it a nice even 10. Some decent teams with some degree of history and pedigree. The southern footprint is good for recruiting and there’s generally more support and interest for college football in these states.

Is this breaking news or has this been in the works for a while?

Is there a list somewhere of which football Tigers are in the portal?

Here’s a fun hypothetical NFL draft exercise from CBS Sports that only allows for non-FBS players to be drafted in the first round. Has Carter going to the Colts. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2025-nfl-small-college-mock-draft-what-round-1-might-look-like-if-teams-could-only-select-non-fbs-players/

100% true. We're only a month removed from yet another gut-wrenching CAA tournament collapse. In the immediate aftermath, virtually everyone on here was in agreement that Pat Skerry will NEVER get us to the Big Dance......never. And yet, here we are, 30 days later and some of us are speculating on next season's starting lineups, projected minutes, portal signings, NIL deals, etc. as if ANY OF IT MATTERS as long as Pat Skerry is at the helm. How quickly we forget and how quickly we delude ourselves in the name of fandom.

First, I want to give a shout-out to St. Francis on making the Big Dance for the first time since......wait for it.......wait for it......1991. Good for them for defying the odds and making it despite $0 NIL. Second, fully understanding that we won't have a new leader on the sidelines anytime soon I do want to propose, or should I say, repropose, a suggestion I made this time last year. In absolute seriousness, I believe our men's basketball team and Pat Skerry could greatly benefit from having regular access to a sports psychologist. Yes, there's a physical element as to why we crumble in early March but how can we NOT agree that Pat and his team completely wilt in big games.....that's an issue between the ears that needs to be dealt with. Poor Pat has got to be shell-shocked and haunted by his March letdowns. Those demons need to be fully exercised if he's going to take another run at this thing next year. There's got to be a credentialed and impactful sports psychologist somewhere in the greater Baltimore-metro who could work with the team on dealing with the pressure of lofty expectations and rising to the occasion in BIG games and critical moments. Go Tigers.

I'm guessing "Brentwood" is the same person as TTiger2024. Evidently, all Towson fans are to be indebted to Pat Skerry, in perpetuity, for having cleaned up the mess of his predecessors and are to NEVER expect or desire more from him than what he has already delivered year after year. We're all just a bunch of knuckle-dragging, ingrates. How dare we want to go to the NCAA Tournament. Give that man another extension!!

Insult to injury, Delaware dude’s nasty dunk was SportCenter’s #1 top play this morning. Will the pain & embarrassment never end?

And the nightmare continues. Skerry does juuuust enough during the regular season to get some otherwise reasonable & rational people thinking that he’s some kind of coaching gem. Twelve-game in-conference winning streak….Historic number of conference wins in a season….COTY winner…..it’s all meaningless. However, it makes it very difficult for an AD to can a coach after that type of season. So, the saga will continue again in the 2025-2026 season. Can’t wait to see the preseason prognosticators discuss the new talent coming in via freshmen, transfers, second year guys, etc. Debates about who should be starting, who should be the 6th-man, yada, yada. None of it matters. Auburn’s starting 5 could transfer to Towson tomorrow and Pat Skerry wouldn’t have a clue what to do with them. It makes ZERO DIFFERENCE who suits up for Towson as long as Skerry is the coach, we will NEVER make it to the NCAA Tournament. Wanna hang a banner in the arena for 20 win seasons? Pat’s your guy. Wanna beat Arcadia University and Penn State-Wilkes Barre by 49 points? Pat’s got that covered. Want to get to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 30+ years? How DARE YOU have that unreasonable expectation of Pat Skerry in his 14th season!! This program is in desperate need of a complete reboot. I don’t care if we have to endure a few 10 win seasons under new leadership, I just want to see a new face on the sidelines. Ten wins or 20 wins, if you don’t make it to the Big Dance it’s the all the same in a conference like CAA. Don’t know if anyone else stayed tuned in to the CBS Sports postgame show but Jon Rothstein gave an absolutely spot-on summary of Towson’s historic failures in the CAA Tourney, going as far back as 2014….stopped just short of calling them “chokers”. Winter will soon turn to spring, spring to summer, summer to fall and before long many Towson fans will start convincing themselves that year 15 of the Pat Skerry era will be the year he gets it done. It won’t be. It will be more of the same post-season ineptitude and heartbreak.

Woke up this morning absolutely craving a big, heaping plate of crow served up by non other than Pat Skerry. Prove me wrong, Patrick! Please prove that, in YEAR FOURTEEN, you have what it takes as a coach to get us to the big dance. It starts today.