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I have been out of town on business for a while. I had heard that Martin was leaving or thinking about leaving from some students in the RACC one day, not the most reliable of sources I suppose. That's why I termed them "rumors". However, given his playing time situation (something that doesn't look to be getting better with the influx of six new players) I felt it had at least some merit. Even if Hughes is gone for good, that is 13 scholarship players on my original list. That leaves no scholarships to give, even when the rule is stricken down. The only questionable scholarship on that list was St. Hillaire, questionable as in, does he have one or was he a walk on? I believe he has a scholarship and deserves one, and then that is indeed 13 - the limit.

That stadium is much too far away to be hosting the America East Championships. UAlbany needs to focus on Albany, not Troy. Focus on getting a couple hundred students down to crowd the current field. No one is going to make that drive up 787. Of course if some state legislators hadn't given in to Joe Bruno, the best baseball facility in the area wouldn't belong to a two-year school like HVCC, it would be the crowning jewel in the new facilities plan at UAlbany, and would have started everything off a few years back. Of course, that didn't happen, as Mr. Brunswick himself cooked up the plan to get something nice for Troy. Too bad no one in the world knows where Troy is or cares anything about it...

To lacrosse issue - maybe they thought the opposite - it was anticlimactic to do it before the game when you're all ready to go, then you have to sit and wait for the senior ceremony? Just a thought. There were like 15 of them it seemed. I left in the middle, as I don't know any of them. But it was long, the parents were going on the field, etc. That would be a long time to delay the start of the game, an important one at that. Maybe there are also rules about starting the game on time?

Northeastern Sweeps Outdoor Track & Field Championships The Northeastern men and women track and field teams took home the titles at the 2004 America East Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Solomon Track in Dedham, Mass. On the men's side, it was the closest finish in conference history as NU (162 points) narrowly squeezed by runner-up Albany (160.5). For the women, the Huskies (193) outpaced second-place finisher Albany (172) as well. Americaeast.com

Danes blew it. 9-8 loss. Played like crap and suffered a huge letdown at the end, it seems. Now they fall from possible #1 to a road game to Baltimore as the #3 seed. Have to come up big there to force the rematch in Binghamton (assuming they can get by SBU, which if they can't then we might have a home championship game on our hands???)

Where was Murphy looking good, in his uniform on the bench? Vaiana pitched that game ...

There was a big hole in the fence over there near the visitors' side (between standings and the track in the corner near the E endzone), is that the portion you're talking about? Maybe they are fixing that?

Looks like they should have 13 scholarship players next year, so I would say no. Also, I don't think it was formally dropped, it had to be approved by the NCAA Board of Directors and I don't think that has happened as of yet: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=1785876 1 Todd Martin 2 Jamal Hughes 3 Levi Levine 4 Jon Iati 5 Chris Wyatt 6 Jerrad Knotts 7 Jamar Wilson 8 Aquawasi St. Hillaire 9 Lucious Jordan 10 Kirsten Zoellner 11 David Bauman 12 Joe Dyson 13 Brian Lillis 14 Brent Wilson Walk-On Courtney Johnson So if you assume that the rumors about Todd Martin leaving are true (?), that leaves 13 scholarship players. If he's not leaving, that means that someone doesn't get a scholarship (Hughes?). If Hughes and Martin both leave, and the rule is rescinded soon, then conceivably they could sign another player, or they could give Courtney a scholarship for his hard work last year. Sometimes this late in the game it doesn't behoove you to sign someone else, becuase if that player isn't signed - it's usually for a reason. And then you would almost lock yourself into a player not worthy of a scholarship.

Even if he is making $170,000 or whatever it is ... in Pittsburgh, that is a hell of a lot more money than in New York City. I don't know why this was even a debate for the man, to be perfectly honest. $170,000 vs. $200,000 .... I'd have to try to look up on a salary calculator what $170,000 in Pittsburgh is worth in NYC ... there is one on the internet that does it automatically ....

But the kid from Ottawa Kansas was formerly a big-time college player (or a player at a big-time college, either way) who dropped down a level. I'm not saying Gary won't get a FA shot at a camp slot ... but that is the main reason the Ottawa player was chosen.

The problem with college athletics for most people is seen in your posts - you say nothing about the fact that extending it to three days takes away another day of class time. Teams could (in theory anyhow) leave after classes on Friday to arrive that night, stay over, and then play Saturday-Sunday and leave after the single game on Sunday.

Brown was going to be the administrative assistant (non-recruiting coach) at Pitt before coming to UAlbany. Definitely stepped up coming to be top assistant there.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story...sdate=4/23/2004 Ashley Vives, daughter of UAlbany Head Track & Field Coach, chooses Northeastern over UAlbany. They offered her a full ride. I wonder what the rules on him offering his own daughter a full ride are? It doesn't say if he did or not. He is quoted as saying she wanted a 'different experience' than being in Albany, as she has been her whole life. Awkward!

