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NIL "donations" are not donations. They are payments for which an athlete is supposed to do something. If they do something for you are they could be your employee? Do you have the proper insurance if they get hurt? Donations to name things after yourself or another leaves a legacy for the future. NIL is fleeting at best. That money is to keep the number of actual employees of the school lower. It saves the school millions of dollars by not having to provide health insurance and retirement benefits. UB is not alone in moving to more adjunct professors than full time employee professors. You will get an apology as soon as you make a donation to athletics or a payment into a NIL fund. Until then I stand by my statements.

Correct.

Almost every school not in the now power 4 conferences fund their programs with payday games. Kent State takes three a year. Do you think that UB clears more money for a home game than a payday game? Of the four non-conference football games how many do you want at home? Schools like UB will rarely have three of the non-conference games at home. I have no idea who is and is not an alumni member. I do not speak with donors, other than people I personally know who donate. I am not a fundraiser for athletics, anymore. There was a time frame when directors of the Blue and White Club made fund raising calls. That stopped in the late 1990s. I have not made a fund raising call for any part of UB since, and yes I donate to more than Athletics. Those who cut back or stop and have a reason for what they are doing and are better than people who donated $0.00 and complain that there is not enough money for athletics. Almost regardless of what you economic situation is, people can probably scrape together something to donate. I started at $15.00 a year and created a plan over the years to increase my donations on a yearly basis. Put your money where your fingers are.

So UB needs to get "serious about building and supporting winning programs" before making a donation. That is an assumption without basis, that UB does not want build and have winning programs. But they need money to get "serious about building and supporting winning programs". You have a created a chicken or egg situation, with the result of UB not having the money that you believe that they need. That makes you part of the problem and not the solution.

To paraphrase Lance Leipold's, football is football and to paraphrase Sabrina Ionescu's, if you can shoot, shoot; money is money and it can be used for anything. Since you have given a total of of $0.00, you do not have the right to mock anyone who donates anything for athletics.

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.

I am not an employee of UB. Remember the B in UB is for Buffalo not Brooklyn.

Nobody donates to me. My donations are ear marked for projects and naming rights.

We would be going from the best academic institution in the MAC, to probably best in the AAC. Rice is an AAU school, and the only school that would be close to UB in academics. The rest of the full members (not counting Army and Navy) are no different than the bulk of the MAC.

Then you are part of the problem. What bothers me the most is people who complain about the situation at UB, but have done nothing (donated nothing) to help improve it. You can donate to UB Athletics and designate the money for anything that you want, other than NIL. You want to set up a NIL group, speak with UB to do it the right way and start raising funds for NIL purposes.

Because the additional revenue from the AAC will not come close to covering the additional expenses for the travel.

Only about 50 behind the UConn women.

Money for NIL is for NIL. Travel and buy games are expenses for the school. Schools cannot pay NIL money. As to your question at the end the answer is, no. I think that other for years when a donation has been made for a major infrastructure project has been made, athletics has not received $4,000,000.00+ in donations in total, let alone for basketball alone.

Bearden played under both coaches.

What does a coach's salary have to do with NIL? Schools do not pay NIL money.

Just got an email from Athletics. The Spring Game is April 27th. That is what you get for working and trying to listen to an online call.

I think the coach said that it is tentative for April 20th.

They flew for certain games with Coach Jack.

Northern is the longest and Ball State is the second longest trip.

For those looking for an edge on betting the Super Bowl Sunday, the team that scores the most points at the end of the game is 57-0.

The money for me wining and dining others comes from my hard work. I have not made one comment on here about the continuation of Mark Alnutt as AD. Nor have I commented on whether any coach should keep their job. It is not that I am indebted to any of them for anything. It is out of respect for them as people who have families and the relationships that I have because I have met and know them. I have never asked for the Athletic Department to hire or fire any coach or administrator. That is not my role. I am a donor and have been one for over 40 years and hopefully will be for another 40 years. What I get is what any donor can get. Jealous? Then go https://ubbulls.com/sports/blue-white-fund and donate. Now please go back to your Rapids thread, I think they just got a turnover and are on a fast break for a layup that you have yet to post about.

The decision has nothing to do with professional or amateur status of the students. It just makes them employees. That creates many issues outside of the right to be in a union. UB Law School is working on a blog post on the decision. Should be up by next week at the latest.

The NCAA does not pay for the luncheon. It is paid for by the sponsors of the game. Private equity in college athletics will be the end of college athletics except for possibly a dozen schools. The rest all lose money, which private equity does not like.