haggyland

FYI: Morrison was just named the CAA defensive player of the week; the first defensive POW for UA in the CAA (Osbourne got an offensive POW last year.)

Now, I'm dying to know why... on our last offensive drive and 4 down set... we chose to go deep on 2nd and 9

and 3rd and 9??? We had brought it out to the 30 already and were moving the ball. And we had 5 minutes left on the clock.

This bothered me also. In the first twenty minutes of the game Fiacchi was trusted only once to throw the ball downfield. Then, needing ten yards to keep their drive alive, they twice try for 30+ yard sideline routes.

Bryant isn't even supposed to be good this year. This is a real shocker.

I think Brook was an 18.5 point favorite the last I looked.

I was hoping Haggy was wrong.

You should know better than that by now...

Good news on McKinley, he will be visiting in September. Hopefully he commits so I can start working on some Mount McKinley shirts for next year.

I was always much more of a Denali fan myself.

Interesting. She's still listed on the roster..for what it's worth. Would change the team quite a bit. Outside of Megan..only 3 players on the team for 14-15 are 6' or taller.

I was told she only decided to stop playing basketball a few weeks ago.

Maybe they can get another center in time for the season. If not, Tiana-Jo (6'2" from Maine) looks like she might be a capable freshman.

I heard that a couple of weeks ago Megan decided to give up her scholarship and will pursue a business internship instead.

A big loss (no pun intended), as she was an AE first teamer, but the talent seems to get better each year.

Best of luck to her!

Don't forget to vote...

Yabba Dabba Doooooooooo!

This is all unofficial at the brain storming level so ... - Minimum $300,000K but the wish list also includes an equipment storage facility and refurbished stands so $500,000. Our target date is by Spring of 2015 so it's up by the NYS High School Champs and we can then bid on larger regional and national events.

Strategy may be to find 1 or 2 large donors to seed the pot and then conduct alum and community outreach.

 

See all at the BBall game tonight!

Great to see the organization for one of UA'S most successful sports.

D96 brings up some legitimate questions; maybe attention should be focused more on one item than trying to solve all the issues at one time.

If you compare the facilities from two years ago to the facilities we have now, just think what we can have in the future with continued success and interest!

Missed you at the game (obviously), but we have had conversations about mats in the past: is there any money there or will older mats be used on brand new surfaces? (Still surprised at the costs of those things...)

Women win at UNH, 60-47, bringing their record to 25-3 and 15-0 in conference. With the win, the regular season championship is clinched.

Another INCREDIBLE season for the Lady Danes...with the potential for more!

Trying to raise $ for an electronic results board. I know a lot of you feel that should take low priority but we're hoping to find a private sponsor or two. With NYS high school champs and AEast / Regional collegiate vents already scheduled the lack of that piece is embarrassing.

I think it is a fantastic idea, albeit a bit disappointing the university doesn't have money to throw around to all the programs...but maybe a dollar fundraised is sweeter than a dollar budget appropriated?

So what's the plan for the approach? Who's spearheading it? What kind of dollar figure are we looking at? For this coming season?

Look to the AEast web page for updates!

I was waiting for your update, jali....trophy presentations just concluded.

UA with two more championships.

Of course with McElroy's policy of maximum contracts after a championship season, this could go on in perpetuity...or you have to have gone five straight years with nothing.

Neither option is particularly enticing. Winning "up" games consistently is the best option, but that has been taken off the table.

I looked it up... Yes, 4 winning seasons in 13 years... Granted the first few I'm sure we're difficult. 2 winning season since Jamar left well... That's an eye opener.

Come on, brah, you know I know the stats.

Everything has been said that could be said. Just hope for lightning in a bottle again; playing at the SEFCU is the only saving grace.

Fire Will Brown

 

$25K per win?

 

You shut up and tell me how many winning seasons we have with this coaching staff at the helm. I think it's what...4 in 13 years? Look it up.

Umm, I am pointing out that that figure is absurd at this level. Win how we could win, and that would multiply out to a Big East salary.

Fire Will Brown

$25K per win?

If anybody is interested, coach Gordon Graham offers e-mail updates about players and matches if you tell him to add you to his distribution list.

One interesting tidbit I got from the latest e-mail was this piece of information:

"Next up for the Danes is a strong AmericaEast foe, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) on Friday, Feb. 14th, 3:00 pm in Newark, NJ. NJIT was recently added to the conference as an associate member in women's tennis only, thus giving the AE Conference the requisite number of teams so that they retain their automatic qualifier (AQ) for the NCAA team championships."

It looks like NJIT is at least in the peripheral when the AE looks for peer institutions.

Wow. Dan Harding will have three years of eligibility left and is enrolled for the Spring.

 

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/01/nazareths_dan_harding_to_play.html

I didn't realize the kid was from the University of Akron.

With him, Downer, and Shanley, Fiacchi can't be feeling too relaxed.

Agreed. But you also have to agree that against both UNH and UML we weren't even close to 75% healthy.

 

Again, if we were healthy we win those games...even though we did play like shyte.

 

Agreed...specifically the UML game stands out with the injuries.

I am starting to believe that in the AE anything can happen.

It doesn't do anything if I want to talk basketball with a fan from a bigger and better conference, but I guess it is something.

This is a total beat-down, makes you scratch you head about the earlier UML game and UNH.

So this is how a UVM fan feels when it plays UA in the regular season?

Updated in tracking. This kid has a ridiculous motor. Check out his hudl highlights.

 

http://www.hudl.com/...086/zack-deluca

Better website than the university's athletics page.

• UAlbany fans help us officially welcome Zach DeLuca (Pittsburgh Central Catholic, PA) to the #PURPLEFAM #CAAFB #NSD
  

Anyone remember how 4 years ago we couldn't even get a press release with names of signed kids. Now we got twitter going, press conference etc.

 

Nice growth...

 

LIKE!!!!

And they are even making shout-outs while doing it:

Taking a break in #NSD to S/O @UAlbanyWBB Conference Winning Streak at 33 Straight Games! #BeastMode