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SBU Football / Re: Coach Cosh commitment tracker thread
« on: January 20, 2024, 11:26:24 am »
The 2024 roster is posted. It looks like Cosh and company were able to recruit many of the players in the transfer portal to stay at Stony Brook. Of particular note we see

Nick Chimienti DB
JuJu Ganthier DB
Jadon Turner RB KR

on the roster. I'm also surprised how many of the seniors/grad students still have eligibility. If the roster is correct, we return nearly everyone from last years team. Lost Kaler (LB), Rodriguez (OL), and Tunc (OL) to transfer and then Porter (CB) and McKinnie (OL) are out of eligibility. I believe everyone else from the 2 deep is returning.

Probably setting myself up for disappointment, but I'm talking myself into this team already. A couple impact transfers and this team should be competitive again
No idea if those SBU players were inundated with offers in the crowded portal but I am assuming Cosh was selective in terms of who he really wanted back from the team that went 2-19 over the last two years.

It is also true a bunch of non-portal guys from that 2-19 team have eligibility and are returning. Which, again, is a mixed blessing.

.500 in the CAA within the next three years (even if we pull a goose egg in the CAA this upcoming year) is my goal for a rebuilt Stony Brook team.

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SBU Football / Re: New coach thread
« on: January 17, 2024, 09:56:40 am »
Didn't dive into too much St. Francis tape this year, but being an all-time tackler and three-time captain as a player is a good place to start for me. We need leaders of young men out there.

I dont think that the two new coordinators have experience being coordinators at this level. If Heilbron is looking for wins next season is he taking chances on people that dont have coordinator experience? Is he also hoping to win with high school kids at Marshall since he took a while to hire cosh and they missed the portal. It will be tough to find anyone talented in the portal in the spring as the good guys will go to better schools. we have to wait until the summer to see what the team looks like but i think with a new coach with no head experience and new coordinators with no experince as coordinators theyre going to be luck to win two games next season and i dont think they can afford to wait for a winning season. It looks like a big order for a new coach that doesnt have experience.

The defensive coordinator was at St. Francis for the last 3 years in the same role, and from 2017-2019 he was d-coordinator at University of Nebraska Kearney. He was also defensive coordinator at Eastern New Mexico University in 2015. That's experience, no?
Given our situation I thought the defensive coordinator hire (he was an outstanding player and does have defensive coordinator experience) was a pleasant surprise.  (I have very low expectations regarding the roster and staff considering how the program was run into the ground.)

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SBU Football / Re: New coach thread
« on: January 16, 2024, 06:35:35 pm »
Knoop was a one-year starter at Georgetown (perennial  Patriot League doormat) and looked like your average Patriot League quarterback in the two games (Holy Cross, Fordham) I saw him play this year.  I’d expect him to win the starting job here next year all things considered.

I like that he won 5 games for Georgetown, which for them is a lot (I checked and they haven't won more than 5 games in a season since 2011). I'm hoping that his floor is average Patriot League QB, but with better options and more experience maybe we can get more out of him. And to be honest, even in some of Stony Brook's best seasons, an average Patriot League QB would have been a trade up.
The problem is that he only started one year at Georgetown and Georgetown is generally the worst of the Patriot League schools (they do not offer athletic scholarships for football while the rest of PL football does) and plays the softest OOC (understandably) of the PL schools.

It is true that Georgetown beat 5 teams this year (the best of whom was 6-5 Fordham) enroute to their very respectable (for them) 5-6 record. Georgetown's best passing attack this year, by far, was in its 10-point loss to a good Lafayette team. Oddly enough (and I have no idea why) Knoop did not play at all that game.

Your point regarding past SBU QBs is well taken. 

I follow PL football but I also follow SBU/CAA football a bit and I know the SBU roster and SBU QB situation. (Read into that what you will.) Given all that, I see Knoop as probably the best QB we could bring in and he should win the starting job. 
 

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SBU Football / Re: New coach thread
« on: January 13, 2024, 01:43:29 pm »
Whoever said Knoop was correct as he just posted it on Twitter and he has one year of eligibility remaining so I guess Case will be backup unless he leaves
Knoop was a one-year starter at Georgetown (perennial  Patriot League doormat) and looked like your average Patriot League quarterback in the two games (Holy Cross, Fordham) I saw him play this year.  I’d expect him to win the starting job here next year all things considered.

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SBU Football / Re: 2024 SBU Recruiting
« on: January 13, 2024, 08:01:40 am »
this is good for Stony Brook but I just don't understand the lack of offers for this kid.  How could he have no other CAA offers?  No schools from the MAC?  I guess FBS schools just can't get over the height issue.  It is just sad.   Was hoping that east islip alum Panagos at Kansas would have scooped him up.  I guess time will tell if the FBS just missed on this kid. 
Tyler Bolesta better watch out.  His bench press record will be falling in the next year or 2.
I noticed that lack of FBS/FCS offers too. At this point we will see that situation (from high schoolers, incoming portal guys, and our own portal guys deciding to return)  as we work to fill out a roster.

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SBU Football / Re: 2024 SBU Recruiting
« on: January 10, 2024, 08:54:02 am »
Albany's Poffenbarger transferred to Miami. But they just replaced him with Wisconsin's Myles Burkett.

It does not reflect great on us if THAT school is able to get B1G QBs.

Albany looks attractive to a QB buried on a BIG 10 depth chart who wants to play for a good program. (Plus, given his Wisconsin roots, the weather is not an issue).

And Poff's experience shows if you do well in Albany  the big boys will notice.

This really has nothing to do with SBU's program as we've gone the opposite direction.


