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Questions/Comments for SBU Athletics
By: InsideMan Date: October 25, 2011, 11:04 am
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Hello All,
This is InsideMan from SBU Athletics. I am a Stony Brook Alum
who now works for the athletics department. I am very involved
in the game day production and am here to answer any questions
or listen to any comments you might have.
Go Seawolves!
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Re: Questions/Comments for SBU Athletics
By: ecasadoSBU Date: October 25, 2011, 11:31 am
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Thanks for Joining us!
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Re: Questions/Comments for SBU Athletics
By: sbufan Date: October 25, 2011, 1:36 pm
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Great to have you here InsideMan. I hope you'll feel free to
give your opinions about the different teams and games as well
as the general direction of the department. We need as many
voices as we can get here!
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Re: Questions/Comments for SBU Athletics
By: Quickdraw62 Date: October 26, 2011, 7:19 am
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InsideMan: what are your thoughts on the timetable for the arena
expansion? I keep hearing about funds that are supposedly
"frozen" by the state. Is this something that will happen in
the short-term (next month or so)? I think the expansion is a
necessity if the team wants to continue the momentum generated
by the 2012 recruiting class. It would also make SBU's
on-campus facility equal with the best in the league (Hartford,
BU)....your thoughts?
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Re: Questions/Comments for SBU Athletics
By: Seawolf97 Date: October 26, 2011, 9:14 am
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Thats the same question I have been wondering about since
the renovation plan was announced. I had heard about the funds
being frozen. I also heard there has been concern that the new
arena may not sell out as easily as Pritchard does until the
basketball really develops which could happen this season and
next . I dont mind sitting in the bleachers though , it is
always a good atmosphere fpr a game.
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Re: Questions/Comments for SBU Athletics
By: ecasadoSBU Date: October 26, 2011, 5:29 pm
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Two things:
1) The basketball arena will be renovated not expanded. The
arena currently holds 4-5k people and according to the releases
in goSeawolves.org it will hold a capacity for 4,000 spectators.
2) also, the current design of the future renovations will make
the arena one of the best, if not the best, in the conference in
terms of basketball-specific arena taking in consideration that
Agganis Arena (Boston) is used primarily for Hockey. The
pictures are here:
HTML http://www.goseawolves.org/view.gal?id=49686
This $$$ needs to be released urgently if Stony Brook wants to
move up to a better conference. We need it
I heard rumors that this is currently being addressed with
possibility of playing in the Arena as early as 2012-13 season.
Again, those are only rumors. We have to wait and I hope
InsideMan can answer some of those questions! ;)
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Re: Questions/Comments for SBU Athletics
By: InsideMan Date: November 18, 2011, 8:08 pm
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Sorry for my delayed response. I will always try to be as
honest with you and as informative as I possibly can.
Unfortunately, some topics are just off limits. ;)
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