No it has not. The area has 2 baseball teams, two football teams (allegedly), two basketball teams and three hockey teams. It is not a college sports area. It will not become a college sports area. Rutgers, which is 20 minutes from the southern most part of New York City, despite being in the Big 10, is a non-entity on the New York sports scene. Stony Brook will not take the area as the college team.