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Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: Chrissy D.
Date: May 20, 2014, 11:50 am
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They do move the later gms in the fall to afternoon starts.
Youth football leagues are usually finished by then so you get
those people to attend. As far as cold weather late in the yr I
went to the Sachem v Farmingdale gm in late Nov last yr at
Lavalle and that drew like 4,500. If the product is good people
will show up.
#Post#: 11986--------------------------------------------------
Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: ry1nik
Date: November 8, 2014, 7:20 am
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Good argument for not going FBS from the JMU perspective. I
think it applies to SBU as well
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Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: sbugold
Date: November 8, 2014, 8:04 am
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> Good argument for not going FBS from the JMU perspective. I
think it applies to SBU as well
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HTML http://augustafreepress.com/jmu-nation-wants-fbs-whether-makes-sense/
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I wholeheartedly agree. I would much rather see the Seawolves
succeed at making their presence in the CAA felt as a perennial
conference championship contender and FCS champion threat. The
Albany rivalry is a strong one, and I'd like to see another
like it develop over the next few year (perhaps Delaware?). If
that happens the fan base will continue to grow and SBU's
notariety and stadium capacity along with it!!
#Post#: 12003--------------------------------------------------
Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: BigFatFan
Date: November 10, 2014, 1:16 pm
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we have to get more students in the stands for the home games,
especially if we want to have a chance to move up to FBS at some
point in the future. was at the JMU game and was very
disappointed with the studen turnout. practically no students.
this was a big game for SB football, and there should have been
more students at game. not sure if they too busy with school,
commuter school so kids go home on the weekends, upcoming
holiday on tuesday so kids took a long weekend away from campus.
we did get great turnout for the Bryant game and the WM
homecoming game, but since we lost both games, I am sure that
did not inspire kids to come back for the JMU game
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Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: Chairman of the Board
Date: November 10, 2014, 1:33 pm
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yeah i noticed that on the webcast. ive been going on and on
about this in the other threads.
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from a different angle- they've come a LONG way. i cant believe
what attendance used to look like only 15 years ago. and bball?
wow, what a difference. yet, other than the band, not many
students in the cold weather football games.
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Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: ecasadoSBU
Date: November 10, 2014, 1:38 pm
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I don't know what to say. Attendance average is up. For its
definitely not enough. I was part of the 150 students in the red
zone this past saturday. it sucked. A school of 24,500 kids
should be able to fill a 4,000 student section easily. But its
not that easy in the Northeast, and factor the fact that they
are not winning and didn't impress the students early on with
the two losses. With that said, season attendance is up largely
due to the opener and homecoming but its still good to know that
there is an upward trend for the 7th straight year. As it stands
right now we average a 7523 fans/game
We all know the cure. Win games and you will create a following.
We had it going for the past couple of years but this past two
seasons are a set back
#Post#: 12006--------------------------------------------------
Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: BigFatFan
Date: November 10, 2014, 1:54 pm
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in my mind, the weather was not an issue this weekend. it was a
perfect fall day for football, at game time the sun was out, and
sitting in the stands was fantastic. not sure what better
weather you could ask for in a Fall game. its not the Southwest
afterall, its Long Island. I'm from the West Coast and loved
the Fall weather. I saw that Wolfie was around campus mid week
trying to get the kids excited about the game, guess that did
not work. How about holding a rally on Friday to get kids and
the campus excited about the upcoming game? maybe that's done
already.... I thought the local community did their part to
show up to the game, the missing ingredient was the student fan
base, very weak.
#Post#: 12007--------------------------------------------------
Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: ecasadoSBU
Date: November 10, 2014, 2:03 pm
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The community is definitely growing which is a good thing. I
guess in Stony Brook we going to have to do things backwards.
Hype up the community, make the fill the stadium and then maybe
the students will show up. Most students don't show up because
of the "No one goes mentality" so I think SBU is doing a great
job marketing to the immediate community so the can show up to
the game with their children, etc.
Its gonna take a lot of time and effort.... and we going to have
to win consistently for several years if we want more people to
show up. Its not easy to draw in the Long Island area. Students
have a lot of options (Going home, NYC for the day, etc) and we
going to have to compete for their time. It would've been nice
if we had four winning seasons straight like 2011/12... Look at
Coastal Carolina. Their attendance is booming with sellouts for
every game...
#Post#: 12008--------------------------------------------------
Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: BigFatFan
Date: November 10, 2014, 3:06 pm
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I hear you, winning is the easy way to fix things. My hats off
to Coastal Carolina, but if we'd stayed in the Big South, maybe
we'd be undefeated this year too. but we moved up, and we are
playing big boy FCS football now. and I guess we are struggling
with that transition.
#Post#: 12009--------------------------------------------------
Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
FBS Football, etc
DIR By: Chairman of the Board
Date: November 10, 2014, 3:28 pm
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i wouldve agreed- but CCU is atop the rankings.
now you and i and everyone here knows that their competition
isnt all that great, as compared to the CAA- but then again,
does it matter? they are in the top 3 in both polls!!!
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