Royal Tiger

This is the question need answered. Who is overseeing our NIL fund? If it has any sort of material money, need someone outside of just Pat deciding who and how much goes to. As 2012 mentioned, any hope of this regime excelling no matter what transfers we get is long gone, so it would be irresponsible to be spending to zero or even a large chunk of it each year. Worse yet, would not want a ton of "bad contracts" given out in lame duck years as a last ditch effort. Hopefully someone is in charge of the collective (guessing Steve) and is willing to have a few down years by saving up in this arms race to deploy a warchest the first year that we can get a competent coach in here.

Just want to say thanks to everyone here and the die hards for all the valuable insight and banter over the years. I've been reading the board at least 2-3 times a week over the past 10 years and have followed CBB religiously and attended 85% of home games or so. Last night was the end of the road for me in Towson fandom until a new head coach or reach the CAAT finals. I know numerous other fans/alums who have told me the same thing that they will next be attendance when the Tigers reach the championship, but unfortunately we will never know if they are true to their word or not. Last night, in my estimation with about 800 Towson fans and 300 Delaware fans, for the first half, I sat a few rows behind a very elderly gentlemen in a Towson polo in the otherwise empty 200 section. Both by ourselves, guy politely clapped during the back and forth, but very timid first half and shook his head at some of the poorer moments. I observed and finally came to terms that he will most likely not see the Tigers in the NCAAT again, let alone a CAAT final as Pat Skerry will never get there. Almost all of you already had realized this before last night (outside of BAT who I have always enjoyed his optimism on here), but last night I finally accepted it myself. Some of you are fine with this as we have "successful" 20 win seasons and others want him gone, rightfully so, but opinions do not matter as he will never be let go. I don’t remember all of the piss poor quarterfinal losses, but I had an excuse myself for the other 5 semifinal losses all of which were better efforts than last night: 2014 – Tribe – was a choke with a senior laden team, but after 2 good seasons after 20 of futility, how could anyone be upset at the time. Skerry was a young head coach # of years wise too and thought had the ability to adapt and develop players 2017 – Charleston – Davis injury and playing in their backyard 2022 – Delaware - hobbled after first round game, but first regular season CAA title and NIT bid, something to hang hat on 2023 and 2024 - Charleston – close games with somewhat of collapses at end, but Charleston very strong and 2024 especially above our weight class Last night though simply inexcusable and not even painful, just extremely disappointing. To have a path paved for you and to come out and be outhustled, physicaled and out Towson “toughed” vs a team playing 4th game is unforgivable. You could tell the game was over in the first 10 mins with extreme tightness and the whole team and staff with lowest of basketball IQ. To never even make a run is borderline laughable. Ultimately this past regular season was the pinnacle of success that we could ever hope to have, but no longer means a whole lot. Mids are never getting at larges unless the tournament expands and no more NIT. Crowds were great and had a fun CAA season, but not going to replicate and if you do so be it, just not too enjoyable knowing what is on horizon. Until change is made and if financial support is the crutch, things will get much worse before they get better with Towson athletics. And how could you blame people if the team rolls over in the moments that matter. Who in their right mind will say I want to make a sizable donation to keep TT and how he performed last night in the most important game of the year? Some of the others, thankfully (hopefully) are out of eligibility or else folks would be more inclined to pay them to leave rather than stay.

Unfortunately we were not playing UNCW or Charleston last night, so that NIL excuse cannot be made. What about the previous 13 years before NIL, or earlier when Charleston wasn't even in the league and UNCW was in rebuild/dormant years? I will be supporting from afar moving forward, however if NIL is going to be the new go to year in and year out excuse, we should seriously consider moving to Am East, NEC, MAAC where we can be competitive financially. It is not logical to think that we cannot win a CAAT or compete long term with UNCW or Charleston unless we can complete with them NIL wise. We are not going to narrow the gap financial support wise no matter how hard the collective pushes, the gap is only going to get larger. So only option is to compete with them with mentally tough, skilled players (outside of Williamson, can only think of a few handful in the mentally tough department and knowing what it takes in the big moment) and sharp coaching (maybe in 2027 or whenever). Or if NIL is going to be the inhibiting factor moving forward, simply move down to a league where you can compete financially. To think that we will be able to catch up or even bridge somewhat of the gap to those southern schools is extremely far fetched and wishful thinking.

Great fight to come back today, just short in a hostile environment. If can steal one of last four, that's another great season and top 6 seed! Give the boys and staff credit and great turnaround, no expectations this year after Watson went down. Remember where we were 20 years ago???

At what point are there more grandiose desires than 20-14 seasons, top 4 conference finishes, and semifinal exits? Year 20 or year 25? This year's team won't sniff achieve that success above, more like 16-17, 7th-9th seed and quarterfinals but at least we have that jan 6th uncw banner to hang, right guys? Sorry if this offends anyone

Here's an idea: resign

Give us your top 5 wins during the skerry era (13 years now)? Sad that at piss poor sdsu (south dakota not san diego) can fall in here: game 163 vs Delaware for regular season title, at mediocre oregon state team, mediocre temple team in secu opener, at vermont game in early skerry years, at uncw caa regular season champ year.

Putting this nicely, we completely fumbled all the good momentum that was built in the early 2010s over the past 10 years. Coastal Athletic Association will be back at 10 team in a couple years unless add any more crap like Morgan or NJIT: Hampton, NCAT, Campbell, Stony Brook, Drexel, Elon, Monmouth, Hofstra, Northeastern, and us. Can't expect anyone within our institution to react other than do nothing and be happy with whatever hand we're dealt.

When should we start to care about wins and losses? Towson athletics may be #1 in terms of most seasons that don't count/matter.

Lol mentioning playoffs and this team was hilarious. 3k for a home opener is abysmal. If it weren't for UD, we would probably sell 15k tickets all year, may get to 20k with the hens. Let that sink in. In the mid atlantic , outside of Happy Valley, which isn't even really mid atlantic, there is no appetite for college football let alone a below average fcs team. Even more so there has been no sense of urgency since T West has left by anyone involved with Towson University to change the below average status. Everyone involved has just been happy to get their paychecks and the limited fans are just happy we have uniforms running out there on Saturdays. Respect the tradition and the few of you that actually care, but in this day and age it's time to do the fiscally responsible thing.

Know Charles wouldn't be able to play P5 and loves Towson, but props to him for staying around for what is going to be a throwaway year that we won't count against Skerry's record. If this was professional sports, we'd be shopping him for some prospects to rebuild. 8-10 in CAA with a couple of local OOC wins is officially the ceiling in 2023-24.

Probably outplayed Charleston (11 or 12 seed) 90 of the 120 mins played them. Unfortunately the 30 minutes we lost, we lost big.

At least we had that February 25th win guys!

Please say he used a slur Dalton. May be our only way out. Heartbreaker tonight. Many long years ahead with nothing to show for it.

ChalkAA. Some of these games have been crazy uncompetitive