Now, I know that being a student at UAlbany you have no formal journalistic training, since they don't have a program. And I know this is "just" a message board, so you're not using spell check. You'll probably say that it's informal, so you didn't bother to check your post(s) for grammar and sentence structure. But ... I don't mean this to be a personal slight, because I don't know you ... But you're pretty illustrative of why the ASP is a total joke. It is quite possibly the worst student newspaper in America. I don't even have to get copies of other schools' papers to make this claim. In two posts here you have a total of 8 lines, including 4 with grammatical and/or spelling errors. Five lines if you include improper use of or lack of punctuation. How long will it take you to find the four (or five) lines that have errors and identify the errors? Actually that post is a little too personal. Submit this thread to the ASP editorial staff. They never seem to catch any errors, since all of them go to print. Ask them to find your errors for you. Maybe they can find them in the April 22, 2004 issue (which came out on April 12, 2004). In case you don't get the joke, they weren't even able to correctly proofread the date on that issue.

Holy Cross Tops Albany, 7-5 Worcester, Mass. - Holy Cross captured a non-conference win over Albany, 7-5, at Fitton Field on Tuesday afternoon. The Crusaders improved to 8-19-1 overall, while Albany fell to 22-5 overall. Sophomore Tucker Frawley (New Haven, Conn.) launched a three-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to give HC the win. It was just the Crusaders second home run of the season. The Crusaders ended the Great Danes six-game winning streak and was just their 2nd loss in their last 18 games. The Great Danes took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when Derek DeGrazio doubled in Kirt Zimniewicz. Albany extended its advantage to 3-0 in the fourth inning when Dan Schoonmaker led off the inning with a triple and was driven in on a double by Zimniewicz. After a sacrifice fly moved the runner along, DeGrazio singled in the third Albany run. The Great Danes added another run in the seventh inning, on an RBI single from Joe Lamb. Holy Cross rallied in the bottom of the seventh starting with a triple by junior Drew Bigda (Stamford, Conn.) and an RBI single by senior Chris Doneski (Billerica, Mass.). After a pitching change, Doneski scored on a wild pitch, and was followed by back-to-back RBI singles from sophomore Mike Marron (Huntingdon Valley, Pa.) and junior Mike Schell (Newtown, Pa.) to tie the score at 4-4. After the Crusader's three-run eighth inning, Albany rallied with a run in the top of the ninth, but could get no closer. Holy Cross' pitcher Scott Hampe (Dedham, Mass.) picked up his second win of the season, going one and two-thirds innings giving up two hits and one run. Holy Cross will travel to Hanover, N.H. on Wednesday afternoon to face Dartmouth. Game time is scheduled for 3:00 p.m.

I posted incorrectly, nevermind

UMBC should still get the men's lacrosse bid, despite stumbling against Binghamton. UAlbany is just below that level right now. They're still a top-20 team, even with the loss. In softball, the Great Danes were in the title game last year, and ended up losing in the very last game to Boston U. in somewhat of a heart-breaker. They could be serious contenders this year. For all the talk of an at-large bid, I think realistically baseball is going to have to finish in the top-4 in the conference and win the America East title to get a berth. Teams from the North rarely get the at-large bids.

Speaking to the stands issue, I think you have to take into account with the facilities plan going on right now, they probably knew or thought that the field will or could get moved, and as such planned to build only a temporary solution in terms of bleachers for this season and next. If the field gets moved or becomes turf (in the same location as now), then I think you'll see the stands increase appreciably.

