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  1. I love the idea of a trophy with UMASS. We're such similar schools and we desparately need something to build student interest and elevate school pride. A rivalry can't hurt and let's face it, despite winning a ton of games in this conference not one MAC school considers us a rival.
    5 points
  2. I don’t “need” WiFi to enjoy a game but I like having it so I can check scores or stats during the game. I don’t “need” concession stands to take credit cards, but I will make fun of local rivals for not accepting them. UB doesn’t “need” a mascot, scoreboard, in-arena announcer for games. We’re all there to watch basketball, right? But all of those things add up to the gameday experience. And when the team is good, it matters less. CJ making threes from West Seneca and Nick Perkins making Akron bigs his bitch you could excuse some lack of amenities. But right now the men’s team sucks so less people are coming and the people that do come are going to want the gameday experience to not suck. I admit, I really don’t care for a lot of the “extra” stuff but I also am in the minority (just give me WiFi and credit cards). Families are going to want entertainment between airballed three pointers. I don’t think there’s many people saying “I’m going to the UB game because there’s beer” but if there’s no beer, no fire shooting stage props, no blue bull running around, obnoxious DJs, AND bad basketball, there’s going to be less people around. Which those of us in Buffalo see. This is my whole argument for the track being removed at UB Stadium, except I think being in a different zip code in the stands might influence a bit more than adult beverages. I’ve returned to some college football stadiums specifically for non-football related reasons. UMass I made a priority to go back because of their world class marching band. I took a day off to drive to Virginia Tech because it is an absolute circus during Enter Sandman. I stayed an extra day in West Virginia after the UB basketball win to sing Country Roads after a football win. Last year I went to Penn State on a day’s notice because I found cheap tickets, heard the Ohio State band was visiting, and wanted to go to the creamery for “lunch.” The gameday experience absolutely matters. ETA: The long line of people outside the PSU creamery with large coolers after the game didn’t go to the game to load up on ice cream, but people that might be more marginally attached to the program have more of an incentive to drive from Pittsburgh to State College if they can watch their football team AND fill up their freezer for a year.
    5 points
  3. I shared this on Twitter earlier. This team keeps fighting. They could've hung their heads a long time ago but they continue to battle and have shown signs of improvement. It's not going to lead to an appearance in Cleveland but it least gives me hope that players enjoy playing under Halcovage III.
    5 points
  4. That was the most exciting UB athletics event I've experienced in a long time. Congrats, ladies!
    4 points
  5. Kudos to this fan at the end of the game.
    4 points
  6. Is it possible that two things can be true? Perhaps he wasn’t the right choice then, maturity, etc and that the years in Alabama allowed him to reflect on that and adjust accordingly and may now be ready? It’s also possible that once an AD lets a ship sail, they move on. i think one of the big issues with the current GH3 staff is they are all young and inexperienced. They really leaded a JW type assistant to help this out. Instead, we have 4 young guys figuring it out on the fly while getting promoted weeks into their tenure with no reason for it, well in advance of any on court production.
    4 points
  7. Zaakir double-double! 🥲
    4 points
  8. Can we lock this thread unless it actually pertains to us? Feel free to go to their board if you want to oogle over BH. He’s not our coach. Time we move on.
    3 points
  9. Just saw this from 2/24. Funny you mention needing rogaine. While we were watching Saturday's game we decided to take a drink every time BB adjusted her hair. Shitfaced by the end of the first quarter. Gotta love Uber.
    3 points
  10. named to this 2024 all Canadian basketball game Supposedly the top 24 boys and girls are named to this team that either play in Canada or are from Canada
    3 points
  11. So... who is making an unplanned trip to Cleveland tomorrow?
    3 points
  12. Surprise surprise, toledo chokes again. Let the perpetual “next year” commence.
    3 points
  13. Nice pickup. Presutti and GH3 get the shoutout on his IG announcement. Plus all our freshmen are all over his post with positive stuff, so it looks like they're still invested here after a bad season. Also Gavin Doty liked Oboh's post. I think we're in good shape with him. If I had to guess our freshman class will be Jackson, Oboh, and Doty, with the other 3-4 spots filled by transfers/JUCOs.
