Football Gameday: UAlbany vs Maine

[danefan]

Great start to the season, but don't get too excited.

 

Stephen F Austin will be much better than Maine was.

[DanesRGood]

YEAH BABY!!!! BIG WIN!!!

[sarge965]

We need a freakin stadium NOW!!!!!

[Clickclack]

Sweat WIN...boooya!

[DanesRGood]

Another observation. This OL needs to do a much better job with the pass protection if we are going to move the ball and score throughout the season. I know it's first game and Maine is a good competitor but there was way too much pressure on the QB.

[danefan]

Another observation. This OL needs to do a much better job with the pass protection if we are going to move the ball and score throughout the season. I know it's first game and Maine is a good competitor but there was way too much pressure on the QB.

 

 

Yup! And there were a lot of good things on the DB side of things, but more bad passes and drops by Maine then good plays by our DBs. That won't happen next week. Got button that up, but man what a confidence builder.

[Dane Pound]

Hopefully we'll be a little better next week too! Blanking an all-american RB at home while we're starting a new QB and running back is a great start. Awesome, not pretty, but awesome.

[UAalum72]

Ugly win but a win.

 

Noticed DiLella telegraphing his passes, looked right at receiver all the way when a D-lineman knocked the pass down.

 

O-line got a push sometimes, but didn't open many holes. Saw Drew using both hands on the ball later in the game.

 

Great catches by Kerchner. A few nicks - guard #55 on crutches (ankle sprain?), iced shoulder on another guy. #8 I think had a cramp.

 

I'll post more after the weekend - lousy internet signal at my hotel (but what do you expect for $53/night)

[Clickclack]

Reading the FCS forums, people more disappointed in Maine then giving us props. No respect! On the road, breaking in a QB and RB, in the end they don't ask how you won but if you won.

 

WOOT!

[bob87]

Reading the FCS forums, people more disappointed in Maine then giving us props. No respect! On the road, breaking in a QB and RB, in the end they don't ask how you won but if you won.

 

WOOT!

 

Did we even get the respect of having an article today in the so-called number 1 local paper about the number 1 team in the area in the number 1 college sport

[danefan]

Reading the FCS forums, people more disappointed in Maine then giving us props. No respect! On the road, breaking in a QB and RB, in the end they don't ask how you won but if you won.

 

WOOT!

 

Did we even get the respect of having an article today in the so-called number 1 local paper about the number 1 team in the area in the number 1 college sport

 

 

Not in the online version.

[bob87]

Did we even get the respect of having an article today in the so-called number 1 local paper about the number 1 team in the area in the number 1 college sport

 

Not in the online version.

 

Well I didn't miss it then, The TU is a joke. They had an article about Pitt on-line, but not Albany.

BTW, At lunch today I borrowed a co-workers copy of the TU for a minute. All I saw was a small staff report. So attached are real articles from the Maine point of view. And the Bangor Daily news has a decent writup, but I am not getting the link to work here

 

 

http://www.pressherald.com/sports/an-oh-no-in-orono_2010-09-03.html

[B9j2j6s]

Did we even get the respect of having an article today in the so-called number 1 local paper about the number 1 team in the area in the number 1 college sport

 

Not in the online version.

 

Well I didn't miss it then, The TU is a joke. They had an article about Pitt on-line, but not Albany.

BTW, At lunch today I borrowed a co-workers copy of the TU for a minute. All I saw was a small staff report. So attached are real articles from the Maine point of view. And the Bangor Daily news has a decent writup, but I am not getting the link to work here

 

 

http://www.pressherald.com/sports/an-oh-no-in-orono_2010-09-03.html

 

 

One thing I don't understand about the TU is UA Football based on average attendance is the second most popular college sports team in the capital region with 2009 average of 3,922. Why do they not spend more time focusing on football? We have the best draw in the region Union avg is 2019 and RPI was 2415 (I feel like they get more attention). We have been nationally ranked and played in bowl games. We have a coaching legend and players who have made it to the nfl. UA deserves better and the TU needs to do a better job of covering UA Football. Did the TU even send a reporter to UMO, they do it for basketball why not football?

[Dane96]

THE TU has been Binging Albany, as a university, for years. Since I was there, they even established a town-gown kind of pipeline to make the TU realize the good of Albany.

 

Paper has been...and always will be a rag. I would love for Albany to shut down for a month during the school year (of course this will never happen). The economic pain the region would feel would be huge.

 

The TU is lazy...and Mark apparently can't multi-task.

[Clickclack]

When the stadium gets built and it becomes the most popular sport in the CD with 7-10k people there every Saturday. They will come crawling back.