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Re: Stony Brook vs DII St.Anselm, October 15th
DIR By: ecasadoSBU
Date: October 16, 2011, 12:21 am
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the turnout was sad tonight. almost depressing. A 24k student
body cant fill a 3k student section. I almost felt like leaving.
One of the 60 kids in the student section tonight. football is
not as fun when no one is around you. Oh well, gotta continue
being a loyal fan...
#Post#: 209--------------------------------------------------
Re: Stony Brook vs DII St.Anselm, October 15th
DIR By: Redwyn
Date: October 16, 2011, 10:06 am
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If you don't like it - petition the school to STOP SCHEDULING D2
SCHOOLS
Easy equivalence: If people have heard of the opponent - they
show. If they haven't, they won't. I don't blame any student who
didn't show up last night. Midterms are coming up, and the
matchup was worthless.
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Re: Stony Brook vs DII St.Anselm, October 15th
DIR By: sbufan
Date: October 16, 2011, 10:31 am
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Yeah I'm almost impressed with an attendance of 3k+. I really
didn't have much interest being there and I'm just about as big
of a fan as you can find.
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Re: Stony Brook vs DII St.Anselm, October 15th
DIR By: Seawolf97
Date: October 16, 2011, 7:09 pm
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Redwyn hit the nail on the head. No name programs especially a
weak D2 have no business on our schedule. How about a CAA
team in a home and away, an IVY or another PL team. I would
rather see us lose a close one to a Maine or Towson than blow
out the team we saw last night. I dont understand basketball
either playing Indiana then taking on D3 Mt. Ida the same
weekend.
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Re: Stony Brook vs DII St.Anselm, October 15th
DIR By: risch
Date: October 16, 2011, 7:26 pm
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We had Hofstra and Iona on our schedule for the last few years.
Both of those programs folded. The last two years, we've only
had 5 home games, because there were 2 holes in our schedule,
only 1 of which we could fill with a D2. Yesterday's game was
SUPPOSED to be homecoming against Hofstra, but without that
being an option, they changed it to the lafayette game.
Other than that, we've had two money games against FBS schools,
one conference game (and we can't control that presbyterian
sucks), and the brown game, which is always a very exciting
game. Considering the circumstances, I have absolutely no
objections with our scheduling.
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Re: Stony Brook vs DII St.Anselm, October 15th
DIR By: Redwyn
Date: October 16, 2011, 8:46 pm
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--- Quote from: risch link ---
>
> We had Hofstra and Iona on our schedule for the last few
years. Both of those programs folded. The last two years,
we've only had 5 home games, because there were 2 holes in our
schedule, only 1 of which we could fill with a D2. Yesterday's
game was SUPPOSED to be homecoming against Hofstra, but without
that being an option, they changed it to the lafayette game.
>
> Other than that, we've had two money games against FBS
schools, one conference game (and we can't control that
presbyterian sucks), and the brown game, which is always a very
exciting game. Considering the circumstances, I have absolutely
no objections with our scheduling.
>
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While I understand SBU's scheduling plight - I don't buy for a
second that your ONLY options were D2 schools. Dozens of
programs were affected by Northeastern, Hofstra, and Iona's
foldings. You're telling me not ONE D1 school was available at
that point? Many only finalize their OOC year to year. Give me
Marist, give me even a MEAC or NEC program. To tell me that we
were the only school in the NCAA with a gap on that week just
seems unlikely.
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Re: Stony Brook vs DII St.Anselm, October 15th
DIR By: risch
Date: October 16, 2011, 9:49 pm
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I've talked to people in athletics. This IS what happened.
It's why we've had a hole in our home schedule for the past few
years.
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