DocCas86 Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, DooleyBull06 said: Our schedule is pretty much set. We have an opening for two more non conference games which would take the total to 13 non conference games. Pure speculation on my behalf but there’s room for a game after the Dartmouth game and after the Vanderbilt game. I assume the two remaining games would be road games bc we have 6 non conference games at home so far. Again pure speculation. I tend to agree with you two more games. It was pointed out earlier that the Dartmouth game was referred to as 'Home' opener, not season opener. Also they opened season on 11/6 last year, so I am thinking a road game on 11/5. There still seems to be plenty of top teams that appear to have that date open The other game will probably be on Saturday, 12/7 as this was pattern in last year's schedule. Hoping we find out this week. Edited September 5, 2019 by DocCas86 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooklynBull Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Unless the Army game is a return game from when UB played at Army, when Reggie was coach, it may mean a return trip to Army in the next year or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xDerekRx Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Just looking at the schedule now. I know we aren't going to get anyone great to come to AA like back in the day so I just look for some different/interesting schools to come here. WM and Army at least make for interesting D1 schools with win probabilities. As well as definitely Dartmouth. Interesting to see all 3 Big 4 schools are home games this year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UB05 Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 3 hours ago, xDerekRx said: Just looking at the schedule now. I know we aren't going to get anyone great to come to AA like back in the day so I just look for some different/interesting schools to come here. WM and Army at least make for interesting D1 schools with win probabilities. As well as definitely Dartmouth. Interesting to see all 3 Big 4 schools are home games this year. I agree, and I’ll take playing Army anytime. I’m glad they seem willing and interested in coming here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted September 5, 2019 Author Share Posted September 5, 2019 (edited) 12 hours ago, xDerekRx said: Interesting to see all 3 Big 4 schools are home games this year. Does that mean three road games next year? If so, that could result in very few games at Alumni next year. Especially if we have to go to W&M and/or Army. Edited September 5, 2019 by dutchcountry7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooleyBull06 Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 2 hours ago, dutchcountry7 said: Does that mean three road games next year? If so, that could result in very few games at Alumni next year. Especially if we have to go to W&M and/or Army. I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that we agreed to a home and home with Army and/or William and Mary. And if we did we could have agreed to play the return date in a future season not next year. So the only road games at this point for next season would be at the big 4 opponents. The Army and WM games could just be buy games. No future commitments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rma Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 4 hours ago, dutchcountry7 said: Does that mean three road games next year? We could pull a Niagara and either not play them or demand to play them at home again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted September 6, 2019 Author Share Posted September 6, 2019 2 hours ago, rma said: We could pull a Niagara and either not play them or demand to play them at home again. I can’t see them agreeing to a one game deal and I can’t see us buying four teams. That would require a huge jump in the budget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UB05 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 43 minutes ago, dutchcountry7 said: I can’t see them agreeing to a one game deal and I can’t see us buying four teams. That would require a huge jump in the budget. Well they did get a million dollars from the Oats buyout and are paying Whitesell a third of that for the season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCas86 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 On 8/30/2019 at 8:53 AM, Gxtrex said: How long do you think it would take us to figure out our entire OOC schedule if every D1 team posted their OOC schedule besides Buffalo? haha It is getting a little easier by the day. I currently have a list of about 20 teams that we could schedule with at this point. I know it is likely just two more games, but would like to hear today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeseph Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enrique14150 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Wow, Daemen AND Nazareth in the same season? Break out the face paint, it's time to get nuts! Now I know what the extra money they're getting from me this coming year is going to. It's weird to see all three games against other Big Four teams at home. Since they're all over break, it's going to be tough to get a rowdy student contingent there. Perhaps us alums are going to have to pick up the slack. Friday night vs Kent is going to be a good scene, a big, fired up crowd on a Friday night on TV, that's going to be fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeseph Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 3 minutes ago, enrique14150 said: Wow, Daemen AND Nazareth in the same season? Break out the face paint, it's time to get nuts! Now I know what the extra money they're getting from me this coming year is going to. Yea, and given the late release of the schedule it's pretty clear that the department simply settled for the first teams