Obviously I am still finding my way around, but I like what I see so far!

The lacrosse team plays Navy in the semi-finals of the Patriot League at 7:30 this evening, and the game will be carried on CBS Sports.

For the past few years, Army has dominated Navy in regular season play, but Navy beat Army in the regular season game earlier this year dropping Army in national ranking and PL championship seeding. Army started the season as a ball of fire but faded during PL play. Hopefully, they can get back to early season form this evening and get revenge for their loss to Navy earlier.

I know there has been tons of talk about Dallas Jeanty, but the guy I really want for our 2016 class is Brandon Simon from Don Bosco in NJ.

https://army.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1759390

Glad to see that the board colors were re-adjusted. The site is looking great!

More to come …..

Last year's team was heavily laced with seniors in starting positions, with 7 seniors starting on defense and 5 starting on offense. The post spring depth chart suggests that this year there will be only 2 senior starters on defense and between 3 and 6 on offense depending on how you count them as well as who wins the starting roles at quarterback and fullback

Altimala and Carnegie are the two probable senior starters on defense, but McLean is challenging Altimalala at NT; which would leave only one senior on the defense when he's in the game. Fortunately those two seniors are joined by 3 juniors who were regular starters last year, Timpf, King, and Jenkins along with sophomores Voit and England who had significant playing time. Moss has started for two years but at a different position and is still learning how to play safety; so we can't think of him as a veteran.

At this point it would appear that the team will have 3 senior starters on the offensive line led by Gilbert and Hugenberg who were regular starters either last year or the year before along with Hennesey, who started 6 games. Kelvin White is the probable starter at TE and he played all 12 games with 3 starts; and Deandre Bell is a likely starter at one of the WR slots with only 5 games last season; but they will share playing time; so only one of them is likely to be on the field at one time. Giachinta will vie with Kemper for the starting role and Schurr will be competing with Bradshaw at quarterback. Depending on who is playing quarterback and fullback and whether the TE or 2 WRs are in the game, there could be as few as 3 seniors on offense.

Quite a change from last season.

The Air Force coaching staff made an in-school visit in their attempt to convince the QB that he belongs in Colorado Springs versus West Point. Click link for the inside scoop.

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Saturday's spring game saw several former players return to West Point, but six held the distinction as Honorary Captains for the game. Check out GBK’s Maddy Daugherty's video interviews with two of the players, Mike Viti & Aaron Alexander, along Assoc. AD Gene McIntrye.

http://rvls.co/1DbtmN5

The combination of the Spring Game & Junior Day created quite a buzz on the campus of West Point. Click link below for video interviews with 2015 Army commit Jalen Nash and top 2016 prospects like Rivals 3-star OLB Dallas Jeanty, Rivals Camp Series (NJ) D-line MVP & 2-star prospect Brandon Simon & OL, Sean Behrens.

2015 Army commit & DE, Jalen Nash with GBK's Maddy Daugherty




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Saturday's spring game saw several former players return to West Point, but six held the distinction as Honorary Captains for the game. Check out GBK’s Maddy Daugherty's video interviews with two of the players, Mike Viti & Aaron Alexander, along Assoc. AD Gene McIntrye.

http://rvls.co/1DbtmN5

Who wins the QB Competition?

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QB Article

Getting this trio on defense for the 2016 class would be huge and it's impressive that 3-star 2015 commit is reaching out to prospects like Jeanty.

Say yes to Army!

Five. Count'em five players offered from Louisiana. Gone are the days of only kickers getting offers from our state. I literally dropped my fork at lunch today when I saw this. Also see an increase in New Jersey recruiting which is great for the program. We used to hold our own in Texas and battle with Air Force there so hopefully we get the pipeline going again in the Lone Star state. Looks like we are going back to truly being a national recruiter. By the way the QB from Louisiana (Scott) beat my son out for 1st team all state this year and can really play. He would be a great get for the program.

Excited about the recruiting Class of 2015 and what they will bring to the table. These young men have accepted the challenge and from what you can read about them are poised to do great things over the next 4-5 years. The arrow is pointing straight up brethren.

GEAUX ARMY! BEAT'EM ALL!!!

I'm trying to Hyperlink like most of you have in your signatures, but can't get the coding.

GBK - any tips?

Charles asked me to start a new thread to get some feedback. He suggested that I say that he looks like Denzel Washington, but I cannot tell a lie; so I'm asking who you think he looks like. You could comment on Maddy if you prefer)

Hey Everyone -

We had already given you a preview last week, so we are proud to share that we have been given the green light to flip the switch on the new message boards TONIGHT.

During Migration from old to new all of our Premium and Free Message Boards will be READ-ONLY from approximately 9 p.m. PT to 3 a.m. PT.

click here) will be up and running during these hours - so if you (subscribers) want to slide over there for a test run during our Read-Only period please do so.

And if we encounter problems by that time, we will update and advise our GBK subscribers what is happening via our message boards, especially The 12th Knight.

Here are some of the new Features & Benefits for the new Rivals.com Message Boards:

1. They are a responsive design; meaning, they were designed for desktop, tablets and mobile - all in one design and all at the same URL. No need to go to a different address to get the proper version for your device

2. They have a modern, secure and actively maintained framework built for speed & stability

3. There will be no limit on Thread History, so you can reference old topics or replies at any time

4. There is Private Messaging, Social Profiles and Rich(er) Content - embeddable video, embeddable Tweets, etc

5. You now can set up alerts and follow users so you don't miss replies to topics you're participating in or miss great posts from your favorite users. In your News Feed you'll be able to see all of the topics, users, and content that you wish to follow.

