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  1. One could dream.. https://twitter.com/samurai_hoops/status/1767196988989215006?t=FxAFod_hXZXDMa8eBrxQRA&s=19
  2. No, don't believe so. I was just looking for a specific section that had reduced price for kids, and for some reason the ticket website doesn't have that as an option to choose whether on purpose or by accident.
  3. Wonder if the Student Assoc has tickets for the first games for students in those sections? I mean its not like the football is high quality that everyone in the area is clamoring for tickets.
  4. Question... so there is a home game on Saturday. I went online to see where I can buy single game tickets. Game Promotion Gold Level Purple Level White Level Gray Level Adult / Child KeyBank Family Berm 8/26 Fordham Blackout / Fireworks $40 $35 $30 $25 / $15* Available only on Gameday 9/30 Villanova Hometown Heroes Parents Weekend $35 $30 $25 $20 / $15* Available only on Gameday 10/21 Rhode Island Homecoming $40 $35 $30 $25 / $15* Available only on Gameday 11/04 William & Mary Breast Cancer Awareness $35 $25 $20 $15 / $10* Available only on Gameday 11/18 Monmouth Senior Day $30 $25 $20 $15 / $10* Available only on Gameda https://www.ticketreturn.com/prod2new/Buy.asp?EventID=334979 when you go there Gray is not an option adn the Berm which they said is available only on Gameday is an option. So online I can't find an option to buy "gray" Adult/Child. Am I looking at it correctly? Could all the "gray" really be sold out as it's not an option at all, or are they trying to not let you buy those since they are the lower price and want to only open them up if they HAVE to? Anyone know?
  5. Bronx - Hostos Community College names Brent Wilson Athletic Director https://hostosathletics.com/news/2023/8/16/Director_of_Athletics.aspx?fbclid=IwAR1II7gtxEmoMBXuZK8cP75Ja2e32q149z0z16TbOyr2xu5CaiNj02HvRvo
  6. Is this math we were doing right? We were looking and this can't be right..or well maybe it is ? If we bought a GOLD section season ticket, it would cost someone $70 per game ($350 commitment for 5 games). (You can go to a Mets game for $70 a ticket) However, if we bought a single game ticket in the GOLD section for each game, it would cost me $36 per game (prices vary from $30 to $40 per game for the 5 games). That might be the only time we see a larger committed outlay resulting in higher prices. The normal response is that the donation makes you eligible for parking.. but now in order to get parking, you have to commit to at least two season tickets.. so, now $140 per game. And that donation now doesn't count for any other sports. So if we wanted to go to games.. the single game ticket option is both cheaper, and allows people to not spend if there's a game they can't go to (ex. if someone bought a season ticket.. and then can't go to one game.. their per game cost just went up to $87.50). A greatly designed system to incentivize people away from GDAC/season tickets.....
  7. https://twitter.com/BigFivePlusOne/status/1636108783209402375?t=I_h9Fg_v8lJbi--8T2xWqQ&s=01 "Have heard from a few sources that Albany HC Dwayne Killings will be joining Kyle Neptune’s staff at Villanova. Killings spent time at Temple as an assistant before going to Marquette which springboarded him to his current position."
  8. Question is are any of these people going to want to really work under Benson or Vic? I think the cat's out of the bag on both of them at this point. Obviously some applicants are going to want a D1 head coaching job but the athletic administration is a dumpster fire do they want to step foot into that. We'll see hopefully they get a good candidate!
  9. Churchill: David Carpenter, Dwayne Killings and a confused UAlbany The University at Albany's harshly treated a PCB researcher who did nothing wrong yet only lightly sanctioned a basketball coach accused of physically assaulting a student. ALBANY — I'm struggling to make sense of how the University at Albany handled serious allegations against basketball coach Dwayne Killings and how it treated apparently baseless questions raised about David Carpenter, a prominent researcher at the school. Killings has been criminally charged with assault in the fourth degree for allegedly slapping one of his players, Luke Fizulich, who in a civil lawsuit filed against the university says the coach “violently and viciously grabbed" the former student, "threw him up against a locker and struck him in the face, drawing blood. If that allegation is accurate, Killings shouldn't have a job at the school. Parents don't write hefty tuition checks so their children can be assaulted by authority figures, particularly at a university claiming to have zero tolerance toward violence. The basketball coach shouldn't be allowed to get away with behavior that would doom a professor. Yes, an allegation is only an allegation, and the accused deserve the presumption of innocence. Yet any inclination to just let the assertions play out in courts is undermined by the university's acknowledgment that its own investigation, conducted well before the criminal charge, determined that Killings was, in fact, guilty of "inappropriate physical contact." For that, he was fined $25,000 and suspended for five games — albeit with the "punishment" tailored to include exhibition games but not UAlbany's game against rival Siena College. To have Killings absent for so prominent an occasion would have been too embarrassing, I suppose, and that outweighed sending a stern message about that "inappropriate physical contact." And what was the contact, exactly? Was it a slap? Did it draw blood The university won't say. It should, especially since Killings, paid $365,000 annually, is one of the most prominent public faces of the school. Parents and taxpayers have the right to know what he did or didn't do. And if the university has evidence that the assault allegation isn't justified, it should say so publicly in fairness to Killings. The school should do what it can to clear his name. But let's now turn our attention to Carpenter, the longtime director of the school's