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  1. 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.
    5 points
  2. 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
  3. I know we've had the conversation a hundred times but the current transfer system is rotten. Fans having to hope that "Hill will consider a return to BGSU as he explores his options" is a crummy spot to be in. Having to rerecruit your stars every year is a thankless one-way relationship. While I appreciate the players embracing the opportunity for "empowerment," there is a correction coming. A semi-pro sport with uninhibited free agent movement will not have longevity. Time will tell, people don't want to root for a random collection of mercenaries every year. Fans and donors make the world of college sports go 'round and fans are getting shorted right now. Without our dollars, college kids could absolutely play basketball with each other, but no one would care, pay, or watch. A fan union might be in order to remind players, coaches, ADs, etc who's really the boss.
    4 points
  4. Lani Cornfield from Lake Shore HS and member of the Seneca nation is transferring to UB from Southern Mississippi. She will be a Senior. 25.2 mpg. 8.3 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 91 assists, 54 steals. Shot 41.1% FG and 39.6% 3-Pt (best on the team). Tenacious defender. Sounds like a solid add. She is 5'6 and listed as a guard.
    4 points
  5. I hear you on PG being a weak spot, especially because Adams (still on the team as of now) handled so much point. But inside we're replacing Sy and Jo with Oboh as things stand. We already had weak rim protection and suspect rebounding. Replacing a star and a vet role player with one unknown freshman is questionable. PG: Fulcher SG: Boldin, Sabol Wing: Adams, Graham, Batchelor, Wilson, McVeigh, Jackson, Akot PF: Williamson C Oboh It's just a very strange roster balance at this point with only one spot yet to fill.
    4 points
  6. "Two Amhersts? UMass, Buffalo eyeing potential rivalry in MAC". March 19th article and the last part of the article, talking about how to make it formal. https://www.gazettenet.com/Future-MAC-rivals-UMass-and-Buffalo-want-Amherst-trophy-54382431
    4 points
  7. That was the most exciting UB athletics event I've experienced in a long time. Congrats, ladies!
    4 points
  8. Kudos to this fan at the end of the game.
    4 points
  9. GCU is the Liberty U of the desert southwest.
    3 points
  10. Patience. The portal doesn’t close until May. Relax.
    3 points
  11. Without NIL, I believe what you are hoping for is likely not attainable this year. Those guys are going to want a little action to make a move. Maybe our staff can lure someone with those qualification. for this signing i do like it and AJ having a friend on the team could help too. This years team was obviously fractured and didn’t seem to like each other much. I would prefer a team that likes each other and wants to play together. I see these upsets with Oakland, Yale even Samford, etc. are groups where the sum is greater than its parts. That’s what we need to get back on track.
    3 points
  12. I know I keep adding but I watched a lot of his highlights because Syracuse had a ton of interest in him out of HS. He was known as a dead eye three point shooter who also had quite a bit of athleticism. Can be moved around from the SF to PF position depending on matchups. I know on paper his stats don’t jump off the page but this dude can ball
    3 points
  13. 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
  14. https://www.instagram.com/stories/samuel.akot/3325854081921612575?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=cjh1NWduOTIzY3R0
    3 points
  15. 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
  16. So... who is making an unplanned trip to Cleveland tomorrow?
    3 points
  17. Surprise surprise, toledo chokes again. Let the perpetual “next year” commence.
    3 points
  18. 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
  19. The kind of addition that GH III needed.
    3 points
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. This amazing season gets extended for at least one more game!! Bracket has not been posted yet hoping for a home game..
    2 points
  26. He is indeed returning to ball state
    2 points
  27. New coach at Utah State and not a single retuning player! There are no excuses for what happened this year with UB MBB. This example also suggests that the expectations for next year should be very high. Utah State and Buffalo’s athletic budgets are very similar. Based on what I’ve been able to read, there is a small collective, but nothing significant.
