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FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sports
Invitation
By: districtballer Date: August 6, 2013, 6:02 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.
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Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: BigFatFan Date: August 6, 2013, 6:52 pm
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Hofstra=Pompous elitists. Looking down their long noses at the
"public" school. But then again, who cares, they decided not to
field a football team. Whimps
#Post#: 7362--------------------------------------------------
Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: Chrissy D. Date: August 8, 2013, 1:47 pm
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Hofstra should worry about the area were their campus is and
stop worrying about SBU. I mean not for nothing but that
surrounding area is an unsafe dump and they want to act like
they are Duke. They might want to update their facilities and
stop blaming Stony Brook for their lack of recruit interest.
#Post#: 7368--------------------------------------------------
Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: Seawolf97 Date: August 8, 2013, 8:18 pm
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The Hofstra loyalists over on the CAA boards are not very
happy with their Pres. Puts the entire school in a bad light
-kind of whimpy if you ask me.
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Re: FOIA Requests Confirm Hofstra Blocked Stony Brook CAA All-Sp
orts Invitation
By: WAS Date: August 8, 2013, 10:42 pm
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Hofstra's administration, including Rabinovitz, needs to realize
that Stony Brook is a regional player now. I know they're
concerned about athletics but Stony Brook's academic profile
right now is dwarfing that of Hofstra. Their protests seem
immature.
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