Author Topic: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation, FBS Football, etc  (Read 25753 times)

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Happy New Year everyone!

As always some great points and posts.

IMHO- and having played at a fairly well known D1 program that had packed houses each week- there is nothing wrong with this. Our school's priorities were no different than most of the others I see and did not have the level of "corruption" some of you have espoused that you seem to want to pain a broad brush with. And you know what? Having a coach be on the hot seat to me is a good thing! 

I wonder if Coach P was in his last of year of this contract would have done things a bit differently than he did this year?

Having the fan base be a bit more "involved" at my school did not mean before, during and after our fans did not attend. It is called "tradition" and if you don't have a tradition in wanting to bring your kids and grandkids to a game, then that is a problem here especially on just about any given home game weekend the LI RR is full of kids wanting to leave and go home. There are many great schools have that a loyal fan base and have amazing experiences each week and with a wholesome family venue like we have here.

if I was to speak to SH, I would ask to view a SB game like I did last year. When I was sick last year and could not make one of the games, it was embarrassing to look at the live streaming being done and just how unprofessional it was being streamed out.
If you want to increase the money in the Touchdown Club, why not take a playbook from every HS booster club. When Johnny comes to play at SB the parents are given an option to get involved at one of several levels and "sign up" Heck, I am sure SH could craft an e-mail to this effect. I too do not believe we could get to the 15,000 average threshold from our home games to get a FBS slot, with how our current make-up of putting "butts in seats" but man on man we can do better than this.

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but lets face it, aside from the first game of the season, and the homecoming game, I'd evaluate the overall attendance at the other home games as Underwhelming.  no students!! 

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all of these issues are outlined in the making SB better thread.  and, so are the suggested solutions!
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saw this on an SB construction webpage:

Bringing the total campus housing inventory to 10,300 beds; the largest in SUNY

again, LaValle seats 8200 and IFCU seats around 4000.  the bodies are there.  now we need to keep them there, do some math, and get them to the game!
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believe it or not, off season winter conditioning workouts for the football team will start next week as the boys return to school.  it will be interesting to see if we pick up some JC transfers to these early workout, guys that may be doing mid-year transfers to SB.

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The Asian student body doesn't care about sports! So, chop the bed count in half.

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believe it or not, off season winter conditioning workouts for the football team will start next week as the boys return to school.  it will be interesting to see if we pick up some JC transfers to these early workout, guys that may be doing mid-year transfers to SB.
I still cant believe we haven't heard anything about signing of new Athletes!!! Twitter is buzzing with FBS transferring to the FCS all day every day and here it is almost end of Jan, and SB has nothing to say!!! Maybe this is part of the problem??? HMMMM!!!

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National signing day is on February 4.  Can't comment on high school prospects until then.  If there are no FBS or JUCO transfers, then the coach has nothing to comment on.

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National signing day is on February 4.  Can't comment on high school prospects until then.  If there are no FBS or JUCO transfers, then the coach has nothing to comment on.

Why no chatter on Social media about future signing, not one!!!!

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As Aaron Rodgers so aptly put it... 5 letters, R-E-L-A-X

This is not high level FBS football, you're not going to be seeing tweets about all of our recruits. Chill out, signing day is two weeks away and you'll have all the news that you want about the 2015 recruiting class.

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As Aaron Rodgers so aptly put it... 5 letters, R-E-L-A-X

This is not high level FBS football, you're not going to be seeing tweets about all of our recruits. Chill out, signing day is two weeks away and you'll have all the news that you want about the 2015 recruiting class.
I get that however, in previous years some SB Athletes would post on social media about getting accepted. I just haven't seen any yet!!!

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There has been several verbal commitments & they have kids on campus this weekend.....they have a big 5th year offensive lineman also coming.

Make sure the footballs are not deflated...

Hope all had a great holiday....

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Can't wait enough for FB to start!!!!
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Can't wait enough for FB to start!!!!
I hear that!!  I'm starting to lose confidence in our BB team. Still have a lot of games to play though!

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I would not go that far... The kid from Georgia on the FB team is half Asian- so lets not completely skew this as kids not caring about sports.