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Re: Looking ahead to 2025-26
By: sbu1991 Date: March 12, 2025, 3:18 pm
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[quote author=EastCoastMD link=topic=1166.msg45420#msg45420
date=1741808042]
I don't see how Stony Brook can compete in this new landscape.
Geno's excuse every year is that the team doesn't have enough
time to "gel." There's a very high possibility we will never
have a talented 4-5 year player again in our uniform.
And Geno's isn't the type of coach that can coach up a bunch of
1 year "free agents."
This might be the beginning of the end for us and this program.
I hope I'm not being too pessimistic but the future of this
program doesn't look good at this point in time.
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Everyone's in the same boat. IMHO, a better coach could've
gotten more out of this team.
Luster was always going to leave for a better opportunity and no
big loss with Frey. He was a rally killer with his three's.
I think Gorman is going to show a lot of improvement going into
next year. Not a bad foundation with OC (we hope), Gorman, and
Woodard. I guess TO and Nahar off the bench. Butler seems like a
good recruit, and the kind of player that could thrive in the
CAA. Nyarko? Fields?
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Re: Looking ahead to 2025-26
By: Checkmate Date: March 12, 2025, 4:09 pm
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I'd point to the fact that it's hitting everybody in our league,
but nobody's a fan of their best players getting plucked.
The all-CAA third team is already wiped out. Fulton, Boyd and
Farrakhan are done, and Luster and MaGee are out. Also out:
Colby Duggan, a first-teamer for Campbell. The tournament ended
yesterday.
It's sad. I get it from the players' perspective, but it's sad.
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Re: Looking ahead to 2025-26
By: ry1nik Date: March 12, 2025, 4:44 pm
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The landscape of D1 college basketball is shaping into
professional players and teams in the top 5 or 6 conferences vs.
amateurs in all the rest. SBU will never join the professionals
ranks…simply won't happen. I’m also affiliated with Villanova U
and even on their fan board someone suggested that with the
growing gap between the haves and have-nots, Villanova might as
well get back to what college athletics used to be and move back
down to D2. And that’s Villanova!
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Re: Looking ahead to 2025-26
By: sbu1991 Date: March 12, 2025, 11:43 pm
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I don’t think anyone that contributes to this page has
unrealistic expectations. There may be 150 to 200 teams that
have the same problems that Stony Brook has, including virtually
every team in their conference. Field a team that competes with
those teams. Geno has failed to deliver two of the last three
years in that regard. And if I’m remembering correctly, the team
mostly under achieved with him in the America East conference.
And when given a dream team of fifth year starters and two
dominant centers, he still managed to finish in the middle of
the field during conference play.
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Re: Looking ahead to 2025-26
By: guest441 Date: March 13, 2025, 9:55 am
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If you are just now saying the new landscape is a problem you're
like Heilbronn and a couple years too late. It's not the
beginning of the end that was a lot of years ago after they won
the AE in 2016. D3 is where they belong. and that would be a
good thing.
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Re: Looking ahead to 2025-26
By: Chairman of the Board Date: March 13, 2025, 10:42 am
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[quote author=sbu1991 link=topic=1166.msg45425#msg45425
date=1741841010]
I don’t think anyone that contributes to this page has
unrealistic expectations. There may be 150 to 200 teams that
have the same problems that Stony Brook has, including virtually
every team in their conference. Field a team that competes with
those teams. Geno has failed to deliver two of the last three
years in that regard. And if I’m remembering correctly, the team
mostly under achieved with him in the America East conference.
And when given a dream team of fifth year starters and two
dominant centers, he still managed to finish in the middle of
the field during conference play.
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hard to argue against this. any of it.
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Re: Looking ahead to 2025-26
By: Accelerator Date: March 13, 2025, 10:51 am
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I think we all thought Boals would be the guy that took us to
the next level, especially coming from Ohio State. We'd never
gotten a coach with that kind of pedigree before. 2016 was
supposed to be the beginning of greatness, and not the peak, but
then look what happened over the next decade. Supremely
disappointing stuff. Look at what a school like McNeese is doing
now with Will Wade (57-10)! Pitino immediately turned around St.
John's. Coaching matters.
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Re: Looking ahead to 2025-26
By: sbupatriots Date: March 13, 2025, 11:13 am
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Unfortunately as much as we've had issues with Geno, the new
landscape means the success of the team falls more and more on
the the commitment of the alumni and fans (us). We need to step
up and contribute to NIL. That's the only way up.
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Re: Looking ahead to 2025-26
By: Chairman of the Board Date: March 13, 2025, 12:51 pm
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also true.
but if the U doesnt emphasize sports- particularly when you are
a student on campus- then alumni support is not gonna happen on
any meaningful scale.
put differently- if youre not on campus on a weekend, when most
events occur, you aint there to see a game. and the U has done
nearly nothing to address this. mccormick got it. but he's out
soon. so it's gonna get worse.
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Re: Looking ahead to 2025-26
By: EastCoastMD Date: March 13, 2025, 2:51 pm
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Looks like athletics is not a point of emphasis at all with the
new president either- more of the same (academics only, less
than a high school attendance of students for any on campus
game)
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