wow, '76, Now that is a defining difference for Belmont! Playing an away game at VCU and then an away game in Bridgeport around Christmas holiday. Kind of like going from a rock concert where the music is loud enough to "wake up the dead" to a game played in morgue where the fans are dead!
Not sure if it will make any difference but finals start December 11 and the dorms close on December 17 for Christmas Recess. Dorms reopen on January 19, 2015.
Friday, Nov 14 - Central CT (CT-6) at Quinnipiac Saturday, Nov 15 - @ Duke (Coaches vs Cancer) Wednesday, Nov 19 - Loyola Friday, Nov 21 - Wofford (Coaches vs Cancer) Saturday, Nov 22 - Sam Houston (Coaches vs Cancer) Sunday, Nov 23 - South Dakota (Coaches vs Cancer) - NFL (Patriots at 1:00 pm, Jets at 1:00 pm, Giants at 8:30 pm) Saturday, Nov 29 - @ Northeastern (Thanksgiving Weekend) Monday, Dec 01 - Bucknell - NFL (Jets at 8:30 pm) Saturday, Dec 20 - Belmont - (Fairfield Christmas Recess)
I wonder what time the Duke game will be? Both of us play on Friday so I assume it will be an evening game. Plus Duke plays Vt Tech in football that afternoon.
I wonder what time the Duke game will be? Both of us play on Friday so I assume it will be an evening game. Plus Duke plays Vt Tech in football that afternoon.
Charlotte Observer had the same thought: "The football team hosts Virginia Tech in what will be an important conference game, and the Hokies faithful historically travels in large numbers to Durham. We won’t know the time of that game until a few weeks before it happens, so I’d expect the tipoff time on the Nov. 15 hoops game against Fairfield to be TBA until then as well. Things could get tricky if kickoff is around 3 p.m." If any of the Fairfield fans had planned to attend and stay over night, best start calling now to find a place.
I wonder what time the Duke game will be? Both of us play on Friday so I assume it will be an evening game. Plus Duke plays Vt Tech in football that afternoon.
Charlotte Observer had the same thought: "The football team hosts Virginia Tech in what will be an important conference game, and the Hokies faithful historically travels in large numbers to Durham. We won’t know the time of that game until a few weeks before it happens, so I’d expect the tipoff time on the Nov. 15 hoops game against Fairfield to be TBA until then as well. Things could get tricky if kickoff is around 3 p.m." If any of the Fairfield fans had planned to attend and stay over night, best start calling now to find a place.
Although the tv networks won't decide on the kickoff time for the football game until a few weeks before the game, I see where Duke's next football game after Virginia Tech is home on Thursday November 20th against North Carolina on espn with a 7:30 start. I would hope the Duke athletic director would be asking for an early afternoon game against VaTech to give the football team the maximum rest time before playing their rival on national tv. Plus, an early afternoon football game allows the basketball game to be either an early evening or night game which seems reasonable considering both schools would have played the day before.
Also in the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic is Sam Houston State. The mascot for the Sam Houston State team we play on November 22nd is the Bearkats. I thought that was an unusual mascot name until I saw that they were known as the Normals until 1923. www.shsu.edu/~pin_www/T@S/2004/BearkatFacts1004.html
Since we are talking about mascots, I read somewhere that at one time in the early days of Ffld U. there was a discussion that the Stags mascot would be a "chanticleer" prior to settling on the "Stag" . The chanticleer is the current mascot of D-1 Costal Carolina University. Better them, then us. Chanticleer (French: "sing clear") can refer to:
Fiction[edit] A rooster appearing in fables about Reynard The Fox The Nun's Priest's Tale, a version of Chanticleer and the Fox told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales By metonymy, any rooster A character in the movie Rock-a-Doodle played by Glen Campbell The protagonist of the novel The Book of the Dun Cow, based on the cock from The Nun's Priest's Tale.
The surname of the main family in Hope Mirrlees' 1926 novel Lud-in-the-Mist.
Arts[edit] Chanticleer (ensemble), a prominent male vocal ensemble A race of angelic humanoids in the game Project Nomad The Chanticleer, a student-run magazine at Averett University in Danville, VA
Sports[edit] "The Chanticleers", the mascots of: Rutgers University, before changing to the Scarlet Knights Coastal Carolina University located in Conway, South Carolina, United States Ord High School, Ord, Nebraska, United States
However (as we have discussed before), Coastal Carolina just built a new 3,600 seat $35 million Basketball/Volleyball & Rec Center facility on campus and "That's not a joke, ah say that's not a joke, son": www.goccusports.com/facilities/The_HTC_Center.html
The Fairfield Stag (Lucas):
With the dawn of the first athletic team (cross country) in the fall of 1947, it became apparent that a nickname would be needed. For the 1947-48 season, Fairfield University adopted the "Men In Red" as its nickname.
The following year, the University introduced men's basketball as its next team and its first varsity sport. With the start of varsity sports, the school put it to the students for input in naming of a school mascot. Two recommendations were made to the Board of Trustees for an official decision and vote. As the late Fr. Charles F. Duffy S.J. recounted: "As a member of the Board of Trustees, I remember voting at a board meeting late in 1948 on the naming for our athletic teams. We voted for Stags over Chanticleers!"
What made the decision for the Board a bit easier and logical was the fact that the school was part of the Dioceses of Hartford and the word Hartford means stags (hart) and stream (ford). According to Webster's New World Dictionary the word "hart" means "A male of the European red deer; stag." As for the world "ford" Webster describes it as "A shallow place in a stream, river, etc."
As a result, Fairfield University's seal itself was designed featuring a deer leaping over a tumbling brook to represent both the school's connection with the Dioceses as well with its close ties with nature.
Post by nashvillestag on Aug 23, 2014 9:06:01 GMT -5
Nearing Labor Day, still unkown in OOC schedule, date of Albany game. I assume there will be the matchup based (I believe) on contractual obligation as a return for the final bracket buster contest two years ago. Also, one other game possible. Still trying to work things out with SHU? Someone else? Getting near the time when the MAAC and the full slate should be finalized I would think.