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D96 sighting!!!

 

 

Wow. Their ball players can dance. Nice commercial. Wish UA would do a dunk off and shoot off between the girls and guys at the P&G game. Looks fun.

 

EDIT: Okay, I really like this halftime program between the commercial and the player interview. We need stuff like this ASAP.

 

The Ilko and ClickClack Show, sponsored by SUNY Nano.

 

That's damn funny

 

What? The thought that Nano would give one cent back to its mother university? I still believe.

Wow. Their ball players can dance. Nice commercial. Wish UA would do a dunk off and shoot off between the girls and guys at the P&G game. Looks fun.

 

EDIT: Okay, I really like this halftime program between the commercial and the player interview. We need stuff like this ASAP.

The Ilko and ClickClack Show, sponsored by SUNY Nano.

 

 

And more annoying announcers! I wonder if people listen to Roger and Zach and say the same thing.

 

These two seemed surprised by every call.

 

(Whistle.)

#1: I think there's a time-out.

#2: Yeah, a time-out.

#1: Oh, wait, it's a technical.

 

(Substitution)

#1: What's going on? There seems to be some confusion.

#2: I think it's a late substitution.

#1: But no one new is on the court.

#2: They must have disallowed it.

#1: Oh, wait, it's Cremo!

 

 

Haha, good stuff Haggy.

 

And now BU is driving to the hoop. Oh, wait. It's halftime.

And more annoying announcers! I wonder if people listen to Roger and Zach and say the same thing.

These two seemed surprised by every call.

(Whistle.)

#1: I think there's a time-out.

#2: Yeah, a time-out.

#1: Oh, wait, it's a technical.

(Substitution)

#1: What's going on? There seems to be some confusion.

#2: I think it's a late substitution.

#1: But no one new is on the court.

#2: They must have disallowed it.

#1: Oh, wait, it's Cremo!

Sanders with the travel; Singletary with the turnover by losing his cross-over...stupid mistakes for two veteran players.

what was the technical? I looked away for a sec and boom

Technical was on Brown, after a shot made near him at the bench.

Why do I have the feeling I have seen this exact BU-UA game before?

No counter-punch to BU's threes; lead almost lost, after being as high as 11.

Yikes with the three point shooting, though.

Fastest paced offense I think I have ever seen in the D1 era.

Switched to HD; perfect.

And Charles has a mid-range jumper!?!?

 

 

MUSHNICK ripped Pikiell and SB for the outrageous running up the score against D-3 USMMA 103-32......launching 3's when up 60

This is the football thread...lol

So the "3's" weren't field goals?

I heard GG say Ngachie was injured at the beginning of the year. Last night the PA announcer announced that Ngachie made a tackle, but I did not see him on the field?? Hanks came out with a shoulder

injury per the TU and Croskey ran well…good burst of speed to the corner on the TD and on the long screen pass. All of the snaps and holds I could see from the top deck were lousy….I'll have to watch the DVR of the game

but it looked like the long snapper was skipping it or it was coming in low because the holder was scrambling. Toole was kicking them high and left every time and there was enough wind that it held them up. Sussman got creamed on a run late in the game and Crook came in and promptly almost had one picked off. One of the UA receivers was wide open on a deep crossing route and Crook sailed one about 5' over his head. He is not the answer. There was also a KO I could not understand after a UA score. It looked like a cross between an onside and a pooch and possibly a screwed up kick. In any event UNH got great field position.

 

I also like the idea of developing good athletes (Mencer) at LB. Some of the message boards I looked at could not believe Pitt or another FBS school did not sign him, but there was a lot of talk

that he basically played out of his natural best position much of the time and did not excel until senior year as a RB. They think GG got a steal. Time will tell.

 

When Crook was warming up to replace Sussman he was tossing back and forth with Brunson…he's still a tall drink of water. Will, you better hit the holiday tables hard this year and live in the gym

because the QB job will be wide open in 2016!

I just realized how much I agree with this assessment...guess I duplicated some things.

I was also in the upper level; seems you can see a lot from up there!

Mark did a poor job of covering UA when he did cover it, but not nearly as bad as Tim does. UA was also not what it is today then. Mark seems to be a Siena fan, and probably was then as well.

 

I'm not dismissing the bias, the TU Center, or the fact that Siena has a richer D1 history, those are all facts. I'm more saying that Tim is obviously not a fan. Regardless of bias, if the person who was covering UA was a fan of the team and not more concerned about what horses were running today there would be more coverage.

I think part of building a brand is to send Benson to figure out a way to get better coverage....winning alone isn't getting it done.

I don't think player control fouls do. Loose ball fouls probably.

Good observation. Makes sense.

My observations:

1) I also heard the announcer say Ngachie had a tackle, but it wasn't him, and he wasn't in the game.

2) DaSharnte Thompson hit like a truck and had a great game.

3) Sussman had nice legs and awareness but the play-calling didn't give him a chance to grow.

4) When Crook came in for two plays he almost got intercepted on the first play, and then over-threw the receiver by ten yards on the next play. I turned to my buddies and said that I thought he was improving!

5) EIH looked good but he has to protect that ball. Gattuso seems to yank him after one mistake, but hopefully they serve as coaching moments, because he is obviously talented.

6) The kicking game was an absolute atrocity (bad snaps or not), and should have been abandoned earlier, which brings me to another opinion:

7) Gattuso plays too conservative of a game. On offense it is runs up the middle until forced into a passing situation, where it is a sideline route and is usually overthrown.

Where are the slants? The screens? The reverses? The passes down the middle?

