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Can't blame him, he wasn't going to be the guy here. I hope he finds a place he can play and flourish.

One QB has exited stage left...

So far I haven't seen any UB guys get signed as UDFA's but a few are going to rookie camps. Good on the Bills for taking care of the local guys.

It's probably hyperbole, but we haven't publicly landed anyone who had a Top 3/5/whatever and picked UB. Tyson Dunn - no other D1 offers Ryan Sabol - no other D1 offers Lloyd McVeigh - no other D1 offers Bryson Wilson - 1 D1 offer in 2020, 2 other D1 offers from service academies in 2023 Ben Michaels - no other D1 offers Tim Oboh - no other D1 offers Kavon Bradford - no other D1 offers Sam Akot - no other D1 offers Brayden Jackson - no other D1 offers within 10 months of committing. Unlikely any were commitable but maybe Halcovage won here Anquan Boldin - A couple D1 offers, notably EMU. Probably a recruiting win Shawn Fulcher - had some low major offers, we won this battle it seems and he was one of the worst players in the country Transfers are ambiguous, they have long "interest" lists, but who knows on offers. Armani Mighty had a visit at Towson so I'll credit Halcovage with a win here. I'll give Halcovage 3.5 recruiting wins. Now offers we had out that went to other D1 schools instead: Alex Massung Braden Hausen Richard Brisco Amarri Tice Ma'Kye Taylor Josh Reed Samson Reilly Angelo Ciaravino Jack Graham Isaiah Fields Sultan Adewale A host of transfer "interests" These are just the ones with updates on our recruiting forum, I could be missing some. Not to mention all the Whitesell players he failed to re-recruit

Not make or break, but someone who has done the job, at some level, may have been helpful to the head coach and team in general. We were plenty broken with 3 wins last year (including countless blowouts) as it is, so it's challenging to break further.

Isn't (wasn't) Tim Saunders the Assistant Coach/DOBO? It would appear that Voigt is a replacement for Saunders and not Cage. I assume Saunders has moved up a chair and is the one to replace Cage.

Sadly I don't think the third assistant chair was going to make or break the upcoming season Would have liked to see more of an outside hire myself, maybe he would have brought a recruit along or something

What makes you say halcovage hasn't won a recruiting battle?

Another year of fun at the AA incoming.

Have to get your start somewhere.......

Tim Saunders was the DOBO last year, so I assume he slides into Cage's #3 seat. This feels like a sketchy hire to complete what has to be one of the most inexperienced staffs in the country. Although not sure who we expected to be interested in a mid-bench job at a four-win program.

Cool, will welcome him aboard and wish him the best.

It appears that the Cage replacement is... another former Villanova walk-on with no coaching experience:

You were in the recruiting threads talking yourself into a high schooler that we recruited that averaged 5.4 PPG so I don't get how you think UB (under Halcovage) is above a kid that averaged 8.1 PPG in the MVC, but blue tinted glasses and all I suppose Edit: I guess my point is: Williamson isn't a high level transfer, and he'd still start for UB. I think people are downplaying how dire the talent level is on this team, and I guess they'd rather just close their eyes and be surprised about it in November

Ok...Graham was bad and is not with us anymore. Sometimes players don't work out. Yeah, Sabol and Williamson had very comparable seasons (0.6 vs 0.8 PRPG!) so I compared them. They were both on bad teams, with UB being worse (the fact that Sabol kept his head above water in our mess of a season is impressive). Again, no one thinks our recruiting is impressive right now, but this kid just doesn't matter. I just don't know why anyone would be hand-wringing over a low level transfer to Niagara in our transfer thread. But I'll be right there with y'all on Niagara Scenic Parkway for the parade.

Even if you throw away the rest, James Graham played at the mid-major level last year (in his 4th college season) and was significantly worse than Williamson. You invoked the Sabol comparison: Sabol was worse, on a worse team, in a worse conference. Halcovage hasn't won a recruiting battle to date and Williamson has shown more at the D1 level than anyone that Halcovage has (successfully) recruited to date.

Showing that he has more counting stats than our transfers who were role/bench players at P5 schools is meaningless. Yours and Chet's posts deserved hyperbole in response. I don't think anyone around here is overly optimistic about this team, but the snarky doomsday shit in April is just kinda tiresome, that's all. 🥂

I definitely didn't say that he was a superstar. Just that the bar is on the floor when compared against UB's recruiting and he clears it. If you want to counter that assertion rather than be hyperbolic I will listen.

Wow. In that case, all hail Jahari Williamson! King of WNY College Hoops!?

TBF Williamson scored more points in one season at Valparaiso (238), than all of Halcovage's D1 transfers (Graham, Batchelor, Mighty) have in 7 seasons prior to UB (207). You can even add in Graham's 29 points at UB and they lose in 8 seasons. I understand the discrepancy in levels the transfers came from, but there's something to be said for getting ANYONE with ANY level of proven production in D1 basketball in two seasons Williamson also bests Sabol in usage adjusted offensive efficiency as well some secondary categories (rebounds, steals, turnovers). Williamson is also rated better as a defender by a fairly wide margin.

Good Canadian boy, wonder if UB was ever in on him as well

Yeah just trying to put things in perspective since it seemed like an "even NIAGARA is getting incredible players in the portal and we can't" type of post.

Unless it's Bryce Drew, Valpo isn't churning out superstars. Not that we were last year either.

Valparaiso...I guess? We have a 6'2" freshman guard who scored 8.1 PPG last year named Ryan Sabol.