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Does he have any eligibility left? Everyone else seems to

Perhaps it’s not a question of connections, but more of money, which C of C has an inexhaustible amount of

I think it’s unrealistic, if not downright unfair, to lay this at Shinnick’s feet. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that this kid didn’t tell him he was going to engage in this type of conduct and that Shinnick’s crystal ball wasn’t working when he recruited him (caveat: I don’t know if this kid had any character issue red flags when he was recruited). TU is not the first, nor will it be the last, program to have an athlete run afoul of the law. And while it may be hackneyed/trite to say, we should not lose fact that this kid is innocent until proven guilty. Certainly, the optics are bad. No program (unless it’s U of Alabama basketball 🤣) wants this kind of scrutiny. The question in my mind is whether this is an ill wind that will cast a pall over our season or is it a “rally around our comrade” moment, or is it a nothing burger in terms of how the season goes. I suspect it’s the latter, but we shall see

Big kid-6’6 I didn’t see any FBS offers, but he had the following FCS offers: Fordham, Stone Hill; Maine, Rhode Island, Georgetown and Western Illinois. This prep red zone service ranks him as the #6 QB in Pennsylvania, FWIW

You may be right, which is an indictment of the A.D. and the University President, amongst others. Sitting back and hoping things work out is not a good vision for the future

This issue has been kinda beaten to death, but our future in CAA football presents a bleak outlook. 8 of the teams in the conference are in NJ or farther north (URI and Bryant are in R.I.; Maine; Sacred Heart (CT); New Hampshire; Monmouth (NJ); and SB & Albany (NY). 4 other teams are in VA (Hampton) or NC (Elon; NCAT and Campbell). Geographically, this leaves us in no man’s land, with nothing remotely resembling a rivalry. Why we didn’t leave the conference when most of the cream of the conference left is a mystery to me, as I don’t know if we had opportunities but passed on them. Where we go in the future is also a mystery as I don’t know what, if any, viable options for moving to a new conference are out there. So, for now (and maybe for the indefinite future) we are in purgatory, which ain’t a good place to be

No, the eternally elusive pursuit of an NCAA bid is truly all that matters

Look, we play a D3 practically every season. I mean, there are legit things to have grievances about and then there’s griping just for the sake of griping. Ok, we’re playing JHU. Big deal. Nothing to see here. Let’s reserve for more important topics, like how we do vs D1 OOC opponents and conference opponents in the regular season and conference tournament. Now, that’s what matters!!!

For those who have called for Skerry to be replaced (and admittedly I’ve expressed that sentiment at times), do you want this A.D., who hired Shinnick in the first place, and then inexplicably gave him a contract extension, in charge of hiring a new MBB coach? You know what they say, “if you’re not careful you’ll get what you want.” Just saying

I’d like to see some fresh faces (Howard, American, Mt. St. Mary’s, UMES all come to mind as examples) but the earth isn’t going to spin off its axis if we play 2 Baltimore area teams. Having said that, I have no problem limiting it to 2. I don’t want to play all of UMBC, Loyola, Morgan and Coppin in the same season. In fact, I’m not sure we should ever play Coppin. For some reason I have a recollection that several years ago we were scheduled to play them but they dropped us in favor of adding one of their traditional “keep the program afloat and get our a$$es kicked” money games

There is a certain practical reality in playing in this tournament, and it’s called $. There’s nothing wrong with playing a few local teams so that travel expenses are nominal and lodging expenses are not applicable. Of course, these are not factors if they’re home games, but I see absolutely nothing wrong with playing Loyola and/or Morgan & UMBC. It’s not like we’re bumping MD from the home schedule to play the locals

Sounds like the Battle of Baltimore redux (wasn’t that what is was called?) I’m ok with that

Navy has an inexhaustible supply of great running QB’s & RB’s. And Roger Staubach could probably rack up huge numbers vs our D (I mean the current version of Staubach, not the one who won the Heisman back in the day 😂). What really concerns me about this game is the possibility we will have very little time of possession, as Navy might bombard us (see what I did there) with a string of mind numbing and clock chewing possessions, featuring one 10-15 yard run after another (unless they take some of them to the house). We are not used to seeing the style of offense Navy runs. Think the Citadel on steroids I hope I’m wrong, but I doubt it. Navy should beat us as bad as they did the Japanese at Midway

Other than the obvious outcomes (getting crushed and melted by Navy and S. Carolina), I just don’t see how anyone at this point can accurately forecast our final record, in either an optimistic or pessimistic sense. I mean, there are just too many personnel changes on our roster, and perhaps on those of some of our opponents as well. Granted, past performance (since 2014) supports on the surface a prediction of a 6-6 or 7-5 final record (if not worse), but past performance is not always indicative of future results. As for me, I’m not naively optimistic, but I’m going to defer for now on predicting our final record. I will say this, though not in the nature of a prediction…seeing as we’re going to lose in weeks 2 & 3 (barring a miracle of heretofore unknown proportions), it’s imperative we beat Maine in week 1 and Morgan in week 4. (Especially Maine, as it’s conference game, and winning the CAA autobid may be our only long shot chance of making the playoffs). If however, we split Maine and Morgan, or, worse case scenario, lose them both, we’d be 1-3 or 0-4 right out of the gate, which would almost certainly cement another mediocre season

I think by now, especially if we use MBB as an example, we should know that these preseason polls are generally meaningless and sometimes are as accurate as throwing darts 🎯 while blindfolded Now, it’s very well possible we’ll be a 6-7 win team, but I think we need to let things play out rather than putting too much reliance on this poll or past performance. My patience with Shinnick is low to begin with; he needs in year 4 to make the playoffs, with most of the top tier teams in the conference departed. I don’t think anything other than making the playoffs is acceptable at this stage in his tenure. But let’s see where things stand after week 1, which IMHO is practically a must-win game, notwithstanding it’s the season opener