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Will see where athletics goes whenever college sports returns- there will be a LOT of financial problems to deal with across the country.

You're absolutely correct Wolfie!  While I live in my sports bubble to help distract me from this horrible virus, in all likelihood, it's going to take an awful lot to dig out from this financially.  Although the state budget was passed today, it is based on expected federal money and somewhat robust future bounce-back of the state economy.  This is all a big TBD at this point.  No money, and there will be cuts (possibly drastic).

I can’t see Vermont ever moving up because outside of basketball they don’t really offer anything. Whereas for us, yeah our basketball has been worse than them but we outclass them in literally every other sport. Plus, the Long Island population.

Exactly this. SBU is an AAU research university in a huge state and a huge market. Hell, having the Coronavirus pop-up hospital on campus will further highlight SBU's importance to the region. Vermont has none of that. That's why I wouldn't rule out being in the Big Ten or ACC 50 years down the road. Will I still care about college sports by then? Maybe not, but it's possible for SBU to get there. 

The A-10 and FBS independence should be our next goal. I know UConn and UMass have really sucked as indies but is that because of them being independents or were they just poorly run?

The more FBS independent schools there are, the more viable this is. Perhaps another conference could form. Us, Uconn, Umass. Liberty would want to be in a conference, JMU and Delaware want FBS, ODU would appreciate having a couple other VA schools in the conference. Temple may find themselves on an island if the AAC gets raided further, Buffalo might want to join.... it's not that far fetched that a regional FBS league could form.   

Quote from: Wolfie_MD on April 03, 2020, 04:55:31 pm

Will see where athletics goes whenever college sports returns- there will be a LOT of financial problems to deal with across the country.

You're absolutely correct Wolfie!  While I live in my sports bubble to help distract me from this horrible virus, in all likelihood, it's going to take an awful lot to dig out from this financially.  Although the state budget was passed today, it is based on expected federal money and somewhat robust future bounce-back of the state economy.  This is all a big TBD at this point.  No money, and there will be cuts (possibly drastic).

I hate to be the barrier of bad news, as always it seems like, but we are sitting in a depression currently. When April unemployment numbers come out in a few weeks the numbers are going to be staggering.

Coumo budget is all based on forward projected numbers, with that said, Stony Brook isn't going anywhere. I am actually more concerned about their football program being solvent. Abandoning their football team is a real possibility in a year or two...

We better be rewarded for all the stuff that our school is doing to help fight COVID. Stadium expansion, more funding, whatever. If we do all of this during crisis time and still don’t get anything from it? Cuomo will be an all-time villain for me.

Maybe a public college Ivy League but striving for better athletics: Bingo, Army, Navy, SB, Albany, William & Mary?  Excellent academics and quality teams.

great idea, i love it.

again i think it comes down to $$$, which is asses in seats.  and we just dont bring that.  army/navy do, W&M perhaps, ualbAny sometimes. 

really if they fix student life that all changes.

I think   we are going to see a very limited fall sports season and hopefully start up with basketball .  Football and the other sports are at risk .

Literally a school we beat last year. I don’t get it. I see it as a downward movement, the AE’s more competitive than the WAC

It would make sense, if playing time was a main issue, that moving down would be your best (only) option.  He wasn't going to move to a Power 5 Conference school and get more playing time.  The only way he can prove he is a pro caliber player is by getting on the floor a lot more.

He's not getting a lot more time anywhere without addressing his foul issues. He could have easily gotten 28-30 minutes here but just couldn't get out of his own way. I wish him the best. He'll play somewhere professionally.