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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Around the CAA / Country
« on: March 23, 2024, 05:26:57 pm »
That W&M hire shows the gap between the AE and CAA

No way an AE program can poach an Ivy coach. I know there was a lot of complaining early on, but the CAA is just a much better situation.
Yet, both the CAA and AE are one-bid leagues with a 13 seed. What sounds good doesn’t always work out in reality

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SBU Baseball / Re: 2024 Baseball Season
« on: March 03, 2024, 01:08:48 pm »
A bit strange to be saying that when we just beat Purdue and #2 LSU to start the season
Not strange if you don’t consider losing 3 of 4 games to unranked Purdue as a big breakthrough.

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SBU Baseball / Re: 2024 Baseball Season
« on: March 03, 2024, 07:17:44 am »
Anyone who is an intelligent fan of this team knows it is time for change. I respect and celebrate Senk’s achievement but reality is since 2012 nothing has happened.  Kings of a horrible conference and got smashed whenever they left the safety of the America East. First year in CAA showed how bad they are.  Old school recruiting and coaching mentality will only continue the downward slide. Run to 2012 was great.  Living that dream for over a decade with NO results. Time to move on.
We saw how long it took to make a change in football so I wouldn’t bet on a new baseball head coach anytime soon (barring voluntary retirement). The indoor baseball training facility was supposed to be a game changer but it hasn’t done much to boost the program.

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 31: vs Delaware, 3/2 4pm
« on: March 03, 2024, 07:11:20 am »
Great game. Fun one to be at in person. TSM got several big ovations after some big 3s which felt like the proper way to send him out. I will stick to what i said pre-game. I’m ready to call the season a step forward. 10 conference wins in a really tough CAA is nothing to sneeze at. Hopefully more to come in the tournament. 186 would be the highest in kenpom we finished under Geno and highest since Boals last season when we finished at 166.
“Really tough CAA?” The CAA finished in the bottom half rating-wise.

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Around the CAA / Country
« on: February 09, 2024, 07:01:18 am »
CAA now has 8 teams in the 100s on Kenpom. AE only has 2. The depth in this league is impressive.
The conference RPI of the AE is two spots higher than the CAA. The AE has one team with an RPI 300 or worse, the CAA has five. The CAA is not the step up that was expected in basketball or football.

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 23: vs Northeastern, 2/3 6:30pm
« on: February 04, 2024, 11:17:15 am »
No such thing as a bad conference win. Geno's argument in the presser was that Northeastern's length at guard made it difficult for SBU to drive and kick like they like to. It's nice to feel like we have a chance every night now. On another note, Dean Noll is finally starting to look healthy. His 4 steals tonight were huge, also 5 consecutive games in double figures.
There is if you’re barely beating mediocre teams in a middling conference. It predicts how a team will do in OOC games.

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 22: at Hofstra, 2/1 7pm
« on: February 03, 2024, 07:42:22 am »
https://twitter.com/MikeAnderson_15/status/1753219401380167760

Wow, that's right.

I have been fed up with Heilbron's cowardice for years and this is just another pathetic example. Too scared to announce it on your own or through the team's pages so you use a student with 100 followers as your mouthpiece (not a dig at the reporter at all, props to him for getting the info out there, but obviously the kid isn't going to have as many eyes on him as the actual team pages), using him as a test dummy to gauge the reaction from the fanbase instead of taking the heat yourself. Were we always this tight-lipped before Heilbron came, I don't remember at this point.
It’s like Heilbron doesn’t want to deal with the work it takes to hire a new coach. It’s easier to simply extend them.

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 22: at Hofstra, 2/1 7pm
« on: February 02, 2024, 05:39:12 am »
It seems almost certain Geno has reached his ceiling as a coach. Either the program stays at this level or starts creeping down and it becomes another Priore situation.

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SBU Women's Basketball / Re: Women's Basketball- 2023-2024 Season
« on: January 13, 2024, 11:27:29 am »
At this point there’s no margin for error. They need to win out through the conference championship to get a seed higher than 12/13.

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https://x.com/StonyBrookFB/status/1744455449666105734?s=20

Sam Kamara got promoted off the Browns' practice squad during Week 18 and had 7 tackles vs the Bengals. Hope he sticks around for their playoff roster.
SB already has a World Series champion. Would be nice to also have a Super Bowl champ.

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 15: v College of Charleston, 1/6 6:30pm
« on: January 06, 2024, 09:50:14 am »
Fun to think about ...