    2 points
  28. That was borderline in that time and situation you just don’t make that call. But what a ride excited for next year. Would like to see an experienced post and more bench depth that can up scoring options. I’m confident the staff will be working with all the freshmen to further there development because this team is not sneaking up on anyone in the MAC next year. 🤘
    2 points
  29. They're just like us. Similar size, public institution, similar expenditures, exposure, and completely delusional fans. We were meant for each other.
    2 points
  30. 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
  31. As much as I’d love to see their season continue if they don’t beat Kent, I don’t think their 19-12 record and 190 NET ranking would make the cut. But let’s think positive and hope the Bulls punch their ticket to the Big Dance, and leave the NIT to Toledo and Ball 🤘
    2 points
  32. I need a Kent State-Akron final in hopes that the full diss track finally gets leaked.
    2 points
  33. I looked back at my comments to see if I overhyped any of the FR. I will admit that I was guilty of focusing more on the positive, but I did mention defensive shortcomings. I was being a little defensive in response to 'borderline D2' characterization. That said I decided to compare Sabol to Osojnik who was on all freshman team. First I want to acknowledge that any of the statistical comparisons are based on a limited number of observations. I still feel that it is appropriate in this comparison to compare MAC stats - despite it being a smaller sample - as I feel that it is a more apples to apples comparison. The first reason it is a better comparison, is Strength of Schedule - UB had a tougher schedule than EMU. The majority of the stats are pulled from Sports Reference and include non-D1 opponents. Second - Sabol played more in OOC than Osojnik. So Sabol's overall stats get skewed downward by including more stats when he was still adjusting to the D1 level. Without further delay, here are the comparisons. So my overall assessment would be Sabol was a slightly better offensive player, but Osojnik was better defensively based on RBG, STLG and BLKG. I have no qualms with MAC picking Osojnik over Sabol - but would say that Sabol is much closer to the top of MAC FR than he is the bottom. Hopefully this presents a balanced enough view.
    2 points
  34. I get where you are coming from with respect to transfers - but I still feel this past year's team had too many FR. Here is a snapshot of UB vs Ark St rosters Hodgson added nothing but transfers to two existing key returnees. GHIII went predominantly with FR. I don't think it is a stretch to say, if Hodgson had UB's roster, they would not have been beating App St in semi's and and if UB had Ark St roster, the results would likely have been better than we saw. So what about next year - assuming Ark St does not have any transfers - they will be returning a good core, plus they added some FR this year. If (a big if) GHII keeps the most of the FR for four years - perhaps they could be very good. Time will tell. I feel like you have to blend in transfers - maybe focus mostly on JR / SO transfers.
    2 points
  35. It's public. It's Brayden Jackson from Fort Erie Academy. Plenty of discussion on him in the Recruiting sub forum. I'll post something of my own when I get some time, but for now just a couple points of clarification to your previous post: RH3...not sure if you have Robert Griffin in the brain or? Sabol's three point shooting was not "off" most of the season. He was hot and cold for sure, with games of 0-4 0-5 0-6 balanced by 7-10 6-8 5-8. But he shot 37.6% on the season, which is excellent for anyone let alone a lightly recruited freshman. Boldin was a useful player and showed a lot of promise before getting shut down with an injury. He doesn't belong lumped in with McVeigh, who struggled with the speed and feel of the college game most of the year.
    2 points
  36. 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
  37. I would like Jo back, Isaiah can take his talents to south beach.
    2 points
  38. https://www.ubbullrun.com/2015/11/24/9782708/buffalo-bulls-and-umass-battle-for-the-power-horn Something like this. RIP Bull Run
    2 points
  39. 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
  40. I hope not but then again you never know. Hoping to see some good signs at the spring game.
    2 points
  41. I would sign up for 6-6 and a bowl win right now.
    2 points
  42. https://x.com/NoahImgLikeness/status/1734642077655334923?s=20
    2 points
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. Honestly shocked the staff couldn’t find a single player to transfer down with all their connections.
    2 points
  48. 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
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