Year 2030… Hammertime is extremely frustrated with Stony Brook athletics and solemnly declares for the 478th time “I am done with SBU athletics.”
Keep cheering for your Seawolves, pal. Maybe in 2030, your boy Chucky cheese will make the first round of the FCS playoffs against Wofford, or Sacred Heart. And Maybe Geno Ford goes 500 in the CAA!!!
I will be keep cheering for my Seawolves even if they are lost cause.
I said it in a jest… but despite all your negativity towards this program, I think deep down you probably have a soft spot for the Seawolves. So if you are still around by 2030, I hope, instead of disparaging the program, you get to root for a team that is CAA champions multiple times in both bball and fb.
And yes I am very much in the camp of Let’s Fire both Priore and Ford asap. I just don’t think they are anything special. Priore is an NEC level coach and I just can’t stand his playing style. We play the most boring predictable archaic passive football in CAA. Priore will likely go 1-7/2-6 in CAA again this year. Geno is a sub .500 mid-major coach like you said and I got super excited by the fake news of his firing.
But as a fan, when the teams are back on the turf/court, I will be keep cheering for them to win each and every single game. Now that it seems like we are stuck with Geno for another year, I will be rooting for the boys to win the CAA next season and make it to the tourney. If that means more years of Geno be it. On the other hand, I suspect, you would rather see the Team go winless next season under Geno.
See, here's the problem with this athletic program. They really don't care if you cheer them on to win or lose. They really don't care if they win or lose. The athletic administration has a state budget that must be within its means, with or without season ticket holders, or just fans buying tickets or not. And that is my gripe with SBU.
As I said in the past. I am only here for their sports program, nothing else. I did not attend SBU but my senior son is graduating this May, so. There might be a little connection there, considering my tuition money goes to SBU, but that's okay. I have no qualms with their academic program because I know SBU is a highly respected program for that. In medicine and STEM studies that is.
This athletic program is very okay with losing every game in ALL sports. it doesn't matter. Coaches don't get fired. AD can just spew his weekly talking points and excite the Presidents and State with nonsense talk. Nothing matters in sports here, nothing... Why are some people still cheering on SBU football and basketball? Most likely because they are family and friends of players. Or like me who lives around the corner from the university, just something to do. But how much more are fans supposed to sit back spend money on tickets, donate money, and watch their local college sports program fail with no plan to change, and get better? Not me or dozens of other season ticket holders I know and have spoken to over the years, hence. The pathetic attendance at all of the sporting events lately.
If and when SBU changes its tune, and cleans house. Then I will come back, but I can't keep supporting a program that sticks its middle fingers up at donors and fans. And yes, Priore did give me the middle finger on a televised game years ago. He is a real POS. But Hey.. This is what SBU likes. Go WOKE, go broke and this athletic dept needs to go broke, but they never will because of taxpayers' money..... Oh, and yes. I hope Chucky Cheese loses every game this coming football season. The same with Geno Ford.