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       Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
       FBS Football, etc
   DIR By: mainejeff
       Date: January 24, 2015, 8:13 pm
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       There's plenty of stuff about your recruits on social
       media......why aren't we posting this on the recruiting
       thread???  Head over there and I'll give you the name of a
       commit that you guys got today......you'll have to find the rest
       for yourselves. ;)
       #Post#: 13733--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
       FBS Football, etc
   DIR By: iBOsbu
       Date: September 1, 2015, 3:16 pm
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       Not sure if anyone shared this yet.. but big dream and tough
       goal for the new director Shawn Heilbron. Biggest hurdle of them
       all.. more than money.. is attendance.
  HTML http://www.newsday.com/sports/college/stony-brook/stony-brook-athletic-director-shawn-heilbron-s-goal-raising-100-million-1.10789324
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       Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
       FBS Football, etc
   DIR By: Chairman of the Board
       Date: September 1, 2015, 3:33 pm
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       it really is.
       lets go through some admittedly quick math again.  10k seats
       (near future).  20k students or so, I think 12k or so on campus.
       fans include some family and friends.  community fills the
       rest.  games are on wkds.  campus is empty on wkds.
       far term is 20k capacity.
       so the quick and dirty analysis is, if you don't even have the
       benefit of 12k being on campus for gameday, where will all these
       fans (paying and not paying) come from?
       solution is a larger, in-the-fabric-of-the-university issue.
       need to instill school spirit and have kids stick around on
       wkds.
       otherwise, youre playing Sisyphus trying to get your middle aged
       three village professional to spend their sat afternoon at
       lavalle and fighting Nichols traffic on the way to dinner.
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       Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
       FBS Football, etc
   DIR By: ecasadoSBU
       Date: September 1, 2015, 3:35 pm
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       Meanwhile... I don't know if this has been mentioned but...
       Coastal Carolina joining Sun Belt in 2018 (FBS)
  HTML http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/13558378/coastal-carolina-joining-sun-belt-conference
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       Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
       FBS Football, etc
   DIR By: Chairman of the Board
       Date: September 1, 2015, 3:46 pm
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       here's the rough #s from a year and a half ago:
  HTML http://sbufan.createaforum.com/around-stony-brook/making-sb-better-idea-thread/msg10366/#msg10366
       and from adam peck at brook.land just a few months ago:
  HTML http://brook.land/2015/06/inside-the-mission-to-sell-out-every-home-game/
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       Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
       FBS Football, etc
   DIR By: Hammertime
       Date: December 7, 2015, 4:27 am
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       Some interesting facts.. The MACC conference would make perfect
       sense if we would ever make a change. SB would save a ton of $$
       with travel cost.
  HTML http://www.nycbuckets.com/2015/12/maac-the-most-compact-conference-in-the-country/
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       Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
       FBS Football, etc
   DIR By: Seawolf97
       Date: December 7, 2015, 2:00 pm
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       It is  a fairly weak conference like the AE but has some strong
       teams such as Iona , Sienna etc.  Mostly all small Catholic
       schools also with no room for 25k State University.
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       Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
       FBS Football, etc
   DIR By: Hammertime
       Date: June 14, 2016, 4:31 am
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       Just one more reason why SB needs to make moving up to the FBS a
       priority..Wiederkehr, from SWR has has chosen Northwestern
       university as his college to play football. At one time he
       wanted to stay close to home. If, and only if SB was an FBS
       football school.... Jack Cohan, Sayville 4* recruit chose
       Wisconsin, again, if!!!!!!
  HTML https://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2016/06/74272/football-swr-lineman-ethan-wiederkehr-bound-for-northwestern/
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       Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
       FBS Football, etc
   DIR By: Seawolf97
       Date: June 14, 2016, 7:07 am
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       Those kids rarely if ever give SBU even a thought.   The top
       athletes on the Island pick the top schools for their sport look
       at lacrosse and the kids on Maryland, Duke, North Carolina etc.
       all from Long Island . Long Islands top basketball player from
       Long Lutheran  signed with Indiana .  We are still an after
       thought in spite of all the hype .
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       Re: 2012-2020: Future of SBU Football - Conference Affiliation,
       FBS Football, etc
   DIR By: Hammertime
       Date: June 14, 2016, 8:01 am
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       --- Quote from: Seawolf97 link ---
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       > Those kids rarely if ever give SBU even a thought.   The top
       athletes on the Island pick the top schools for their sport look
       at lacrosse and the kids on Maryland, Duke, North Carolina etc.
       all from Long Island . Long Islands top basketball player from
       Long Lutheran  signed with Indiana .  We are still an after
       thought in spite of all the hype .
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       I agree, but I also see a change happening. Look at the girls
       lacrosse. Joe Spallina team is made of 95% local talent, and
       very good talent that is continually in the AP rankings.The same
       thing for the boys lax. Our Basketball program, boys and girls
       is slowly getting national attention, and is improving. SB
       Baseball went to the college world series a few short years ago.
       That was no fluke.. I think SB can do the same thing for
       Football. But not if they stay in the FCS, move up to FBS and we
       will no doubt keep some very good local talent who otherwise
       would go to schools like Syracuse, BC, UCONN, UMASS,etc...
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