    3 points
  14. 3 points
  15. He's just a painfully unintelligent man. I read his quotes like people watch car crashes, unable to look away. Like, what??? “Any time you reach an aspiration of running your own program and all the work that you put in, all the years of work that goes into getting to that point that you’re an FBS head coach, I will tell you it was an extremely difficult decision to leave that,” Linguist told the Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. “I wouldn’t have left it for anything.”
    3 points
  16. I am watching this game solely because it will be what, 8 months until UB Ball is back in action(?) and I know I'll miss it, regardless of how this season has gone. There's a quote from the movie Garden State where Zach Braff's character talks about not feeling at home when he's home, but still being homesick for it and he says "it's like being homesick for a place that doesn't exist anymore." If I had to pick a way to summarize the way I feel about UB Ball right now it would have to be that. I yearn for the Hurley days. The Oats days. Players absolutely jacked up to win the hard hat. That was UB Ball. That was home. That is gone. Or maybe I just miss being in my 20s... the world may never know 😅 GH3 you've got a lot to prove this off-season. 40 more minutes. Go Bulls 🤘
    3 points
  17. Except UB is a public institution and joining the Ivy League would throw a wrench into the NLRB decision involving Dartmouth. I prefer Molson Golden to either of these two. At what level do you think the Ivy League plays football?
    3 points
  18. Having a second PG especially one that had previous d1 experience would have made a major impact Not a coincidence that once fulcher really settled in that UB started to look more organized and like an actual D1 team ha
    3 points
  19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_horn Bull horn, used by minutemen. It makes too much sense. From 11.5 years ago: https://www.ubbullrun.com/2012/9/11/3317930/should-there-trophy-game-with-umass-what-should-it-be-for
    3 points
  20. I just keep reading through this and previous posts and it's all just maddening. We want millions for NIL, want the track removed, new amenities, everything. We need that track gone so that the 500 people in attendance on a Tuesday night can enjoy the game more I guess. I really enjoyed when I could just watch the games, players, coaches and enjoy the sport and game being played in front of me. Now it seems that it's about the $$, for players, coaches, staff, along with all of the frills that they have now. When I went to UB, I was more than happy with just going to school, getting to compete as an athlete, and getting a few tiny little perks for having done so. Now, UB recruits people that no one else wants, and once they develop, they leave for $$. If they don't play, they leave because the coach had it in for them. It's all nonsense and frankly not nearly an enjoyable experience as an alumnus/fan as compared to as recently as 5 years ago. Listening to the non-stop griping from a handful of people on here, those on Twitter/X, but few, if any, doing anything to improve the situation. When Reggie was making $150k, it was too much $$ for some, now our coaches make 400-700k and it's still not enough, and the players don't make enough, and the ADs don't make enough. I enjoyed UB athletics as amateur/college sports, now it's just a joke, and reading all this is even more of one. As bad as this basketball season has been, it's still been nice to see those who I've sat with at games for 10+ years (as we whine from our seats about how ugly what we're watching is). Sadly, those numbers alongside me have dwindled as the season has gone on, and I'm quite confident they will continue to do so moving forward. Priority #1 for me always has been the game, being entertained, following growth of players over the seasons and being connected to the school, players and coaches. Very little of that seems to be in place anymore, sadly.
    3 points
  21. It's a strange teetotaling misnomer that an adult "needs" to have a beer if they'd simply like to have one at a game. Plus food and drink offerings are obviously a key consideration in modern sports entertainment. So yes, I'm hypothesizing that some would have chosen not to attend, evidenced by the already meager crowds for the awful on-court product. "With this team, I need glasses to watch. Specifically two glasses, of scotch." (Shout out to the goat Norm Macdonald.) If a couple buddies in their 20s-30s are considering going to a UB game vs grabbing food and drinks somewhere on a winter evening, it's likely that the option to have a few beers at the game (like hundreds of millions have at sporting events since the Roman Empire) would influence their decision. UB poobahs would be wise to listen to any advice that breaks up the staid, septuagenarian vibes at basketball and football games. New voices are needed to revamp the deathly boring game presentation and arena experience. We already have quite a few libraries on campus, we don't need Alumni to be one.
    3 points
  22. Agreed. I’d like to see those QBs get a chance, but I’d rather not sacrifice another lost season just to give them playing time. If coach thinks they’re ready, by all means I’m in, but if they’re not a clear QB1, we need to find one.
