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Jim Fiore 'pro-active' to get FCS playoff game

Monday November 19, 2012 2:12 PM By Greg Logan

Jim Fiore, the Stony Brook University athletic director,

Photo credit: Sam Levitan

Facing a week of uncertainty after Stony Brook’s regular season ended with a loss at Liberty, Seawolves athletic director Jim Fiore didn’t just sit back, cross his fingers and hope his football team received a bid to the FCS playoffs. He got his staff together to make Stony Brook’s case to the NCAA selection committee and backed it up with a bid to host a first-round game

That groundwork paid...

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