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Re: 2015-2016 OOC Games
DIR By: Checkmate
Date: November 13, 2015, 9:36 am
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> [quote author=Checkmate link=topic=434.msg14279#msg14279
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> With the MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY just two days away here, it's
worth discussing again: How in the world have some of these
local Division I schools not been brought out here? These
Division III games do nothing to improve this team. You will
learn nothing about the new guys and nothing about what the
veterans have done this offseason. You could if we scheduled
these metro area teams. The top four teams in the MAAC last year
are all in NY or NJ. Play them. St. Francis or LIU can take a
train and walk to the arena. Play one of them. If a Connecticut
team wants to take the ferry over, I'll even pick them up on the
other side. Whatever.
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> Listen, I'm a season ticket holder not because I expect major
programs to schedule road games here. Whether with family or
friends, I'm going to enjoy the games regardless. And when Greg
Gumbel says "the 14th seeded Seawolves of Stony Brook" in a few
months, I'll be ready to sign up for the 2016-17 season too. And
if he doesn't, well, you can bet I'll be there anyway. It's a
great time. All that said, if you want to be a big-time program,
you CANNOT schedule these games. As exhibitions? Fine. In fact,
yes, absolutely, I encourage it. But as your first TWO home
games of the season? That is reprehensible.
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I feel your pain checkmate, but after talking to numerous people
about this issue for years it always come down to money.. Coach
P will tell you the larger institutions are afraid to play us at
our house but that's all BS. When a team comes to our house we
have to pay them $$$ and vise versa.. But if a large school
like Uconn, St. John's, Maryland, agrees to come to our home to
play us we would have to chalk up huge amounts of $$$ to make up
the difference that university is losing had they played another
large inst..All of this has everything to do with TV and and
commercial money and contracts with conferences.. SB is a lower
mid major team and gets little to no $ from TV.. This is a
business and SB, as of now, is a small client in a crowded field
of institutions..
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So this is eye-opening to me. I thought for sure if I checked
the other AE teams' schedules I'd see maaaaybe a D-II on the
home schedule. It turns out these matchups are common - Fisher,
Oneonta, Lyndon State, Worcester State etc., and that was just
checking three teams. I guess when you build a big arena, you
build a big athletic complex, you're on the precipice of the
tournament, and you feel like you can beat some of these
mid-major and even major teams, you expect more. But it is what
it is. Without TV, it's tough to pay the bills. Still, hitting
us with these two Division IIIs right off the bat is tough.
Sprinkle them in instead.
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Re: 2015-2016 OOC Games
DIR By: Seawolf97
Date: November 13, 2015, 11:55 am
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Read in Newsday the other day Hofstra plays Kentucky in the
improved Coliseum next November. Kentucky is guaranteed
335,000 dollars Hofstra is getting 25,000 dollars and a loss
for their efforts. It is what it is we are still a small fish
in a big ocean .
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Re: 2015-2016 OOC Games
DIR By: jaghatai
Date: November 15, 2015, 11:49 am
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HTML http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology/_/iteration/134
Joe Lunardi has us as a 14 seed, against Gonzaga.
HYPOTHETICALLY, if we went undefeated this year, considering our
schedule, I don't think we'd be higher than an 11 seed. As a
low mid-major, that is the best we can hope for. Once you make
the dance consistently, and you make some noise, you can start
to bring in the money and bring in the better competition. But
right now, we're not in a position to move up the totem pole.
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Re: 2015-2016 OOC Games
DIR By: Chrissy D.
Date: November 19, 2015, 8:26 pm
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SB was blocked by Hofstra in regards to moving all sports to the
CAA. They had no say in football cause they don't have a team.
Like lacrosse the AE gives them the best chance to make the
dance. I guess this was the coaches fault.
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