CCSU @ Albany @ 1p on ESPN3 -> FCS Playoffs Round 1

[Pudge]

His tenure at Albany hasn’t been well received by fans. This will help of course.

UAlbany has evolved from the Bob Ford tenure of “nice little side sport at a Major State Campus” ... to the modern CFB world. New stadium. Wider recruiting harvest. Before Gattuso ... it was really decades behind the rest of the CAA. Ford has mentored a great amount of the northeast coaching community ... but the Program was unknown even on campus.

They don’t have a Fanbase in Albany. Really. It’s just started. It has not gone very far in concentric circles beyond friends & family. No. The Community has not embraced UALBANY football. And Gattuso. However ... that’s lack of effort & pure sheep inertia. There’s little else taking that space in the region. (Note. I am an adjunct Professor at UALBANY)

 

[Boukworm23]

UAlbany has evolved from the Bob Ford tenure of “nice little side sport at a Major State Campus” ... to the modern CFB world. New stadium. Wider recruiting harvest. Before Gattuso ... it was really decades behind the rest of the CAA. Ford has mentored a great amount of the northeast coaching community ... but the Program was unknown even on campus.

They don’t have a Fanbase in Albany. Really. It’s just started. It has not gone very far in concentric circles beyond friends & family. No. The Community has not embraced UALBANY football. And Gattuso. However ... that’s lack of effort & pure sheep inertia. There’s little else taking that space in the region. (Note. I am an adjunct Professor at UALBANY)

Curious, what do you teach?

 

[huskymedic]

What a joke the FCS bidding system is. CCSU earned a home game and drew 3-5k all season. They would have had 5k In New Britain today.

Low turnout for UAlbany football playoff victory

>>When the University at Albany bid successfully for a home game in the NCAA football playoffs, athletic director Mark Benson said, "Our hope is we're going to get a really strong turnout from the community."

That didn't happen on Saturday.

A crowd of 1,660, by far the smallest in Casey Stadium history, turned out to watch the Great Danes drub Central Connecticut 42-14 in the first round of the Football Championship Subdivision Tournament. It was significantly fewer than the previous low of 2,483 for the regular-season finale against Stony Brook last season.<<

>>Despite the disappointing attendance, UAlbany will still owe the NCAA a minimum of $30,000 in net revenue in exchange for hosting Saturday's game. That's the guarantee required for getting a first-round game.

The Great Danes head on the road for the second round next Saturday. They'll face fifth-seeded Montana State, which averages 18,547 fans per home game.<<