A bunch of things: MU hoops, football, the MAAC
First, if anyone was thinking of attending an MU men hoops practice MU will be at Long Branch High School 3-30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday as Boylan Gym is being used for some sort of a concert (You can't make this stuff up!)
MU Asbury Park Press coverage this week:
Tuesday: Columnist Steve Edelson with a story on Miles Austin's first action with Dallas.
Wednesday: Steve on Monmouth, how MU men's basketball is truly arriving as a Division I program.
Thursday: Yours truly with MU football story on first full season of recruiting with scholarships. I hope to talk with some local high school football coaches on who MU is showing interest in.
(Thursday night: I'm on 1160 AM talking MU football with Kevin Williams and Ed "the jinx" Sarluca
Saturday: Press advance on MJU at Robert Morris football game.
Sunday: coverage of the game. I will not be making the trip in person but will talk with coach Callahan after the game for the story. Also...if any of you attend the game I'll set up a blog for Sunday where you can talk about it.
Monday: follow up of the RMU game.
Also..on the MAAC. I can't speak for Monmouth but, if youre an MU fan aren't you getting a little impatient with the borough of West Long Branch. How long is this dawdling going to go on?
I have a thought. This may be way off (well, why not?) but what about building the MAAC in a town that might appreciate it? Neptune? Ocean? Seton Hall doesn't play on campus and it's not the only college that plays off campus.
If Monmouth can't build the MAAC on campus build it somewhere its host town will welcome it......just a thought folks. This problem has been going on for over 10 years. I believe MU was lax on the MAAC or not acting as efficiently as it could during the Rebecca Stafford administration but is now ready to get the ball rolling and WLB is holding it up big time.
Hey..it's not my MAAC. But if I were an MU alum, etc, I'd be getting peeved about these incessant delays.
e-mail tonygports@aol.com
MU Asbury Park Press coverage this week:
Tuesday: Columnist Steve Edelson with a story on Miles Austin's first action with Dallas.
Wednesday: Steve on Monmouth, how MU men's basketball is truly arriving as a Division I program.
Thursday: Yours truly with MU football story on first full season of recruiting with scholarships. I hope to talk with some local high school football coaches on who MU is showing interest in.
(Thursday night: I'm on 1160 AM talking MU football with Kevin Williams and Ed "the jinx" Sarluca
Saturday: Press advance on MJU at Robert Morris football game.
Sunday: coverage of the game. I will not be making the trip in person but will talk with coach Callahan after the game for the story. Also...if any of you attend the game I'll set up a blog for Sunday where you can talk about it.
Monday: follow up of the RMU game.
Also..on the MAAC. I can't speak for Monmouth but, if youre an MU fan aren't you getting a little impatient with the borough of West Long Branch. How long is this dawdling going to go on?
I have a thought. This may be way off (well, why not?) but what about building the MAAC in a town that might appreciate it? Neptune? Ocean? Seton Hall doesn't play on campus and it's not the only college that plays off campus.
If Monmouth can't build the MAAC on campus build it somewhere its host town will welcome it......just a thought folks. This problem has been going on for over 10 years. I believe MU was lax on the MAAC or not acting as efficiently as it could during the Rebecca Stafford administration but is now ready to get the ball rolling and WLB is holding it up big time.
Hey..it's not my MAAC. But if I were an MU alum, etc, I'd be getting peeved about these incessant delays.
e-mail tonygports@aol.com
posted by Tony Graham at 11:29 PM
3 Comments:
I can't believe WLB lets this clown hold up the building of the field house. At this point though, you know this guy's on a crusade to frustrate the majority -- so he'll probably be armed with more of his 'traffic studies' at the next board meeting. MU better be prepared to counter him strongly.
He's probably in bed by 9:00 and doesn't even see this 'traffic' go by his house!
Tony,
Have to disagree with you about an off-campus athletic center for MU.
We need the attendance of the fraternities/sororities (such that it is) here. An off-campus site (5 or 10 miles away) would not be very conducive for that kind of walk-in attendance from the dorms.
Some of the bigger schools might be able to do it, but not here -- our building would be empty that far off campus.
The solution is to get WLB to approve.
I am only suggesting an off-campus facility as an absolutely, desperate, everything else attempted, last resort..if it would seem it's never going to happen in WLB. To be honest, sometimes I wonder though if it is. In that (last resort) MU would have to provide transport to events, etc. Again, I am not advocating this and it may not be practical anyway. But, hey, as far out as this idea is, it's another alternative.
Hmmmm....there seems to be some empty land out here on Route 66 about a half mile from the Press....!@$#
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