Category: Stony Brook Seawolves
Big South Conference Announces Four-Year Extension With Stony Brook In Football
The Big South Conference Council of Chief Executive Officers has unanimously approved a four-year associate football membership extension with Stony Brook University, it was announced today by Big South Commissioner Kyle B. Kallander. Stony Brook first joined the League as a football member in 2008 and its membership will extend through the 2015 season.
“Stony Brook has been an outstanding football member for the Big South Conference,” said Kallander. “They have strong leadership, are a class act, and obviously are very competitive. We are thrilled to extend our relationship with the Seawolves.”
Sempier still gets a kick out of coaching
It’s a picture-perfect dry and comfortable Saturday afternoon in mid-August. The Toyota Corolla – which has logged more than 160,000 miles while its driver traverses the Garden State in a never-ending quest to train kicking prospects – pulls up to the curb alongside Bonnel Field in West Caldwell.
As Verona native Pat Sempier exits the driver’s side door and heads to the car’s trunk in order to grab a bagful of footballs before heading out to the field, the single, unmistakable aspect one notices is not the missing hubcap on the front left tire.
Much more striking is the smile on the face of the man, 76 years young, and as excited about beginning year 52 as the state’s top kicking coach as he was when he coached early success stories like Bruce Nugent at Cedar Grove in 1963. Read more about that later on.
Big South Announces Largest-Ever Football TV Package
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) - The Big South Conference today announced that it will have its largest football TV package ever in 2010, as a League-record eight Conference games will be televised this upcoming season. Overall, the Big South will appear on television during 10 of the 12 weeks this season, including the final three weeks of the Conference campaign.
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Stony Brook has no designs on bolting from its associate membership in the Big South.
The Long Island, N.Y.-based school is under contract to compete in the league in football only through 2011. A new deal has not been reached, but the sides have started negotiations and could extend their marriage of convenience, which allowed the Big South to earn an automatic bid into the FCS playoffs.
Stony Brook Seniors Participate At Fordham's Pro-Day
Senior running back Conte Cuttino (Uniondale, N.Y.), senior defensive lineman Chris Perri (Alameda, Calif.), senior defensive back Chris Richards (Quartz Hills, Calif.) and senior linebacker Tyler Santucci (New Kensington, Pa.) each participated at Fordham University’s Pro-Day on March 9.
- 212 words - Big South Conference, Stony Brook Seawolves, FCS In The Pros SBU Announces 2010 Spring Practice Schedule
Stony Brook University head football coach Chuck Priore has announced the Seawolves’ 2010 spring schedule. Fans will have the chance to see the team practice 15 times this spring. The schedule concludes with the Spring Game on May 2 at 1 pm. All practices will be held at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium and are open to the public.
Contract Extended through 2013 for Stony Brook Head Coach
Stony Brook University Director of Athletics Jim Fiore announced today that head football coach Chuck Priore has agreed in principal to a contract extension that will keep him at the helm of the Seawolves program through the 2013 season. Priore has a 22-22 record over his first four seasons at SBU, including guiding the squad to a share of the Big South Conference Championship and earning Big South Coach of the Year honors in the recently completed 2009 campaign.
FCS Teams like Monmouth Struggle with Cost of Fielding Successful Programs
Her office computer faces Kessler Field, so each day Marilyn McNeil, Monmouth University’s director of athletics, can observe the needs of her football program.
During fall practice, the scholarship-deprived Hawks file into a 16-year-old stadium which needs renovations and is “absolutely not a good facility,” McNeil said. The nearly $2 million football budget needs an influx of money, but “we’re struggling to get revenue out of ticket sales and to get a following,” she said.
The Hawks won or shared the Northeast Conference title three times this decade, but without a modernized stadium, McNeil believes the school fails to attract sought-after recruits.
Without a fully funded scholarship program, the school fails to sign them.
Big South Announces Additional Television Coverage for Football
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BigSouthSports.com) – The Big South Conference today announced additional television coverage of its football games during the 2009 season, beginning with Saturday’s showdown between No. 6 James Madison and No. 24 Liberty. Meanwhile, Saturday’s JMU-Liberty matchup also will be the national FCS Game of the Week on all-sports radio station WCKY-AM 1360 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
WPDE/WWMB-TV in Conway/Myrtle Beach will simulcast six Big South football games live, while the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) will simulcast two games and tape delay two others. JCTV, a division of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), will tape delay five Liberty football broadcasts airing on the Flames Sports Network.
