Football
From 1999 to 2006, Stony Brook was part of the D-I FCS Northeast Conference, winning a conference championship title in 2005. While spending the 2007 season as D-I independent Stony Brook joined the Division I FCS Big South Conference for the 2008 season as a football-only associate member. In its first season as a Big South member Stony Brook finished with a record of 5-6, 3-2 with a remarkable season finale 40-26 over VMI and winning four of their last five outings of that season. The Seawolves came back in the 2009 season showing a much more improved program. A strong season led the Seawolves to their first conference championship in the Big South with an impressive last-minute final game win against Liberty, 36-33, which proved to be the most important game of the season. The Seawolves shared the conference championship with Liberty finishing with a record of 6-5, 5-1 in the Big South. While in the off-season coach Chuck Priore received a contract extension through 2013. The 2010 season started with a non-Conference lost at South Florida, 59-14, but Stony Brook quickly recovered to beat American International 31-14. The Seawolves later on posted wins at every single conference game against the Big South to become 6-4, 5-0 in the Big South as of November 18. In one of the biggest upsets of Seawolves football history, their automatic bid fades away as they fall to the Liberty Flames on November 20 in a 54-28 games creating a three-way tie for the FCS playoff and sending Coastal Carolina to the FCS Playoffs (Seawolves allowed 122 point against BSC, Liberty 110, and CC allowed 109 in tie-breaker) thus making the Seawolves Co-Champions of the Big South but eliminated from playoffs contention in the last day of the season. The Seawolves are 13-4 overall in Big South games since 2008.
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)
“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)