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Re: Stony Brook Seawolves Basketball News, Press Releases, etc
By: iBOsbu Date: February 26, 2013, 12:06 pm
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I mentioned how Vermont won nothing untill Drexel, Delaware,
Northeastern and Hofstra left for CAA, and they all got super
psised and started to roll out long posts full of data! lol
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Re: Stony Brook Seawolves Basketball News, Press Releases, etc
By: Hammertime Date: February 28, 2013, 12:29 pm
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I have a question about the Expansion of SBU Basketball Arena.
I was just looking at some of the other Arenas in the America
East Schools SB plays with and I see the a few of the Arenas are
really nice and they seat over 4000 people. ie: Agganis Areana
7200.. UMBC 5200,Hofstra 5100 etc.. There is no doubt pritchard
Gym as way to small now since SBU basketball has finally made a
national name but, why not do it right the first time and build
a larger Arena instead of the 4000 seat Arena they are currently
building now?. I do understand $$$ is always an issue,
especially considering SBU is a State School and a lot of the
money comes from tax dollars... I think a 7000 to 9000 seat
Arena makes more sence maybe not today but down the road.
SBU Athletics as a whole appears to be running on all 8
cylinders now and their basketball team is only getting better
and better every year and is also drawing a larger fan base on
and off the campus.. I do see a eventual change in Conference
down the raod to a stronger Conference, like The Big East
perhaps, and that alone will draw more people into the Arena to
watch SB play and a 4000 seat Arena will be to small to
accommodate the fans.. IE ;UCON 10,167.. Georgetown 20,000..
Syracuse 34,000 +. I guess I'm dreaming and getting way to
ahead of my self with the expansion thing but I do have a
vision, one day, SB can and will be another Gonzaga, if they
want it to be !!!!!
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Re: Stony Brook Seawolves Basketball News, Press Releases, etc
By: Seawolf97 Date: February 28, 2013, 8:26 pm
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Patience Grasshopper ! Better times will arrive not that here
and now is bad.
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Re: Stony Brook Seawolves Basketball News, Press Releases, etc
By: Redwyn Date: February 28, 2013, 8:38 pm
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[quote author=Hammertime link=topic=244.msg5801#msg5801
date=1362076173]
I have a question about the Expansion of SBU Basketball Arena.
I was just looking at some of the other Arenas in the America
East Schools SB plays with and I see the a few of the Arenas are
really nice and they seat over 4000 people. ie: Agganis Areana
7200.. UMBC 5200,Hofstra 5100 etc.. There is no doubt pritchard
Gym as way to small now since SBU basketball has finally made a
national name but, why not do it right the first time and build
a larger Arena instead of the 4000 seat Arena they are currently
building now?. I do understand $$$ is always an issue,
especially considering SBU is a State School and a lot of the
money comes from tax dollars... I think a 7000 to 9000 seat
Arena makes more sence maybe not today but down the road.
SBU Athletics as a whole appears to be running on all 8
cylinders now and their basketball team is only getting better
and better every year and is also drawing a larger fan base on
and off the campus.. I do see a eventual change in Conference
down the raod to a stronger Conference, like The Big East
perhaps, and that alone will draw more people into the Arena to
watch SB play and a 4000 seat Arena will be to small to
accommodate the fans.. IE ;UCON 10,167.. Georgetown 20,000..
Syracuse 34,000 +. I guess I'm dreaming and getting way to
ahead of my self with the expansion thing but I do have a
vision, one day, SB can and will be another Gonzaga, if they
want it to be !!!!!
[/quote]
It was a question I raised to the SB Athletic Directors during a
season ticket holder meeting. I too am skeptical that SB can
advance its brand to where it wants to end up with a 4K
basketball arena. However, the reply I got was that the powers
that be had done their research, and the trend for our level and
our target level is towards smaller home arenas. Of course they
would also include occasional use of large scale pro arenas for
"marquee games". They also mentioned several high profile teams
(without names) that are planning on visiting our new home.
That said, I do think they'll end up making use of larger
seating pavilions like Nassau Coliseum or Barclay's for big
visitors (like, for example, Ohio State). No different than U
Conn and the Pavilion, or Seton Hall and the Prudential Center.
Btw - it was also mentioned that we may get a naming bid for SB
Arena. Would be phenomenal to get that kind of branding.
#Post#: 5815--------------------------------------------------
Re: Stony Brook Seawolves Basketball News, Press Releases, etc
By: ecasadoSBU Date: February 28, 2013, 10:55 pm
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I dont see it as a problem. Grow the brand and in the future we
could get a money-raising campaign for a future 9-15k arena at
home. You never know. We can even have a hockey rink on the
future one. It all depends if we can continue to win and build
tradition. Its obvious that we have big time donors. They just
don't care that much about athletic yet, but in the future we
can have a $50 million campaign and build ourselves a nice
arena. we wouldn't be the first or last University to do it. For
now, having a 4k athletic arena is perfect. It keeps maintenance
cost down and is more likely and can realistically be sold
out... I mean, does anyone think Stony Brook can sell out a
9k-15k arena within the next five years. I doubt it. When the
time comes to build we came make the current arena a practice
facility or the home of Stony Brook women's basketball while we
the bigger one hosts the Men...
Gonzaga is Gonzaga and their arena holds 6k if i'm not mistaken.
We have a long way to go guys. Lets just hold on and continue to
support our school. The best thing we can do is promoting our
alma mater every day and introduce as many people to SBU
athletics are possible. The future is bright!
#Post#: 5816--------------------------------------------------
Re: Stony Brook Seawolves Basketball News, Press Releases, etc
By: Hammertime Date: March 1, 2013, 8:05 am
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Kenpom has SB at 53. Nice !!!
HTML http://kenpom.com/
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Re: Stony Brook Seawolves Basketball News, Press Releases, etc
By: ry1nik Date: March 1, 2013, 9:32 am
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Not sure, but this could be the best team the AE conference has
had since the good Hofstra teams, years ago.
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Re: Stony Brook Seawolves Basketball News, Press Releases, etc
By: Hammertime Date: March 2, 2013, 10:33 am
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I had a quick chat with coach Steve Prikiel today at my son's
Boys and Girl's club Basketball game at Mount Elementary
School.... He has a son in 2nd grade who plays basketball and is
a All Star kid from what I've been told... I just congratulated
him with winning the AE and being in the First seed and wished
him good luck in the Playoffs... Not much more besides small
talk but Coach prikiel is a real down to earth guy and he will
talk to anyone anytime....
Good Luck Coach and SB Basketball in the playoff's and lets get
this done this year and get into the NCAA. maybe with some luck
a 13 seed !!!!
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Re: Stony Brook Seawolves Basketball News, Press Releases, etc
By: Chairman of the Board Date: March 8, 2013, 9:17 pm
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AE awards. we did... ok.
HTML http://www.americaeast.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=14000&ATCLID=206669861
#Post#: 6472--------------------------------------------------
Re: Stony Brook Seawolves Basketball News, Press Releases, etc
By: iBOsbu Date: April 11, 2013, 2:13 pm
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Good read
HTML http://nycbuckets.com/2013/04/stony-brooks-steve-pikiell-on-historic-season/
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