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Did someone define that? What is our negative environmental footprint? 16824[/snapback] whoever said that needs to be taken out the back door and kicked in the face with a steel toe.

I don't know about a link, I picked up the newspaper as I was leaving the residence hall this morning.

I have to say that the people who write for the ASP Sports Section are a disgrace. Not only do they pick up the TU's pointless article on UAlbany atheletes not making the grade, but then they bash the Athletic Director for saying that when the new stadium is built they can average 10-15,000 people a game. The author says that because only a few thousand people show up for current games, that automatically they won't show up when the new stadium is built. I mean, instead of saying something positive about the school you go and lay down some stupid speculation grounded with zero facts about a stadium that hasn't even been built yet. It truly is pathetic, and it makes me angry because these writers are students that jump at any little thing to make Albany Athletics look like a joke. Good job guys, keep up the good work. Keep showing your school pride.

Life begins with L-I.

I will do it though the one year I did participate I did not fair well. I prefer baseball and football but I will give it another run. 16665[/snapback] I am in. Especially is Albany Alum 94 is in. That's free pickings. 16666[/snapback] count me in as well, although I've never used NBA.com's leagues. I use Yahoo! for my Fantasy leagues.

this stream sucks. The camera is horrible.

he chose UAlbany over Penn, Princeton, and Stanford. I think the Honors College might be working its magic along with Will Brown's recruiting skills.

You work at CNN? Can you get rid of all that sensationalist tabloid crap that you and every other major news outlet pawn off as news? I don't want to watch a 20 minute breaking news segment of a killer Ostirich running loose on a school playground, and I certainly don't care about some young rich good-looking blonde haired, blue-eyed girl that went missing while on a drinking fest in some resort town. Anyway, my rant about the mass media is over. I do agree with you though, UAlbany should go Division 1-A. Thinking big is one of my main philosophies as well. You've seen what Coach Ford can do with limited incentives to give to recruits. Imagine what he'd be able to do with a 1-A schedule, full scholarships to give out, and top-notch facilities. It's a shame that at the rate we're going, he's not going to be around to utilize those things.

that type of student is being admitted to college campuses all over the nation unless you're one of the big schools with 90,000 seat stadiums and 20,000 seat Basketball arenas. You go to Florida, LSU, Georgia, Auburn, Syracuse, Penn State knowing about and wanting to go to the Football and/or Basketball games. You can't miss the massive stadium and arena on campus. That was one of the reasons if not the main reason you go to that school. They're automatically hooked to the teams and to the pride even before they get on campus. It's a mindset and an indoctrination that is hard to put on students at a school where watching and supporting athletics wasn't a reason they came to the school in the first place. Having said that students do show up as you've seen at Basketball games, and even football games. I definitely think you'll see an increase in student attendance at Basketball games this year.

Who on g-ds earth do you want UA to play in football? We play Montana and Delaware, the two most storied programs (outside of Georgia Southern) in IAA football. We have played Hofstra, Maine, Northeastern, UMASS, FAU, FIU, Lehigh, soon Cornell and Colgate. DUDE...THESE ARE HEAVYWEIGHTS. Don't hold your breath for Syracuse. That is about 10 years away...minimum. We will get a stadium in the next three-four years and when people see a 15ker, they will respond. BUT WE ARE NOT GOING IA...not for 20 years...minimum. Students not knowing Delaware....is there own fault. You know where Rich Gannon went to school? DELAWARE! 16377[/snapback] the average student has no clue who those schools are because they're too busy watching the Yankees game on Saturday afternoon, the Notre Dame game Saturday evening, getting drunk and stoned at night, and then watching the Giants play Sunday afternoon. Not that I speak from personal experience because you can insert any other big teams or activities in there to your liking. Its the concept that matters.

I've said this before a few times on this board, but ATL may not have read those posts. Being a student living in the dorms I get a sense of what the student mindset is when it comes to Albany athletics. The main term that I use and have used before is legitimacy. One of my suitemates told me the other day that his highschool football field had more seats and looked better then UAlbany's. The fact is if you present a poor product, you're going to get a poor response to it. You can't expect students to show up and support their football program when it seems as if the administration won't even support it. If the administration supported the program, the team wouldn't be playing in a dump. Very few students, if any outside of myself, have understood the massive upsets we've pulled off this season. If you say, "We beat Delaware. It's the biggest upset in school history.", the most likely response you'll get is: "Dela-where?". If you build a nice stadium, and play some more recognizable teams outside of Central Western Connecticutt State University or St. Marys Massachusetts Our Lady of Peace College you're going to get alot more students to games. I strongly believe in the old adage that if you build it, they will come. Just look at the Basketball team.

