Seawolves Fans

 They do move the later gms in the fall to afternoon starts. Youth football leagues are usually finished by then so you get those people to attend. As far as cold weather late in the yr I went to the Sachem v Farmingdale gm in late Nov last yr at Lavalle and that drew like 4,500. If the product is good people will show up.

Good argument for not going FBS from the JMU perspective. I think it applies to SBU as well

http://augustafreepress.com/jmu-nation-wants-fbs-whether-makes-sense/

I wholeheartedly agree.  I would much rather see the Seawolves succeed at making their presence in the CAA felt as a perennial conference championship contender and FCS champion threat.  The Albany rivalry  is a strong one, and I'd like to see another like it develop over the next few year (perhaps Delaware?).  If that happens the fan base will continue to grow and SBU's notariety and stadium capacity along with it!!

yeah i noticed that on the webcast.  ive been going on and on about this in the other threads. http://sbufan.createaforum.com/around-stony-brook/making-sb-better-idea-thread/

from a different angle- they've come a LONG way.  i cant believe what attendance used to look like only 15 years ago.  and bball?  wow, what a difference.  yet, other than the band, not many students in the cold weather football games. 

in my mind, the weather was not an issue this weekend.  it was a perfect fall day for football, at game time the sun was out, and sitting in the stands was fantastic.  not sure what better weather you could ask for in a Fall game.  its not the Southwest afterall, its Long Island.  I'm from the West Coast and loved the Fall weather.  I saw that Wolfie was around campus mid week trying to get the kids excited about the game, guess that did not work.  How about holding a rally on Friday to get kids and the campus excited about the upcoming game?  maybe that's done already....  I thought the local community did their part to show up to the game, the missing ingredient was the student fan base, very weak.

I hear you, winning is the easy way to fix things.  My hats off to Coastal Carolina, but if we'd stayed in the Big South, maybe we'd be undefeated this year too.  but we moved up, and we are playing big boy FCS football now.  and I guess we are struggling with that transition. 

Student turnout was pathetic. The administration needs to do something to improve that- I don't know if the RAs need to be aggressive with it but there were like 70 students total in the student section. Yes I know there are a lot of commuters but there have to be more kids still on campus. To be fair, even big schools have trouble filling student sections but those are schools that charge students for tickets. What excuse do Stony Brook students have? Pretty pathetic.

On the other hand, the community involvement with the team is awesome. Its backwards but the community attendance is amazing.

I hear you, winning is the easy way to fix things.  My hats off to Coastal Carolina, but if we'd stayed in the Big South, maybe we'd be undefeated this year too.  but we moved up, and we are playing big boy FCS football now.  and I guess we are struggling with that transition. 

I saw the latest FCS Coaches' poll in the newspaper this morning.  UNH is #2 and Bryant is in at #21, with only a single loss!!  Oh, what could have (SHOULD have) been.

how would you like to be a Sam Houston State fan, they are not even ranked, got two votes in the FCS coaches poll.  what a drop from past years for that program.  and they brought in a bunch of FBS transfers this summer to fill out their roster, thought they'd be a juggernaut with that loaded line up, but it did not work.

We need to try and turn SB into a "football" school.  change the paradigm with the students so they want to attend the games.  not sure how that is done.  winning is one way, but there have to be other ways to do it to.  I agree with others on this blog that the local community is stepping up and attending the games.  also, player families drive hundreds of miles to attend the games, even if their sons are back up players. 

Was in the area this past weekend with friends, and was commenting to them that some of the local sports bars, not just The Bench, should be made into SB Football hangouts.  A place like Miller Ale House would be a perfect sponsor of the team.  there must be many others out there.  and I know there are SBU supporters out there that are willing to extend themselves to promote the school and the football program.  these "volunteers" should be embraced by the school and leveraged in a way to "spread the word" about SBU football.  grass roots style.