"Five years. $100 million." How much has been raised by SH's athletics department?
Its time.
From Newsday. August 31, 2015.
From the moment he first set foot on Stony Brook's campus to take over as athletic director in May 2014, Shawn Heilbron said his vision was to build a football program powerful enough to drive the fundraising necessary to put the New York state school with the funny name on the major-college athletic map.
Exactly one year later, Heilbron unveiled his five-year program titled "Together We Transform" to accomplish that goal. It came with a variety of new initiatives intended to build a big-time college football culture on Long Island that might begin to generate the revenue necessary to turn the artist's renderings of a double-decked stadium seating 25,000 and an indoor practice facility into actual brick and mortar.
The price tag for everything in the five-year package? Take a deep breath.
"The number we use internally is we need to raise $100 million," Heilbron told Newsday. "It's a lot of money. That can come from the state, it can come from private donors, but that's the reality.