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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 College in Hartford, Connecticut from 2000 to 2005. He was also the head men's lacrosse coach at the University at Albany in 1986 and at Union College in Schenectady, New York from 1988 to 1991.

Chuck Priore

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Stony Brook
Conference	CAA
Record	97–90
Biographical details
Born	(1960-02-17) February 17, 1960 (age 62) Long Island, New York
Playing career
Football
1979–1982	Albany
Position(s)	Fullback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1983–1986	Albany (RB)
1987–1991	Union (NY) (OC)
1992–1999	Penn (OC)
2000–2005	Trinity (CT)
2006–present	Stony Brook
Lacrosse
1986	Albany
1988–1991	Union (NY)
Head coaching record
Overall	136–99 (football) 38–29 (lacrosse)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
4 NESCAC (2002–2005) 3 Big South (2009–2011)
Awards
3× NESCAC Coach of Year (2003–2005) 2× Big South Coach of Year (2009, 2011)

Priore's coaching style is known for his run-heavy offense and aggressive defense.[1][2]

Playing career

Priore played football at the University at Albany before graduating in 1982. He was the starting fullback for three seasons and was named team captain before his senior year. In 1982, he won the Spud Kruzan Award, given to Albany's most outstanding athlete.[3]

Coaching career

After the end of his playing career, Priore was the running backs and strength coach at Albany from 1983 to 1986. In 1986, he was also Albany's head lacrosse coach. Priore was the offensive coordinator, strength coach and head lacrosse coach at Union College from 1987 to 1991.[3]

Priore was Penn's offensive coordinator from 1992 to 1999.[3]

Trinity

Priore was head coach for six seasons at Trinity College where he led the Bantams to a 39–9 record including four consecutive New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) titles.

Stony Brook

Priore was named the second head football coach at Stony Brook University on December 10, 2005.[4] In his first season, he led the Seawolves to a 5–6 record in their final season in the Northeast Conference. After plans were announced to move to the Big South Conference starting in 2008, Priore coached his team to a 6–5 record as an independent in 2007. From 2009 to 2012, he led the Seawolves to four consecutive Big South Championships, and in 2011 led the Seawolves to their first NCAA Division I Football Championship bid, advancing to the second round for the first time ever.

In January 2008, Priore's contract was extended through the 2012 season.[5] After the 2009 season, Priore was given a one-year extension through 2013.[6] In January 2011, Priore's contract was extended through 2016.[7] In January 2013, after making the FCS playoffs for the first two times, Priore's contract was extended one year again through 2017.[8] In 2016, Priore's contract was extended through 2020, but this was not made public until 2018.[9] In 2018, following two consecutive FCS Playoffs appearances, Priore's contract was extended through 2022.[10]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	TSN/STATS#	FCS Coaches°
Trinity Bantams (New England Small College Athletic Conference) (2000–2005)
2000	Trinity	4–4	4–4	6th
2001	Trinity	4–4	4–4	T–4th
2002	Trinity	7–1	7–1	T–1st
2003	Trinity	8–0	8–0	1st
2004	Trinity	8–0	8–0	1st
2005	Trinity	8–0	8–0	1st
Trinity:		39–9	39–9
Stony Brook Seawolves (Northeast Conference) (2006)
2006	Stony Brook	5–6	5–2	2nd
Stony Brook Seawolves (NCAA Division I FCS independent) (2007)
2007	Stony Brook	6–5
Stony Brook Seawolves (Big South Conference) (2008–2012)
2008	Stony Brook	5–6	3–2	2nd
2009	Stony Brook	6–5	5–1	T–1st
2010	Stony Brook	6–5	5–1	T–1st
2011	Stony Brook	9–4	6–0	1st	L FCS Playoffs Second Round	18	16
2012	Stony Brook	10–3	5–1	T–1st	L FCS Playoffs Second Round	10	13
Stony Brook Seawolves (Colonial Athletic Association) (2013–present)
2013	Stony Brook	5–6	3–5	T–8th
2014	Stony Brook	5–7	4–4	T–5th
2015	Stony Brook	5–5	3–5	T–7th
2016	Stony Brook	5–6	4–4	T–6th
2017	Stony Brook	10–3	7–1	2nd	L FCS Playoffs Second Round	10	11
2018	Stony Brook	7–5	5–3	T–3rd	L FCS Playoffs First Round	16	18
2019	Stony Brook	5–7	2–6	11th
2020	Stony Brook	1–3	1–3	T–5th (North)
2021	Stony Brook	5–6	4–4	T–4th
2022	Stony Brook	2–8	1–6
Stony Brook:		97–90	63–48
Total:		136–99
National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth

Personal life

Priore's younger brother, Ray Priore, is currently the head football coach at UPenn.[11]

References

External links

• Stony Brook profile

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