danefan

Agreed. Monmouth or Wagner would have been sooooo much better than Duquesne.

Another thing to consider.....maybe they'll need that additional two weeks to finalize the stadium and that's why we won't have a home game until the 14th?

Info on our recruits is still very difficult, if not impossible to get.

Write an email to McElroy. He controls the scheduling.

Good point and no doubt winning those games helped our stock with the CAA. I guess i don't dislike home-and-homes with NEC teams, I just wish it was one of the closer teams and it was a home game next year. The long bus ride to start he season in Pittsburgh doesn't seem to benefit anyone.

That's a joke if true. Terrible road trip to play an NEC team. We should never travel to Western PA again unless it is to play Pitt.

That's why I would've suspected we'd get them at home. I don't understand us travelling to any NEC team.

Typical, but we usually draw very well on the home opener regardless of whether the students are there. Would've been nice though to have a big student turnout.

Looks like the only open dates that match up for us and ODU is 9/28. We are still listed on Colgate's schedule for an away game on 9/7. That leaves us at: 8/31 (prob. at NEC - hopefully Wagner or Monmouth) 9/7 at Colgate 9/14 Rhode Island * 9/21 (prob. home vs. Central Ct.) 9/28 at Old Dominion (Tentative) 10/5 at James Madison * 10/12 at Delaware * 10/19 Towson * 10/26 OPEN (hopefully a Bye) 11/2 at Richmond * 11/9 Maine * 11/16 New Hampshire * 11/23 at Stony Brook * I would expect and be happy with CCSU on 9/21. Would be great to get 2 home winnable games back-to-back. I'm not happy about traveling to an NEC team, but I'd rather play on 8/31 than play 12 games straigh through. If we get CCSU at home, then they 12th game and 2nd NEC team will be away. Hopefuly its Monmouth or Wagner....

We need $$$$$ regardless of the stadium. Old Dominion is probably a payout game since they're transitioning to FBS. I wouldn't mind if we didn't have a home game until September 14th. URI isn't a terrible first opponent in the stadium. CCSU cannot be the first opponent as they don't have an opening until week 5. We don't play every team in the league. 8 league games max is the norm.

Interesting turn of events in the Monmouth to the MAAC story. The NEC denies Monmouth entry in the football conference as an affiliate. http://blogs.app.com/hawks I suspect they'll end up in the Big South as I have to believe they've already approached the CAA and were rebuked. I don't really see the NEC's hard-nosed stance on this. Any way you look at it, the football league is better off with Monmouth than they are without them.

Focus in the CAA is quite different.....highlights from the year-end recap: - 2 out of the 4 National FCS awards (player of the year and freshman of the year) plus 2nd place in the Coach of the year voting - 7 players selected to the various Senior showcase games - 6 teams in the Top 25 to end the year - Numerous potential draft picks What a world of difference it will make.

If you're not going for chairbacks then I'd go for the closest to mid-field in the upper level.

And that's only the interior section. I don't think that counts the exterior "wings" which are an additional 11 feet wide.

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Delaware is expected to announce today that they will hire Dave Brock as the new Head Coach. Brock is currently the offensive coordinate at Rutgers. This is the type of hire we should be talking about as a possibility at UA once Ford retires. A BCS or top FBS level coordinator.

It was bound to happen. The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at University at Albany isn't exactly a catchy name and is either is CSNE. I do wish it was UAlbany Nano Tech.

SBU was in line to buy Touro Law school but that fell through in 2008 or 2009.

They did. Albany Law become the oldest independent private law school when Dickinson folded into Penn State. I like SoCal's idea - leave Albany Law separate but subsidize tuition for UAlbany/Albany Law students to bring it down for in-state students.

Oldie but a goodie this time of year.... Samson Brown (former UA player and coach) has been named DB coach for the Buffalo Bills Jim O'Neill (former Asst Coach) has been named LB coach for the Bills

I think you're probably the third or fourth poster on this board with UA/ALS degrees, myself included. Agreed though. The faculty at the law school would hate it despite the fact that it would actually be a huge benefit to them if they became state employees.

I wonder if they're working into the night now? The lighting up there now seems to be much more than just security lights.

Good question. I can't imagine very much. FCS football TV deals are usually more about exposure and I believe the CAA was able to negotiate the football deal on the back of their basketball deal which was really the driver of the whole deal in the first place.

I graduated from Albany Law School at the peak of the legal market and even then top paying jobs were few and far between for Albany Law grads. Most people I graduated with started out making $30-40,000 a year in a government job or small private local firm. But Coleman's quote is correct - if you succeed in law school (no matter what the school) and you have any sort of soft skills (read: you're half-way normal) you will get a good job out of law school.

Taking advantage of the good weather out there today. Retaining walls are going in around the endzone seating on the east side.