Author Topic: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation, FBS Football, etc  (Read 25735 times)

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Re: 2012-2020: Future of Stony Brook Football
« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2012, 08:15:12 pm »
we wont sell out every game partly because people don't know the visitor team. As long as we face bad competition we wont sell out either. So while some say we need to get more support from the fans before we move up, we also need to move up and play more relevant competitors (whether moving up means CAA or MAC...). people already know who Liberty is and they enjoy coming out for the rivalry game. But Gardner-Webb? VMI? Charleston Southern? Who cares about them... the local crowd may not care much about CF, but they surely know who's good and who isn't. We will face three bad Big South teams at home, I don't doubt that we probably will get the highest attendance for CCSU or Colgate and of course Homecoming. Something needs to be done to attract those alumnis to come out for games other than homecoming.

If we have continuous success in the near future, that would be enough to warrant talks of expansion. Also at some point you need to take the risk and say "if you build it, more people will come" (we did that with LaValle Stadium back in 2000).  I'm sure that if LaValle gets expanded and more relevant competitors come out to Stony Brook, more fans would come in to watch the games...
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