from a Newsday story over the weekend about Coach P and Coach Ford: interesting text underlined. could bode well for recruiting this year.
Both schools suffered widespread injuries, including several to key players. That contributed to Albany's 1-11 record (0-8 CAA), the worst by far of Ford's career, and to Stony Brook's losing ledger (5-6, 3-5), but Ford predicted good things ahead.
"I think both schools will do well, and that's a great conference," he said. "I was shocked at how good they were on a weekly basis . . . For us, it will be a process. Even for Chuck, while he was at 63 scholarships, I don't know if he was able to recruit all CAA-type kids. Now that he's in the CAA, I think he'll get a little better kid."
In Priore's view, SBU's injuries were more a matter of chance than change. The important thing to him was that the Seawolves fought through it to win their final two games.
"We handled adversity," Priore said. "I think the lesson this team learned is that if you prepare correctly, good things happen. We learned to finish the last two games."