Category: Stony Brook Seawolves
Bowling Green Finalizes FCS-Heavy Coaching Staff
Bowling Green State University head football coach Dave Clawson (Richmond) has announced the hiring of Mark Carney (Fordham, Richmond), Mike Elko (Hofstra, Richmond, Fordham, Penn, Stony Brook) and Adam Scheier (Lehigh, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth) t… more »
Stony Brook Adds to Coaching Staff
Stony Brook University head football coach Chuck Priore has announced two additions to his coaching staff in time for the beginning of spring practice. Jim Gush will join the staff as the assistant head coach of the defense, while Patrick Hatch comes on… more »
Players Making Last-Minute Decisions Wise (FCS) Ones
Freedom High senior Eddie Mateo was down to the final days and his mind was about made up to sign a National Letter of Intent to attend NCAA Division II Bloomsburg University.
All it took was just his signature on dotted lines during Wednesday's Sign… more »
Opinion: Maine's Cosgrove Failed to Capitalize on Chance
The University of Maine’s football program got a bit more than 15 minutes of fame last week, but it may have failed to milk the “Battle for the Butter” for all it was worth.
Thanks to a somewhat random selection as the “lesser known” college game of… more »
It’s Not Just a Game — it’s the Battle for the Butter
Before Thursday morning, Saturday’s football game between the University of Maine and Stony Brook University was simply the Black Bears’ home opener.
Now, thanks to ESPN Radio’s “Mike & Mike in the Morning” show, it’s “The Battle for the Butter.”… more »
Stony Brook Rocks Raider Football in Opener
Seawolves' Running Game Too Much for 'Gate.
Last Saturday the Colgate football team kicked off its season with a rocky start against the Seawolves of Stony Brook, as the Raiders struggled, especially early, en route to a 42-26 loss on Long Island.… more »
Stony Brook Football Opens by Beating Colgate
The customary gift for a 10th anniversary is diamond jewelry, silver for a 25th. But as Stony Brook began its celebration of 10 seasons of Division I football and 25 overall, the Seawolves had to settle for a 42-26 pasting of Colgate in each team's seas… more »
Stony Brook's Mason Looking for Big Senior Season
It remains the magic number for any running back, at any level of the game.
And even though Brandon Mason was excited to be an integral part of a football team for the first time in four years last autumn, he fell far short of 1000 -- as in yards rus… more »
Column: It Feels a Little Like ... FCS Football
Thoughts and musings on college football while we roll toward the last week in August and the opening of the season ...
Even as the Big South undergoes its own Little Bang Theory with the addition of Stony Brook and the impending nuptial with Presbyt… more »
New York-based Stony Brook Flows South
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Stony Brook athletics director Jim Fiore has heard all the jokes by now. SBU in the Big South? What is it south of? Connecticut? Quebec?
Well, yes, south of both. So, no, the Seawolves’ move into the Big South Conference for footbal… more »
Liberty Hailed as Big South Favorite
CHARLOTTE — While Liberty was the runaway choice as preseason Big South conference champion Friday, it became clear one team was very difficult to pin down.
Charleston Southern had a first-place vote and two last-place votes among the 13 ballots cast… more »
UB completes football schedule with FCS Programs
The University at Buffalo football program has completed its schedule for the next three seasons with the addition of three Division I Football Championship Subdivision (I-AA) programs.
The Bulls will play host to Gardner-Webb (2009), Rhode Island (2… more »
Incoming Seawolf Kicker OK After Shooting
TAMPA - University of Florida lineman Matt Patchan and Stony Brook University kicker Wesley Skiffington were shot at Sadie Park in Brandon on Friday night, but their injuries were not life-threatening.
Debbie Carter, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Dep… more »
FCS playoffs set to expand in 2010
The next time Montana plays Albany, it could be in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, and it could come the week before Thanksgiving.
That news doesn't make UM athletic director Jim O'Day happy, but the die has been cast: Last… more »
Super Fat Tuesday
Sure it's "Super Tuesday" and it's "Fat Tuesday". But only one day before high schools ceremonies where their players sign national letter of intent on National Signing Day, many followers of college football had their own "Super Fat Tuesday" compiling… more »