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SBU Football / Re: Coach Cosh commitment tracker thread
« on: December 31, 2023, 11:24:05 pm »
https://twitter.com/ChimientiNick/status/1740426143453565172

Just popped up on my Twitter that starting safety Nick Chimenti decided to exit the portal and come back. Had 48 tackles, 3 INTs this year.

I dont think that he tweeted he had any offers.
There is a real glut of players in the portal IMHO. The top FCS guys are being scooped up but I wouldn't expect all of the portal guys  to find a home. And, keeping it real, the SBU players from the team that went 2-19 the last two years may not be the top FCS players. We may see more heading back to SBU from the portal.

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SBU Football / Re: 2024 SBU Recruiting
« on: December 19, 2023, 09:35:38 pm »
Actually I called his coach last night and he has a very high GPA so he gets a lot of money for his grades however even without getting a scholarship if he chose SBU he would only have to pay for Room & Board plus Books. I would love to get this kid because he’s a great person and a very good athlete and with the right coach in my opinion would definitely become a scholarship player
I love your enthusiasm for the program and it must be tough to maintain that position based on recent years. But any player that comes here as a PWO when they can walk on at any school,  they really are cheating themselves. Full scholarship players ran from this train wreck of a program. If Cosh keeps ONE person from the staff then it will very get a fresh start. The only people who should be around Cosh is the janitor to show him the light switches

The AD is still here though and that is the problem.
Maybe if he stays it’s a relaunch and if he goes it’s a rebuild.

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SBU Football / Re: Coach Cosh commitment tracker thread
« on: December 17, 2023, 10:31:55 pm »
They need help at almost every position its not a rebuild its a relaunch per heilbron.
Since a rebuild and relaunch are a distinction without a difference (relative to a woeful 0-10 team), I have no idea why he kept saying that at the press conference. 

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SBU Football / Re: Coach Cosh commitment tracker thread
« on: December 17, 2023, 02:41:25 pm »
When will we get the first transfer from the portal? Second signing day? Keep track here.
I have no doubts we’ll bring in transfers. Lots of them. At the same time, I don’t expect many quality transfers.

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SBU Football / Re: New coach thread
« on: December 14, 2023, 12:14:03 pm »
excited for this new era.


with effort and the right moves we can easily return to playoff football. It's going to take a few years, but I'm sure we can get back!

Lets go Seawolves!

For everyone complaining. We got our wishes. They fired Priore and we got a new coach. Stop moving the goalposts.

We don't always need to be angry and/or pissed off... we can take a pause and just be happy for once!

happy that the most arrogant, sarcastic, nasty, pitiful, bloviated, narcissistic, JV coach in the country is no longer calling the plays down on the field? Yes, of course. But, do we have a choice??

But why hire somebody who is the 2nd youngest HC in the entire FCS, who has zero HC experience, almost no FBS experience, not a proven recruiter? etc..

I wanna hear his strategy for recruiting. Is he going to be the primary recruiter, who does he hire to do that, and so on?

This hole thing is one big crap shoot. But, I think this hire came from the hire up in Albany. Not from SH
I suspect we didn't see the strongest of applicants (this is a risky job career-wise). Although it was brief and perhaps not very successful, his recent time as an FBS OC may have distinguished him from the rest of the pack.

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SBU Football / Re: New coach thread
« on: December 14, 2023, 08:58:38 am »
Sounded exactly as you would want him to - energetic and eager and seems to have an uptempo offensive  plan. IMHO if he can land his type of QB (and backup) we'll be on our way back over the next few years   

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SBU Football / Re: New coach thread
« on: December 13, 2023, 10:49:12 am »
I don't know a damn thing about this guy, but I'm willing to give him a chance. If nothing else he'll take the program is a completely new direction. The cupboard will be bare next year, so if we can even scrounge together 3-4 wins I'd be ok with that.
Agreed. Although the cupboard is closer to "completely bare" than to merely "bare".

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SBU Football / Re: 2023 Football Season
« on: December 12, 2023, 10:39:39 am »
I want Albany to keep it going

I know you all think that are athletics are not doing well but I disagree for instance the CAA is better than the American East and we’re competing in all sports except football and I believe whoever takes the reigns as the next HC he will do a very good job and that’s where I stand

I want Albany to win the whole thing too. Albany was picked to finish towards the bottom of the CAA with SBU as well this year, but they recruited well in the off-season to bring in strong athletes. Something Priore was never able to do.  I can't entirely agree with you about the CAA though. They have fallen in rankings this year because of the addition of a few schools that were never athletically strong.

If SBU hires another HC who aligns himself with Coach P there will be no change in their football program. So, to say it doesn't matter who they hire SBU will do very well is false. They can't hire just a coach. They have to hire the right coach...
To be fair, Albany was much better than us last year and had quite a bit of bad luck resulting in a tough W-L record.  No way they should have been ranked near us Pre-season. That was crazy.  At the same time they definitely did bring in some more talent and improved coaching on top of that .

CAA football did take a huge hit with the departure of JMU and now Delaware.

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SBU Football / Re: New coach thread
« on: December 12, 2023, 10:32:09 am »
If the new coach has been successful at another program either as a HC or Coordinator then he’s going to want at least a increase to what he’s making now and with the cost of living on LI being very high it’s hard to imagine that you’re going to get a new HC on the Cheap

I would put my money on the fact this university is going to hire some no name, FCS assistant, with zero recruiting skills, or history of low talent recruiting history. That would be the nail in this football program, if SH and company hire a nobody..
Given the support from the administration and student body as well as the current roster, the job is definitely a MAJOR career risk for a successful up-and-comer.  The quality of applicants might force the hiring of someone along the lines you describe.

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