    3 points
  23. You misquoted be a bit. I said that PPG was high because of tempo and leftover talent, not that leftover talent was the reason for PPG and tempo. Whitesell rolled the ball out and said play "Nate Ball," and it became less successful the further we got from Nate's brain and his players. And of course Segu and Williams didn't play much in their one year under Oats, as freshmen on The Best Team Ever. Then, to be expected, they became three year mainstays under Whitesell when CJ and Co departed. They were the two best recruits in UB history and we never sniffed talent like that again. I'm not sure JW had much to do with their recruitment either, as I was under the impression that BH and JQ were the recruiters in that order. The staff deserves varying credit for developing Jeenathan and Rondo while here. Jeenathan absolutely improved, esp his outside shooting, handle, and decision making. Rondo on the other hand kind of stalled out and never reached the ceiling I thought possible. Mballa as well stalled and then regressed. I don't know who deserves what credit and blame for those developments, but I grant that JW had a hand in it all. Retention is important yes, but it was also the key reason JW got the job in the first place, so it was expected and required of him. Not sure I can agree to disagree, as the results speak for themselves. The outcome of his tenure was a failure to maintain the lofty national profile and success that Oats established. Further, a failure to even maintain our standing within the MAC as a perennial title contender that lasted for six years between Oats and Hurley. The roster was increasingly pieced together by bad fits, short-term JUCO and transfer fixes (the opposite of what built our best rosters in the past), and our overall recruiting had fallen off a cliff. Fan support was drying up as on-court results worsened. Granted Covid and the new transfer landscape were new wrenches thrown into JW's tenure, but every coach in the nation had to deal with the same and I felt he showed a lack of agility responding to the emergent new reality of CBB. It's easy to look at the shocking results this year and reminisce on the previous regime with rose-colored glasses, but the truth is the program had already fallen under JW. Recruiting was dead, we were playing challenging schedules that players nor coaches were up for leading to discouraging results, and overall energy around the program was low. Everyone I know who knew JW and staff have the highest praise for their character and passion, that's never been in doubt. But the point remains, it was reasonable to call for change once it was clear that the lofty goals that we all have for the program had become out of reach. And I grant that this year has been a reality check regarding what our expectations should be. The resulting search, hire, and status of the current staff can absolutely be scrutinized, but I'm at least trying to keep an open mind by acknowledging where we're starting over from.
    3 points
  24. UB hosts Monmouth 3/21 6pm. A HOME GAME!!!
    2 points
  25. They can snag our coach
    2 points
  26. Tough game too much size from Kent. There is nothing to be disappointed about this season at all. Runner up year 2 with an experienced roster to build off UB women’s basketball is going to be a problem for a while. I hope the get a WNIT or WBIT invite.
    2 points
  27. Definitely. And let’s all agree that whatever happens tomorrow, win or lose, that we’re proud of this season and this group. Friendly reminder the MAC picked us to miss the tournament as 8th in the conference. Toledo was 10-2 favorites to win the tournament
