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Final score 8-1 http://www.albany.edu/sports/stories.htm#baseccsu They're part of the Conn. State University System, so they may not want CSU. But yeah, as Division I they should separate themselves from Eastern, Western, and Southern CSU. They might not want to go with SUC. CCSU had an RPI of 127, Albany 78 starting this week.

No talk about us on the Orange Forum, they're talking about the ACC final. Let's hope we can read some fine whining tonight. I'm leaving for the dome in about an hour.

When Beeten was fired, Brown was already on staff; a vacant position can be temporarily filled via promotion immediately, but a permanent hire, whether renegotiating a contract or hiring from the outside, probably has to be posted. Brown was coach for about six months before losing the interim tag. Patterson was hired on May 6, less than 2 months after Warner was not renewed.

Only 10 of 420 voters (2.3%) picked Albany to win in this week's contest http://forums.laxpower.com/read.php?f=1&i=...114089&t=114089 By the power ratings Syracuse should be a five-point favorite. Here's hoping they're looking past us, and aren't regrouped after losing to Rutgers.

From the Hartford web site http://www.hartfordhawks.com/sports/m-lacr...s/04/042104.htm

Of course, we could also root for UMBC to lose to Stony Brook in Balt. or to UVM in Burlington. Retrievers don't seem nearly as strong as they thought they were when the season started.

Albany has committed to the NEC THROUGH the 2006 season. Unless there's a buyout/penalty clause we could pay, we're stuck until the 2007 season. Since the NEC aid must be need-based, the best we could do is get to the 30-man (10 per year) max for 2005 underclassmen, then get 20+ full scholarships for 2006 and redshirt all of them - if they play we'd have to declare ourselves ineligible for the league championship. Then for 2007 add another 20+ to get to the 63 max for I-AA. When we start hearing about next year's recruits, then maybe something will come into focus.

If they don't reorient the field, it might be possible to build one side of the grandstand at a time while continuing play. If not, there aren't many options available. I'd guess Heritage Park if it still exists, Bleecker Stadium or a high school field (CBA, Shen?) for a year. The better HS fields don't have a lot fewer seats than we have now. I don't know if any of them have artificial turf. Union or HVCC might also be possible. Since there's no major demolition necessary, construction shouldn't take more than a year to at least get a playable field.

Current and possible future layouts of about a 12,000 seat stadium (I wish Mapquest still posted these satellite photos). If we flip the direction, they'll have to dig out the hill for 50 yards towards the library.

The staff still thinks they should have beaten Brown last year. Hofstra and Fordham seem to be either rebuilding or in disarray, only Lehigh might get really ugly. If all of last year's redshirts have as much speed as some think, and we find some kickers, we could have a shot at a couple.

UAlbany announces spring practice Looks like there's no spring game again. Interesting that Eddie U. is switching from FB to DE.

A Times-Union story on Tuesday says KH is a finalist for president at U of Tennessee. I'm having trouble imagining her dressed in orange and singing Rocky Top.

Danes led 9-7 after 3, lost 10-9 UA story

In the LaxPower Weekly 'Pick the Winners' contest http://www.laxpower.com/news/stories.php?s...story=2004-2006 Albany appears for the first time this year, but 81% of the 540 voters picked UMBC. Their leading scorer is out for the season with a torn ACL. UMBC lost to Delaware in spite of UD getting ZERO extra-man ops - talk about home cooking! The game is on WMAR-TV, don't know if that's on satellite or if cable will pick it up. It doesn't look like it's available on the UMBC online radio schedule.

Has to be concrete, so the $iena weasels can continue to sneer at the 'concrete campus'. BTW Dave Magarity has 'resigned' at Marist; a $iena poster says he hopes Steve Sauers doesn't get the head job so they don't have to see him any more. Yeah, it's a one-way rivalry.

The Gazette finally reports on the facilities plan, but adds more interesting quotes from McElroy: Step 1 – Sasaki master plan for football stadium, soccer/track complex, all-weather lax field, field hockey, and all-purpose indoor track venues is promised by the end of May. Step 2 – which projects can we do, and in the shortest time, a decision for the new president (who knows when that will be?) Step 3 – we have to do something about the football stadium, in phases or all at once. Stony Brook’s was supposed to cost $12 million but ran way over, ending at $21 mil. Ours could cost $20 - $40 mil, depending on : do we flip it to run north-south like most stadiums, or leave it east-west? How many box seats? All, none, or how many chairbacks? Sasaki will give a real cost estimate on every phase and every facility

Make it four from Yale, 3-2 (9 inn.) and 8-0 Yale Results

Today's Troy Record in a story about $iena alumni trying to revive football, mentions four players who have verballed to transfer to Albany for next year - Genovesi, Nutter, Stern, and Sheehan

100 mil for all projects. Highlights from the Troy Record: McElroy announced the RACC's basketball floor, a target for countless players' knee and foot injuries, will be replaced with a multi-treated surface in late summer after the New York Giants leave training camp. On the Stadium: "We will know more about that after the state budget passes," said McElroy, who estimated, "if everything falls into place, we could be playing in a new football stadium as soon as the 2005 season." Right. As long as it's before I die

Well, I was told 750. What's going up on the lax field now doesn't even look like 200; just have to wait until they're finished, then I'll go over and start counting. As for the mutual support of the coaches, they probably realize that major success (esp. NCAA tournaments) in ANY sport gets publicity that reinforces all the sports of the entire program. A four or five o'clock ######tail/happy hour for these shindigs would be more convenient for the working public, but they may want to give enough time for the TV crews to get back for the evening news. Moderator: isn't censorship a little tight when you can't use the word for a rooster's hind feathers for your after-work drink? Can South Carolina be called the Game######s here? I guess not.

It's now on the UA web site

The new logo is a reworking of the two-tone ‘A’, the straight ‘ALBANY’ replaced by a curved ‘UALBANY’. I’d guess this will be on the side of the football helmets next year. The lacrosse bleachers are supposed to hold 750, so there have to be more sections than are up so far. Spring football practice starts April 12. Sciarra has gone on to law school. Uli Delgado had much better attitude and work habits this winter than last. Nick Bazan is in grad school and will move back to quarterback. There are four freshman QBs. We still owe Syracuse a basketball game, but neither school is in a hurry for it. Mueller thinks the baseball team could finish as high as third. Of course, all the spring sports coaches are optimistic. Reps from Sasaki Associates were there, but didn’t speak to the crowd about the master plan.

Yes, Gail C-D told me there would be fewer seats for now, but a press box is also being built. The bleachers can be expanded in the future.

Nice to be a published author, with a picture, yet. http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story...sdate=3/21/2004

DF2k3, ralph isn't a $iena guy, he's a I-AA football fanatic (over 3,000 posts on the I-AA.org forum). Ralph, you won't find too many places with LESS sympathy for Siena than this board. They wouldn't schedule Albany when they had a team, they won't play Albany now in lacrosse, baseball or almost anything else except basketball and a few women's sports.