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Mystery Man is Ted (or Tim?) McCall, 6'1" soph. who was a women's practice player - mentioned on the telecast.

Going by this year's final Sagarin ratings, Albany should be underdog in its non-conference games by anywhere from 13 (Hofstra) to 26 points (Lehigh), and none of them seem to be very hard-hit by graduations for next year.

2004 Schedule SEPTEMBER 2 Thu. at Hofstra 7:00 11 Sat. Fordham 6:00 18 Sat. at Brown 1:00 25 Sat. at Sacred Heart* 1:00 OCTOBER 2 Sat. at Lehigh 1:00 9 Sat. St. Francis, Pa.* (HC) 1:00 16 Sat. Monmouth* (HOF) 1:00 23 Sat. at Stony Brook* 6:00 30 Sat. Wagner* 1:00 NOVEMBER 6 Sat. at Robert Morris* 1:30 13 Sat. Central Connecticut State* 1:00

Liked when the announcers said Albany players had to be like the Black Knight in Monte Python and the Holy Grail. "Your arm's cut off" "Nahh, it's only a flesh wound"

Hard to see how we took a 17-pt. lead against a team that beat Virginia, Pitt, and Hawaii, and will play UConn next year. Rizzotti, of course, says they overlooked Albany. http://www.ctnow.com/sports/college/hc-uha...-sports-college I would have liked to have seen the cartwheel Trina promised her players if they won. Today's Courant also has a story about chaos and infighting in the athletic dept. at CCSU, which still has no football coach for next year.

One thing you've missed is that the rec center will be a permanent building replacing the bubble. If it's three or four floors on the same footprint it should have plenty of room, but baseball and lax will have to practice popups and long passes outside on the artificial turf. If the parking garage is limited to faculty,staff, and off-campus students, there shouldn't be too much conflict with athletic events at night and weekends. Central Conn. has garages in the middle of the campus that it also uses for football and hoops.

The only other thing I've heard for athletics was an indoor track facility. You've hit most of the other things mentioned last April. I've still got the booklet, I'll try to scan it and have DP put it up on the board. The $100M was stated on another forum to include much more than athletics, and I know there are plans next for a new 'Welcome Center' on Collins Circle, as well as talk of a parking garage, which could be placed where it might also be useful for sports spectator parking besides daily use. Just those two might take up half the 100M. What I heard was that the consultations and recommendations would be finished by the end of April, and we also don't know how much the search for the new president will delay things.

I think Hansen is Midwest-based and a lot of the posters may be from there. A lot of the PFL schools were much higher-ranked at one time (Drake, Dayton, Butler) and have better name recognition than most of the NEC teams - SHU, Monmouth and RMU have only had football for about ten years, Wagner and SFU were D-III. Marist also has a much higher opinion of their own academics than of the NEC, some of their fans think they'd fit in the Patriot.

Also, the president of Loyola performed the Hicks' wedding ceremony, so they had a personal relationship there. He probably got a raise as well.

When the Fundraising campaign kicked off last April, the wish list for all sports totaled no more than $9 million, plus football stadium renovations and an indoor track facility (the RACC isn't suitable for championship-level meets). Football's goal was only $50K for additional scholarships - obviously only a short-term goal. I spoke recently with an AD employee who said the consultant firm (Sasaki?) would be conducting interviews of staff and students, focus groups etc. to report this April recommending the choices to be made, like how many artificial turf fields are needed to be shared by FB, field hockey, soccer, lacrosse, and a practice field. After that is the job of raising the money or getting it through the state and university budget processes.

Well, South End on the AE board said the Hawks had only 7 healthy bodies against Stony Brook. Either way, they won't be able to send in waves of subs.

Word on Don Hansen's board is that Marist will announce dropping football next week. If St. Pete quits too, Duquesne might go to the PFL, leaving only Iona and LaSalle, and I doubt they'd be competitive in the NEC either. Hansen had a top 20 this year, out of 23 teams.

Hartford - one team with fewer players suited up than we do! Maybe we can hold on in the last five minutes Saturday.

$iena drops football http://www.i-aa.org/article.asp?articleid=...jvfyvVJjleEmkZt

http://www.wnyt.com/programming.html - Channel 13's schedule

Three stories in the Troy Record, comparisons to Bing, and McElroy mentions looking a new RACC floor, for 1/2 to $2 million http://www.troyrecord.com/site/news.cfm?ne...id=523732&rfi=6 http://www.troyrecord.com/site/news.cfm?ne...id=523732&rfi=6 http://www.troyrecord.com/site/news.cfm?ne...id=523732&rfi=6

Much as I like to think we could finish 15-13 next year and be rolling to do some damage in March, I have to keep reminding myself that it will still be a young team (only Wyatt and Q seniors), and at the start Jamar, LJ and Z will all have a year or more of rust to work off in November and December. Meanwhile, just sitting back and watching the scrap, hoping we can get four or five more Ws this year.

How many times did Wyatt get knocked to the floor yesterday? Gotta wonder if after last week's suspensions we were expecting the league to have the refs trying to keep games more under control and he was trying to buy a few extra fouls - which seemed to work, at least Billings didn't have another career day. BTW Patch I think it was Ben Franklin, not Patrick Henry, but a good thought anyway.

Well, he can pretend the whitetails are antelope, and somebody from the shadows of Mount Rushmore is used to looking up(hill) to the tops of buildings. Still it's early, and that's a wide spread in the talent level of the teams looking at him.

And it would be nice to find a consistent place-kicker, would have made a difference in three or four of our losses in the past couple of years.

Wyland said the crowd might sound loud, but there was almost noone there. Then the official attendance is listed at 800+ - almost half full? What was your crowd estimate, either abacus or eyeball? Brown told them off-air that he sat Levi for 12 min. in the first half to send him a message (?). Rodger said Levi had started to get into it under the boards with NU players - what did you notice?

We should be at least OK in the backfield. Gudmunsen's a Junior, so it's tackle LaRoche and guard Swicicki plus a tight end we lose in the line. We've got a lot of big linemen coming up; QB will be the worry for next year, not that it was an all-leaague position for us last year.

He's back (sort of) Times-Union 01/07

Could be worse, we could have Big Red of Western Kentucky I thought the story was we didn't secure the copyright to the previous Great Dane logo. In the early 90's we sometimes used a silhouette logo that looked like it was copied off the mud flap of a Great Dane 18-wheeler. A lot of schools have or have switched to cartoonish logos; marketing types may think they can sell more stuff to little kids if it's not as aggressive-looking.

That's why he has to apply for a waiver of the rule. If he had played only four games, the medical redshirt would not be questioned. With more than 20% played, the NCAA MAY grant a waiver, which is probably pretty rare but not totally unknown, and it may be worth a shot.