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I hasten to point out that we had a nearly filled arena our last 2 home games last season, with an electric atmosphere

Sure, why not? It won’t be long before 25 will be young for a D1 MBB player. Besides, one would think he could have followed Wil Wade to NC State, but he chose to remain in Lake Charles

I just listened to this and would urge others to do likewise, as it provides some insight as to why each of these guys, especially, from our perspective, Tejada, opted to return. All in all 3 impressive guys who should be commended for returning to their respective schools. I’ll be rooting for all 3 young men this upcoming season

No doubt KU wants to scout Tejada in person, after the successful Nick Timberlake era in Lawrence

Well, let’s move to C-USA ASAP. Seriously, if we can write the check for the transfer fee, and assuming they extend us an invite. Not sure how Skerry would feel about being in a basketball conference that top-to-bottom is probably better than the CAA, but you can’t please all the people all the time

I hope you’re right. I really, truly do. For us to move up, someone has to write a pretty hefty check (what’s it, 5-6 million) to cover the mandated fee for such a move. With our attendance, I just don’t know. And while we could expand seating, that would involve more costs without any certainty that attendance would increase. And if we’re talking FBS, which conference would take us? I heard the Sunbelt is not interested. There’s C-USA, where our friends from up I-95 went, but do we have the resources to pay for the travel costs associated with being in a conference that is quite literally spread out across the country, as far west as Las Cruces New Mexico?

At the risk of oversimplifying, let me endeavor to sum this football situation up: (1) we’re in a 10 year mediocrity spin cycle; (2) attendance is not good; (3) we’re in a conference that used to have anchor stores like Saks, Bloomingdale’s and Lord and Taylor, and is now anchored by K-Mart; (4) moving up is a fantasy that only the most ardent TU fan could indulge in; (5) moving to the Patriot League is almost certainly out of the cards; and (6) while the demise of CAA football as we once knew it begun in earnest several years ago, we seemingly have sat idly by and appear content to hope we can rise to the top of the conference over the bodies of schools like Hampton and Campbell. Have I missed anything?

So, Albany to CAA for basketball, to backfill the vacancy left by Delaware?

Well put. (As an aside, your posts are always well thought out and often serve as a voice of reason amongst some of the more hyperbolic posts here, including mine 😂). Now that I’m finished throwing bouquets, you are correct in your assessments that: (1) we squandered the momentum from the 2013-14 Frisco run and (2) it is imperative that Shinnick start winning (that is to say, making the playoffs) starting this upcoming season. And you’re also correct that other conferences probably aren’t clamoring to take us in, as since the 2014-15 season, 7 W’s is basically our ceiling, with 1 playoff appearance during this decade, which resulted in being soundly thrashed at home by that perennial powerhouse, Duquesne.

The writing was on the wall several years ago, when JMU’s exodus opened the floodgates. That’s when we should have been thinking about our own exit strategy. Instead, I suspect we did next to nothing & are now content try and be the big fish in the little CAA football pond. I know one thing, we better damn side start dominating. As it is, with the lackluster conference home games we’ll be having, attendance doesn’t look promising, even if there’s a sea change on the field

I wonder how long UNH & Rhode Island are going to stay? And Maine too. Just wondering if those 3 NE schools could cobble together a New England centric conference, that they may bolt too. Meanwhile, the PL is going to have a helluva football conference, with all these CAA additions. I’d beg them to let us join, for football, but I doubt they’d take us. I hate to be gloomy Gus here, but at the moment I’m not bullish on the future sustainability of TU football. We can’t go up (I forgot to mention earlier that FCS programs now have to pay like a 1 time multi million dollar fee to move up to FBS. Even if we wanted to do that, which I doubt, where’s that money coming from?) The cost of maintaining a football program has to be daunting, especially when the program doesn’t generate any revenue on its own. We’re not too big to fail. There are other universities with good sized enrollment (can anyone say George Mason) that eschew football in favor of focusing more resources on basketball. Forget GMU, we don’t have to look any further than C of C and UNCW as examples.

