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Nice win and back where UA Lax belongs, AE #1 seed and regular season champs.  Merrimack on Thursday.  Of note, the Merrimack coach resigned today after 17 seasons and will not coach Thursday's game.  Fall out from the racist incident in last game they played.  

Jared Verse went 19th in 1st round to LA Rams.  Got a few Albany mentions from the analysts too. 

3 minutes ago, BestDaneSinceHamlet said:

Eastern Washington is probably the boldest..and the hardest to see on TV

Forgot that one, that is red!

21 minutes ago, BestDaneSinceHamlet said:

Did you mean Yog-Yurt and have it shaped like a cloth hut?

 

Also, excited to see how the turf looks with the new logos etc.  It looked weird playing on turf with the old branding

What if they do a purplle field with gold endzones..

 

 

Purple field, hmmm.  That would rank up there with Boise St and Coastal Carolina for boldest fields in the country.

1 hour ago, Clickclack said:

Ok this latest kid is very nice. To bad we didn't have that last year. His mobility, size, athleticism and defense stands out...

Not bad but he and the Langford fella should not shoot threes. Approx 25% over their careers.

1 hour ago, dslyank said:

Not a TAX expert; but DOUBT highly whether a NIL is tax deductible. Your GDAC seat requirement is NOT, why would a NIL be?

Someone on this blog must be a tax lawyer or investment expert. Thoughts/opinions??

For what it worth IMHO, I rather build with freshman. And would be 100% against UA participating in a NIL. I'm sure I am in a minority. Rather support DII or lll if it comes to that. You all can have the portal and professional paid athletes; give me Doc Sauers and kids who loved to play and appreciated a chance to earn a degree.

It is taxable:

Generally, any money, goods, property, or services received from NIL activities are all considered forms of taxable income. Student-athletes should be mindful that NIL agreement income (including non-cash benefits or compensation) is reportable and is considered taxable income.

Don't know why I check on the baseball team, blown out in all 3 games this weekend vs Bryant.  In the 3 games, 11 errors and 16 walks.  Getting embarrassed every time out.  Not playing D1 quality ball and how do you recruit the next generation with the terrible results and throw in the absolutely disgusting weather in Albany you guys who are local tell us about every Spring.

Gave this one away, unforced errors especially by Whitney with under a minute to play, panicked and threw it OB.  

Watched last 10 minutes, easily could have given this game away.  That Palumb  drive to net with 10 seconds left is what a Thompson or Fields would have done, no pussyfooting around trying a pass, put your head down and head straight for net.  Game over.

15 minutes ago, dslyank said:

Margoupis & Adan are "something" to build with🤔. In 2- 3 years might be a team again?? 

Anyhow, Marshall & Thomas not officially gone yet😱.

With pretty much every mid/low major team in the county having ½ or more of their rosters on the portal; might be easier to find a team to swap entire line-ups with [JOKE🤣.]

One team not to switch rosters with is LCC 😂😂😂

2 hours ago, Eli said:

Amica is not a game changer for us - guy couldn't stay on the court unfortunately. While he did play 19 games this year, before that he had only played 10 games in 2 years. 1.4ppg is going to be easy to replace.

Shame we never saw what I saw on his high school film when he signed with UA.  Thought he would be a Mike Black/ DJ Evans type of PG for four years.  Injuries causing no playing time and no practice time to keep pace as a D1 player doomed him.  

Hey DK, I know it's your program now, but maybe you can learn something from our previous coach:

Saint Rose womens also capped the year ranked first in the country in defensive points allowed per game, defensive field goal percentage, and defensive three-point field goal percentage.

So your saying on April 2nd, one of these teams will get their first win of the season, lol?  Or maybe they both somehow lose the game 🤣🤣🤣?

1 hour ago, cwdickens said:

Baseball Falls at Georgetown

0-13 to start....

And not competitive,  outscored this year so far 153 to 43.

3 hours ago, cwdickens said:

... and by the way, the America East MBB Championship game is at 11:00 AM, today from Burlington, VT

Yawn, UVM wins again and goes to the NCAA tourney.  The fans and alumni must get really bored of this.  Wouldn't they prefer 8 straight years of not winning the AE 🤣🤣? 

Getting worse.  Lost to Georgetown 17-3, not exactly an LSU or Vandy.  Our starter went 2 inn and gave up 13 runs, 8 walks in the game.  Should UA consider dropping the sport someday and just have a club team?  Certainly not a money maker and between facilities and weather, surely not getting D1 talent to come to UA. 

18 minutes ago, godanesgo99 said:

Every now and then we need a smile...

9 years ago today:

https://youtu.be/LjEafVXUcXU?si=fuqDfQn95N-zcupZ

Thanks for that memory, unfortunately no reason to smile since then.  

To make matters worse as we are even below mediocrity, the Brook, 2nd year in the CAA and a 7 seed, just beat Hofstra in the semis to reach the the championship game vs Charleston.  Only goods news?  We are not the worst SUNY University  Center.  Buffalo finished 4 and 27.  Thanks Bulls for keeping UA out of the crapper 😲.

If you look back over the past 15-20 years, UA Lax were ranked in the top 10 when we had Tewaratten finalists, Frank Resitaris, Lyle and Miles Thompson, and Connor Fields.  Without them we were an average team.  Their creativity and scoring prowess made the whole team better.  That is just not seen without a player of that caliber.  Who knows when we get our next top 5 national player.  Till then, we are average at best.

Nice ending to the half, ladies 3 for 12 to start and finished 7 for 13 to take nice lead.

So far a brick fest in this game.

1 minute ago, Clickclack said:

Up next UVM, whom we are 1-16 againsts in the last 8 years going back to the old coach. 

This steaming pile of $iena program is a complete embarrassment. Here's to 1-17 and DK fired (I know it won't happen).

At least he made it to the post season this year LOL

I picture the end of season meeting between Killings and Benson.  "So Dwayne, what do have to say about the season?  Well we made the AE tourney this season!  Can I get a 2 year extension?  Sure thing buddy, sign here."

1 hour ago, Eli said:

Cool read. I enjoyed my use of the tunnels while a student at UAlbany. It was a life saver on those cold winter days/nights (I was a night student).

https://magazine.albany.edu/evergreen/the-tunnels

Great read to bring back memories.  Lived all four years on Dutch Quad so on cold, windy days, entered the tunnels from the corner of the podium nearest Dutch.  Had many a hair cut at that barber and bowled many games on the lanes.  Don't want to know how much money I spent on beer at the Rat.  

  Also, each semester I knew where they parked the pallet in the tunnel of the next semesters schedule of classes/course descriptions booklets(no Internet yet 1979-83) so grabbed a copy out of one boxes before it was available.  A few days later, several cases were empty as word got out.  

Another loss to get to 0 and 6 on season.  Don't want to criticize the young men but the pitchers are averaging 8 walks per game.  Pretty sure the strike zone is the same in college as it was in HS.  These guys are D1 players.  What is the issue with not finding the strike zone.  If they couldn't find the zone in HS, I would think they wouldn't get a D1 offer.  Very bizarre and surely frustrating to the coaches.

Nice that Thomas helped bring the team back but two ill-advised threes by him is typical of his frustrating decisions.  A loss to Bryant means UVM in 1st round.  Season over.  Love to move on to Lax, but they are winless.