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Eight months might have passed when the Big South Conference gathered for its annual football media event on the final day of July, but the coaches of this fledgling Football Championship Subdivision league were still bristling about how its 2008 champion, Liberty had been left out of the playoffs.
“There is no way that Liberty should have been left out of the playoffs,” said Gardner-Webb’s Steve Patton, the dean of Big South coaches, who echoed the sentiment of almost. “Everyone said that Elon was in with a win and Liberty goes and dominates them and gets left out. How can you tell me that was fair?”
- 1824 words - Big South Conference, Liberty Flames, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, VMI Keydets, Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Stony Brook Seawolves, Presbyterian Blue Hose Big South Announces 2009 TV Package
The Big South Conference today announced its football TV package for the 2009 campaign, and the League will appear on television during nine of the 12 weeks this season. The TV slate features two games on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), as well as one broadcast on SportSouth. In addition, Big South members will appear on the BIG EAST Network and CBS College Sports this season, while Liberty University’s Flames Television Network will broadcast five home games involving the Flames. Additional telecasts may be added to the overall schedule at a later date.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BigSouthSports.com) – For the third consecutive season, Liberty University has been tabbed as the favorite in the Big South Conference’s annual preseason football poll for the 2009 campaign, as voted by the League’s head coaches and media panel and announced today as part of the 2009 Big South Conference Football Kickoff Media Luncheon at the Renaissance Suites Hotel in Charlotte, N.C..
The two-time defending champion Flames enter the 2009 campaign with a Big South-record 11-game Conference win streak. Liberty, which was ranked in the Top 15 in the final national polls a year ago, was a perfect 5-0 in Big South play last year and is 24-10 overall in three seasons under head coach Danny Rocco. The Flames return 49 letterwinners and 12 starters in 2009, and received 10 of the 17 first-place votes cast and 109 total points to repeat as champions this season.
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Stony Brook University Athletics recently completed the installation of a new FieldTurf surface in Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium, replacing the original Field Turf which was installed when the facility opened in 2002. The new, 89,298 square foot surface was provided by Field Turf Tarkett and installed by the Land Tek Group Inc.
Opinion: Additonal FB Expansion Could be Coming Soon to CAA
The Colonial Athletic Association will swell to 14 football schools in 2012, when Georgia State joins.
Too many? Too few? Or just right?
Rather than fret about growing too big too fast, maybe the league will say what the heck and just super-size it.
If it does, there are two schools that would be a geographic fit for the league - surely more of a fit than Georgia State. Adding them would be cost effective at a time when schools everywhere are looking to save wherever they can.
Stony Brook Set to Hold Annual Spring Game on Saturday
Head coach Chuck Priore and the Stony Brook University football team will wrap up its 2009 spring practice with the annual Red-White Scrimmage on Saturday, May 2 at 2:00 p.m. in LaValle Stadium. The game will also include a bench press competition between former Stony Book great Jimmy DiPietro ’76 and rising senior Conte Cuttino (Uniondale, N.Y.) that will take place at halftime.
Stony Brook Announces 2009 Schedule
An ambitious schedule that includes games against four opponents that received votes in the final NCAA FCS national polls, one against an NCAA Championship participant and an expanded Big South Conference slate highlight the 2009 Stony Brook University football schedule as announced today. The Seawolves will open the 2009 season at Hofstra University on September 5 and will open at home on September 19 against Brown University.
FCS Is Anything but "Small" Ball
The University of Delaware tight end traveled to Florida recently to train for his aspiring NFL career.
When he arrived at the private facility, he didn’t know what to expect, where he’d fit or how he measured against some of the country’s elite college athletes.
They came from everywhere across the landscape, many of them from power conferences that traditionally played in major bowls and from schools that historically ranked among the top 25.
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) to complete his coaching staff for the 2009 season.
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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 board as a graduate assistant that will be working with the defensive line.
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 Signing Day.
Mateo, an Associated Press and Morning Call All-Area first-team running back, definitely signed, but the 5-foot-10, 190-pound powerhouse committed to Stony Brook of the Football Championship Subdivision’s Big South Conference. He’s headed there on a full scholarship.
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