    2 points
  28. I need a Kent State-Akron final in hopes that the full diss track finally gets leaked.
    2 points
  29. Wow, that was a painful season. I've been quiet on this board the past several month, so I apologize for the long post. I'm still so confused on the coaching. This includes both recruiting and play calling. I was concerned back in the off season with the lack of experienced players being picked up from the transfer portal. We lost 8 and only picked up one. Bowling Green had 7 transfer in while most other MAC schools had 1-3. UB needs to do a better job recruiting JUCO players which add experience quickly. That has been our success the past 5-7 years. We were all told the GH3 was looking for the best players that fit into his style of play. And then, he only gets Graham from the portal (and he had eligibility issues). I wasn’t really impressed with Graham in his limited play. Did we leave scholarships on the table? Fulcher was also a transfer? Good driving to the basket when he did. And then he picks up 5 Freshmen. Diovion Famakinde went AWOL before the season even started. At the start of the season GH3 didn’t appear to want to play his Freshman until he realized he didn’t have enough players. Sabol had the most minutes of the Freshman but his 3-point shooting was off most of the season (until the last game). Wilson was good on defense. Boldin and McVeigh were so so. What happened to Kanye Jones? He went AWOL midway through the season. This team just lacked experience. Smith just seemed uncommitted to playing. Never really went after any lose balls. He wore his emotions on his sleave and often got into foul trouble. Fulcher had some nice drives to the basket. Williamson showed glimmers of hope with the inside game. Will they return next year or think the grass is greener elsewhere? Adams and Chatman were only talents on the team. Now, on to coaching. How could GH3 expect to have Adams to play point-forward the entire season as started out the season? Rarely did I see this team do “organized plays”. The women every single possession looked at the coach to see the play. Nothing like that on this team. Always seemed like a “pickup game” plays. Similarly, I never understood UB’s side-line in-bound plays on offense. UB always seemed to move away from the in-bound player. People complained the past several years that we had so many fast break points. Sure didn’t seem like we had so many this year. This year was a lot of “in-bound the ball, go down the court, try to break the defense”. This team needs to be faster in order to get the “easy” (and more exciting) baskets. Sure would have liked to have seen more ball movement and better ball screen. Less turnovers as well but that probably comes with being a less experienced team. In short, I just got the impression that this team wasn’t coached well.
    2 points
  30. I would like Jo back, Isaiah can take his talents to south beach.
    2 points
  31. I guess there will be no season ticket fan appreciation night this year. We deserve something after supporting this brutal team and rookie coach!
    2 points
  32. I hope not but then again you never know. Hoping to see some good signs at the spring game.
    2 points
  33. https://x.com/NoahImgLikeness/status/1734642077655334923?s=20
    2 points
  34. Who's fault is it that there is no talent here? The main talent (and scoring 52% of the points on the season) that is on this current team was left from the previous regime. Why does this staff get a complete pass about not bringing in any players if this team is so "talent-less"? Last year's team lost pretty much all of their scoring coming into the season, yet somehow brought in enough "talent" to be a .500 team and make it to the MAC tournament (including leaving behind their most talented piece that didn't even get to play last year). The "the coach got started late" doesn't work, sorry. This isn't 2000 where you only can bring in freshmen and then have to develop them over the course of years. They didn't bring in a guy like Armoni - veteran PG to help the new guys, or a guy like Zid, who at least made games enjoyable to watch, as frustrating as he was a times to watch, or Adams, or Jo, or a major talent like Sy who had to sit out. There's no reason for UB to ever have 2 MAC wins and 3 wins overall at this point in the season, NIL, no NIL, whatever. Again, this roster is far more "talented" than those 2/3 wins anyhow, but this whole talk is ridiculous at this point. The MAC is far leaner than year's past, only 4 teams in the top 200 in the NCAA and 3 teams 300+! The pre-season schedule didn't have a ton of the "big name" opponents as they have in year's past. Yet somehow we're relegated to "this team has improved", versus having wins. There's many more multiples of double digit losses than wins, including the time of the somehow recently "improved" team. While I still go to the games and always support the teams and programs, I just can't understand how anyone can possibly see silver linings based upon what they've seen over the last several months of this team, and then possibly think that it's going to get drastically better once their (by far) best player is gone next year. At least when the Sabres suck, they at least pour on wins once their out of it (like they have been recently), and give people something to cheer over. We're still sitting on 3 wins (sorry, a 28 turnover "win" versus Roberts Wesleyan is not counted in my eyes) with only 2 games left to play. Maybe we can pull off a win on senior night and at least have something to smile about on Friday (versus the crowd leaving the games with their collective heads hanging like they have had to do most night's this year).
