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Let's just hope he shows up to UB 12 months from now. These verbals and even signings mean very little these days. It's great to have him in the fold, but one season at a time and fingers crossed for not only a MAC championship this year, but his arrival next fall.

A game I would like to see, and some may not be for it. Going up against Rick Pitino’s Iona team. They are probably going to be the best team in the MAAC. They are returning a lot of great players and added a lot of great players. And I think it would be a fantastic game. Hate him or not, Pitino is one of the greats and one of the best coaches who’s able to get the most out of his players.

Maybe the SEC should institute a million dollar minimum wage for AD's so that they all can feed their families and pay down their student loans.

My thought is Boals is gone after this year (see: Oats winning an NCAAT game, running it back with mostly the same team, and then bolting). Convincing Hadaway to come then without ever stepping on campus is a different discussion. He's more akin to James Rojas, Andre Allen, Raymond Hawkins than Williams in that regard, but that's all conjecture.

Who Ohio lands only really matters if you think Jeff Boals will be at Ohio for long, which I personally do not. Williams was ranked #130 and became an all-conference level player his junior year. Lets see if Boals is in the MAC in 2025

Of course Sam Pellom was unranked. Players were not ranked tehy way they are today back then.

Been saying it for years, and it will always remain the same, rankings do not mean shit. The greatest player in UB history, unranked.

My guess is because he hates the current staff and will go out of his way to inject that into everything here. For instance a thread where everyone is excited about a new recruit he posted that they’re unranked, and that Ohio got a 4 star. Which in and of itself doesn’t seem like much, but in the context of the poster wanting everything Whitesell to be bad, even when we land a good recruit, probably rubbed someone the wrong way. That’s just my assumption though, based off spending time on this message board.

Perhaps I missed something here but why exactly are we being so confrontational to Erie County?

To be honest I think we're in a pretty good spot for the portal. We haven't had a major loss there since Bearden, and we've had several significant contributors come in since then. Being a top mid-major theoretically gives us a shot to pick from some good down transfers, while also retaining the Segus and Williams because we're still winning and they arguably get just as big of a spotlight as they would as a role player at a high major. I understand frustration with some of Whitesell's shortcomings, but he seems to continue a culture that players aren't choosing to leave while also succeeding at bringing in more high level talent. You can argue what the ceiling is with Whitesell but I feel he brings a high floor to the program, which I value highly with a re-shuffling of the conference decks on the horizon (which if things break right could raise our ceiling for us). Now is not the time for the program to fall off of the map, and hopefully Linguist can do the same for the football program.