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Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: Hammertime
Date: May 10, 2014, 5:28 am
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Terrance West was drafted by the Browns.. 94th pick.. Thats very
hard to do for an FCS RB. He was only the 6th RB chosen at that
point. Impressive!
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Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: laxnation
Date: May 10, 2014, 9:27 am
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> Terrance West was drafted by the Browns.. 94th pick.. Thats
very hard to do for an FCS RB. He was only the 6th RB chosen at
that point. Impressive!
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I just spoke with my brother, a Towson alum and he's pretty
pumped with West going in the 3rd round.
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Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: Hammertime
Date: May 15, 2014, 10:36 pm
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This is what a very good AD can do to an institution.. Shawn
Heilbron sounds like a Scott Barnes... We can only hope so!
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Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: BigFatFan
Date: May 17, 2014, 1:30 pm
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Pulled this from the Newsday article on our new AD. looks like
the school president wants to eventually take SBU football to
FBS level.
In Stanley's view, that starts with continuing Stony Brook's
success in sports other than football in the America East
Conference and helping the football program compete consistently
for the Colonial Athletic Association title and a Football
Championship Subdivision (FCS) postseason bid. The key is
growing private fundraising support to make that happen and then
putting fannies in the seats for football and men's basketball.
The prospect of a move to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS)
might seem like a pipe dream now, but the idea is to position
Stony Brook for such a move during the next decade.
"One can't talk about moving to FBS until one is a very
successful FCS program,'' Stanley said. "I can't tell you how
long it will take to get there. I'm less interested in that than
I am about putting the process in place and putting the
components in place to help us move up.''
That, in a nutshell, is Heilbron's job, and those who know him
best say he's up to the task. His last stop was Oregon State,
where he served as senior associate athletic director for
development.
"I know Stony Brook is up-and-coming,'' OSU athletic director
Bob DeCarolis said. "It seems like they want to get to the next
level. Shawn saw a lot of opportunity . . . He brings a lot of
energy to the job. He's got a motor that doesn't stop.''
DeCarolis said Heilbron "ramped things up'' in terms of
relations with Oregon State's donors. He created the "Coach's
Circle'' for football and basketball, providing access to those
coaches for donors who gave specific gifts to those sports over
and above their annual gifts to OSU. Heilbron's signature
achievement was the role he played in re-branding Oregon State's
primary athletic fundraising program as "Our Beaver Nation.''
Central Florida athletic director Todd Stansbury, who worked at
OSU before taking his current position, called Heilbron the
"driving force'' behind "Our Beaver Nation.'' Stansbury said
Heilbron was able to move the "transactional giver,'' who
receives perks such as preferential parking and seating, into
the "philanthropic'' category, supporting the program at a
higher level.
Heilbron will encounter a different set of problems at Stony
Brook, which competes in a New York metro market with nine
professional teams and doesn't draw from a football-oriented
culture, but Stansbury says Heilbron is prepared.
"At Oregon State, you're in the Pac-12, but it's also a place
you have to work,'' Stansbury said. "It's not a program where
all you do is turn on the lights and people show up. At UCLA,
you compete against everybody and everything.
"If Stony Brook wants to move to FBS, it's definitely possible.
It's one of the premier academic institutions in the country,
and it's in the New York market. There's a lot of heavy lifting,
but Stony Brook can do it.''
Oregon State football coach Mike Riley said Heilbron made a
major impact on his program, managing a variety of projects,
including building practice fields and adding other amenities.
"He was very good at building relationships and trust,'' Riley
said. "That separated him. He was very good in front of people
and was able to articulate a broader vision. It was fun to work
with him
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Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: Hammertime
Date: May 17, 2014, 1:40 pm
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He sounds like the right person for the job. I hope he knows how
to pull a rabbit out of a hat because NY is a real tough area
for college football. If he pulls this off in the next 10 years
then he will have done something nobody else can do!
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Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: Seawolf97
Date: May 17, 2014, 3:45 pm
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Someone mentioned on this board or elsewhere an interesting
comment from our AD prior to Fiore arriving at SBU in I guess
1999-2000. The former AD as a parting shot said SBU would
never be able to fund and maintain a full D 1 program. So here
we are 14-15 years later gearing up for the next level of
play. It will be a tough road but can be done if done right.
Start bringing in Navy, Boston College etc for football or
a Pttsburgh or St Johns in hoops the people will come.
Suffolk has 1.5 million people and the Met Life Stadium is
painfull to reach and expensive - so spend a Saturday watching
FBS football at SBU . I went to the SBU -Army game and they
draw good crowds and basically the same distance from NYC
about 50 miles. So if Army can draw so can we.
#Post#: 10854--------------------------------------------------
Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: Hammertime
Date: May 17, 2014, 5:04 pm
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> Someone mentioned on this board or elsewhere an interesting
comment from our AD prior to Fiore arriving at SBU in I guess
1999-2000. The former AD as a parting shot said SBU would
never be able to fund and maintain a full D 1 program. So here
we are 14-15 years later gearing up for the next level of
play. It will be a tough road but can be done if done right.
Start bringing in Navy, Boston College etc for football or
a Pttsburgh or St Johns in hoops the people will come.
Suffolk has 1.5 million people and the Met Life Stadium is
painfull to reach and expensive - so spend a Saturday watching
FBS football at SBU . I went to the SBU -Army game and they
draw good crowds and basically the same distance from NYC
about 50 miles. So if Army can draw so can we.
>
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Amen Seawolf97...
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Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: ecasadoSBU
Date: May 17, 2014, 5:31 pm
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Exciting times for the Brook lie ahead. I would love to see
bigger name schools come to Stony Brook. Only a dream for now.
but I'm glad its being talked about. No doubt that Dr. Stanley
knows the path, and I'm glad he is fully aware that we need to
fund raise. If we are going to do this, we have to do most of it
with private funds because we all know how New York State
politics and public funds work... In other words, it would get
shot down in a second
#Post#: 10857--------------------------------------------------
Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: Seawolf97
Date: May 17, 2014, 6:08 pm
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After what I have read with our incoming AD and Dr. Stanley's
comments I think we have an institutional commitment to move
up over the course of the next 10 years. At least 1 major local
private school ( Fordham) is jealous but commends our ability
to plan our future.
#Post#: 10858--------------------------------------------------
Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: RecoveringHillbilly
Date: May 17, 2014, 7:25 pm
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I understand the beginning of Stanley's quote is likely him
speaking in a guarded fashion. Even as president of an FCS
school I'm sure he's paid attention to the majority of recent
move-ups and not just the cases of FCS success UMass, App St and
Georgia Southern earned. Georgia St, ODU, UTSA, Charlotte: One
FCS indy to Sun Belt start-up [dud] and 3 start-ups going brief
FCS indy then straight to CUSA. And South Alabama also started
from scratch with its Sun Belt position already set.
Buffalo joined the MAC in most sports in '98 and joined MAC FB
in '99. But the invitation to join the MAC came in March '93
when UB was still a D3 football program, before the move to 1AA
in fall '93. All it took were stipulations including adding 14K
seats and baseball/softball. It occurred in the same meeting
when MAC re-invitations went out to Marshall and NIU. Not only
were those 3 invited, but YSU was also analyzed. A program with
a recent 1991 1AA Championship, a 1992 title game loss, and Jim
Tressel? No thanks, said the MAC presidents. No new market
gained, too redundant with Akron/Kent St. If you have a plan for
gaining financial means and data showing new market penetration
& potential, some FBS league will take a serious look.
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