What TSM has to average to reach certain thresholds on the all-time scoring list, based on 18 games played (17 regular season plus one CAA tournament game)

Top 10: 21.1 ppg – 1,373 (tied with Tillery)
Top 12: 18.0 ppg – 1,317 (tied with Yeboah)
Top 15: 11.3 ppg – 1,197 (tied with Olaniyi)

18 a game would mean we're really in business in conference play.

Good stuff.  Tillery - nice blast from the past.  That 1977-78 team that he was on (Final 4 DIII team), was amazing - they were good enough to compete at the D1 level.  Tillery was maybe 5'10" (on a good day), but he could really both score and facilitate.  I saw him play a few games that year (I was an UG at that time).
Same here. Along with Earl Keith, Wayne Wright etc. they would have given last year’s version of the SB team a battle into the 4th quarter.

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Around Stony Brook U... / Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
« on: January 04, 2024, 02:40:10 pm »
The problem with increasing enrollment is the acceptance rate usually has to go up, which makes admissions seem less competitive. If SB is to be a “prestigious public,” the acceptance rate has to be among the lowest.

Stony Brook has, imo, long been gaming the college rankings on this front by limiting the number of freshman admitted (where acceptance rate goes into ranking formulas) and accepting tons of transfers (which ranking systems ignore). In 2013 there were 2,709 new freshmen and 1,527 new transfers so 1.7 new freshmen enrolled for every transfer enrolled. However in 2023 we have 3,569 freshmen to 1,286 or 2.7 freshmen enrolled for every transfer. I think this tactic while good for rankings has hurt campus life as many of these transfers are commuters from Suffolk and Nassau CC who don't have much connection to the university.

Unsurprisingly this shift has lead to the freshmen acceptance rate to increase from 39.5% in 2013 to 49% in 2023. What's fascinating, is despite accepting more than twice as many students in 2023 than 2013, the mean high school GPA and SAT scores for accepted students is higher than it was in 2013. Stony Brook is just getting WAY more high quality applications than they did in the past.  Also of note is that the admissions yield has decreased quite a bit, likely because some of the best students in NY are treating Stony Brook as a safety school for the most prestigious universities.

https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/irpe/fact_book/data_and_reports/_files/admissions/AdmissionsUG.pdf
Actually the rise in SAT scores is not very surprising. Since they’re now optional, only the highest scorers are submitting them. It’s the same at all SAT-optional schools.

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Around Stony Brook U... / Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
« on: January 04, 2024, 12:22:31 pm »
The next big step will be a Top 20 public ranking. Former President Stanley set that goal a few years back. SB is just a few spots away from that. The $500M from Simons might close the gap within the next five years. The wild card is whether NYS will have the means to keep funding SUNY at current levels.

Stony Brook is Top 26 Public already so its not too far away.

with how its trending and the things the institution is doing (R&D, philanthropy) I expect it to reach TOP-20 Public status in the next 5 years.


I would like Stony Brook to also increase the size of it's student body. Back when I was in school in 2007-12 I would've expected Stony Brook to clock 30,000 students by now. I'm surprised its still hanging at 25k. Size creates economies of scale and for a public school - increase it's influence. It also ensures that a Stony Brook degree remains accessible to a bit more students. It also goes in line with other land-grant public state universities. Don't let Buffalo run away as the only SUNY with 30K+ students .

Also, does any one think that Stony Brook should consider once again opening a law school? I know SSK really tried hard to do so. I think it would make the University more comprehensive which is never bad (even though STEM is what often runs the show nowadays...) and would also help keep it at pace with Buffalo in all fronts. Lets not forget that Buffalo is now our main competitor for state funds
The problem with increasing enrollment is the acceptance rate usually has to go up, which makes admissions seem less competitive. If SB is to be a “prestigious public,” the acceptance rate has to be among the lowest.

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Around Stony Brook U... / Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
« on: January 03, 2024, 01:21:13 pm »
The next big step will be a Top 20 public ranking. Former President Stanley set that goal a few years back. SB is just a few spots away from that. The $500M from Simons might close the gap within the next five years. The wild card is whether NYS will have the means to keep funding SUNY at current levels.

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 13: vs Brown, 12/29 6:30pm
« on: December 29, 2023, 08:45:10 pm »
Whew! Averted the total collapse! Gotta hit those 1-and-1’s, and need to get the ball in the hands of your best ball handlers late in the game. Good win against a quality opponent going into conference. AClarke certainly growing on me.
It was a squeaker win against a Quadrant IV team at home. Not a good win against a quality opponent by any means.

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