6. Dynamic quoting system so what you select within a thread can be quoted without copying and pasting any code. You select what you want to quote and click Reply over that selection, and it will be put automatically in your reply. You can quote multiple posts and automatic quoting is set up so that you can always follow the conversation with a user forgetting to quote.

7. Improved navigation and search: quickly jump to the first unread post in a thread or to the top and bottom of each thread. Advanced search features include by keyword, date or thread title.

I know that Army isn't a passing team, but man when balls hit guys in the hands they have to catch them just sometimes. I'm calling this passing game the Stoney Lonesome offense because guys can be standing alone and squared off but the ball still bounces off those stone hands. I know its only the spring game andt mean to be rude but things are THAT bad.

On the flip side, Josh Jenkins INT return and leap along the sideline was like All American play. He looks a little better than everyone else. Last time I saw a player like that in person it was Devin McCourty at Rutgers.


EDIT: Came across the passing stats


Kaufmann, Matthew 3-8-0
Gonzales, Seth 0-3-1
Bradshaw, Ahmad 4-9-2



Total all receptions = 52 yards



This post was edited on 4/20 8:10 PM by ashokan

ArmyWestPoint Gold vs ArmyWestPoint Black (04/18/1

Hey Everyone -

We had already given you a preview last week, so we are proud to share that we have been given the green light to flip the switch on the new message boards TONIGHT.

During Migration from old to new all of our Premium and Free Message Boards will be READ-ONLY from approximately 9 p.m. PT to 3 a.m. PT.

click here) will be up and running during these hours - so if you (subscribers) want to slide over there for a test run during our Read-Only period please do so.

And if we encounter problems by that time, we will update and advise our GBK subscribers what is happening via our message boards, especially The 12th Knight.

Here are some of the new Features & Benefits for the new Rivals.com Message Boards:

1. They are a responsive design; meaning, they were designed for desktop, tablets and mobile - all in one design and all at the same URL. No need to go to a different address to get the proper version for your device

2. They have a modern, secure and actively maintained framework built for speed & stability

3. There will be no limit on Thread History, so you can reference old topics or replies at any time

4. There is Private Messaging, Social Profiles and Rich(er) Content - embeddable video, embeddable Tweets, etc

5. You now can set up alerts and follow users so you don't miss replies to topics you're participating in or miss great posts from your favorite users. In your News Feed you'll be able to see all of the topics, users, and content that you wish to follow.

6. Dynamic quoting system so what you select within a thread can be quoted without copying and pasting any code. You select what you want to quote and click Reply over that selection, and it will be put automatically in your reply. You can quote multiple posts and automatic quoting is set up so that you can always follow the conversation with a user forgetting to quote.

7. Improved navigation and search: quickly jump to the first unread post in a thread or to the top and bottom of each thread. Advanced search features include by keyword, date or thread title.

Enjoyed what all the recruits had to say, but I honestly felt that Behrens was about to commit on the spot. He would be a great fit.

Behrens is the last one to be interviewed, which includes 2015 DE commit, Jalen Nash.

Click here for video interview with Behrens

You could not have asked for better weather, as the temperatures reach a comfortable 82 degrees, to agree with the sunny skies and great turnout of Army fans [2,015]. This included tons of recruits, along with several members of the 2015 recruiting class.



GBK: BLACK & GOLD SPRING GAME SUMMARY

Ultimately, the popularity of the new brand will be evidenced by the number of people who adopt it. Since the announcement on Monday, I've watched the Army West Point lacrosse game on CBS Sports and looked at the photos of the spring football game to see if anyone is adopting the new brand.

The football coaches at the spring game were sporting gray polo shirts with the new logo on the front and Alberici had on a gray zip up sweatshirt with the new logo as well. Presumably, Boo made sure that the coaches were up to date on branding for the game. The player uniforms for both teams were still using the old logo and lettering (speed A) for the most part, which is also not surprising. The new logo on the coaches shirts and Alberici's sweatshirt looked pretty nifty.

The lacrosse game on TV was particularly interesting because the announcers commented on the recent branding change, and the scoreboard displayed Army West Point at times and just Army at times. The announcers also used Army West Point in their play by play, but frequently slipped into saying just Army. It didn't sound awkward either way.

In one of the photos from the spring game, Jeanty is wearing a tee shirt with West Point and the black knight logo on it, which was an interesting choice for a recruit who has not yet committed. Presumably he picked that tee shirt out himself, and he's identifying with West Point.

The combination of the Spring Game & Junior Day created quite a buzz on the campus of West Point. Click link below for video interviews with 2015 Army commit Jalen Nash and top 2016 prospects like Rivals 3-star OLB Dallas Jeanty, Rivals Camp Series (NJ) D-line MVP & 2-star prospect Brandon Simon & OL, Sean Behrens.

2015 Army commit & DE, Jalen Nash with GBK's Maddy Daugherty

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Lot of players out of the game injured.

Turnovers !!!! Still a critical issue.....

Passing ????? Sounds very suspect....

FB Shiver for the Gold team sounded good.

Kemper did well, and Coach Nonken said he has been a pleasant surpriser this spring.[/B]

replace 'Army West Point' with 'WEST POINT'!

Hmmmm?