2014-15 Men's OOC

[MRSGDG]

Need a laugh?

 

Siena basketball player: “UAlbany (is) scared to play us”

http://blog.timesuni...#comment-105930

Update: Cole later deleted the comment and followed it with these two tweets:

“I meant no harm by that tweet it’s just basketball and I love the game and I’ma competitive person”

“I respect ualbany program and players and wish them nothing but the best this year.”

[Clickclack]

Read someone grabbed him and told him to shut his mouth.

[bob87]

That is too funny. An LCC player talking about how it doesn't matter where they play. Try winning on the road first. They have never won at Albany. It has been since last century since they made the NCAA tournament without all the conference tournament games at home .

[Phoenix]

That was fun to read. From a program that a few years ago thought they were the next Gonzaga..to getting frenzied about a game they used to claim they didn't care about. I guess that's what happens when you've been on the wrong side of the rivalry and haven't sniffed the NCAAs recently.

[UA'08]

Non conference sched released. Only 4 home games. Woof.

 

Home and home with NJIT again. Woof.

 

No one wants to play us at home even after losing 3 starters. Woof.

 

They're scared!

 

[UA'08]

Would have also liked to see another guarantee game with a BCS school. I am going to assume that next year we will have more home games from these mid majors that are going to have to return the game.

[dslyank]

Would have also liked to see another guarantee game with a BCS school. I am going to assume that next year we will have more home games from these mid majors that are going to have to return the game.

Does not compute! Only had four home games last year also; and one of those was home & away (njit again). If your "return the game" assumption was correct, would have had a lot more than four THIS year. The problem goes deeper. The money teams do not reciprocate, $iena does not reciprocate (kicked that topic around a bit), and most mid majors won't come here for fear of our reputation {yes we are feared--believe it or not}. That leaves us with a revolving schedule of low majors and believe me they do not want to come here either. Over the past several years, I believe 6 was our largest # of occ home contest with the average being 4 to 5. I do not have an answer, only stating the problem?

[Dane Pound]

The return game at NJIT is interesting. In the middle of the conference schedule in February. Actually it's Friday the 13th in Newark.

 

Also, four games against the MAAC is a little different.

 

The four homes is a woof. Looking at Vermont and Stony Brook. Vermont has six homes games (including a D2) and the Brook has six (including a D2 and a D3 - really?)

 

I guess the solution would be:

-Drop the guarantee games - we have two each year. Probably not going to happen.

-Add some D2 or D3 teams. Probably not going to happen and I don't want it to.

-Live with the road games and plans some trips to Loretto, PA.

[UA'08]

True I didn't really look into the sched from last year. Only assuming.

 

I can't wait for the day we need to pay teams to come to Albany haha.

[dslyank]

The return game at NJIT is interesting. In the middle of the conference schedule in February. Actually it's Friday the 13th in Newark.

 

Also, four games against the MAAC is a little different.

 

The four homes is a woof. Looking at Vermont and Stony Brook. Vermont has six homes games (including a D2) and the Brook has six (including a D2 and a D3 - really?)

 

I guess the solution would be:

-Drop the guarantee games - we have two each year. Probably not going to happen.

-Add some D2 or D3 teams. Probably not going to happen and I don't want it to.

-Live with the road games and plans some trips to Loretto, PA.

DP excellent assessment and your solutions are right on (but probably not going to happen; as you say). However, you missed the obvious one. DROP $iena and schedule a legit mid-major every other year home/away. Add maybe one hungry D1 or good DIIish and then we'd be averaging 5-7 home games, instead of 4-5. Anyhow, sorry about brining up the $iena issue again and dropping them as you say "not going to happen".

[Dane Pound]

 

DP excellent assessment and your solutions are right on (but probably not going to happen; as you say). However, you missed the obvious one. DROP $iena and schedule a legit mid-major every other year home/away. Add maybe one hungry D1 or good DIIish and then we'd be averaging 5-7 home games, instead of 4-5. Anyhow, sorry about brining up the $iena issue again and dropping them as you say "not going to happen".

 

Actually, Siena could be a home game for us ticket-wise if nothing else. They could fold that game into our season ticket package, no? It would make us feel better about four home games.

[UA_MA_2000]

Why don't we follow the lead of Union College and RPI hockey: play three times. A home game at SEFCU, an away game at Siena (either on Siena's campus or at the TUC), and, finally, the "Mayor's Cup" at the TUC.

 

Union and RPI play a home and home this weekend, and the Mayor's Cup is on January 24, 2015. We get an extra home game against a decent mid-major team, and they get exactly the same thing. I'd rather play Siena 3 times than NJIT, Fairfield, or other teams like that.

[Clickclack]

This whole convo is getting long in the tooth, we as fans should demand changes from our AD. They owe us nothing; until we learn to stand up for ourselves up to and including cancel this damn thing and stop lining their pockets this inequitable agreement will continue. Fact of the matter is, we, this match-up with UA gets all the casuals out and gets 12k people there. Let them go and play someone else and get that crowd.

 

I'd cancel it for 3 or 4 years and see how both schools like it. I'm not in favor of playing this game more then once.

Edited October 27, 2014 by Clickclack

[Dane Pound]

Saw this on the Providence board. Sagarin ratings are out for this year. We're starting at 150.

 

The OOC games:

 

Providence 53

NJIT 308

Quinnipiac 131

Colgate 207

UNLV 82

Holy Cross 174

St. Francis PA 256

Bucknell 165

Siena 156

Yale 119

Fairfield 222

Niagara 263

[Phoenix]

I think that's Pomeroy..not Sagarin.

 

Pomeroy has us going 18-11..finishing third in the conference. His system likes Vermont to take the regular season title.

Edited October 30, 2014 by Phoenix