It’s a little hard to fathom that Billy Cosh has been the head coach at Stony Brook for only 20 months. So many things have changed about the football program in such a short time, it could practically cause whiplash.

The program was in a nosedive with three straight losing seasons and had bottomed out in 2023 by going 0-10. That’s when Cosh was plucked off the Western Michigan coaching staff by Stony Brook AD Shawn Heilbron to replace Chuck Priore.

In his debut season — and with a number of returning players — the Seawolves pulled a hairpin turn and went 8-4 . They will open this season on Aug. 28 at San Diego State as a nationally ranked team in the two FCS polls, No. 24 by Stats Perform and 25th by AFCA.

“It’s cool to be ranked but that can’t be a focus,” running back Roland Demp

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