Great homage to Michael Ray Richardson I hope there’s a plan because by my way of thinking, we’re in purgatory-we can’t plausibly go up, what with attendance avg around 6K a game and we wouldn’t be accepted in the Patriot League because we don’t fit their academic profile. Meanwhile, the CAA is a shell of its former self. I guess UNH & Rhode Island are the crème de la crème, with us & Stony Brook somewhere in the mix. Yikes. What other options are there? I don’t see any special cache as to the SoCon. Maybe that would be a slight upgrade, but if that’s the case, what’s the point? Whither football at TU

Love that it’s before thanksgiving. That’s also a very good mid-major bracket we’re in. Should be a good barometer of what kind of team we have, and will hopefully make us a bit more battle tested once we hit conference play

His calling us Towson State has spawned him being trolled on the internet, though someone actually asked me today if this was true

That 1st team is pretty damn good. I like the 2nd team, although it doesn’t have a PG (which, as we all know, has been the bane of Skerry’s existence). I loved Fobbs’ game. It’s a shame he only had 2 years here. And I think Morsell doesn’t get enough credit. He stayed all 4 years and finished with what, around 1,300 points, putting him in the top 10 in scoring in school history (I think). 3rd time isn’t too shabby, as far as 3rd teams go. We could have used a guy like Dixon last season and ZM might have finished as the leading scorer in school history if he had stayed around. I do agree there’s an argument to swap Dixon out for TPR, if for no other reason than the former was only here for 1 season while the latter played 4 seasons

Sounds like another coach we know. And Hyde’s postseason record is even worse, as I believe his next playoff win will be his first. If they keep up their putrid performance …well, you know the old saying, you can’t fire 25 players

Yet another reason Hyde should be fired. Maybe he should keep our name out of his mouth, and focus on his crappy squad, which has the 4th worst record in MLB, and is barely ahead of the CWS and Pittsburgh. I’m not sure Adley Rutschman (AKA Matt Wieters with better hair) could even make the “Towson State” roster.

We’ll never know the answer, but I wonder what Tejada and DWill would have been offered had they portaled? No question both have areas they need to improve in (who doesn’t, for that matter) but with the way some of these schools are throwing money around, who knows? It reminds me of an article I once read about the nascent days of MLB free agency, where guys were getting crazy money, and in some cases far more than they deserved. A GM at the time analogized it to going to an auction, and getting swept up in the process, to the point of overbidding for something you really didn’t need, and then upon getting home saying “what the hell am I going to do with this moose head now?”😆

Except we don’t know how many of those 33 are from DE and W&M, although even if you take out those two, it’s probably the case that the CAA still had more than the Missouri Valley. Once Villanova leaves (assuming it does) I’m not so sure the CAA will continue to lead the way in this category

If that scenario plays itself out, well truly be left out in the cold, unless we could somehow join C-USA

Totally tone deaf response, which is probably a rehashed response similar to that used when JMU, DE & Richmond left. Well, at least he already has a canned response for when Villanova leaves

Good grief. We should have seen the writing on the wall years ago and had some exit strategy. Now, I have no clue what, if any, viable (notice I said viable) options exist

Wholeheartedly agree, but this begs the question, “to where”? Is Conference USA even still an option? Can you imagine the costs involved in sending our women’s LAX team (just one example) to travel to El Paso and Las Cruces? What other football conferences are out there? We’re not an option for the Patriot League. SoCon? It would certainly be better than staying in the CAA, but that’s not a compliment to the SoCon, but rather a stinging rebuke of the CAA. Am I missing other options?

There’s truth to this. With Richmond, W&M, and maybe Villanova soon to follow, the Patriot League may be just as good, if not better in football than the dregs left in the CAA. Problem is we’re not an option for the Patriot League, as it has no state schools amongst its members. I wonder if Elon might be another member that might abandon CAA football in the near future?

Look, let’s face the facts-CAA football, as we once knew it, is dead. It’s a stunning fall from grace from being the SEC of the FCS to what it is now. It’ll only get worse once Nova bolts, which seems to be a question of when, not if. As I see it, we need to somehow turn this situation into an opportunity to get the hell out of the CAA, at least as far as football goes. This is a test of the President and the A.D’s helmsmanship. I think one thing everyone can agree upon is that maintaining the status quo is not the solution