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I have my doubts any changes will be made.

As an alum who has covered the program since Division III, to see them not make the playoffs twice in row after never failing to do so from 2002-2023, I'm not happy with what I see from the macro point of view.

Zooming in a little, I do like Jamo's rebound year, I like the improvement on faceoffs, I tolerate the youth and lack of experience on offense. Barring any negative transfer portal developments, there is a lot of upside here. Which is why I think the staff gets another year to turn it around.

Once again, though, I still can't get past two overtime losses and a one-goal regulation loss in which they held a late fourth quarter lead in all three games. That wonderful year Jamo had has gone to waste, just like Dylan Pallonetti's last two seasons.

Dump on Jim Nagle all you want, at least he got his teams into the playoffs. Not his fault he had to combat an Albany juggernaut most of his time at SB. And those Albany teams with the Thompsons and Connor Fields were better than anything they have had to face in the CAA so far.

Maybe you write off last year due to injuries, but the excuses dwindle a bit with this team.

This season is a disaster. Most underachieving team ever to wear the Stony Brook uniform.

A mutual friend of ours hinted that this finish might have a negative impact on Pallonetti's draftability. He has to take some blame for this even if his offensive production was solid all year.

But the biggest target for blame has to rest with the coaching staff. You had two of the top scorers in the country and you don't even make your conference playoffs?

Was this team properly prepared for games, were they being correctly utilized? There are a lot of questions going into next year.

And the worst of it is, why would any top players come here after the experience Pallonetti had?

I called the game, of course, and agree on all points, particularly the new faces and lack of mistakes.

I often say you need to make hay while the sun shines, in this case, win the games you're supposed to win, taking some pressure off in games that might be harder to win, like Delaware.

I believe, however, that the Seawolves need to win out to lock down a playoff spot beyond any reasonable doubt. Splitting against Towson and Delaware is not bad, but you've already lost to Towson. It makes Delaware a must-win. Good thing they need to play each other and somebody has to lose.

Play like this, though and your chances get dramatically better.

I could see them take on Hofstra in the same situation they were last year. Win and you're in, lose and you're out.

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Time to chime in.

First, good work Mike Anderson of Statesman for clarifying Chuck's status.

All of us on air Sunday night believed they would hold off on replacing Chuck because of the buyout. Unless a donor ponied up for it.

Sam Kornhauser and John Espey were both reassigned in similar fashion and stuck around in non-coaching positions. Consider how long ago those moves were made. Although neither of them were pulling in anywhere near Chuck's salary. When you hire the new coach, you're basically paying for two. And if you're thinking you can get someone for less than you're paying Chuck, fuhgeddaboutit. How do you pay your new head coach less than your still-employed ex-coach?

But it had to happen. This was just the path of least resistance. I said Sunday night that if the program continued to founder, it would render itself ripe for the axe a la Hofstra. Football takes four times as many scholarships as a basketball program. It has to be self-supporting at the very least and that happens only if the team is good.

I also considered who will be doing the hiring. I believe there is a search committee involved and I would be very interested in finding out who will be on it.

President Maurie McInnis has been dead silent when in comes to athletics. Stark contrast to Shirley Strum Kenny whose support made the upgrade to Division I possible. And Samuel Stanley rode the baseball team bandwagon to Omaha.

Meanwhile, lots of reasons to be optimistic about basketball, particularly the women. Glad that disaster of a football season is behind us.

Wokeness?

Quite the opposite. I think sometimes they're trying to put the fans to sleep.

It hasn't officially been announced yet but it appears Shawn has been extended retroactive to the end of his last contract.

That means he would be entering the second year of a three-year deal. There's obviously more to the story and we're trying to get at it, but he'd have two years to get something going.

I get the feeling that a lot of people have been cut some slack due to COVID and are now being given a chance to see what they can do in a post-COVID world.

You can argue that some of those people underperformed before COVID, what makes anyone think they'll do any better after?

You can also argue that it's unfair to judge performance during COVID unless your job was to deal with it directly.

And then more questions come up...

- Who do you replace him with?

- Who among those qualified wants the job?

- How much do you trust a Stony Brook selection committee (and there would be one) to make the right choice?

- How long would it take for the process to complete its course?