Championship Subdivision Football | FCS Football | Stadiums | Blogs | Forums

Front page of Yahoo!

Towson’s Oregon-esque new floor will feature tiger stripes


It took all of one season for Oregon's crazy new floor to inspire its first imitator.

Hoping to generate some of the same buzz the Ducks did when they installed their iconic orange and tan fir tree-framed floor at Matthew Knight Arena last year, Towson University is giving its basketball court a similarly splashy makeover. Orange watermark tiger stripes on the floor will provide the signature element in addition to new baseline logos and a new "Tiger Paw" mark at the scorer's table.

Towson will install the freshly painted and finished floor in time for the start of the 2011-12 school year and then will move it over to its $68 million, 5,200-seat new arena when it opens in 2013. Newly hired coach Pat Skerry and his staff believe the new-look floor will provide them an edge in recruiting as they look to rebuild a program that went 4-26 a year ago and lost every game it played in the Colonial Athletic Association.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball ... aab-wp3219" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Just looks like you need to get some of yo' bitches out there to mop those dirt streakes off the damn floor.

DJH wrote:

It's better than Oregon's. Anyway, this is really going to turn around that program at Towson.

ODUalum11 wrote:

DJH wrote:

It's better than Oregon's. Anyway, this is really going to turn around that program at Towson.

Tiowson is pumping a lot of money into this new arena and the new coach. He's getting 2-3 star players Towson has never even attempted to look at before and in short time. If he can coach in game and knows his X's and O's, we could be competitive in a year or so.

a good dustmop will take care of those streaks, although I'm not in any position to laugh at anybody's bball team

andy7171 wrote:

ODUalum11 wrote:
It's better than Oregon's. Anyway, this is really going to turn around that program at Towson.

Tiowson is pumping a lot of money into this new arena and the new coach. He's getting 2-3 star players Towson has never even attempted to look at before and in short time. If he can coach in game and knows his X's and O's, we could be competitive in a year or so.

Towson being competitive will only benefit the CAA as well. If Towson can have a successful bball program who knows how much better the conference could be.

Gotta have a home and away with the Tigers in hoops and football one of these seasons. I think both would be a good matchup

Seawolf97 wrote:Gotta have a home and away with the Tigers in hoops and football one of these seasons. I think both would be a good matchup

It makes too much sence not to. I'd much rather play you guys rather than stupid Morgan State every year.

Actually, I think we are going to start playing 2 FBS schools in the near future.