UAlbany Football

The UAlbany football team wasn't supposed to be very good this season. In fact, some 'experts' thought they would be pretty bad. Coming off of a 3-8 season in 2022, where the Great Danes didn't win a single game on the road, 2023 expectations were light, at best, by many but not all.

The UAlbany Great Danes roll into Saturday's CAA match up with Villanova at Tom & Casey Stadium with a 2-2 record. The only losses for head coach Greg Gattuso's squad are to FBS programs, Marshall and Hawaii. That's the good news.

The University at Albany athletic department announced on Wednesday that head coach Greg Gattuso was not on the team flight to Honolulu, Hawaii on Tuesday due to illness. Gattuso was expected to join the team on Wednesday but was unable.

The UAlbany Football team is coming off of a massive and much needed win over their rival Stony Brook this past Saturday.

The losses are incredibly hard to take for the players and coaches. UAlbany has a good football team, even though their record might not show it.

The UAlbany Football team is off to a 1-3 start this season. They are gaining some confidence after defeating Central Connecticut State in their last game.

Most of the time, when reporting these stories, we don't really know the person we are writing about. This time I do. Former 16-year NFL veteran and UAlbany assistant football coach, Jim Sweeney unexpectedly passed away on Saturday. The news rocked the New York Jets organization, as well as Sweeney's friends and family at the University at Albany.

Only a few years ago, universities and colleges were the only ones that could benefit from a student-athlete's name, likeness and image (NLI) but we all know that has changed. When you think about programs like Alabama and Texas, where the head coaches are racking in tens of millions of dollars in contracts and endorsements, student-athletes were given a small fraction of a percent of those profits through scholarships and sometimes stipends. That rule has changed and now a University at Albany football player is benefitting from the modification.

It’s only the first CAA conference game of the season for the UAlbany football team on Saturday, but beating UNH could set the tone for the rest of the season.

To call the UAlbany football team's opening game on Saturday at No.10 Baylor challenging, would be an understatement.

Tuesday morning was media training with yours truly giving the presentation to the University at Albany football team. 100 players packed into the academic center, where the team generally holds training camp team meetings. The UAlbany Great Danes are preparing to take on 10th-ranked Baylor on September 3rd, so information had to be quick and to the point. Plus, one Great Danes player was about to learn that he earned something incredibly special.

Timing can be everything and the UAlbany Great Danes Football team needed the week 4 bye in their schedule. The Danes started the season September 4th by visiting the reigning national champion North Dakota State, then came home to lose to CAA rival Rhode Island because of special teams and traveled east on I-90 to get kicked by Syracuse. It was the perfect time for Coach Gattuso and the team to reset.