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  1. FFS man, get your nose out of Kevins rear long enough to see I was not digging at him there. I was saying, quite clearly, that the Comm dept was holding access over him and I've said other places they should't be doing that over this post.
  2. Not stirring the pot Jesph, I said above I would not blame him either way, sorry if you missed that. Hell I even defended his post against the reaction: I think it was a shaq take, but not so awful or disrespectful that UB communications should have weighed in, in any capacity. But since I seem to be a bad influence here in your opinion I'll just go away.
  3. The only reason I can think of is because he needs a good relationship with the department to seem legit... My guess is the communications people reminded him of that.
  4. Got it. Everything about the output of the department got better and many of his changes are still in place but because the words "New York" offended your provincial sensitivities danny white was a hack amateur.
  5. Scoreboard... Results before white, results during and after white.... Nothing needs to be defended.
  6. The results speak for themselves... > Did White extend a personal favor to you that makes you feel loyal to him? Did White once take a shaq on your lawn so you feel the need to run him down? > You know, you don't have to defend the failure to be supportive of the man, right? In what way was UB's athletic department worse off after White than before. I've already said the marketing of the whole thing was not good, but what NYBI was, under the hood, was very successful and you can't point to a single program in the department that was not better at the end of his tenure. > He has moved on and is doing very well after learning from his mistakes in Buffalo. Mistakes.... More MAC Championships, more winning, uptick in donations, uptick in attendance and ticket sales, uptick in media penetration. These are objective tangible things. You're pointing at the word "initiative"
  7. You Market UCF as the "home town team" for a few reasons.. 1 - It's not the highest level of athletics by a state school in Florida. HE's never going to get any buy in on "we're floridas team" when you have *FLORIDA* AND *FLORIDA STATE* in objectivly better conferences with real history. In NY you don't have that problem. UB as a state school is at the highest level and with far more history than any other institution. we *ARE* the leaders and our only competition for that mantle is a large private school and a military academy. Everyone else in the state has no FBS football, let alone *better* football. 2 - Orlando is significantly larger than Buffalo. The metro area is twice the population of Buffalo NY so you're fishing in a bigger pond -- The NYBI logo and some of the sales pitch could have been better but the program as a whole undoubetly advanced the department and we are reaping the benefit of that time. Attendance went up, donations went up, performance went up. Our profile raised more under white than it did under Warde or than it has since White. Warde did a great job laying groundwork, it was not sexy but it was critical. He handed White a healthy Athletic department white handed off an even better one. As to the "it alienated people" I lay that at the feet of Bucky and Sully who spent years harping on uniform patches and slogans when they could have been introducing the people of Buffalo to Khalil Mack.
  8. Flecks not bailing on MN for Ole Miss, he just sighed a hgue contract up here. Ole Miss might be able to bump him a little bit but not by enough to warrant the move.
  9. There are "Roster changes" and then there is losing 5 of your top 6 players. While everyone is talking up that the players remaining have been with us for some time that's not true for two of the starters who are both first year transfers. I'm a bit concerned at this point, but I think being "on a ledge" is reactionary
  10. To be fair I'm pretty sure it was not anyone on the team, it was the communications people. But your point stands 😉
  11. One time we took a satirical look at Bobby Hurleys anger issues and got a call from someone in the department. After talking it over with the other guys I pulled it becuase it was just mean. But we replaced it with a straight analysis of the problem. It's a hard call, I'm not going to fault Kevin for pulling it.
  12. I agree... I think it was a shaq take, but not so awful or disrespectful that UB communications should have weighed in, in any capacity. Just cause I don't much like him does not mean I think he should be bullied out of his stated opinion. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't *slightly* enjoy him trying to say all I do lavish praise on UB in the very same discussion thread that he would later pull at the behest of the department.
  13. My guess is that someone in the dept may have sent Kevin a nastygram and he relented to keep his credentials.
  14. I don't think UB's media department has admin rights so Kevin took it down. Which is ironic since some here have implied Bull Run is some sort of lapdog.
  15. Point 1: The BG / Toledo game is not played every year because geography, it's played every year because it's BG/Toledo. Buffalo is closer to EMU than Miami or Ohio, it's about on par with our distance BG. So let's throw "geography" out the window here, thats a complete red herring. Point 2: There is already one cross over division game set per year and both participants "Bowling Green and Toledo" still play a rotation on all the other games. We played 6 games in the east for years while Temple (and then UMass) was in the MAC. There is no reason one "set west" game would keep the MAC from using UB's other two West division games per year from rotating through. With an annual game vs EMU In this scenario since we play EMU every year, we could do a full West rotation (home and road) every five seasons Y1: @CMU vs WMU Y2: @ NIU vs BSU Y3: @ TOL vs CMU Y4: @WMU vs NIU Y5: @BSU vs TOL Without EMU every year To do the full rotation without a set EMU and three West games we would need four seasons even Y1 @EMU vs WMU vs CMU Y2 @NIU vs BSU vs TOL Y3 vs EMU @WMU @CMU Y4 vs NIU @BSU @TOL === You're talking about, in a decade, a difference of *1* game against five teams in the west. BG and Toledo have been doing this for years, and it's not hurt the MAC a bit. With EMU Game EMU - 10 game REST - 4 games Without EMU Game vs ALL - 5 games --- This is not schedule breaking stuff that would hurt UB or the MAC. But it *COULD* at least start to better bring UB into the MAC culture.
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