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Re: Stony Brook to CAA?
DIR By: sbufan
Date: May 21, 2012, 9:09 am
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Are there any other conferences that could be considering Stony
Brook? It almost seems as if Fiore is sending a message/bluffing
that the CAA might be not be the only conference considering
Stony Brook. I know I always harp on FBS football and I don't
think Stony Brook is ideally ready, but his comments on Stony
Brook being the only top 50 public university not playing FBS
football is peculiar.
I really have no idea what the goal of that statement was. I
would believe it if Fiore just wanted journalists to stop asking
him about it. I could definitely also see it as a coded of
message to other university and conference officials.
One thing I've taken away from this weekend is that Stanley
seems to be onboard with increasing Stony Brook's athletic
profile which is a great thing.
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Re: Stony Brook to CAA?
DIR By: Seawolf97
Date: May 21, 2012, 10:28 am
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So if not the CAA ? We can eliminate the Ivy, PL and the
MAAC-are we going to take a shot at the MAC ? That would mean
stadium expansion like now to get to 15k plus. I susepct it
is the CAA which would be fine and fit into our long term
goal of FBS down the road. Of a stretch could be C-USA .
Interesting tmes in Wolfie Land -LOL
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Re: Stony Brook to CAA?
DIR By: ecasadoSBU
Date: May 21, 2012, 3:00 pm
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Of course Stanley is supportive of athletics. I don't think much
of what's going on would be possible without his support.
We all know what we want Stony Brook to be. You have the fans
and the administration with the same goals for Stony Brook and
we are getting there little by little.
I cannot see how we could compete in the FBS with an 8k stadium
and 5k attendance, impossible. The only way we can jump to the
FBS and "skip" the CAA is with an expansion of LaValle to 15-18k
in the next three years, enough to get us into the MAC...
#Post#: 2046--------------------------------------------------
Re: Stony Brook to CAA?
DIR By: sbufan
Date: May 21, 2012, 3:35 pm
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--- Quote from: ecasadoSBU link ---
>
> Of course Stanley is supportive of athletics. I don't think
much of what's going on would be possible without his support.
>
> We all know what we want Stony Brook to be. You have the fans
and the administration with the same goals for Stony Brook and
we are getting there little by little.
>
> I cannot see how we could compete in the FBS with an 8k
stadium and 5k attendance, impossible. The only way we can jump
to the FBS and "skip" the CAA is with an expansion of LaValle to
15-18k in the next three years, enough to get us into the MAC...
>
--- End Quote ---
They have been talking about a stadium expansion for years now.
According Dane96 progress is being made on that front. I
honestly think the message yesterday may have been "We want to
go FBS with the other state research universities in the AAU,
but we're happy in the AE and Big South until that opportunity
comes up. We aren't interested in the CAA."
If I'm not mistaken the MAC hasn't replaced Temple yet, so they
have an opening. I've been told that Stony Brook would have the
support Buffalo when/if they were ready for a move to the MAC.
Stony Brook is now a national class FCS program. Rumors are that
stadium expansion is gaining steam. I don't think it's a sure
thing, but it definitely seems possible.
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Re: Stony Brook to CAA?
DIR By: sbufan
Date: May 21, 2012, 7:52 pm
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HTML http://twitter.com/#!/JDFiore/status/204714271228174338
Sounds like he's fundraising for something.
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Re: Stony Brook to CAA?
DIR By: Seawolf97
Date: May 21, 2012, 8:19 pm
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All joking aside I think the CAA will be our next
destination. We will still need to expand the stadium tp 15k
-16k since I think most CAA facilities are about that size.
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Re: Stony Brook to CAA?
DIR By: Chairman of the Board
Date: May 22, 2012, 8:35 am
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cant read the fiore twitter feed- can someone post/paraphrase
it?
also, im hearing a lot about expansion of lavalle- anyone have
anything more concrete? any details?
here's a nice little tool that lists all stadiums (stadia? ::))
around the world:
HTML http://www.worldstadiums.com/north_america/countries/united_states.shtml
ive NEVER been this excited this early about SB Football as i am
for this upcoming season!
#Post#: 2052--------------------------------------------------
Re: Stony Brook to CAA?
DIR By: sbufan
Date: May 22, 2012, 10:12 am
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Nothing too special, but it sounds like the department was doing
some fundraising.
"Great full day of meeting friends with @sbathletics all day in
NYC today. Exciting days ahead with the help of @stonybrooku
alumni"
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Re: Stony Brook to CAA?
DIR By: joewillie
Date: May 22, 2012, 12:58 pm
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I agree the CAA would be a logical place for SBU but you
wouldn't need to expand LaValle to make the move...UNH holds
8000...Maine holds 10K...sure, Delaware holds 20000+ but that is
not the norm.
Moving to the CAA would also help Mens/Womans Lax and Basketball
#Post#: 2054--------------------------------------------------
Re: Stony Brook to CAA?
DIR By: Seawolf97
Date: May 22, 2012, 8:23 pm
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He might be planing to expand the stadium now rather than later
if we ever move to the FBS level. It would certainly be cheaper
now as those things always increase every year and if an FBS
conference came calling in 8-10 years we would be ahead of
curve. This will be an interesting summer for sure.
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