The matchup isn’t as sexy as last week’s and the stadium probably won’t be nearly as full, but those aren’t excuses to stay home on Saturday. Head out to East Hartford for a noon showdown between UConn and Stony Brook, and with any luck you’ll see Bob Diaco do what Paul Pasqualoni could not last year: beat an FCS team.
Stony Brook lost 13-7 to Bryant last week in a game I truly hope no one paid admission to see. Here’s your heckler’s guide to help the Seawolves drop to 0-2:
- Last week we dealt with a team that called its mascot “Cosmo.” Stony Brook’s mascot name isn’t dumber, but it is probably the least creative you will find in all of Division I: Wolfie. Wolfie the wolf. That’d be like UConn calling Jonathan “Husky the Husky” or fans calling a blog about UConn “The UConn Blog.”
- Former Stony Brook athletic director Jim Fiore was fired last year after allegations of unwanted sexual advances, asking athletes if they were homosexual and other kinds of discrimination. Upon his dismissal, Fiore was given $800,000 to pay off the remainder of his contract.
- Think UConn went through a turbulent conference realignment period? Stony Brook has played football as a member of the NEC, the Big South (somehow), the CAA and spent time as an independent, all since 2006.
- Now part of the CAA, the Seawolves seem happy, however. In head coach Chuck Priore’s bio on the Stony Brook athletics site, the university brags that it is part of the SEC of the FCS. While the CAA may be tough compared to other FCS leagues, I still consider this hilarious.
- Let’s give Stony Brook some credit. The university did bring us all the virtual colonoscopy. Now if only that can become universal by the time I get old enough to worry about such things.
- Stephanie Meyer was the runaway winner of the most embarrassing BYU alumni sweepstakes last week, and this week brought us another easy decision. Stony Brook granted a bachelor’s degree to the great Dr. Laura Schlesinger, who left her job as a conservative talkshow host after a segment in which she used the n- word 11 times. Somehow it was even worse than you’d think.
So that’s what I have for Stony Brook. Take this info and do your worst. I’ll be watching and judging you from the press box.
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