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Conference and Athletics / Re: Conference Realignment Rumors
« on: March 05, 2024, 01:24:50 am »
UMass is headed from the A-10 to the MAC for all sports (except hockey I'm guessing/I hope). That drops the A-10 to 14 teams. You wonder if they're content there or if they're still looking at adding a couple. There are a lot of sub-FBS/non-football schools in that conference, and we have a few attractive schools who fit that mold in our conference including, well, us . Yeah, but really, not happening.

https://twitter.com/PeteThamel/status/1762198328673006013

Man, even the CAA (19) is ranked higher than the MAC (24) in KenPom conferences right now.

UMass basketball enthusiasts are not pleased. In the KenPom ratings, you can list off seven A-10 schools before you reach Akron at #100, and another three A-10s before reaching a second MAC team. Does Frank Martin skip town? Can they recruit at the same level? I dunno. I'm skeptical.

Here's a good rundown of what it all means for the program. All you need to know is that UMass Lowell is in a better basketball conference than UMass. On Saturday, they had their best crowd in years .... YEARS (7,000+) ... and this news broke two days later. Brutal.

https://www.masslive.com/umassfootball/2024/02/umass-move-to-mac-is-brutal-blow-to-its-mens-basketball-program-vautour.html

Delaware and UMass together to MAC would have been a more logical addition to MAC. Delaware must be regretting now for making the move too early to a far flung CUSA.

So now that MAC is sitting on 13, and logic says that they will add another one, will the 14th team come from northeast? Does this open the door for Stony Brook to FBS? I say our AD should at least have a talk with MAC. In Buffalo and UMass, there are peer schools in proximity in place. I would even root for all SUNY 4 centers to be in MAC ;D!!

If that were ever gonna happen, this kind of move by Umass would be the first domino.... had this happened say a decade ago and our athletic department hadn't fallen off a cliff, I'd say us moving to the MAC would be a done deal

But yeah makes you wonder why Delaware jumped to CUSA. MAC is better than current CUSA, but maybe Delaware thinks they can land in the Sun Belt soon? IDK. With all the shuffling going on at the P5 level, the new playoff, talk of the Big Ten and SEC breaking away.... I honestly think if anything we should stay put. Hell, hindsight says maybe stay in the AE and see how this all shakes out because all the movement is by no means done.

I think if when all is said and done we wind up in a league with Buffalo, UMass, Temple, Delaware, etc I think that's a great end state. What it takes to get there and what that looks like in the interim I don't know.

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SBU Football / Re: Lyle Hemphill New DC at JMU
« on: December 27, 2023, 06:35:13 pm »
Why'd he leave Wake? Did he get forced out or something?? Seems odd to go from an ACC school back to a G5. I still believe we should have made him coach before we let him walk at the end of 2016

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SBU Football / Re: New coach thread
« on: December 13, 2023, 10:40:48 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.

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SBU Football / Re: More players in the portal
« on: December 09, 2023, 04:22:48 pm »
On the one hand, a large number of kids exiting a 0-10 team via graduation and portal is not necessarily a terrible thing BUT there are sure to be potential recruits looking elsewhere on top of this. Soooooooo, we are talking a long rebuild before we go .500 in the CAA. Years. And only if we land a great coach.

Indeed to be true. But only if SBU hires a real coach who can recruit and develop young players, something Priore could never do..

Keeping Priore as long as we did will set SBU back the better part of an additional decade AFTER we finally got rid of him. SAD

If we had canned him in the 18-19 timeframe we could have had a chance at a quick turnaround, but now we're gonna be in rebuild mode for a while......

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SBU Football / Re: New coach thread
« on: December 09, 2023, 04:16:21 pm »
If we can actually get Hemphill I consider that a big W. Hindsight says he should have gotten the job back in 2016 before we let him walk out the door. I'd like the Hemphill hire 1000%

I can't comment on the Rutgers guy since I don't really follow them, but IIRC Rutgers had a decent season playing in the Big Ten and are no longer the free win doormat they've been historically. That's definitely worth a look as well if he's willing to consider SBU.