    2 points
  35. There are plenty of games I was angry about this season, or disheartened, or flat out embarrassed. This isn't one of them. The Bulls competed today against a good team, it was an even game till they got sloppy on a series of possessions and Toledo went on a run. The team kept fighting the whole time. I saw a more intense Coach Halcovage and some continued improvement from a lot of players, which I want to believe is from coaching. Nothing for me to be really mad about today. When you look at the stats - they shot 49%, 30% from three, 11-11 at the line, almost even on rebounds, 11 blocks, beat them on points in the paint, the only thing I would point to is 17 turnovers. But the rest of those look good to me, and a LOT better than earlier in the year. Bottom line, Toledo got to the line way too many times and hit almost all their free throws. Chatman - does what he does, be the go-to guy. Adams - my brother said, you kinda didn't realize he had that many points. Zakir -uses his body well and positions himself well, and finally has a nice touch inside. Major improvement from this guy. Wilson - I love what he's bringing off the bench. Plays aggressively at both ends. Man the refs were bad today. Probably both ways. I feel like a lot of basketball refs anticipate plays and fouls and call things they think are about to happen, and when you look at the replay, they didn't. My brother said at some point, it was devolving into a death spiral of makeup calls. I can't say enough about how much some of these guys have improved lately. It gives me hope for next year - if they can keep this core of Sabol, Fulcher, Wilson, Boldin, and Zakir, add a big guy and a three-point shooter, they're looking a lot more competitive. Also, please bring in Dontay Carruthers for one practice to teach guys how to earn some charges. Wilson tried, got decked. But they don't even attempt them much. Toledo - every year I say, Kowalczyk's pink slip is already filled out, they just have to sign and date it. All these good teams and he has zero MAC titles, zero NCAA trips. Cochran is a handful. Maddox has taken the 'short shorts' thing too far. Crowd - this is the base UB crowd. This is who you'll get however bad the season is. I wish we'd see more students there, but that's been slipping for a long time, even when the teams were good. The liveliness, and the fun, withered away. So props to the band for picking up the slack as best they can.
    2 points
  36. Toledo stacks conference wins years after year under Coach TK and they are always frauds. Never win anything. Gonna be the same story this year. Woof.
    2 points
  37. His induction was announced in December 2023. He was in Indonesia on vacation. If he is like most people a vacation like that is planned well in advance. Was he supposed to cancel?
    2 points
  38. Honestly shocked the staff couldn’t find a single player to transfer down with all their connections.
    2 points
  39. The UB basketball team from say February 1st until today would beat the November team by 30+ And that's saying something considering UB was handled pretty easily last night against a very average Kent st team the last month or so was the first time I saw actual improvement, the improvement is there the question is in my opinion is it where it should be
    2 points
  40. UB is bad, but I think that they have improved from the start of the season at least. This game would be a lot closer if Chatman was having an average game and Sullinger wasn’t sinking 40 footers.
    2 points
  41. Good lord! How many annoying know-it-alls are there in Buffalo?? Your posts are all so condescending. Just state your opinion and stop telling everyone how the world works.
    2 points
  42. On the post game broadcast Whetzel mentioned Boldin would likely be back this weekend.
    2 points
  43. How about the bench production! 3 guys accounting for 24 points, 14 rebounds and 5 assists.
    2 points
  44. Turner Battle: The Bulls are doing a great job in the paint. Have to stay away from some of all those 3s. AMEN!
    2 points
  45. Well don't say that too loud. We want Missouri to take him off our hands.
    2 points
  46. I have no idea what your fascination with me is about and why you are posting things from 40+ years ago in The Spectrum. You are right, I never did go to the library for The New York Times. I went to the Library to go drinking. I paid for a subscription and picked it up every day in the bookstore. However, at the time of this letter, I believe that I would not have been buying The New York Times because if it was being published, it was published with scabs as the Writers' Guild was on strike that summer and fall. Let me give you a lesson in analysis. The letter was not a call for The Spectrum to run stories on sports from New York City. It was in response to prior letters submitted to The Spectrum complaining after an article about New York City sports, about the Yankees, if I remember correctly and the hypocrisy of the prior letter writers who did not complain about an article that was published the prior year, nor an article at the same time about Lou Piccone. By the way I also submitted two Quotes of the Day to The Spectrum. One was from Al McGuire, "The best thing about a freshman is that he becomes a sophomore." The other was from Fred Flintstone, "The problem with people is that they do not have enough fun in their life and not enough life in their fun." Stop posting about me and my family. I have posted nothing about who you are, let alone about your family, nor have I done anything to you, except asking you to report about a turnover in a Rapids game.
    2 points
  47. This is correct. Reggie and JW both were solid MAC coaches. They could compete. But weren't likely to win anything of any significance. They were each a steady hand. Sometimes that is a good thing. But obviously we want more and after the Oats years it looked like a failure.
    2 points
  48. I completed agree with this take
    2 points
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