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FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sports
Invitation
By: districtballer Date: August 6, 2013, 6:01 pm
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Confirmation that Hofstra blocked Stony Brook from a CAA
all-sports invite. FOIA requests reveal emails between CAA
Presidents:
HTML http://shadesof48.com/?p=365
[quote]With CAA football in a slightly more stable place, the
proposal was made with basketball in mind. And among other
reasons for selecting those three schools, Yeagers wrote in the
report that “[Davidson, Stony Brook and Elon] are outstanding
academic institutions with strong brand identification and
reputations.”
Davidson, he wrote, “is a traditional brand. Elon and Stony
Brook are ‘upwardly mobile’.”
“If there is a desire to create even more regionalized
conference scheduling,” he added, “14 members could be
considered by adding Fairfield and Albany to Davidson, Elon and
Stony Brook.”
Miller wrapped up the email by saying, “While I cannot guarantee
we will succeed in securing all three of these institutions as
CAA members, given our preliminary conversations and the
dynamics of the Southern and America East Conferences, I believe
this is the time to move forward.”
Read Miller’s email here, and the two attachments with the
substance of the report here and here.
Hofstra, for one, was not happy about the report, taking
particular issue with the idea of adding Stony Brook.
“Hofstra University is strongly opposed to the substance and
process of the recommendation,” Hofstra President Stuart
Rabinowitz replied. “… the proposal would risk (if Davidson
doesn’t accept) substituting two schools which add little to our
basketball aspirations [Ed. note: Hofstra shut down its football
program in 2009] to replace George Mason. In addition, as I have
said numerous times, adding a school further from nyc than
Hofstra, but in the same long island media and recruitment
territory does not make any sense to us, especially in light of
the fact [sic] they are already associated with CAA
football.”[/quote]
That confirms that rumor.
#Post#: 7344--------------------------------------------------
Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: Seawolf97 Date: August 6, 2013, 8:58 pm
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Good detective work! Our friends in Nassau County should be
proud of themselves.
#Post#: 7347--------------------------------------------------
Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: Redwyn Date: August 7, 2013, 12:15 am
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What a pathetic loser Rabinowitz is. All I have to say.
#Post#: 7348--------------------------------------------------
Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: Chairman of the Board Date: August 7, 2013, 8:39 am
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Agreed.
I took a read through- anyone notice that we have 470 student
athletes on a $17M budget? Though its of course lopsided for
certain sports, that averages $38k/year per student athlete.
Wow, i didnt realize it was that high!
Otherwise, i like that the CAA recognizes our potential, our
sports programs, our student body, academic reputation, etc.
#Post#: 7350--------------------------------------------------
Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: ecasadoSBU Date: August 7, 2013, 10:53 am
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Interesting to see the CAA was trying to poach the A10 early on.
but in my opinion that was unrealistic on their part.
...Won't waste my time with Hofstra. Fuc* 'em
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Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: Seawolf97 Date: August 7, 2013, 8:11 pm
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Maybe they should just pave it over and use the campus for
parking for the new Colliseum-LOL
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Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: Chairman of the Board Date: August 28, 2013, 7:31 am
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DC Wolf- i *love* your headline here:
HTML http://www.imaseawolf.com/2013/08/even-hofstra-fans-think-hofstra-is-running-scared/
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Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: Seawolf97 Date: August 28, 2013, 7:57 pm
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Great article and all quite true. We should a copy of the tape
with President Stanley addressing our football team to Dr. R.
#Post#: 11201--------------------------------------------------
Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: Chairman of the Board Date: July 23, 2014, 2:35 pm
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Hofstra follows our lead:
HTML http://www.flyingdutchmenfans.com/
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Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: sbugold Date: August 2, 2014, 8:48 am
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I know this may be a little naive from the perspective of
likelihood, but the thought that keeps recurring in my head is
that the CAA and AE should merge. I've done the overlays on
paper for football, basketball, lacrosse and even some others.
It makes a lot of sense--to me, anyway!!
Both BB and FB could be appropriately divided into North and
South divisions. For football, there would be 12 teams, 6
ineach division. For BB, there would be 19 teams, 10 in the
North Division and 9 in the South (for now). Some great new
conference rivalries would emerge: e.g., SBU/Hofstra,
UMBC/Towson, Northeastern/UMASS-Lowell.
In light of the substantial overlap of the two conferences which
already exists, I think the merger would certainly solidify the
stability of the conference and make it more appealing to fans.
Thoughts???
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