danefan

Why make that assumption? Getting community involvement requires getting the word out in the entire community. If I had a username I would invite them, but its a pain in the ass to get admin approval and all that jazz. Maybe some Siena basketball fans would like to take their family to a college football game on saturday...they can't do it at Siena so why not give them the opportunity to do it at Albany???????????

Anyone that has a username on the Siena board should post an invite for this weeks football game v. CCSU. I'm sure there are some college football fans over there that wouldn't mind seeing a game. We need to do anything we can to get a large crowd for this huge game.

No disrespect to Don, we live about 45 minutes away from each other and converse regularly. 16301[/snapback] Agreed. Its not a poll. It's Don's opinion, but I still like to take it into consideration. Thanks for posting the AGS and CSN polls.

It is about where I put Delaware in the AGS...i had them at 20 i think. Had CCSU at 24 and the Danes at 25. 16296[/snapback] I agree with putting Delaware at 20 if you put Albany at 25....but not if you have Albany at 40 or so like the TSN has them.

yes you guys definitly need to get on the same page as the PA guy with the CD player. Its freakin college football already!! Let the band play...screw Avril Lavigne and Jennifer Lopez. Oh and I like the music you guys play when the other team gets a penalty. Just rob some other schools of their band music. Make it sound like a college football game!!!!!!!!!!

There is a cap by the NEC. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think its 30. Right now only 8 have been given out, but split amongst 20 players. What is stopping us from being full scholly is our league contract and the want to not rush into anything. I think by 2009 we will be full scholly, maybe even earlier if the America East football conference comes to fruition as we have been hearing.

We kind of got shafted in the SportsNetwork poll. We just beat the 11 team in country and don't get any love, while Delaware only drops to 18?

The Sports Network I-AA Top-10 Mid-Major Poll Team (First-place votes) Record Points Previous Rank 1. San Diego Toreros (21) 3-0 252 1 2. Central Connecticut St Blue Devils (4 ) 3-0 231 2 3. Albany Great Danes (1) 2-1 198 5 4. Dayton Flyers 2-0 185 3 5. Monmouth Hawks 2-0 168 4 6. Duquesne Dukes 2-1 134 6 7. Drake Bulldogs 2-1 97 7 8. Wagner Seahawks 2-0 87 8 9. Valparaiso Crusaders 2-1 44 NR 10. Marist Red Foxes 1-2 12 9 Others receiving votes (in order of points): Robert Morris 11, St. Francis (PA) 6. Sports Network's I-AA College Football PollTeam (First-place votes) Record Points Previous Rank 1. New Hampshire Wildcats (83) 2-0 2,711 1 2. Appalachian State Mountaineers (22) 2-1 2,627 2 3. Cal Poly Mustangs (2) 3-0 2,439 3 4. Furman Paladins 2-1 2,271 4 5. Montana Grizzlies 1-1 2,224 5 6. Illinois State Redbirds 2-1 2,109 7 7. Richmond Spiders 2-0 2,071 8 8. Youngstown State Penguins 2-1 1,868 6 9. Massachusetts Minutemen 2-1 1,851 9 10. Southern Illinois Salukis (2) 2-0 1,684 16 11. Hampton Pirates (1) 3-0 1,646 10 12. Northern Iowa Panthers 2-1 1,417 12 13. McNeese State Cowboys 1-1 1,299 14 14. North Dakota State Bison 2-0 1,281 17 15. Portland State Vikings 2-1 1,228 13 16. UC Davis Aggies 2-1 1,192 21 17. James Madison Dukes 1-1 1,190 15 18. Delaware Blue Hens 1-1 619 11 19. Georgia Southern Eagles 1-1 611 24 20. Eastern Illinois Panthers 1-2 477 18 21. Towson Tigers 3-0 424 NR 22. Western Carolina Catamounts 2-0 361 NR 23. Central Connecticut Blue Devils 3-0 252 NR 24. Eastern Kentucky Colonels 1-2 227 19 25. Jacksonville State Gamecocks 1-1 166 NR Others receiving votes: Harvard 160, Lafayette 152, Penn 125, Montana State 99, Western Illinois 94, Brown 90, Nicholls State 90, Hofstra 84, Idaho State 84, Mississippi Valley State 69, Texas State 68, Alabama A&M 44, Colgate 44, Wofford 40, Albany 35, San Diego 33, Southern 32, Northern Arizona 29, Bethune-Cookman 20, Tennessee State 20, Maine 19, South Carolina State 13, Elon 11, Northwestern State 9, Maine 7, Jackson State 7, Grambling State 6, Western Kentucky 6, William & Mary 6. Don Hansen IAA 24. Central Conn. 28. Albany Don Hansen IAA Mid Major 1 CENTRAL CONNECTICUT 3-0 2 SAN DIEGO 3-0 3 ALBANY NY 2-1 4 MONMOUTH NJ 3-0 5 DUQUESNE PA 2-1 6 DAYTON OH 2-0 7 WAGNER NY 3-0 8 DRAKE IA 2-1 9 VALPARAISO IN 2-1 10 SACRED HEART CT 1-2 11 STONY BROOK NY 0-3 12 MOREHEAD STATE KY 0-3

