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agree, the article doesn't say much. My comments are based on what i've been told by many close to the ADept and the school. You and I are, I think, on the same page. Lot's of crossed concepts across the board in the many posts but, I'd like to state the following: 1. The fact that our men's and woman's basketball programs have not given out COLA is a joke. Absolute disgrace. Recruits look at the whole package and, frankly, COLA is a part of it. We are talking 60-90k a year...max...combined. It shouldn't come to this...but that's a guarantee game. AD Benson needs to release those funds now because WE ARE falling behind the times. 2. Right now, we are somewhat getting (what I believe to be) a "hometown" discount for our assistant salaries. We have UA Alumni across the board on the men's side. This what makes the COLA situation all the more infuriating to me. Try getting solid assistants on the open market for the pool we have. Even another small increase would be nice. 3. SEFCU was built for DIII basketball. I should know, I was recruited with that building in mind. Is it a dump compared to many low-majors: NO. But with the Cross Center, UMBC's place, UVMs soon to be place (even if 4 years off), SBU's place, etc...we are falling to the back of the back. Sure, the scoreboard was nice...but the arena/lockerrooms need a major gut facelift. 4. Naming rights- LONG OVERDUE for SEFCU 5. Moving to a new conference: Pipe dream right now. We'd have to fly if we moved to the CAA. Heck, people clamor for a MAC move. Our football program is mid-pack in FCS budgets. Yep, 4 million is middle of the pack. Moving up the CAA for all sports moves our budget up at least 30% (to 28 million) if we are slumming it. Moving up to the MAC? Try adding $10 million to be truly competitive. So, in the end...until we see some major donations, including the endowment of scholarships, we are cash strapped. We are at the right level (AE/CAA) but we absolutely need to give more money to basketball and, to some extent, football. Start with COLA for basketball.

Mmmmm...even with COLA...no way we are in the bottom half. COLA is what, 3k a student? Now, if you are talking salaries of staff...different story. Completely underpaid. Base expenditures, top half of league. I've been completely underwhelmed by the Athletic Department expenditures, particularly on the operations front. Way too much corporate waste that should be spent on the program itself. The ADept needs to stop d@cking around with font changes on jerseys and failed marketing...YES...FAILED. Attendance is a disaster, in general, for all sports but lax. Put the money in the product...not ushers. We need SEFCU fixed...and we need the basketball operations budget juiced up to keep the Danes in the 1-2 spot in the league for per player expenses. So, I don't disagree with your premises...just not that failing to provide COLA has put us in the bottom half of the league. We spend nearly 1.9 million on hoops.

It’s not even a few people lol. It’s the one person who created this whole thread. Dane Pound, maybe just move this all into the 2017-2018 thread. Just too many people offended by the title.

Let's be honest the thread is really only a few people talking about firing CB and everyone else saying they're crazy, that's all.

I heard Coach Marr yell at the ref too - he was right. Like I said above - Not sure what they were there for - that happened at least 3 times that I saw. Also there were NO calls for push from behind and it happened a lot - several times on TD.. We got called three times when our defenders were pushed [ and knocked off their feet] into the crease, and called for being in the crease.

Just showed this to someone that does graphic design work. Her response was a bit technical "Yuck". Then "Looks like a cross between graphic writing/graffiti lettering and ms dos/unix text. Ugly"

Cost of living adjustment or stipend. Basically means over the course of a season 2k in cash to cash strapped college students who don't hold jobs as basketball takes up so much time with travel and practice.

If we didn’t spend money on someone outside to redesign it then I’ll lay off. If we did then we wasted money. Bookstore has a Nike football replica jersey.

For sure. Show you're a competent program that has the ability to get a player to the dance during his time there. Albany's sales pitch is what they've been able to do on the court. To think there's anything special that differentiates the program without the staff and the players they've been able to bring in doesn't compute for me. You can sell the university and post grad connections (which are good), but it's not anything our rivals are unable to offer. You don't increase the budget and you're playing with fire. You take this current staff out and don't increase the budget and you're burning to the ground everything that has been built over the past 15 years. Not saying it's fair or that the school even has the money to do it, that's just the reality.

Alright, let's do this... 1) If a 16 was going to beat a 1 and it wasn't going to be Albany it won't get any better than it being a team from the America East, it's free pub for everyone in the league. 2) Both coaches and players get the blame for a disappointing season, there's no reason to try and determine who's at fault here...everyone gets the love when things go well, everyone gets the blame when they don't. 3) 22 wins and still finished as a top 1/2 to top 1/3 team in college basketball (depending on which site you go to) with everything that seemed to go wrong. I'm as disappointed with the season as any of you, but we're only disappointed because of what this program has become. 4) I'm not sure what anyone could have possibly seen this season to make them feel like Will Brown is complacent. If you want to blame him for protecting his players and program publicly a bit too much, fine...but you would've roasted him if everyone was getting cursed out after every game. 5) Now let's get to the facts...we have a program who has a bottom 1/2 to bottom 1/3 budget for the America East, let alone for any other league you think this program should be in. You have a great coach who made the program what it is in D1 and wants to be here for whatever reason despite the fact there's ridiculously limited resources involved for how successful they've been. Players come to the program because they want to win, which the current staff has proven they've been able to do in the past...it's not because of any shiny extras. 6) This is your reminder you root for a 20 win program that has a 10-12 win budget. You want disappointment? You'll get it if this current staff decides to move on and more resources aren't put into the program.