How is this different from a reporter from the Post? 16149[/snapback] that made me laugh. Referring to what Patch said, yes if you do it for free it is about the passion. I'm sure this student who wrote this did have passion, but probably not the skill to research and develop an article to the standard that you guys want it to be at. I've noticed that alot of the ASP writers lack these skills. I was dissapointed to see that this week's ASP Sports Section only had a little box about the Delaware game when it should have taken up the entire front page of it.

when you say cheers do you mean the kind you play on instruments or the kind you yell out loud? If you want to chant something you could look into this:

this is absolutely ridiculous. What happened to free speech? If I was a BU student I would organize a boycott of all hockey games until they stop this crap. I'm sure everyone will enjoy watching a game quietly sitting in their chairs whispering (because being too loud is rude) politically correct phrases to the satisfaction of the BU politburo. "You are not smart [insert opponents name]. Your SAT scores were very low. Hah. hah." Then you get kicked out because saying someone isn't smart is discriminatory. When the refs make a bad call the crowd will shower them with phrases like "You need Laser Eye surgery." or "Golly, Where did you get your Spectacles at? The blind optometrist. hah." Making fun of blind people is wrong so this will also get you kicked out. Any clapping will be in unison, and only for a short designated length of time because anything longer would be considered overzealous and might lead to a dangerous level of passion and happiness that could result in an outcry of banned emotion. Hopefully the students at BU see how stupid this is and protest. If I went there I'd definitely be pissed off after paying 50,000 dollars only to have my freedom of speech be stomped on by the PC Nazis in the BU administration.

Everyone start this chant at the game. Watch it towards the end when the song stops and 50,000 people chant it in unison. I think this is the coolest thing ever to do at a game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8cffEaZGh0

Build the stadium now. If we go undefeated in conference play, maybe we get a at large bid?

Man, you guys are blasting this like its the New York Times. This is a college newspaper, made up of people who do this for free. Give this kid a break. The author probably had good intentions of making it a great piece but then he waited to the last minute, got drunk one night, lost his keys and cellphone, threw up all over himself, woke up in the frontyard of someone's house and realized his deadline was only a few hours away so he had to throw some stuff together as he was nursing a hangover.

