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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.

Yes it can! In today's Times-Union http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story...wsdate=1/1/2004 Q turned an ankle vs. Wagner, didn't practice Wed., and may not play vs. UMBC. Also, Pipikis may apply for a waiver to redshirt, even though he's played more than twenty percent of the games this year.

Since he was hurt before Dec. 28, can Pipikis redshirt? You wouldn't think we'd need him, but if we have injuries like this again next year ...

Yes it was upstairs for 55-60 people, some of them spilling out into the hallway. Don O. said he had to move people out of the way to get into his office.

A stat not in the paper's box score is that PU had only nine turnovers to Albany's 27. The only reason UA led at the half is the Waves shooting 20% in the first. They went to a press in the second to turn the game around.

Janis Pipikis was on crutches at UMass. He fell and injured an MCL at practice Saturday. Supposed to have an MRI Monday, the same day as Jamar's surgery. Still no Hughes sighting. Danes fell behind 21-5 , basically played UMass even the rest of the way, never behind by more than 19, cut it to 5 in the first half, no closer than 11 in the second half. Albany women beat FIU, play Pepperdine tomorrow at 7:00 for the Fun 'n Sun title.

I like that the 19-18 win was in overtime - reminds me of some of our other wins in the last couple years.

We open at Hofstra on a Thursday night (Sept. 2 before Labor Day?) The Fordham schedule says they are at Albany Sept. 11 at 6 pm We are at Brown on Sept. 18 A post on the I-AA board confirms we play @Lehigh on October 2 The return game at Fordham is Nov. 19, 2005 Only once do I remember a preliminary schedule being released earlier than April. Albany doesn't like to release schedules until the signed contract is in hand (the holdup last year). And the Northeast Conference doesn't release the league schedule until Memorial Day. All you can do is check expected opponents and piece the schedule together yourself.