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This weekend the University of Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens host the Delaware State University Hornets at the Tub.

DSU head coach Kermit Blount, believes his team has a chance to upset the Hens.

"I'd compare our chances of winning the game to our chances of hosting a Hens' game in Dover."

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"Next year’s game is the last one on the current contract between the state’s only two I-AA football programs. Hornet coach Kermit Blount said on Tuesday that he’s all for continuing the series.

“On this end, we’re going to have to do some things here to assure that we can do a home-and-home ... we’re going to have some concessions on this end to make sure we get to that point. But I would love to see the game continue to play.”

The previous four meetings and the next two will be played in the Hens’ 22,000-seat Delaware Stadium. The capacity of DelState’s Alumni Stadium is 7,000."


Concessions? Does he know the meaning of the word?



Hens win by 23.

Enclosing the west end of the stadium would increase capacity closer to 15,000, but we're just a bunch of cheap bastards.

DSUrocks07 wrote:Enclosing the west end of the stadium would increase capacity closer to 15,000, but we're just a bunch of cheap bastards.

Cheap? Smart is more like it. What would you do with 15,000 seats?

89Hen wrote:

DSUrocks07 wrote:Enclosing the west end of the stadium would increase capacity closer to 15,000, but we're just a bunch of cheap bastards.

Cheap? Smart is more like it. What would you do with 15,000 seats?

Honestly, the stadium should be in a more accessible location. Having to physically drive ON campus really restricts how many people can attend the game.

honestly I think Blount wants to keep this going so he can have a measuring stick to hold on to his job over the next couple years. A few sub .500 seasons but we lose to UD by less than 20, then less than 17 then next. and then within 2 scores the year after and he'll find a way to stick around. Wasn't a fan of the hire from the beginning and the ridiculous way it played out.

Blount is the same man who held a career record at WSSU of like 3 games over .500 over the course of 16 years. Mediocre coach to the bone.

DSUrocks07 wrote:

89Hen wrote: Cheap? Smart is more like it. What would you do with 15,000 seats?

Honestly, the stadium should be in a more accessible location. Having to physically drive ON campus really restricts how many people can attend the game.

Really? Montana's stadium is on-campus (I wouldn't have it any other way, BTW), and they manage to squeeze 26,000 in for every game....

Can't you just use the Dover Int'l Speedway parking lot across the street?

DSUrocks07 wrote:but we lose to UD by less than 20, then less than 17 then next. and then within 2 scores the year after and he'll find a way to stick around

So you're saying he doesn't have much chance of sticking around.

89Hen wrote:

DSUrocks07 wrote:but we lose to UD by less than 20, then less than 17 then next. and then within 2 scores the year after and he'll find a way to stick around

So you're saying he doesn't have much chance of sticking around.

Highly doubt it, they screwed him from the beginning by bringing him in so late into the recruiting period. The Admin dropped the ball hard on this. They wanted an "HBCU coach" and give a concession to the Alums who still believes that that shit matters. "He's gotta be one of "OUR" guys."

AZGrizFan wrote:

DSUrocks07 wrote:
Honestly, the stadium should be in a more accessible location. Having to physically drive ON campus really restricts how many people can attend the game.

Really? Montana's stadium is on-campus (I wouldn't have it any other way, BTW), and they manage to squeeze 26,000 in for every game....

Can't you just use the Dover Int'l Speedway parking lot across the street?

DSU has only three access points to get on campus, the main gate on US-13 and two off of College Rd. With the eastern one that is remotely usable.





Traffic is bad enough in Dover during a normal Saturday, and 10x worse for a DSU home game where there's 2k-3k in the stands. I couldn't imagine how even with an expanded Alumni Stadium how the region could handle a DSU home game vs UD, the Hornets need an off campus football stadium if they expect to even begin a conversation about bringing in marquee FCS opponents.

Is it still grass? I remember playing there in the rain the day after they spread manure on the field behind the visitor side. Worst experience ever. And then there is the visitor locker room bullshit.

Oh and I've also never heard of wanting an off campus stadium.

andy7171 wrote:Is it still grass? I remember playing there in the rain the day after they spread manure on the field behind the visitor side. Worst experience ever. And then there is the visitor locker room bullshit.

It's artificial turf. Not sure when they put it in, but it was plastic when my HS won the state championship on it in 2008.

93henfan wrote:

andy7171 wrote:Is it still grass? I remember playing there in the rain the day after they spread manure on the field behind the visitor side. Worst experience ever. And then there is the visitor locker room bullshit.

It's artificial turf. Not sure when they put it in, but it was plastic when my HS won the state championship on it in 2008.

I thought you graduated in '88?

andy7171 wrote:

93henfan wrote:
It's artificial turf. Not sure when they put it in, but it was plastic when my HS won the state championship on it in 2008.

I thought you graduated in '88?

89

93henfan wrote:

andy7171 wrote: I thought you graduated in '88?

89

But you graduated in 1993? I graduated in '89 and I got out of Towson on time in '94. You must be lying.

93henfan wrote:

andy7171 wrote:Is it still grass? I remember playing there in the rain the day after they spread manure on the field behind the visitor side. Worst experience ever. And then there is the visitor locker room bullshit.

It's artificial turf. Not sure when they put it in, but it was plastic when my HS won the state championship on it in 2008.

Ferris won the state championship in 2008? Must've missed it...

Was at a cross country meet in Felton on Saturday. Was fun to see all the high schools I grew up with in DE.

BTW, Concord was wearing black.