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SBU Football / Re: New coach thread
« on: December 03, 2023, 11:56:47 pm »
Forget the coaching search for a minute, and let’s get this kid to try out for QB:

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/mohamed-adam-stony-brook-university-dr-pepper-football-pac-12-championship-aooomeqe

Didn't know we had a kid win that!! I always forget someone actually wins those tuition giveaways. Good for him!! Definitely get him a tryout. 

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Conference and Athletics / Re: Conference Realignment Rumors
« on: December 03, 2023, 03:15:04 pm »
Liberty finishes 13-0 in CUSA and goes to the Fiesta Bowl against Oregon on Jan 1....

Meanwhile JMU finishes 11-1 and will be due for a bowl here shortly...

It's absolutely pathetic how programs who we used to compete with and frequently beat 10 years ago have now lapped us multiple times over. This is infuriating.

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Conference and Athletics / Re: Conference Realignment Rumors
« on: December 01, 2023, 02:38:41 am »
Delaware to CUSA for the 2025-26 season?

Pete Thamel on twitter said an announcement could be made over the next few days.


IMO this really sucks for the CAA and Stony Brook. The only all-sports flagship state university other than Stony Brook is leaving the CAA. We are slowly getting stuck with mid-tier state/private universities. The only public school with a solid academic reputation left would be W&M which happens to have a terrible athletic program

It's a matter of timing. If we were ANY good and Heilbron knew what he was doing Football would be firing on all cylinders and we'd either be moving up with Delaware, or had gone FBS with JMU when they moved.

We've allowed ourselves to get completely lapped. Liberty, Coastal Carolina, JMU, and now Delaware are all FBS and have left us behind....

This is goddamn EMBARASSING

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SBU Football / Re: New coach thread
« on: November 16, 2023, 09:46:35 pm »
Just heard the news that he ain't coming back today. THANK THE LORDY!!!

Would Hemphill come back to take the job now?? I think that ship has probably sailed  but regardless I think we should take the opportunity to completely reinvent this program and go in a different direction. No more of this 1950s Green Bay offense type **** where it's just ground and pound every play. Get someone who can recruit and who will implement a pass happy offense with an athletic quarterback.  We've definitely got the coin to get someone good. I finally have a reason to be EXCITED about SBU football in 2024 for the first time in 5+ years

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I'm fine taking the L if it 100% guaranteed Priore getting boot.....

But we know that ain't happening regardless so..... beat LOLbany I guess?

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SBU Football / Re: Monmouth game.
« on: November 04, 2023, 04:59:39 pm »
Imma just state the obvious.... we're the worst team in all of division 1 and there's zero doubt in my mind there are D2 and even D3 teams who would beat us right now. We're not **** garbage. Everyone needs to go. Priore, SH everyone.

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“I wouldn’t say the seat is hot, but it is really important that we win now. I think we have to signal to our supporters, to campus, and to recruits that [winning] is important … We’re going into next season with a different set of expectations.”

– Shawn Heilbron, to the Statesman, January 2023

We all know we're not going to eat $430,000 for each of the next two years, but to say this and do nothing after this year would call into question anything that he says ever again.

Heilbron is a joke. Him and Chuck both gotta go.

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BTW, if you haven't seen Connelly's big board, it's quite something. https://twitter.com/ESPN_BillC/status/1714280372178137247/photo/1

Going into this week, we were ranked behind 27 D-II teams and two D-III teams.

We've got to be genuinely the worst team in Division 1 (at any level). This is sad. How far this program has fallen in the last five seasons.

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LEL

This program is dookie

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SBU Football / Re: 2023 Football Season
« on: October 04, 2023, 09:23:35 pm »
The right move. 🙏

http://bit.ly/46fGpC0

I didnt think sb would win this game but it is the last one they had a chance to win this season with Morgan State.

I dunno man, in a normal year I'd agree it's a W, but they scheduled us as the homecoming game for a reason and our program is TRASH right now...

I wouldn't be surprised if we pushed it to avoid the embarrassment. SHame. Did they give a reason why it was cancelled? I didn't hear anything about in-climate weather coming or anything else strange coming....

EDIT: Just saw the article in the other thread. Apparently it's due to a shooting on Campus. My condolences to all that are affected.

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