This, Geno Ford was saying, was decidedly not a case of making changes just for the sake of making changes.

No, this was about the Stony Brook men’s basketball head coach understanding the result of college basketball’s ever-shifting tectonic plates is that programs continuously undergo transformations in order to stay competitive.

Either evolve or essentially face something akin to extinction. And so, because falling prey to irrelevancy was not an option anyone associated with the program would consider, alterations were made.

“When you take the temperature of college basketball, you realize each season is really precious,” Ford said during CAA basketball media day. “Because the faces in the locker room change so dramatically. We have 15 guys. Eleven weren’t with us last year.”

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