And most importantly where is the willingness to call a play with a high amount of risk involved? He never seems to go for it on fourth down, and a trick play hasn't seemed to happen in two years.

I have confidence that this program will start winning again, but for the first time in his tenure I was referring to Gattuso as "gutless" because he always seems to call the safest play.

Didn't we recruit a big time JUCO shooter?

 

I think Coughlin is the "shooter" because she shoots..not really because she's that good at it. She's a 32% three-point shooter for her career..hit 28% last year. My guess is she got that many shots because Pepperdine knows what type of shooter she is. And she kept taking them because she was open and they were trying hard to open the court up to help Richards.

 

If Coach Abe has recruited over Carter..then that's a GREAT problem to have. While Carter still can grow as a player..she was on the All-Rookie team and started the majority of the games last year. Was third in the conference in BPG and third on the team in RPG.

Hixson came in for one minute, was responsible for a turnover on a horribly telegraphed pass, and was taken out of the game. Coach Abe has always seemed to frown much more upon turnovers than missed shots.

Coughlin had a particularly rough shooting game, but her lifetime percentages indicate that it is mostly to be expected.

Just a theory that she was recruited over. Agreed it would be great, but my concern is that the shooting guard position was not the area of primary recruiting concern.

 

I could be way off here, but I think I remember seeing some discussion here a couple years ago about the reason why UA and Coach Brown are more tight-lipped around Times Union reporters. I don't remember whether somebody here definitely mentioned a kind of betrayal of confidence or whether it was something that I wrongfully deduced. Brown is normally fairly vocal with the media, particularly when he's dealing with media on a more national level, so I think he may be pretty gun-shy for a reason.

 

I thought the proverbial "final nail in the coffin" that completed the disconnect between men's basketball and the Times Union happened years ago when Brown and his following thought the Times Union reported him to the America East commissioner about comments he made on his website about scheduling...comments that resulted in a one game suspension.

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If a grudge at all effects the level of reporting then it is time to mend the fences, but it would still be difficult to expect the Times Union to be impartial when they have the naming rights to the building that houses the area's competing program.

 

Women's game goes to quarters instead of halves, two shots after the fifth foul of each quarter plus a few smaller changes.

Didn't realize this meant the one-and-one bonus is extinct.

 

Thought it strange the women didn't change baskets at the quarter break, stayed the same until the half.

 

I was thinking the same thing about changing sides.

Also, it seems that any foul (including offensive fouls) results in two shots for the fifth foul on.

Any reason why Tiana-Jo Carter did not play today?

She dressed, and participated in the lay-up line, so my theory is that she got recruited over.

Tiana-Jo had a good first year, but in my opinion her hands were not soft enough, and she didn't handle passes to the interior well.

If Lavergne continues to get the majority of minutes at center, then it definitely needs to be asked why a replacement for a serviceable player was found but nothing was done about finding two or three sharp-shooters that could offer a different offensive dynamic.

The biggest deficiency with the construction of this roster is that it cannot rapidly counter-punch. If another team gets hot with their three-point shooting there is simply no way for them to quickly respond similarly.

I saw a lot of potential flaws with this team, and it is the most unimpressed I walked away from a game in Coach Abe's tenure.

Richards is fantastic as usual, but if nobody on the team can consistently hit a jumper longer than 15' then she is going to regularly get double and triple teamed in the post.

Tate still has a beautiful shot, and is a highly active rebounder, but she has a mid-range game that does not extend the defense.

Coughlin should not be starting on a four-time defending conference championship team. If she and I were at an amusement park and we decided to play one of those games where you have to hit a jumper to win a stuffed animal I would tell her that I was taking the shot.

Unless one of the new guards steps up and gains Coach Abe's confidence, teams are going to shut down the team's two stars and force UAlbany into the outside shot, and UAlbany is going to struggle.

Coach Abe is a fantastic coach, but unless something changes I will not be at all surprised to see Maine take the conference championship this year.

 

He says that UA and Will Brown aren't as media friendly as Siena is and that's why he doesn't write more. I say BS. His job is to go out and look for info. He obviously doesn't care to do so.

 

When Singelais covered UAlbany everybody complained about the lack of coverage, so the specific reporter is not the problem. That would imply that there is a bias; the next step would be to figure out of it is against Will Brown and men's basketball or against UAlbany as a whole. To evaluate that fairly, we can't dismiss the possibility that UA and Will Brown are not as accommodating as they can be. We also cannot dismiss the facts that Siena has a 20+ year D1 lead on UA, and the newspaper has the naming rights to the arena in which Siena plays.

"once they break pressure they’ve got the big fella there waiting to punch your shot to Ashley Judd in the 15th row." Good, that means we get the ball back..

 

That tells me that her career has stagnated to the point that 15th row is the best seat she can get.

A pretty solid regular season for the majority of our fall teams. Especially great to see teams that haven't historically experienced a ton of success.. like WSOC and MSOC..play well. Here's hoping they can carry it into the postseason!

By my count the only two programs that haven't won a Division 1 championship so far are women's cross country and tennis.

Women's cross country just finished second in the AE Championships and should have a shot at winning next year.

Women's tennis improves every year under coach Gordon Graham and they are no longer blocked by a Boston University team that used to dominate the AE in the sport...now they just need to find a way to stop SBU's mini run of three straight championships.

2 hours 20 minutes from Albany to Connecticut so could go and get back in time for football.

BTW Stanford gets an at large out of the AE facing Duke

Seems to me Maine might have gotten shafted. They got past Stanford in the AE Tournament, and had a much better record.