haggyland

People are putting a lot of money on UA.

Line last night was UA getting 27 points.

Now they are a 21 point underdog.

I love me some UA but staying within 21 could be tough.

Can't believe the season is finally upon us! Woot!

Crazy times. 4 CAA team are playing right now.

BTW, UA is a 27 point betting underdog tomorrow night.

 

Speaking of transfers..looks like Hartford granted Pancake Thomas his grad year release.

Huge loss for them...for those that don't know, Hartford originally refused to grant him a release.

 

Saban style!

More Fall sports news:

Yesterday field hockey was unanimously picked to finish first to win the East Division (Stanford, Cal, Pacific, and UC Davis are in the West Division.)

Today volleyball was picked to win the conference for the first time since 2013.

Women's cross country is improved, and will likely compete for a championship.

Football and men's cross country need some help!

Man the seat rental is awesome... Additional revenue as well. I'm not sure if I should accept the gold seat upgrade or go to my normal upper level. The view from there is so much better.

1st World Problems...

Claxton 3rd in her heat in 56.40!...secures the third qualifying slot in her heat.

Welp, I guess it's not a live event; they are only adding segments to their website at specific times:

http://caasports.com/news/2016/8/15/FB_0815160253.aspx

CAA's preview of the team is at 11AM this morning....

caafootball.com

In-N-Out burgers, animal style!!!!

Last year at this time both the men's and women's soccer teams had never won a regular season conference title or gone to the NCAA tournament.

Last season the men won a regular season championship and the women won a bid to the NCAAs.

Now both teams have been picked first in the pre-season polls for the 2016 season.

A little O/T but Delaware agreed to a home and home with North Dakota State for 2018 and 2019.

I didn't realize ALL of our assistant coaches had some form of NFL experience.

They don't. They just listed those that do.

 

 

For me seeing it was like an early scene from the movie Major League where they were looking through the owner's roster request and one meeting participant replied: "I've never heard of half of these guys."

"This guy here is dead"

 

"cross him off then"

LMAO

 

I was going to go there but I got gun-shy.

For me seeing it was like an early scene from the movie Major League where they were looking through the owner's roster request and one meeting participant replied: "I've never heard of half of these guys."

The email left off the most important member of the staff..........BLITZ! He better be there!

Do you think GG took the short life expectancy of the Great Dane breed into consideration when he got him?

This link shows a composite listing of all the men's lacrosse commits: http://www.connectlax.com/collegeteam/male-d1-at-suny_at_albany

11 for 2016.

11 for 2017.

6 for 2018.

Looks to be pretty thorough but it doesn't list Nanticoke for 2017 or Zane Sands (D) for 2018.

One more thing to get a little excited about in the football pre-season: Last year's Defensive Coordinator for the University of Maryland Terrapins, Keith Dudzinski, has been added to the coaching staff.

His son Jack is a 6'4", 250 pound redshirt sophomore DL on the UA team.

Still would have liked to have seen a change at OC, but this still seems good!

2015: Buffalo

2016: Buffalo

2017: Old Dominion

2018: Pittsburgh

2019: Central Michigan (The Chippewas!)

All confirmed by GG.

One more transfer to announce: Nick Dillon, DL.

Played a few games at Eastern Michigan last year as an incoming freshman but decided it wasn't the place for him.

At 6'2", 273, I hope Albany is the place for him!

One potential bright spot: Looks like Gattuso got Abner Logan, a Maryland transfer, to come in and play his graduate year here. Guy was rated in the top 25 ILBs coming out of high school.

Of course I was also excited about the potential of the Madaras boys a couple of years ago but neither one played a down as a Great Dane, and both are gone.

Looks like we are picked only ahead of dreadful Rhode Island...hopefully one of these years the program gets better.

I too was hoping the invite to the CAA would generate some fireworks a little earlier.

I just watched the videos for the CAA Pre-Season Offensive and Defensive teams and the only time UA appeared was when they were on the opposite side of the field.

FYI: It looks like our most active member got himself upgraded to gold seats for football this year....I say the drawing was rigged...

New picture of the team on Twitter.

13 players now.

I think I can confirm 10 players:

1) Bose

2) Jessica F.

3) TJC

4) Hixson

5) Schecter (new frosh center)

6) Forster

7) Tate

8) Hernandez

9) Stokes (new frosh guard)

10) Trpcic (new frosh guard)

There are three players I don't recognize, but none of them look like Zakiya or Edwards. No offense to Cassie, but losing "Z" would be a big loss...if she is in fact gone.

And BTW, Tate looks JACKED this year...

Now that we know the coaches, can't we get an updated women's roster for 2016 -17?

Maybe they are just waiting for the new UA athletics website!?!?!?

Anyhow, the roster:

11: Ended last season.

10: (-1) Richards

9: (-1) Coughlin

9: (No Change) Hilaire no longer coming.

10: (+1) Schecter

11: (+1) Stokes

12: (+1) Trpcic

Twitter accounts for the team (UAlbany WBB) and the coach (CoachMcNamee) confirm.