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There is still one player to add, but I would not be surprised to see all preseason rankings showing little change from this past season. Halcovage has added players that I would imagine are hard to predict how they will play. Ultimately we may see, next March, they were spot on and that you are right about Halcovage. I approach being a fan a little differently than you. I am going to hope for the best. That means improved shooting from 3, fewer turnovers, better defense (critical!) and a more team oriented approach. I will wait to see if my hope is rewarded. Time will tell.

Did you see the 2025 barttorvik projections? Moved up from 346 to 323

There's no point in pouring money into a sinking ship. GHIII is a lousy coach, that will have under 10 wins in 2 years. Who picked these people to lead? Who makes the decision to let them go if they're not brining in the money? Someone controls the board. Alnutt? Foundation?

Great post

I already gave to every sport and am HOF as well, my point was the NIL isn’t just basketball, it is everything, so if you don’t like the MBB coach to not give at all doesn’t make a lot of sense. Bitching about not having a collective then bitching about the collective 2 days later seems to me that some people just like to bitch. I’m not a Bills fan, but a lot of Bills fans are happier being miserable so that is the local fan base. Even when Oats was here it wasn’t like people were lining the streets in Bulls gear, they are still Bills and Sabers fans first and foremost. It’s only after Oats left people lament the glory days. I’m a Bulls fan, win lose or draw and will support them. If others only want to support in the good times, so be it!

I think he saw his PT going down the tubes and either not wanting to compete or didn’t feel like he could compete. The portal makes it really easy to give up these days.

Yes. I gave on UB Giving Day last year and last week (to men's basketball and every other team) and to the collective its on opening day at the Hall of Fame level, on a monthly basis, to increase the amount over a one time payment for that level. Look at the website, it for all sports. You were going to try to set up a collective and I believe were going to donate to it. You asked me for money and I said I would donate if you set one up, without any questions as to what the 990 would show. The first 990 will not have to be filed until possibly as late as September of 2025. That will mean your money, if you ever donate will not be available for NIL purposes until almost all of the recruiting for freshmen and transfers for the fall of 2026 is done. For someone who wanted to set up a collective, your wallet appears to be very very tight. People are either part of the solution or part of the problem. They are either working for the goal or against it. I will let others figure out what side you are on. I have known two of the five board members for years. They are in it because they bleed blue and white and not for any glory or money. They and I want UB Athletics to succeed and we have all stepped up to the plate. You have to trust people sometimes. So step up and donate or stop complaining that there is no NIL money or money for the programs to spend on needs to make UB more attractive to freshmen and transfers.

Fulcher in the portal is crazy to me. College sports broken af. Power to the players, all day every day, but wow. The stats in the thread are interesting definitely but I was selfishly going to use Fulcher this year as a barometer of how this GH3 staff develops players. Fulcher has good speed, showed good drive to the hoop. Turnovers and 3PT shooting were an issue, surely attributing to his bad metrics, but that can be coached, and I wanted to see if it was. Oh well. Best of luck to him wherever he ends up. Feel like we desperately need another vet now.

Coach Lembo has been forthright that at our level it’s mostly about roster retention. Lose a guy to a big program? It’ll happen. This helps prevent losing a good player to Toledo or Akron.

Since it’s MBB, WBB and Football, would you contribute to any?

A Canadian ivy 6’8 PF is the perfect fit to this group. Now we just need GH3 to turn into Coach Buttermaker and take this team all the way!

Thought he was starting to turn it around near the end of the season. Had an absolutely brutal start to the season though Opens up a scholarship, go get a scorer and you'll likely have improved Not a fan of running only two pg's one being a transfer from Usport and the other a freshman though

Here is sampling of some PF/C per Barttorvik. We have been in touch with Ndur, who is from Canada!

Exactly. until I see the 990 and the distribution, you won’t see a dollar. would anyone contribute to the team last year? Well, this year, we got the same team but will be on paper worse. If I donate to the NIL, will the money go towards a 4 or 5 that we need and still haven’t landed. Mbb needs a million to sniff the top 100. I was told when I tried to get others to start one, that we didn’t have the base.

Their heart and soul is in Arkansas

Good for him, close to home

Nothing again Fulcher, but I’m good with this. Ready for one more PF shooter that can be physical

I was wondering if this would happen when commit from Kavon. Fulcher did not seem to fit with potential emphasis on 3 point shooting. Now maybe they pick up a little more size.

Just had a great conversation w/Logan regarding BPS Foundations and Nickle City Collective partnership in general and donating stock in particular. Attached is a one pager on the tax-deductible options. Alnutt catches grief justifiably so but for this NIL partnership w/BPS Foundations he should not. This give individuals and corporate sponsors a legal means to make tax-deductible donations. Like it or hate it NIL is here to stay. UMASS is coming with a very well functioning NIL program with talented players recruited to win MAC championships period. UB coaches have to adapt, every year is going to be a net new roster. WBB Burke lost all the staff form year one subsequently lost her first recruiting class got a new recruiting class then went on finish runner up in the MAC championship game year 2. I hope MBB GH and Lembo have a similar story the got to have the players to be competitive. NickelCity_BPS Foundation Instructions.pdf

Worst among players who played at least 950 possessions, 5.88 points per 100 possessions worse than an average D1 player I wish him well wherever he goes next but if Bradford/Dunn are what people are hoping they'll be he wouldn't have played next season. That said, we learned too many ball handlers never hurt.

Good news imo. Someone shared a graphic from Evan Miya that had Fulcher as the worst D1 player in the country last season. Could you repost please? Would like to see a power forward brought in with this last spot now.

I believe this is the next step in the evolution. A step that will curtail the portal hopping. The ROI on money spent by collectives isn’t good right now when player X is only at a school for one year and that team fails to make a run. I think collectives will get smarter and player contracts will become a thing.