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Great talent on those teams; Olajuwon, Clyde the Glide Drexler and others. Guy Lewis could never get over the hump. Losing to NC State was unconscionable. Didn’t they beat Louisville, with Darrell Griffith (wasn’t his nickname something like Dr. Dunkenstein 😂?) to get to the championship game vs Valvano’s Wolfpack

Well, a W is a W. Small sample size, but I was disappointed with Schmidt. I thought he would do well vs a team like Loyola, but that wasn’t the case. Disappointed that neither Conway or Cole (who didn’t even play) got a chance to show if they could hit some 3’s. I think it’s apparent we’re going to get very little offense from Sek and Embeya, but I guess we can live with that if they clean up the boards and block shots, as well as stay out of foul trouble, which remains to be seen if they can do. I saw some flashes from Womack; not so much with Ndefo, who somehow missed an uncontested dunk. Good to see Tejada, and, to a lesser extent, DWill, take over the game in the second half. I also think Doumbia has the potential to be the 3rd scorer. The potential downfall of this team could be struggling to score vs a zone defense and struggling against the press. Also, Samb and Coleman should only play in absolute emergencies or mop up time. Well, on to H-Town, where points for us are going to be at a premium

And Elvis and Michael Jackson. I mean the list goes on and on. The building was outdated before it even opened (square configuration cuts down on seating and was, as I understand it, the reason we didn’t get an NHL team when the league underwent a major expansion in 1967. Anyway, I digress

Just think about all the legends who’ve played in what’s it called now, CFG Arena? (To me, it’s still the Civic Center). Wes Unseld, The Big E, Elvin Hayes. Earl “The Pearl” Monroe, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Jerry West, Lew Al-Cindor (not sure if his name changed before or after the Bullets moved to Landover). Anyway, let’s hope our guys can pay homage to those guys tonight, in what I hope will be a walk in the park, though admittedly I don’t know anything about the caliber of our opponent

I think there was more to it than that

Give credit where credit is due. Not our fault NCAT stinks. Doesn’t take the sting out of another season of no playoffs, but it’s nice to be the hammer 🔨 instead of the nail for a change

Hah!!! I’m only interested in beachfront property…in Kansas or Nebraska 😂

I would think it is kind of late in the game for the kid to be playing those kind of shenanigans. Is it possible we have a wealthy benefactor, who ponied up legit NIL for him? I mean, it really does seem too good to be true

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

Wait, what? We won a recruiting contest over Arkansas, K-State, TCU and TX Tech? It’s not April 1st, so you aren’t trying to fool us. What am I missing here? Pretty remarkable

Is there any better gig than being hired by one of these football factories, underperforming, resulting in getting fired with a $50 million buyout? I think not

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

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

Didn’t watch the game, but based on the recap on the Johnnie’s website you can’t help but be encouraged that we were up by 8 at the half. We actually got the lead up to 11 in the 2nd half, before St. John’s went on a huge run. Even after that, we countered with a 13-2 run, to cut the lead to 6. Tejada and DWill struggled shooting, but hey, it’s St. John’s. Doumbia meanwhile had a great game. Sek and Embeya only combined for 4 points (all by Sek) but they had something like 11 boards and 3 blocks. Season starts in earnest 2 weeks from Monday