From what I understand the vision of our athletic program is modeled to an extent after Delaware. Very similar institutions.

yeah 2002.

I don't think you could actually sell out with the hill seating and all. Anything over 7,000 is huge. Sacred Heart homecoming game in 2001 was about 6,000+ and the biggest crowd I've seen in recent years.

Hate to dwell on the past....but anyone see the Fordham game? Columbia ruined Fordham 37-7. Damn fireworks night!

Too tough to compare. Its almost like UA being a 14 seed in the tournament and beating a 3 seed. Not a 16 beating a 1, but in my mind a 13 or 14 beating a 3 or 4. Delaware was ranked 11th Nationally in the IAA before this, but that was basically based on last year because they had only played a crappy team the first week. These wins vs. Lehigh and Delware will look better or worse when the season plays on depending on how the other teams do.

Wow, no more fireworks night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not sure if this has been talked about on here yet, and I'm sure the guys who go to AGS have seen it, but............................. Central Conn. went to Georgia Southern (#16) and beat them 17-13!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Biggest win for NEC ever!!!!!!!!! UA better get its head out of its a$$ or else we are gonna get whooped up in conference play.

well some of the recent football alumni (myself included) usually tailgate in the RACC parking lot (south west corner). This saturday may not be ideal though because the parking lot will undoubtedly be packed because of the soccer game. No set plans yet, but last year we got to the first game at noon, which ended up too long of a time with beer and hot sun mixed. I think we are looking at about 2 or 3ish on Saturday.

No one can say the school has made a committment to athletics. $$$ wise at least. http://www.albany.edu/sports/dashboard.pdf Almost tripled the budget in 6 years. And what a clear correlation to on-field sucess.

Not your Daddy's Albany backs!

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp...wsdate=9/7/2006

I take that back. It may need to start at 1:00 to get a spot. There is a soccer game at 2:00.

Sports Network has us at #2. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c...N-MID-MAJOR.htm I hope we have at least 6,000 at the game this weekend. Tailgating in the parking lot at 3pm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've come to the conclusion that the TU is worthless for sports coverage. No reason to worry about it anymore. Maybe we should focus our attention on the Gazzette. This may be an opportunity for the Gazzette to take some subscribers away from the TU. Plus the beat writers at the Gazzette were always more knowledgeable then Singleas when I played anyway.

Its like that because of Albany State in Georgia. The same as Miami (OH) vs. Miami (FL).

Only saw the first half of the game..did Kurt see any action? The Packs couldn't really do any worse than they did in the first half, so I figured he'd see some time. 15813[/snapback] I watched until the lightning delay. Not sure if they came back or not after that, but I didn't see him in there before that. The delay came with 9:00 minutes left in the 4th quarter. Oh man...either the Bengals are really really good...or the more likely scenario...the Packers are really really really bad.

Looks like Singleas is reading this board now..... http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story...sdate=8/28/2006 Anyone have any other story ideas for him??? I propose basic coverage of our football team that I think has a pretty big game coming up in the near future. Oh yeah, thats right we play this weekend. I almost forgot.