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From Twitter Amar'e Marshall tells me that he's withdrawing from the transfer portal and will return to Albany next season. Averaged 16.7 PPG in 2023-24. Huge return.

Yes. He went back to his cheating ex girlfriend Rhode Island.....

Will the PLL be using Casey for their upcoming pre-season practice and opening weekend games?? Will this give enough time for the turf to be ready for football in August??

The emergence of Palumb and kesselring as a solid 2nd string has been a great addition to the offense the past few weeks.

IMHO. NIL & the Portal are the END of COLLEGE basketball & football PERIOD. IF the ncaa can get any relief/help from the courts, college sports minus BB/FB "may" survive in some format???? I see the need for UA to join the bandwagon; but IMHO only the RICH will get richer from this new model. Even at the highest levels, few if any Colleges make money on athletics. At the mid/low major and even the poorer power 5; there simply is NOT enough tv/steam/nil money to support College Sports OVERALL. Article after article, coaches at ALL levels predicting program cuts and less athletic sports offerings. At mid/low/P5 bottom dwellers there will be NO CHANCE to compete in BB/FB. It took years for a 16 to knock off a 1, you will never see it again. Might as well form bowl and champ divisions [DI, DI.A, DI.AA, etc.]

Thanks CW. Just think it funny how the ncaa used the term for years in both lax & even basketball. Basketball got creative by mixing up the "play-in" teams with 13 and I think 8 seeds mixed in and even has various expansion plans under consideration. While the stodgy Lax people seem to drag their feet with tournament expansion; even though DI lax expanding # of teams faster than any other sport. Also, as I wrote in my other post No IVYs, NO Army, etc.. Also in inside lax this am and I may have the numbers slightly wrong; but the article said 7 of the top 8 seeds have a combined 38 loses an all time high. Parity has arrived or at least closer. More and more Really GOOD teams are being left out every year. IMHO Army and two or three of the IVYs could absolutely gone final four. With the NorthEast back next year another auto bid on the table. TIME to EXPAND THE TOURNAMENT. There will always be snubs; and mostly especially in basketball the 65-67 "play-in" teams and snubs really have little or no chance of winning the tournament. But in lax IMHO in this day and age pretty much any team in the top 20 to perhaps as high 24or5, would have a legit and competitive chance to be national champs? THIOUGHTS/OPINIONS welcomed and appreciated.

Dug thru the stadium construction thread, it took two weeks from the first day they rolled out the turf to when they started the rubber-pellet infill, then a little more for striping, logos and numbers. This isn’t like a new stadium that has to build a base, drainage, etc . The Fieldturf website says it’s even possible, depending on conditions, to just put a new rug on top of the old one, saving about $150 K. If you want to.

QUESTION: What/Why has the NCAA resisted expanding the field. NO at large IVY league teams this year. Army was number 1 in the country for a couple weeks this year--lost in the Patroit tournament. In the past IVY multiple at large teams: Patriot usually 1 or 2; even the AmEast has had several years with at large entries. Almost 80 DI teams now; only 17 spots--RIDICULOUS! DIII has 38 in their tournament?????????

I graduated just as these things were finishing or in their infancy. Even when I have been back on campus over years, I still find new stuff that has been built after me.

Even if we were interested, would Buffalo block our entry to the MAC And I don't want to imagine Rodger Wyland confusing the MAC and the MAAC

Gives us a chance for a NCAA Tourney win. To me, anything after yesterday is playing with house money.

That Hogg goal should have counted, went in before he stepped in the crease. The announcers kept mentioning challenges but I thought only the NCAA tournament will have replays outside of the two or three conferences that had it for the full season.

Almost gave it away, but VICTORY!! Always great to beat Vermont!

That man down was sweet!

I have to say that what impresses me most is the fact that it’s Frosh and Soph players that carried the team offensively. If they can keep them all, this crew could be a runaway locomotive in a year or too. And a freshman goalie on top of that.

Didn’t think he would transfer down a level. Interesting

Couldn’t ask for a better first half.

Dontae Lunan @upnowdon D1 Hybrid LB (May Grad Transfer) 5' 11" 220 Lbs. Transfer from Bryant

James Bozek, from Alexandria, Va, Shepherd University - Div II Transfer, K / P6’3 200, https://twitter.com/i/status/1729156075478478953 Every Kickoff into or through the endzone! FG long 43 yds

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40024327/uab-becomes-1st-d-football-team-join-players-association Continued deterioration of amateur athletics. Now they can get a cut of the money the BIG schools are making off of them? In addition to NIL? These kids are going to be making millions. Their educations should no longer be free. In fact, they should not even bother going to school and these teams should just disassociate with the term 'college' or 'university' in general. This is a disgrace. I've done a 180. I am completely against NIL and college kids making money. Wish they didn't get a cent. If this continues, I'm probably going to give up on college sports and just follow the pro leagues. I can't deal with 80% of the basketball team being replaced every year.