We’re all set for tickets for all our five Navy games (four in Annapolis and Army in Baltimore) this season and our two Penn State games in addition to Notre Dame vs. Syracuse at MetLife stadium on October 1… Kansas vs. Rhode Island? A winless FBS school Kansas has to reach down into the dregs of the FCS to find a game it can win. FCS program Rhode Island went 1-10 a season ago and 1-11 in 2015. I can’t imagine the gate at Lawrence assuring a lot of money for the Rams to visit. The two schools would definitely draw more fans if it was basketball game even at a neutral site. The Jayhawks would probably get beat by D-3 programs Mount Union and Wisconsin-Whitewater, perennial powerhouses…We’re considering to attend four games during our first weekend of the 2016 season: Delaware State at Delaware (URI’s one win last season), on Sept. 1 at 7 pm in The First State Cup; Army at Temple on Sept. 2 at 7 pm at Lincoln Financial Field; Fordham at Navy on Sept. 3 at noon; and for that evening, we’re waiting to hear if either one of these games will be played not far from Annapolis for a night cap – Davidson at Georgetown, or Holy Cross at Morgan State. We’ve never been to a home game of either host team. Davison would be a first time FCS school for us…

We hope to see UD improve this season or it could be Stan Brock’s last season from what we’ve seen these last few years.

Congratulations to LB Jimmy Braun, former LB for our local Lenape Valley (NJ) High School, who was voted captain of the Marist University Red Foxes by his teammates. HC Jim Paraday made the announcement commenting that Jimmy is dominant in the team weight room. The senior from Hopatcong had 47 tackles last season along with an interception and a fumble recovery. We will see the 6-1, 224 lb. MLB play on October 29 when the Red Foxes of Marist host the San Diego Toreros in a Pioneer League clash at Leonidoff Field… Sorry to hear that Princeton University is dropping its Sprint Football program. Despite a 10-year losing streak, you’d think the school would take on the challenge to turn things around. They say that they don’t recruit as other schools do. Newer members of the Collegiate Sprint Football League (CSFL) entering the lightweight league are actually recruiting players to play at this level. We’ve always said we wished to see more schools attempt to do this as there are plenty of guys around that will make the 172-lb limit who would still love to play college ball after four years of high school. Other Ivy League schools, Michigan, and Rutgers have dropped their programs over the years. Army and Navy currently dominate on the field of play. Penn and Cornell are two originals. In recent years, Post (Connecticut), Chestnut Hill (PA), Franklin Pierce (NH), and Mansfield (PA) have started programs. Caldwell College (NJ) starts up a program in 2017. A lot to schools are looking to increase their male student population by offering Sprint Football as a varsity sport. By adding non-scholarship programs at a cost probably much less than an actual D-3 program, why not? We think it’s a great opportunity for students who still love to play the game at a competitive level and that it adds some spirit to these schools’ campuses. We hope to see more schools join the Collegiate Sprint Football League in the near future. Princeton Sprint Football alumni are trying to keep their venerable program intact. We’re rooting for them to do so and to make it thrive seeing what other schools are doing. Seton Hall, FDU, and Rider – take note! We attended our last Sprint game several years ago as a fundraiser for Newark’s Project Price between Navy and Cornell…

Michigan used to play Sprint football, but the friends I made there last year were too young and too big to play that level of football!

We were surprised to find out that even Navy, with all graduates having a five-year obligation to serve in the military, actually held a Pro day recently. We ‘d never heard that there had been one before, but only last season, Navy’s Joe Cardona was drafted and became the long-snapper for the New England Patriots playing in all 16 games and in the post-season. He pulls double duty as an instructor at the Naval Academy Prep School in nearby Newport, RI. This year, Navy QB Keenan Reynolds, SB DeBrandon Sanders, FB Chris Swain, and NG Bernard Sarra all performed in front of NFL scouts in Annapolis. Of course, QB Roger Staubach is probably known as the greatest NFL player to come out of USNA. He served his five years in the US Navy before joining the Dallas Cowboys. WR Phil McConkey did the same before playing on a NY Giant team that won the Super Bowl in 1986. Today, 6-9, 320-lb OT Alejandro Villanueva, played at Army West Point before serving five years becoming a captain in the US Army to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers…

Navy QB Keenan McReynolds was tested by NFL scouts, but it looked like they considered him an athlete to play other positions than QB in the NFL.

The College Football Playoff board is analyzing and discussing the future dates of its semifinal games. No surprise here. It is all about the money in the end, and when TV ratings dropped last year when the games were televised on New Year’s Eve, the administrators eventually woke up and took notice. Some of their analysis questions the lack of excitement in the two games last season (Clemson over Oklahoma, 36-17; and Alabama over Michigan State, 38-0), but we say forget about it! Play them on New Year’s Day after a night of partying and they’ll get their ratings back up for sure. It continues to be the biggest bowl day of the year from a traditional college football perspective with two games to be played for a national championship. It’s a no-brainer! Tell us what you think.

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