Chuck Priore
Chuck Priore (born February 17, 1960) is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head football coach at Stony Brook University, a position he has held since the 2006 season. Priore served the head football coach at Trinity C ...
is the current head coach of the
Stony Brook Seawolves football team, which represents
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...
in the
NCAA
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, and participates in the
Colonial Athletic Association
The Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I whose full members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to South Carolina. Most of its members are public universi ...
. Priore was hired prior to the
2006 season and he led the transition of Stony Brook into a full-scholarship
FCS program from the 2006 season in which the team awarded an equivalent 27 scholarships. In
2007
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, the team played as an independent while adding scholarships and a tougher schedule. In
2008
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, Stony Brook joined the
Big South Conference
The Big South Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I. Originally a non-football conference, the Big South began sponsoring football in 2002 as part of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Th ...
as a full–scholarship program. Priore led the Seawolves to three consecutive Big South championships (in
2009
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,
2010
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,
2011
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) and so far has compiled a 37–31 record. Under the leadership of Priore the
Seawolves played their first ever
FBS opponent,
South Florida
South Florida is the southernmost region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is one of Florida's three most commonly referred to directional regions; the other two are Central Florida and North Florida. South Florida is the southernmost part of th ...
, in the 2010 season. In 2011, Stony Brook won their first outright Big South Championship and participated for the first time in the
FCS playoffs
The NCAA Division I Football Championship is an annual post-season college football game, played since 2006, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). From 1978 to 2005, the game was k ...
, advancing to the Second Round.
Record
Seasons
2006 season
2007 season
2008 season
Stony Brook entered their new season with a 42–26 over Colgate on August 30.
2009 season
The Seawolves opened their season against their Long Island rivals, Hofstra, at Hempstead which ended in 17–10 loss to the Prade. The Seawolves then visited Colgate, losing the game in a 23–13 decision. Opening their home season at Stony Brook the Seawolves played Brown University Bears. The Bears went ahead in the game early on but the Seawolves were able to come back and claim the game with a touchdown with 47 seconds left in the game resulting in a 21–20 win in the home–opener. The Seawolves then visited UMass resulting in a 44–17 loss at Amherst. Seawolves entered their Conference play winning three games straight, losing at Charleston Southern and then winning their season finale against Liberty in a very close game at LaValle Stadium, 36–33.
2010 season
In the off–season
Hofstra University
Hofstra University is a private university in Hempstead, New York. It is Long Island's largest private university. Hofstra originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University (NYU) under the name Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of Ne ...
, Stony Brook's Long Island rivals, announced that it would cut its football team for future season after 2009 leaving the Seawolves as the sole college football team in the long island area. As NCAA rules state, when a college team is cut, football athletes that transfer to another school don't need to meet residency requirements to start play. This led to five incoming transfer from Hofstra to begin play at Stony Brook including Miguel Mayonet, and Brock Jackolski for the 2010 season.
The 2010 season started with the first ever face off of the Seawolves against a
FBS team. Seawolves lead against South Florida 14–0 early in the game but lost control and gave up a loss at South Florida, 59–14. 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 and by November 14 had an overall 6–4 record and were 5–0 in the Big South. In one of the biggest upsets of Seawolves football history, their automatic bid faded away as they fell to the Liberty Flames on November 20 in a 54–28 game 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 the tie–breaker) thus making the Seawolves Co–Champions of the Big South but eliminated from playoff contention on the last day of the season. The Seawolves are 13–4 overall in Big South games since 2008.
2011 season
2012 season
References
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Stony Brook Seawolves football seasons