ALBANY, N.Y. (August 31, 2006) -- The University at Albany applicant pool for the 2006-07 calendar year surpassed 18,000—a 12 percent increase in freshmen applications above last year and a record number for UAlbany. From that, the University enrolled 2,350 freshmen to the class of 2010—200 fewer students than last year's record class of 2,556. The smaller class allowed UAlbany to be more selective in admissions, with an acceptance rate of 55 percent, down from 63 percent. As a result, the class has a higher mean GPA of 89.6, compared to 88.5 last year, with a mean SAT of 1146. The University also received a record 4,710 transfer applications and expects to enroll 1,400 new transfer students this fall. Total enrollment is expected to increase 2.1 percent with a projection of 17,399 combined undergraduate and graduate students. This fall, 110 incoming freshmen will be admitted to the new interdisciplinary Honors College, headed by Assistant Vice-Provost for Honors Programs Jeffrey J. Haugaard. The Honors College provides motivated students with special learning opportunities, including a year-long research experience in their senior year, community service learning projects, and preparation to successfully compete for national and international scholarships. The Honors College boasts a total of 145 including three student-athletes. The University aims to recruit 600 top-flight undergraduate students to the college over the next four years. "We're working to create a vibrant University and an intellectual hothouse of activity," said Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs Susan V. Herbst. "We're pleased to welcome students and faculty to embrace the challenging educational opportunities, enhanced services, and new look." The University has embarked on a $25 million Campus Beautification Project to create a more welcoming environment that's easier to navigate. Key areas of focus include the completion of University Hall—where new and prospective students are greeted and experience their first view of the University—a downtown renewal, with the addition of new signage, lights, and cameras at Alumni Quad to enhance safety and accessibility; a University-wide signage improvement initiative; and special emphasis and scope on the University entrance plaza bordering Collins Circle with improvements to the podium and Campus Center entranceways, landscaping, canopy, and deck. The University also welcomes 36 new faculty to the campus. This includes new faculty in the College of Computing and Information, the School of Criminal Justice, the School of Education, the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, the School of Public Health, the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, the School of Social Welfare, University Libraries, and to 14 departments within the College of Arts and Sciences. UAlbany's Task Force for Environmental Sustainability, created by the late President Kermit L. Hall, reinforces the University's eight-year-strong recycling program through promoting research and education aimed at lowering consumption, protecting environmental resources, improving transportation efficiency, and reducing waste. In the past four years alone, UAlbany has recycled more than 3,000 tons—including an average of 1.7 million pounds of paper a year—or approximately 83 pounds per person. The University spends more than $15 million in utility costs in one year and the campus Physical Plant Department maintains an annual budget of $96,000 for recycling and refuse removal. Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to "think green" by embracing the University's responsibility, as a 20,000-person-strong community, to conserve, recycle, and beautify the campus and environment. The Great Beginnings welcome packet provides tips and resources to be environmentally responsible and events and activities—including UAlbany Goes Green days Oct. 12 and 13—are scheduled throughout the calendar year to educate and engage the campus. This fall also marks the academic tribute to Encounter Albany's Architecture, with a semester-long series of events and programs aimed at rekindling campus pride in the distinctive architecture of the uptown campus, designed by internationally renowned architect Edward Durell Stone in 1962 to 1964. The campus is an important example of modernist design characterized by its soaring colonnades, symmetrical patterns, and large, central, reflecting pool. The newest building, University Hall, and even the campus landscaping was designed to "mirror" the architecture, with trees planted in squares and rectangles. Stone is noted for his work designing the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, and the New York Cultural Center in New York City. The fall "Architecture Semester" will showcase Stone's work through movie screenings, guided tours, and more including an Open House at University Hall on October 16. For a schedule of upcoming events, visit Architecture at Albany. The success of the University's Campus Book Reading Project continues with the announcement of the 2006-07 selection: Elizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. And, the University fosters its commitment to excellence in undergraduate education this fall with the addition of a new journalism major to the University's 54 degree programs. UAlbany's Great Danes hope to continue the momentum of the 2005-06 season, when nearly 200 student-athletes were named to the America East Conference and Northeast Conference academic honor rolls. The Danes captured five conference championships (men's basketball, softball, and indoor and outdoor track, and women's outdoor track), two regular-season titles, and five individuals earned All-America honors recognition in their respective sports. The University's football (Northeast) and women's volleyball (America East) teams have already been picked as the preseason favorites to win conference titles in the fall of 2006. UAlbany's University Auxiliary Services (UAS) has also made several additions and upgrades to their dining room in Dutch Quad and are making preparation for opening a Wendy's on campus. Gone are the days of rolled quarters and swipe cards on laundry day as the University unveils "unlimited laundry" for all residential students and Freedom Quad residents, utilizing 422 new front-loading washers and dryers. Students at Empire Commons retained the individual washers and dryers in each unit.

how big is this win? Is this like a 16 beating a 1 seed?

Does UAlbany have any TV games this year for Football?

..maybe one day Ettkin could add "getting bombed at the lamp post" to his list of college football "traditions." I've eaten about 1000 chili-cheese dogs at The Varsity in Athens during my time. The place is disgusting. Ask anyone who has actually eaten at The Varsity and they'll tell you the same thing. I'd much rather go to ATS pub. Go Dawgs-- of Georgia...and Albany! 15853[/snapback] It's interesting, I was saying pretty much the same thing yesterday on the other thread.

ok, I will rephrase then. College football is not a northeastern thing. There's Syracuse (which sucks) and Penn State, and thats about it. There's Buffalo which blows as well. Ivy League, maybe, but it's a shell of what it once was. Same thing with Army outside of the Army Navy game. The thing is, I see all these teams in the America East with big time nationally ranked hockey programs, and I don't see why we're not doing the same thing. UNH, Maine, BU, Vermont. I'd rather have a big-time hockey and a competitive basketball program then a mediocre 1-AA football program. Now if you can fit Hockey and Football in together, great, but if I was the AD I would sacrifice football for Hockey. Thats just my opinion. If you're not going to be serious about football (i.e. getting a new stadium, and a legitimate conference, and full scholarships) then dump it and get a sport like Hockey.

lets get rid of football and replace it with Hockey. We should just accept that college football is a southern thing, and that college hockey is a northeastern thing. Take the money for the football stadium and build a new 7-8k seat arena that can be used for Hockey and Basketball. I'm sure the Hockey East will take us with open arms. We'd also have some great instant rivalries with Union and RPI. Albany will be the new official Hockey Town.

if you build it (the stadium) they will come

I've never had a problem talking to a professor. I've been in lectures with 400 people and the professor will still answer questions if someone raises their hand, they'll wait when people come up to them at the end of class, and alot of them will walk with students to their offices. Also, the dorms really aren't that bad compared to some of the other more expensive schools I've been to. Also, where the hell is this supposed red tape and beauracracy? I've never had a problem trying to get stuff done. I'd like to know how the PR conducts their polling. I'm sure schools pay them off to skew their numbers to make them look more favorable.