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Might be time for me to make my return

On 4/16/2022 at 8:08 AM, Jeseph said:

Segu was never humble (far from it, lol) but also seemingly never toxic

True but Segu also wasn’t brought in to a bare bones roster with a ton of question marks as to who is going to step up and take charge. 

On 4/14/2022 at 8:10 AM, ChubbyHubby said:

You gotta remember, nearly every D-1 recruit was the BMOC at their high school.  Many, maybe even most, of them come out being used to being fawned over.  They show up at their respective college with a chip on their shoulder, not thinking that, Hey, everyone else in the room was the BMOC in high school.  Practicing and competing alongside a bunch of mates at the same level (or higher) as you has a way of taming that arrogance.  My wife told me about a certain local RB that came to UB about a decade ago.  He'd walk into the office acting like his crap didn't stink.  Didn't say hello, just walked through.  By the time he was a sophomore, his attitude was starting to change.  By his Junior and Senior years, he was a team leader, with lots of personality.  

That’s fair and I completely get that these guys come in young and do a lot of maturing but right now - given the teams situation with a lot of new guys coming in, maturity and being humble needs to be a prerequisite for the new guys. They’re going to be fighting for minutes, a lot of uncertainty with the roster and we don’t need the locker room to be toxic. Who knows, maybe barely making any impact at Rice humbled Noah, I hope he does well wherever he ends up since he’s a local guy.
 

On the other hand though, Jayvon Graves hit a buzzer beater that went viral and was retweeted and shouted out by Lebron James. Never was cocky or arrogant

16 hours ago, Jeseph said:

How many talented HS players come out humble?

Jayvon Graves, Davonta Jordan. Using two recent UB stars as an easy and simple example. Both 3 star guards like Noah, both went to much bigger high schools than Noah, both had incredible college careers, and both are some of the most humble and respectful people I’ve ever met. I get what you mean though. 

13 hours ago, DooleyBull06 said:

Yea y’all are right. My bad. That’s what happens at 1am lol

I got the two Noahs wrong. This was about Williams, a one time commit of ours.

Noah Williams - very talented and would love to have him on the team.

Noah Hutchins- EXTREMELY cocky and arrogant because he was a big deal in high school. Can play defense but can’t score efficiently at all. Especially not at the college level. 

Love it

Know him personally. No thanks. Won’t go into details but it’s a strong no from me.

I mean seriously this is ridiculous at this point. What is Alnutt even doing? Your coach of one of the biggest sports at your school is horribly underperforming. It’s literally your JOB to oversee the schools athletics and place competent coaches in place for them to be as successful as possible. Do your job Marky Mark 

On 1/27/2022 at 12:57 PM, BrooklynBull said:

Really you would want a guy in the middle of an NCAA investigation?  I do not think so.

I will personally drive recruits to the strip club for Coach Mack any day

Can’t wait for him to come here and average 4 ppg under the Whitesell high-powered Iso-ball offensive system 

1 minute ago, squire17 said:

There were very few SRO games at Alumni Arena even in the 2018-2019 season. 

I was at every home game in that stretch. Religiously went to watch fun and exciting basketball. Not sure where you’re getting that from but there was consistently people standing along the railings 2 rows deep

2 minutes ago, Erie County said:

My GUI is back from the top rope

Had to come out of retirement for this. Wish there was a way the boosters that care about the team could pull all their financial support until changes are made because that’s the only way the school will take notice and action. Money talks 

Went from standing room only at games to high school level attendance 

This is what happens when you conduct a national coaching search, lowball every qualified candidate and end up being stuck with the career .500 coach. Seriously we had all the momentum in the world to launch our name to a higher tier and instead we have an Athletic Director that is seemingly woefully incompetent and a President that cares more about the academic nerdy old dudes that sit around huffing their own farts all day than what the school seemingly had going for it. 

2 minutes ago, DooleyBull06 said:

We had a week off! Unless he had the flu and is recovering.

He did miss a game with a non-covid illness. But still the dude is what, 4-73 from the floor today?

2 minutes ago, yussi1870 said:

As a freshman Mballa will learn a lot from this game.

This actually made me laugh out loud. Good stuff man

I’ll lay out the road map. Satish Tripathi gets hired as the new SUNY Chancellor. UB hires a President that actually cares about sports and not just academics and the performing arts. That new President cleans house and fires both Whitesell and Alnutt. Boom, back to square one because we completely blew the momentum after Oats 

Just now, UB92 said:

You mean, right now?   C’mon…it will be hard to find a coach in the middle of a game.  I am not on board with this idea.  

Grab someone from the crowd, promote an assistant, anything would be better than this. (I agree with you this is just ridiculous)

Wanna know who is responsible for holding players accountable and not letting them play lazy? The head coach. Fire Whitesell and hire a tortoise for way cheaper with the same results 

It’s time for me to rattle some cages. Time for an age old classic of pissing people off on this fan board. Ready for it? FIRE WHITESELL 

On 12/14/2021 at 6:47 AM, mikescherrer8 said:

The guy could not make up his mind during his recruiting. Big no thank you. 

He was originally heading to Clarendon for his JUCO ball. Dude couldn’t even decide which JUCO he wanted to play for LOL

Anyone saying Skogman is a bust is delusional 

This roster is MAC championship quality. This head coach is 2-30 season levels of bad 

Throw Kidtrell in there to see what he does. Please. For the love of God. I hate old school coaches that relegate talented freshmen to the bench because they’re freshmen. You’ve already played him Whitesell, aren’t gonna red shirt him. Current lineup isn’t working