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Re: Does Stony Brook Football need a new direction?
By: Chairman of the Board Date: December 6, 2019, 10:15 am
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on the attendance issue- we landed at: 40k (8k/game)
9652+5742+6204+12812+5599
(always have to disclaim counting tickets, free tickets, the
gate, etc.)
while solid, i think most would want it improved. given that
JMU (homecoming) was 13k, leaving us at 6750/game (roughly half
full).
i propose an experiment- give away all the tickets for free and
see how many students show up.
whoops.
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Re: Does Stony Brook Football need a new direction?
By: Campi47 Date: December 6, 2019, 10:53 am
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The type of player that would be great for SBU is the IVY League
kid however it's hard to lure a kid like this to SBU even with
our great Research Programs
If they ever do want to make a Coaching change there a 2 places
I would start; Junior Colleges and a high Academic College that
constantly wins
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Re: Does Stony Brook Football need a new direction?
By: NoVA_Seawolf Date: December 6, 2019, 12:04 pm
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[quote author=Chairman of the Board
link=topic=726.msg28484#msg28484 date=1575648943]
on the attendance issue- we landed at: 40k (8k/game)
9652+5742+6204+12812+5599
(always have to disclaim counting tickets, free tickets, the
gate, etc.)
while solid, i think most would want it improved. given that
JMU (homecoming) was 13k, leaving us at 6750/game (roughly half
full).
i propose an experiment- give away all the tickets for free and
see how many students show up.
whoops.
[/quote]
They can try giving away all the tickets they want, but at this
point the brand of football is holding SBU back more than
anything. Back in the Big South days when we had Maysonett,
Essington, etc. our offense put up way more points and was
exciting to watch as Kyle could make all the throws and we had a
clear talent advantage over the rest of that conference. These
days? It's run up the middle three times and then punt against
much more formidable competition in the CAA.
Fields brings a dual threat element to this offense finally, but
that's still not enough when Coach still runs it up the middle
every play. We need somebody who can run the air raid offense
and develop a quarterback. This is the system you see at
Oklahoma, Washington State, SMU, and other places.
One thing I will agree with Campi on is who that person is.
You'd probably have to manage to pull away one of the low level
assistant coaches at one of the P5 schools mentioned which is a
tall order. SBU is a tier 1 academic university and is right up
there with the Big Ten schools academically though, so while it
wouldn't be easy, it's certainly not impossible for us to get a
guy like that.
#Post#: 28497--------------------------------------------------
Re: Does Stony Brook Football need a new direction?
By: Chairman of the Board Date: December 6, 2019, 12:42 pm
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[quote]They can try giving away all the tickets they want, but
at this point the brand of football is holding SBU back more
than anything. Back in the Big South days when we had Maysonett,
Essington, etc. our offense put up way more points and was
exciting to watch as Kyle could make all the throws and we had a
clear talent advantage over the rest of that conference. These
days? It's run up the middle three times and then punt against
much more formidable competition in the CAA.
[/quote]
i certainly agree, and wanted to further point out- i would
suppose that the average SBU student that attends a game does
NOT know the distinction between P5 vs nonP5, or maybe even FCS
vs FBS. or who is in the CAA, for example.
to them it's just college football. they don't know the
American vs USA. the ohio valley from the missouri valley.
southern vs southland. few in the northeast do.
meaning, only winning and excitement is what matters to these
fans (not to me by the way). they probably mostly don't know or
even care who we play, what conference, etc.
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Re: Does Stony Brook Football need a new direction?
By: guest369 Date: December 9, 2019, 4:32 pm
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Kareem Gaulden and Brandon Ciullo are out.
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Re: Does Stony Brook Football need a new direction?
By: Hammertime Date: February 3, 2020, 8:02 am
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HTML https://www.facebook.com/889538027792855/posts/2747901498623156/
But yet SB has never had a player drafted!!! Make you wonder.
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Re: Does Stony Brook Football need a new direction?
By: Tml Date: February 3, 2020, 8:17 am
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The only notable player from URI who has played in the NFL was
Steve Furness. He has a nice career with the Steelers in the
70s.
The only SB player who had any kind of career was Will Tye, who
was a starting and/or second TE with the Giants for a couple of
years.
In all fairness, Coxson should have been drafted. He had a shot
with Green Bay because he had very good speed and decent size
but suffered a severe concussion and retired.
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