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bluehenbillk wrote:Knowing the pu##ies in Towson I'm going to predict at least 2,500 or more empty seats on Saturday night because it will be "too wet" or "too cold" to sit out at a football game.

And, besides what a process of elimination:

-The Ravens just crapped the bed on MNF
-The Terp football team is in the tank & hoops hasn't started yet
-Navy hasn't won a game since early September
-John Beck is now the Redskin starting QB
-No one has followed the O's since Ripken retired
-Hopkins lacrosse doesn't start till February

Are there any sports left to be the "best sports story"?

Just having fun with you Andy, enjoy your limelight.

andy7171 wrote:Oh and we are 700 short of an all time attendance record, with two games left on the schedule.

93henfan wrote:Comcast SportsNet MA had about a five minute segment on Towson last night, with an interview with Ambrose. They asked him about Delaware and he said he considers it a rival game and that his team is juiced up for it.

TOWSON, Md. - For the 13th time in school history, the Towson University football team will be taking the Delaware Blue Hens on Saturday night.

Many of us look at Delaware and James Madison as rivals in football. But as much as I hate to admit it, I believe it to be a rivalry just on the Towson side. Towson is 4-8 all time against the Blue Hens, and only 5-17-1 against Madison. At one point, Towson was 4-4 against Delaware, but the last four games have all been losses for the Tigers. The beauty of being in a conference is the rivalries you can build. For Towson, however, that has been tough.

First off, Towson continued to move up in divisions early on in its history. You have to remember that the school did not even have a football team until 1969. The Tigers started and stayed at Division III for 10 years. Included during those 10 years was an undefeated season in 1974 and a loss in the 1976 national championship game against St John's of Minnesota.

During those 10 seasons, the Tigers played in-state rival Frostburg State every year. They also played Johns Hopkins from 1970-1975. But, during those 10 years, the Tigers were not in a conference. So, even though you played many of the same schools, it didn’t have the same cache.

In 1979 the Tigers moved to Division II, giving out scholarships for the first time. Towson had great success in its eight seasons at the Division II level, going to the playoffs three times. You have to remember during that period, only eight schools made it into the playoffs.

SumItUp wrote:Towson has been one of the best stories in all of FCS this year. If they can continue their current success through the remaining conference games and make a deep run in the playoffs, it might be the best story in all of college football.

CAA Flagship wrote:

SumItUp wrote:Towson has been one of the best stories in all of FCS this year. If they can continue their current success through the remaining conference games and make a deep run in the playoffs, it might be the best story in all of college football.

Old Dominion

State Line Liquors wrote:While I'm happy for Towson's new found success, I do have the sense that there may be a bit of a premature celebration taking place. I'm disappointed enough in the product from UD this year that I'd consider myself foolish to predict a Hen victory this weekend. But I'd be lying if I said there wasn't some talk from unofficial channels out of Newark about the Hens hiding in the weeds with a tomahawk, waiting to take the scalp of an unsuspecting newcomer to winning, this weekend.

93henfan wrote: It's 2011. We'll miss their scalps and split our foot.

tribe_pride wrote:I actually think that the best sports story in Maryland is that the whiny Gary Williams is no longer the Maryland Bball coach.

Towson football is a close second