that would play at AA instead of doing everything they could to book a solid home schedule that benefits the team, the program and, when possible, the fans 🙄 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trueblue32 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 48 minutes ago, enrique14150 said: Wow, Daemen AND Nazareth in the same season? Break out the face paint, it's time to get nuts! We've played a D2/D3 exhibition and a D2/D3 regular season game each of the last 4 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCas86 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Jeseph said: Time for me to turn in my sleuthing hat! I had DePaul early but crossed them off recently. I had been thinking we would have road game with East Tennessee St, but I'll take a BE opponent. Overall some fun games on the calendar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 The Harvard game is more concerning now. Only weak opponents before the game. Harvard will be five games in by the time they play us with some more challenging opponents to get them ready. If we enter MAC play with a winning record we will be in good shape to make a run at the MAC title again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 1 hour ago, enrique14150 said: It's weird to see all three games against other Big Four teams at home. Since they're all over break, it's going to be tough to get a rowdy student contingent there. Perhaps us alums are going to have to pick up the slack. Geez... there goes the home court advantage. Now St. Bona fans will be buying up tickets that are typically held back for students. I can't help but think they scheduled those games when students were away on purpose so that they could sell more tickets since the local teams will bring fans that don't normally buy UB tickets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UB05 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 6 hours ago, enrique14150 said: Wow, Daemen AND Nazareth in the same season? Break out the face paint, it's time to get nuts! Now I know what the extra money they're getting from me this coming year is going to. It's weird to see all three games against other Big Four teams at home. Since they're all over break, it's going to be tough to get a rowdy student contingent there. Perhaps us alums are going to have to pick up the slack. Friday night vs Kent is going to be a good scene, a big, fired up crowd on a Friday night on TV, that's going to be fun. You’re getting 2 extra home games compared to last season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGBull Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 IMO the most important game on that schedule is UCONN, making noise in that tournament would be huge for us. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooleyBull06 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 hour ago, SGBull said: IMO the most important game on that schedule is UCONN, making noise in that tournament would be huge for us. I agree with this bc then it sets us up to potentially play Xavier (I’m assuming they beat Towson). Would love a winning record in that tournament. Would love to win it all, having beaten UConn, xavier and Florida. But will settle for a 2-1 showing. Overall I have no major complaints about the schedule. Love the exposure we are getting. Love the neutral sites/tournament we are in. I assume we still are having scheduling issues bc no one wants to play us. So “settling” for road games against Vandy and DePaul aren’t the worse thing. Lots of winnable games. Can’t wait. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clodney Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Expectations seem a bit inflated here, guys. We may have been on level footing with the big teams last year but I'm expecting a bit of a drop off given the turnover. I think we'll be a strong midmajor - but not a team that wins a majority of its games against teams like UCONN, Xavier, and Florida. We lost some key pieces and it will take a bit of time for the new guys to gel into the rotation. I like the schedule though. I just wish we could have found a way to capitalize on our recent success to finally get 1 or 2 of these big dogs to come play us at Alumni the way we did a few years back with UCONN, Pitt, BYU, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
121Merrimac Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 I’m not sure we got BYU. Wasn’t that more of a homecoming game for a semi local player? Maybe in a few years, UB will host whoever recruits Dior J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 3 minutes ago, 121Merrimac said: I’m not sure we got BYU. Wasn’t that more of a homecoming game for a semi local player? Maybe in a few years, UB will host whoever recruits Dior J. Yup. They came to UB asking for a game. It's why we got the first home game in the series. It was so their star could get a game back near family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmer_Fredette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
121Merrimac Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 28 minutes ago, dutchcountry7 said: Yup. They came to UB asking for a game. It's why we got the first home game in the series. It was so their star could get a game back near family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmer_Fredette I was a bit surprised that Jimmer’s homecoming wasn’t to UVM. Along those lines, Dior J has more options in NYC than Buffalo. P.S. what series? When is the return game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 7 minutes ago, 121Merrimac said: I was a bit surprised that Jimmer’s homecoming wasn’t to UVM. Along those lines, Dior J has more options in NYC than Buffalo. P.S. what series? When is the return game? Return game: https://ubbulls.com/news/2011/12/20/12_20_2011_1719.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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