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I always hear this excuse, especially when there are 20 students in the student section during a "holiday" or "break". Aren't there tons of students who are from WNY that attend UB? What's their excuse for not attending?

Back on topic here. As per our boys over at bullrun...

Our yearly pick the score contest is back https://www.ubbullrun.com/2019/8/22/20826232/2019-bruwpeg-were-just-getting-warmed-up This season if you win a week you're invited to join us on the last segment of Bulls and Beers to brag about your score and tell us who you think will win the next game

No, it isn't. In California the support for sports is really weak. When I say winning, I mean winning championships. The Great Lakes and up-state New York are different. There is a reason the Bills, Browns, and Lions all draw fans to their games despite being small market teams and not winning. There is a reason the Chargers left San Diego and the Raiders are leaving Oakland. This is true of basketball too. If you look at college attendance there isn't one Pac 12 team in the top-30 for attendance. It is mainly Mid-West and Great Lakes.

I can see how this could be misconstrued. To clarify, not taking away somebody’s Bills fandom to turn them into Bulls fans, but rather turning somebody who has a passion for pro football into one that can at least keep up with local college ball.

Wow I dig it. I feel like a lot of times coaches just go for the experience and are scared to put the young players in if it’s somewhat close. This must mean that Myers impressed LL enough to give him the nod and honestly that’s really exciting. Let’s see what he’s got and start getting him game experience NOW. GO BULLS

Hey 46, we're kicking around the idea of letting the winner of BRuWPeG join us for B&B, I will let you know what we decide. In the meantime we love to have folks contriubte at the site. You can play with fanposts ( https://www.ubbullrun.com/fanposts ) and if you like it there is always room for another editor. feel free to email me at ubbullrun at gmail.com

The AAC decided to stay at 11 teams for this year. They prob didn’t have much of a choice as there wouldn’t have been enough time to make big changes this close to the season. UBAD was quoted somewhere saying he was happy with being in the MAC but it kinda sounded like just a general answer as to not stir up the pot right now. AAC commissioner said something along the lines of them not looking for anyone right now but if schools want to pitch to them they’ll listen. It all just sounds like formalities while I bet there’s a lot of talk going on behind the scenes. If I was an AD at a school hoping to get in to the AAC you know I’d be working like hell to try and sell the program. While travel would definitely be tough it’s just a major step up (while not too big to hope for like Big10. Nobody will ever move from the MAC to a P5 school). It’s the logical next step if you really want to be a reputable program and really build a brand. It makes this year especially important for football and both MBB and WBB. If we can have more success with other Olympic sports that also helps. But our biggest downfall is the success is recent and nowhere near consistent. I don’t think we need a 10 win season again in football but just having a winning record would be huge. Give us the opportunity to have a bowl game victory on our resume. We need consistency. As for basketball I think both men and women need to be competitive. This athletic year is almost upon us. LETS GO BULLS