Seawolves Fans

  The last two minutes  of the game against JMU was painful to watch. We are so slow getting a play called  and the execution wasn't all that good . I hope to see improvement next year but for now we look lifeless out there.  Several  experts on the AGS  board feel we are trying too hard not to lose and not trying to win. I have to agree with them . Granted   JMU has a super star at QB  but they executed better even when  they went to their hurry up offense. I watched a ton of time click off the clock as we struggled to  get a play started. So wait until next year.

certainly there have been some bad play calls- not just this particular drive- but also over the course of the season- and then you add in the kinder experiment (or rather, how long it went).

i just hope the staff can turn it around, because we are just a few hairs away from a really good resume on what is adding up to be a down year.

Hammer- at the risk of oversimplifying- i think we are all thinking exactly that.

its so simple it reminds me of 7th grade football.  double tight, triple back, I formation, send everyone through a hole to block, block, and carry.  i really do love it.  throwback football.

but late in the game when we are down 10 or 14 or whatever, we dont have another maysonet to break 80 yards off tackle.

so we need a plan B.

its tough today.  kids rather play with facebook or smartphones or whatever.  its easier to sit on the couch.

in the idea thread, some solutions that wont get us all the way there but will help- give away free t-shirts, get schedule magnets in every dorm, give away free food at games, give away free tuition, create a loyalty program where game attendees are entered for free tuition, etc.  In the old days, RAs would knock on doors and pump kids up and tell them to walk over to Seawolves Field.  more signage with schedules, more rivalry games, get the game piped into the Bench, closed circuit TV in each room, etc.  This isnt the silver bullet, but it helps.

Chairman: just two weeks ago, we had a similar end-of-game situation with UNH, and our O could not move the ball.  I did not see us transition into no-huddle offense, either last week or against UNH. and now that I think about it, go back to the WM game, our red zone O really stunk in the overtime period.  becoming good at hurry-up O and Red Zone O takes practice practice practice.  you dont need a super mobile QB to make it work, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning do just fine in thes situations, and they cant run worth a lick.  but the kids need to be trained by the coaching staff on how to make these Offenses work.  in previous seasons, we relied on Maysonet to break one loose, or for Essington to hit Norrell with a bomb down the middle of the field.  but that was Big South football, we need to get more sophisticated in the CAA to win against the best teams in the conf.

you are right, we debated these points last spring, and you had an awesome list of ideas.  I really like the one about getting a better Student Commons area.  I was at Alabama this summer, and they have an awesome gathering place for the students, a circular bowl area, surrounded by eating areas and the student store.  nice place to hang out.

Also, the problem with a school like Stony Brook is that there is not a unified team between the administration/campus life/ and residential life to encourage attendance at athletics events. These organizations feel like they all work separately and at times it feels like they work against each other or compete for the attention of students. Most of the time while I was at the University residential life (RAs, RHDs, and etc) didn't even acknowledge that there was a football game going on at the stadium. They had their own list of events scheduled and at times they even had events with time conflicts with football. That's why I hated the whole setup. In a way they would promote "Residential College" pride but not "Stony Brook pride" which is absolutely ridiculous. Why do I give a fu** if I live in Langmuir College... I'm a Stony Brook student and a proud wolf so they should be promoting university-wide events and not their on agenda

They SHOULD BE NOTHING schedule when there is a football game on campus. the Football game and basketball games should be where all students mingle no matter whether they live in South Campus or North campus. Its sad that the administration as whole has not noticed this yet. This is why the campus is so disjointed. Students don't feel like they are part of a greater whole. They don't feel like TRUE seawolves. They just feel like students that belong to their specific Quad and that's it

in my visits to the University of Connecticut I was amazed how well they do it. They do an amazing job promoting UCONN pride. Students wear their pride everywhere they go... and not only that: If they have to Chant "UCONN.... HUSKY" at any location they would get a crowd to respond to them. Try the same at Stony Brook with the "What's a Seawolf?" and people will probably laugh at you.

and UCONN is only one example. I'm sure there is schools that do it waaaay better than them out there. The Clemsons, South Carolina, Florida, Syracuses of the world...

Honest effort has to be put in by the administrator. Real effort. This should also go hand in hand with the constructions of new facilities to enhance student life as mentioned in the Making SB Better thread