Institute for Health and the Environment, who last Tuesday received the happy news that after a nine-month absence he could return to campus and resume his teaching and research duties. What did Carpenter do wrong to deserve his lengthy time on "alternative assignment"? Nothing, as far as anyone can tell. Carpenter is, however, a man willing to voice strong opinions, including his belief that certain chemicals produced by Monsanto Co. have been harmful to public health. Carpenter has frequently testified to that conclusion, yielding multi-million dollar verdicts against the Missouri conglomerate best known for making the Roundup herbicide. To some of us, Carpenter's willingness to speak out borders on heroic. Yet Monsanto, as you can imagine, is not so appreciative of Carpenter's efforts, which explains why its law firm demanded that UAlbany provide records on his research and the payments he's received for providing testimony. For decades, Carpenter has put that money (minus travel expenses) back into the university to fund the work of graduate students and staff, and there's no indication he did anything wrong. Yet as my colleague Brendan Lyons first reported, UAlbany somehow allowed Monsanto's fishing expedition to become an excuse for its own "disciplinary investigation." While the university says it's committed to unfettered academic freedom, the investigation raised legitimate questions about the ability of the school's professors to speak freely. Even worse, Monsanto began using the UAlbany inquiry to undermine a pollution case brought by the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe. Environmental advocates, justifiably outraged, demanded the clearing of Carpenter's name and his return to campus. Success came last week, when the university announced the end of its investigation, with no discipline imposed. Technically, then, Killings was punished (however lightly) after an investigation while Carpenter was not punished after one. Except that being ordered to stay away from campus for close to a year is actually a severe sanction — especially for an 86-year-old professor whose love for the work and his students explains why he's still at it. "It was a major punishment," Carpenter told me from an office to which he'd happily returned. "It's just outrageous." Carpenter initially expected that the investigation might take a day or two. Instead, it dragged on and on, a saga that Carpenter believes damaged his reputation — which, of course, is another form of punishmen "If you're being investigated for nine months, the assumption is that you did something wrong," said Carpenter who believes the university was cowed by Monsanto's power and influence. Whether or not that's true, it's easy to assume Carpenter's time away from campus would have continued indefinitely if media attention to his plight hadn't generated so much anger. Carpenter's case is obviously dissimilar to the Killings situation, and maybe it's silly to juxtapose them. At the end of the day, though, we can see that the University at Albany treated a professor harshly for doing nothing worthy of discipline, while its basketball coach was slapped on the wrist for "inappropriate physical contact," which is certainly something. If that makes sense to you, please fill me in. cchurchill@timesunion.com ■ 518-454-5442 ■ @chris_churchill
  10. @Clickclack saw on Twitter Vic liked your tweet about firing everyone.... Interesting. 🤔https://twitter.com/clickclack1/status/1626062220609085440?t=INQ1H6_PxoCH1GEh1abzSw&s=19
  11. I agree bringing in your own coaches makes sense, but the skeezy reasons (not toting his BS,not getting trashed with him, not willing to break NCAA rules between athletes and sponsors, etc) as to why he wanted specific coaches out (not based on records) shows you the kind of leader or lack there of Benson is as a person. And we see where that attitude has led the Department that's all. If he was a "normal" AD and got rid of coaches for real reasons and wasn't a dumpster fire of an AD that would be different. (Like why is Gattuso stilllll here 🥴) Here's hoping something changes so I can enjoy bringing my kiddos to games as they grow up in Albany.
  12. Remember the days when we could enjoy watching our team play even if we had a crappy season or not. The school is never going to have NBA players it was nice when we had all academic kids who could play and alumni could come during the cold months and enjoy time with friends and family watching some basketball and eating some popcorn. All gone because Benson wanted his own guy and ran over every staff member who wasn't toting his BS (including the Ass. Athletic Director for Development who left recently for Siena). Just have to hope Benson goes too and they clean house. It's his culture that's rotting the Department. Fingers crossed it can get back to some regular semblance at some point. Would really like to enjoy our sports again in the coming years.
  13. UAlbany men’s basketball coach Killings scheduled for arraignment Monday in Kentucky on charge stemming from November 2021 locker room incident https://dailygazette.com/2023/01/20/ualbany-mens-basketball-coach-killings-scheduled-for-arraignment-monday-in-kentucky-on-charge-stemming-from-november-2021-locker-room-incident/
  14. Speaking for many that I know personally who use to post or follow more closely and no longer do. I think many people who don't post anymore like you said did have a connection with Brown being he coached for 20yrs, but also despise Benson and the culture he has created in the Department. When he leaves I gather you will see more people post again and become more engaged. I mean have you seen the dismal fundraising for March Matchness last year with MBB behind all sports...even the donors are done. Some of us still follow the box score just to see, but supporting Benson and his crew isn't in the cards. Maybe it will take the lawsuit to get him out as it doesn't seem anyone in the University cares too much about the dumpster fire started by Benson. Enjoy the season! 🏀
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