First, thisfrom Towerlight website): College Kickoff: TU ‘prostitutes themselves’ for LSU 26 SEPTEMBER 2012 BY DEVIN SMITH, ART DIRECTOR 11 COMMENTS ESPN college football analyst Desmond Howard said that when a college athletic department allows their football team to get pummeled by a higher-ranked opponent for money they are “prostituting themselves.” I can’t agree more. This weekend, our team will play against one of the greatest college football teams of all time, Louisiana State University, and we will undoubtedly lose. But will we lose much more then that? In the beginning of the college football season, a similar situation took place with Savannah State’s football team, who played against such teams as Oklahoma State and Florida State. Savannah State lost by a combined 139 points. It was a demoralizing defeat for the team, hurt its overall record, put the players’ health at risk for playing, as some of the players they faced are NFL-ready. The losses even hurt the reputation of the program because these games are such a blow out. Just as Savannah State sold out its football program to the tune of almost a million dollars, our athletic program is getting paid for this game. Is it worth it? Towson playing LSU this weekend will result in some of the same consequences. We are sacrificing the health of our players and the reputation of our program. We are showing, not just our football players, but Towson students, that losing and accepting defeat is OK at this institution. The benefits of this game for our team are extremely shortsighted. We have the great opportunity to win it all this year, especially after gaining playoff experience from last season and having Terrance West, the best running back in the Colonial Athletic Association. We risk a lot playing in this game. We are putting our offensive line and quarterback against one of the best defensive lines in the country, and because our players our not as prepared as these NFL-bound players are, there is a significantly higher risk of injury to our key players, who are not seeing a dime of this money. Too many people view our athletic program, which really represents our great institution, as the laughing stock of the country because the basketball team has the longest losing record in NCAA history. How much worse is this loss going to make Towson University look in the eyes of the public? After we get beat down and our players look at the scoreboard in agony, remember that even though our athletic department received payment, no one wins in this situation. BUT, a rebuttal: Re: Another opinion of the LSU game (by tiger93--Towson fan) I could not disagree more with this. I realize that there is a large difference between the level of football LSU plays and Towson does, but let's not make it seem like it is Pee-Wee football vs. the NFL. LSU has NFL prospects all over the field, but Towson has a couple too and they also have players who can at least hold their own on one-on-one battles on occasion in this game. LSU is worlds better and they will beat us a lot during this game, but I don't think Towson risk getting hurt anymore than they do any normal game. They will take a pounding and everyone will probably be a little more sore after playing a team this physical, but that is the extent that the physical difference will result in injuries. I would not say Towson is in any more danger than LSU is, and in fact you will see probably see LSU play second-stringers during parts of this game. And why is that? So they don't get injured in what they consider a meaningless out of hand game. By the way, that is the same attitude Towson should have if it gets out of hand. We all can guess that this will probably be a blow out, but "prostituting themsevles' is a pretty strong statement. Ask Rob Ambrose and the players if they are excited to go to Death Valley and take on LSU and I am guessing to a man they are fired up to do so. Not only that, but short of winning an FCS National Title, making it to the semifinals or maybe a once in a lifetime crazy game like ODU last year, if you ask some of these players (who don't go on to the NFL) what is the most memorable experience I am guessing this will rank up there with them._______________Point for me is that CLM will likely stick to his beliefs and not run up the score like Boise State on too much caffeine. The Towson players are probably thrilled to go down to D.V. for a Saturday Night encounter. It IS magical there, as you well know. The early evening light, the glow, the atmosphere. They won't forget Death Valley--or LSU.<"Hey, who took the Ben-Gay? Pass it over here! Ouch! Don't touch my fkn' quads, man...">
Some prostitutes just don't know their place... LA Monroe: 21 / Alabama: 14 Appalachian State: 34 / Michigan 32 Let's not add any more to this list, at least for games being played this week.
This to the bolded portions. When are their players ever going to have another chance to play in front of 90K+ people in one of the country's greatest college football venues? What better opportunity for their best players to show their ability against top competition on national TV? Towson can only stand to benefit from the experience.
I'd rather not think about that... In fact, I'm inviting family and friends over for a BBQ thinking that I won't have to give the game my complete attention.
We're gonna win, but we'll try to make it an ugly win. And you can rest assured we're not gonna open up the playbook on ya, we're saving that for Florida.
We have no play book to open up really. We will shock UF by running between the tackles again. And again. Dude where's my car ain't quite ready for prime time. And he seems pretty soft. The swamp won't do him any favors.
We'll see how bad they feel about it when "you know who" figures out how to make it a 1 score game at the half, hell we may be the ones needing the score. Sorry Towson fan, go peddle that crap somewhere else. Until proven different I'm getting ready for a battle.
