Author Topic: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation, FBS Football, etc  (Read 25757 times)

mainejeff

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There's plenty of stuff about your recruits on social media......why aren't we posting this on the recruiting thread???  Head over there and I'll give you the name of a commit that you guys got today......you'll have to find the rest for yourselves. ;)

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Not sure if anyone shared this yet.. but big dream and tough goal for the new director Shawn Heilbron. Biggest hurdle of them all.. more than money.. is attendance.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/college/stony-brook/stony-brook-athletic-director-shawn-heilbron-s-goal-raising-100-million-1.10789324

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it really is.

lets go through some admittedly quick math again.  10k seats (near future).  20k students or so, I think 12k or so on campus.  fans include some family and friends.  community fills the rest.  games are on wkds.  campus is empty on wkds. 

far term is 20k capacity.

so the quick and dirty analysis is, if you don't even have the benefit of 12k being on campus for gameday, where will all these fans (paying and not paying) come from?

solution is a larger, in-the-fabric-of-the-university issue.  need to instill school spirit and have kids stick around on wkds. 

otherwise, youre playing Sisyphus trying to get your middle aged three village professional to spend their sat afternoon at lavalle and fighting Nichols traffic on the way to dinner.
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Meanwhile... I don't know if this has been mentioned but...


Coastal Carolina joining Sun Belt in 2018 (FBS)

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/13558378/coastal-carolina-joining-sun-belt-conference
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Some interesting facts.. The MACC conference would make perfect sense if we would ever make a change. SB would save a ton of $$ with travel cost.

http://www.nycbuckets.com/2015/12/maac-the-most-compact-conference-in-the-country/

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It is  a fairly weak conference like the AE but has some strong teams such as Iona , Sienna etc.  Mostly all small Catholic schools also with no room for 25k State University.

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Just one more reason why SB needs to make moving up to the FBS a priority..Wiederkehr, from SWR has has chosen Northwestern university as his college to play football. At one time he wanted to stay close to home. If, and only if SB was an FBS football school.... Jack Cohan, Sayville 4* recruit chose Wisconsin, again, if!!!!!!

https://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2016/06/74272/football-swr-lineman-ethan-wiederkehr-bound-for-northwestern/
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Those kids rarely if ever give SBU even a thought.   The top athletes on the Island pick the top schools for their sport look at lacrosse and the kids on Maryland, Duke, North Carolina etc.  all from Long Island . Long Islands top basketball player from Long Lutheran  signed with Indiana .  We are still an after thought in spite of all the hype .

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Those kids rarely if ever give SBU even a thought.   The top athletes on the Island pick the top schools for their sport look at lacrosse and the kids on Maryland, Duke, North Carolina etc.  all from Long Island . Long Islands top basketball player from Long Lutheran  signed with Indiana .  We are still an after thought in spite of all the hype .

I agree, but I also see a change happening. Look at the girls lacrosse. Joe Spallina team is made of 95% local talent, and very good talent that is continually in the AP rankings.The same thing for the boys lax. Our Basketball program, boys and girls is slowly getting national attention, and is improving. SB Baseball went to the college world series a few short years ago. That was no fluke.. I think SB can do the same thing for Football. But not if they stay in the FCS, move up to FBS and we will no doubt keep some very good local talent who otherwise would go to schools like Syracuse, BC, UCONN, UMASS,etc... 

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I like our new pick up from Boston College . A wide receiver for Holmes to throw to .

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I like our new pick up from Boston College . A wide receiver for Holmes to throw to .

Looks to me like the Seawolves are absolutely loaded at WR (Keith, Bolden, Alston, Washington, Wingate and now Jackson!).  Now, if Holmes is anywhere near as good as his press, and the OL can hold its own, WOW!!  ...And if that doesn't work, there's always Bedell, Gowins, White and Liotine to rack up the mileage!!  Are you getting jacked up?  I sure am!!

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and end the drought  We seem to have  a lot of offensive weapons this year, Hopefully everyone stays healthy and we can have a winning season and end the drought .[

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Just read out AD's weekly blog. We are moving to the Mid Atlantic Pod of the CAA in 2018. Thats Delaware, Villanova and Towson in our group every year. Looks better for us  these teams are good and very competitive.

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Just read out AD's weekly blog. We are moving to the Mid Atlantic Pod of the CAA in 2018. Thats Delaware, Villanova and Towson in our group every year. Looks better for us  these teams are good and very competitive.

I think it is a great idea. Delaware is going to be tough this season and beyond because of new coach, Danny Rocco history of success.. Villanova new HC, former OLC Mark Ferrante will continue V winning ways. Towson always plays us tough.

SB schedule in 2018 will not be any easier so i am expecting us to continue to struggle surpassing the .500 plateau..with our existing HC behind the helm..