Not to be the bearer of bad news - but a few answers on Hockey, all of which come from years in touch with the highest level at SBU, both athletically and otherwise.
1. SBU will NEVER sponsor hockey as an NCAA sport. You can use any form of reasoning you'd like - Title IX, space, facilities, recruiting - it's all irrelevant. It's pure infrastructure, funds distribution, and long term sports of emphasis. Fact is, with extremely rare exception, you CANNOT have a decent men's hockey program without sacrificing funding and preference to MBB or Football. That's it. I can literally count on one hand the programs who really pull it off, and all have 80+ million athletic budgets and are placed in hockey crazed regions of the US. Examples of places that do it well include Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin. All those have humongous media contracts - we don't. Places that try all three and fail include Boston College (terrible Football, basketball), New Hampshire (America East and STILL suffers from very, very tight funding problems), and Minnesota (marginal basketball and football by BCS standards). Like any company, athletic programs need to have a mission. That mission involves a primary and two secondaries. We're spread thin enough with two primaries (Football and MBB) and one secondary (M Lax). There simply isn't the infrastructure at a midatlantic mid-major to support D1 hockey without decimating the focus for football and MBB. This is what the administration believes, and what they have believed for quite a while. Apparently more places agree, such as the recent rash of sport cuts (Robert Morris with M Wrestling, Temple with their exceptionally famous W Crew program, multiple schools with baseball).
2. If you'd like an example of a single campus organization single-handedly decimating funding to other groups, Men's Ice Hockey takes over 100K in USG funding, derived from student fees which were supposed to be dedicated to groups that encourage wide student participation. Instead, a group of 16 students give or take has a budget that exceeds that of any other campus organization. Perfect case study of what it would do to an athletics and facilities budget. Hockey is a budget black hole - plain and simple.
3. Fiore is NOT the reason there's no hockey arena at SBU. Taken from an exceptionally reliable source - again at the TOP of SBU's admin - Charles Wang approached Kenny and offered to build her an on-campus hockey arena around when he was looking for places to tax dump. In the name of endorsing football and MBB aspirations, Kenny rejected. By far the correct and sound business move.
4. SBU's athletic budget is so bad that it can't even support sports it DOES sponsor - by name M&W swimming. How bout they just get those taken care of and get their Title IX back in order?
5. After multiple direct conversations with the top of SBU's administration, the only target sports SBU is considering in any potential athletic expansion are those sponsored by target conferences. This is critical, as the more sports sponsored by a candidate program - the more attractive they are to potential conferences. An example is NJIT's bid to join the America East - did anyone else notice that they just added MLax? BU did the same in their bid to join the Patriot League. Beyond that logic, Supporting a non-conference program is very difficult. It requires a different set of travel arrangements, scheduling arrangements, conference fees and contracts - Football alone is an incredible demand, but non-FBS conferences endorse it as an integrated entity (CAA Football, MVC Football, OVC Football aren't actually the same company as the CAA, MVC, OVC, although they have the same commissioner. NEC, Big South, and Big Sky I believe are integrated, however). Very very few D1 conferences support hockey - Only Big 10 comes to mind. Instead, SBU is interested in sports supported by the AAC, A-10, and CAA - proper all-sports targets. Those include W Crew, W Fencing, and Field Hockey. The last is most likely, as the AEC supports it too.
Before you jump all over me - I"m a humongous hockey fan, and watch my Penguins nearly every game. However, having been involved with SBU's admin and with prior understanding of the true budgetary mandate (something no member of SBU Hockey appears to have, or wants to have by the way these guys come off) and demand that D1 Hockey will have at SBU - I will again say it will NEVER happen at this school. It seems to just be easier to wage an artificially created media war instead of understanding that it's nothing against SBU Hockey that there's no program, nor is it a lack of facilities, foresight, or interest - it's simply not in the business plan of SBU Athletics. Period.