Wonder why UAbany isn't recruiting Hall, if she's that good defensively and can score 18 ppg. She's small at 5-6 or 5-7 or whatever, but I'm sure she'd be an improvement over the two small PGs the Danes have now.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ADVANCES TO AMERICA EAST TOURNAMENT'S SEMIFINAL ROUND West Hartford, Conn. – Alicia Learn scored a career-high 19 points, as UAlbany held off Hartford, 52-50, in the quarterfinal round of the America East Conference Women’s Basketball Championship on Thursday, March 11 at Chase Family Arena. Albany (13-15) will take on top-seed Maine (23-6) in the semifinals on Friday at 6:00 p.m. The Black Bears, who won the America East regular-season title, posted a 66-40 victory over New Hampshire in their quarterfinal match-up. Boston University, the No. 2 seed, and No. 7 Northeastern will tangle in the other semifinal. The winners will meet for the championship on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. The Great Danes, who won both regular-season meetings with Hartford, trailed 26-23 at halftime. But Sarah Sweetland’s three-point field goal early in the final period ignited a run of 13 unanswered points. Learn, who made 8 of 15 field goals and grabbed seven rebounds, hit a baseline shot and a foul-line jumper in that span. Becky Ayers canned another jumper off an in-bounds play for a 36-27 lead with 15:05 remaining. Hartford (18-12) would close the gap to two points on two occasions over the next eight minutes. Freshman guard Ikea Witt, who had 11 points and seven rebounds, converted two free throws to slice the deficit to 43-41 with 6:49 remaining. The Great Danes, who were playing in their first postseason tournament game since 1999, regrouped with a pair of baskets. Maree Jones, who scored 10 points, used an inside move to score in the lane, before Jen Schumacher made a driving layup. The Hawks were able to make one more move at the lead. Liz Stitch, a 5-foot-9 junior who had 14 points and a career-best 11 rebounds, buried one of her three 3-pointers to get her team within 49-46 with 2:49 left. After Hartford came up empty twice on offense, Schumacher and Jones each split two foul shots in the final 17 seconds to keep it a two-possession game. Stitch nailed a meaningless three-pointer at the end that produced the final score. "We played with a lot of character with (Danielle) Hutcheson in foul trouble and Ayers not feeling well," said Albany coach Trina Patterson, whose team held Hartford to 25.5-percent shooting. "Sharon (Majors) and Lyndsay (Clark) gave us great minutes off the bench. Alicia Learn stepped up her game, and we played with a sense of passion." Schumacher finished with eight points and four assists off the bench. Hutcheson, a first-team all-conference center, fouled out with 4:56 remaining, and had just three points and four rebounds. Ayers, who was averaging 13.0 points coming into the contest, played just 11 minutes due to flu-like symptoms. "It feels great because we really wanted to win tonight and we played together as a team," said Learn, who scored in double figures for the 12th time this season. "I really had to take my game to another level with our top scorers out of the lineup."

If you read ESPN.com at all, in their RB draft preview, they listed the kid from Ottawa, Kansas college as a sleeper for the draft, and moving up quickly. He transferred from a bigger school to NAIA Ottawa for more PT and dominated. And that Football.com Small Schools ranking has Jones ahead of him, so I'd have to say you can pretty much throw that ranking list out. In my opinion, if its not a nationally-renowned source of information, a la ESPN, CNN, FOX, CBS, ABC ... I'm probably not buying what they're selling. Smaller sites like football.com just don't have the access to the people "in the know", and I put no stock in what they say because of that.

Are you attempting to say that she had some role in developing non-revenue sports at UAlbany? She's about as hands-off as a president can be when it comes to athletics ... although she could hit a free throw or two.

I think that it is common not to wait too long into each deal to re-up with a coach you want to keep - it shows the recruits that hey, you can commit to this program, because I'm going to be around.

But to be completely fair, all of the previous posts said they were meeting with contractors and this was a "done deal". So that is why people got "attacked" (although I don't think it was that vicious). It's still only in the consulting phase - they could come back and say the only places to put it are here and here, and it's going to cost $40 million, and the University administration as a whole might tell them (and athletics) to go piss in the wind, if you catch my drift. That company isn't a contractor, they are a consulting company. So this is still all initial, very initial planning. Just getting that out there in the sake of fairness, since some people thought I was overzealous apparantly in shooting this all down a couple months ago. I never said there weren't plans, but I said that work wasn't underway, and it's still not (let alone 4 months ago). PS, another kick in the groin, we have a dry campus up there in Albany, and so the beer - you can buy, and I'll smuggle it in.

I talked with someone who was in attendance and was able to deduce the following bits and pieces: 1.) I think you're wrong about the bleachers, the person I talked to said what is going up now is, in fact, "it" ... and that's not close to 500 seats or 750 by my estimation. Maybe 500 I guess, but if the previous held 1,000, certainly looks smaller than half of what that was. It's going to be small, a temporary solution while the facilities plan is done by Sasaki. Again, just what I was told. 2.) The logo isn't a replacement of the dog, but instead of the UA. My friend told me he heard several people ask the same question, and the response was that the university wanted to be known as UAlbany, hence the "UA" logo that had been prevalent on clothing wasn't working for them. So I was able to figure out from talking with him (just reasoning this out here) that the new UAlbany A logo replaces that UA logo, but the dog is staying ... after all, they are still the Great Danes, so there needs to be a dog. 3.) As UAAlum mentioned, the new A logo probably will go on the football helmet next year. My friend in attendance said that they had sweatshirts and hats with that typeface on it, the curving UAlbany, and the worker who was selling the goods told him that the new font was going to go on all the jerseys so that all the sports would look the same. Aside from baseball, I haven't seen many of the uniforms outside football and basketball. I guess I have seen men's lacrosse too. So this appears to be more in line with the basketball jersey typeface (men's) and then they would move forward from there? I guess I didn't notice it was a problem.