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BrooklynBull

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  1. I do not see RIT moving all sports to Division I. To join the MAC they would have to bring back football, which they dropped after having to come from behind to tie UB, when UB had not played a game in seven years.
  2. As more and more people see this, or people not finding another school to play for, I believe the portal will have fewer entrants.
  3. Unless he reached a deal with St. Bonaventure for some money on his way out, his buyout was $0.00. Remember he quit, he was not fired. Buyouts have to be paid when an AD or a coach is not fired for cause (cause is not bad results, cause is for violating rules. See Cohane, Tim).
  4. Assuming academics still has something to do with college athletics, how does this guy have interest and offers from these schools and UB, Penn and Columbia? UB and the two Ivies would seem strange given all of the other schools listed, especially the Ivies and a JUCO transfer.
  5. The courts will decide. As of now there is no enforceable requirement to make someone sit a year for a second transfer.
  6. Well money is not a guarantee of success.
  7. And how is this is different from every other game this year?
  8. When this debate was first going on you were in favor of beer sales. After the game against Baylor, without beer sales, you came out against beer sales. Now you are for them. Well what is it and why do you keep changing you position? Where is UB going to get the money to keep the coaches? Do you think St. Bonaventure would be able to keep Schmidt if Alabama offered him the money they offered Nate Oats? Linguist now has a base salary of $875,000.00, also at Alabama. That was more than double his base salary at UB. As for being able to go to the community to keep a coach, who is looking a huge payday, it is not going to be in Buffalo. When Brian Kelly had his first big season in Cincinnati, the school was able to reach and and raise a lot of money to keep him for another year. According to industry sources, they were able to raise that type of money because the people in the Cincinnati area are more generous than the people in Buffalo. However, even with that generosity they could only keep Kelly one more year as he left for greener pastures (pun intended) after the next season. Is the Buffalo area more generous than it was 15 years ago, maybe, but not enough to keep coaches when another school rolls ups a Brinks truck. The Ivy League maybe the only conference that is more stable than the MAC. No expansion and no departures.
  9. I will drive. Cannot smoke cigars on a train and I do not want to be tied down to a weekend train schedule.
  10. Confirmed last night by the producer of hte games. Also a different announcing crew for the game. Two different announcers. No Peck, Mattia or Battle.
  11. That is about how long it could take me to go from Brooklyn to the Bronx.
  12. This is the problem with the portal. If he cannot shoot at UB, what would make another coach think he can shoot for them? As the portal gets "more common" the players will begin to realize that many end up not playing somewhere else or having to drop to Division II or Division III. When that is realized players will be much less likely to enter the portal.
  13. Schedule to be release on Monday. First round to be played Wednesday through Friday. https://womensnit.com/news/2024/3/17/general-2024-postseason-wnit-field-announced.aspx If the people who set up the UB- Arizona State game in 2019 in Tulsa are in charge, UB will play South Carolina - Upstate.
  14. For those watching the MAC Championship game on ESPN2, the play by play announcer is the son of UB Football legend Larry Rothman.
  15. I would expect a lot of full court pressure from Kent State to start the game. It is something Coach Burke had to be working on with the team after what Ball State did to close the regular season and Toledo did to get back in the game in the fourth yesterday.
  16. One "statistic" that has not been mentioned when talking about the players that Hodgson brought into Arkansas State is academic. Could any of them gotten into UB and if yes, could they have handled the school work at UB to stay at UB?
  17. Do not know about Austin, but Michigan is closer to JMU than we are. I had a friend whose son went there, in part because of athletics. In his first three years he never made it into the stadium for a football game. Too much partying going on outside the stadium.
  18. My tuition was $750.00 per year (not semester) when I started. Including room and board, it was still cheaper than what my parents paid per year for 7th and 8th grade for me.
  19. Gradate students have to pay to go to games and to use facilities on campus.
  20. It looks like the UB Athletic Fee is about $480.00 per year. It is only paid by undergraduates. I have said for years it should become a mandatory fee for all graduate students. However, whenever it is brought up by the administration the current graduate students fight it. It should be implemented by adding it as a discretionary fee for current graduate students, which will allow them to opt out of and make it just another fee paid by future graduate students. They are leaving about $4,800,000.00 on the table by exempting graduate students from paying that fee.
  21. In the Northwestern case the NLRB decided to not make a finding as to whether the football players were employees. The did not get to the merits of the claim and decided to find that making a decision on the merits would not effectuate the policies of the National Labor Relations Act. The Board said that asserting jurisdiction over the football players "would not promote stability in labor relations due to the variety of state labor laws laws that would apply to football teams at state run institutions." In the long run I think that the NLRB will punt the issue again under the same theory.
  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?
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