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UB has been ranked in MBB and football in the last 5 years, and S16 for WBB. We, by far, have the most MBB success over the last decade in the conference and arguably had the most WBB success in the same timeframe. Downgrading non-football sports would mean go independent in football which will lose us more money. Nate Oats, the best MBB coach in recent history, was a high school teacher before he came here and was cheap on his first contract. Just because JW isn't working out doesn't mean that we can't get a good coach in, or more importantly that paying more money means you get a better coach. Just ask ASU, who is paying over $2 million for Bobby Hurley to go under .500 in conference and not win a NCAA tournament game in 6 opportunities. Have a couple mediocre to bad years and people act like the sky is falling. JW got UB to the MAC finals in 2021. Bowling Green hasn't won the MAC auto bid since 1968 Northern Illinois hasn't made the finals since 1981 The last time a MAC West team other than WMU won the finals was 2003 Things don't look good, but they could be WAY worse.

We just look like a young inexperienced team that needs time to gel. Definitely have some talent on the team. Seem to have a pretty good ceiling. But I’m guessing it’s going to be a very volatile year. Need to be better situationally down the stretch and work on breaking the press. But regardless, I enjoy the intensity they play with. Even if it’s not a great year in the win department, I’ll enjoy watching them this year! Which is more than I can say for the last two years!

This could be good for the guys. Fly home happy, we led at halftime in every game. We need to learn to finish, but every game we had a new player step up. Curt Jones is our bell cow. He's the most consistent. Today Adams showed what the coaches must have seen. This is a good win. Hopefully the betters lost their ass!

Nice win. Good to see the Adams we hoped for, hopefully we can see this more consistently. The team has had a different guy/guys play decent every game. We can see the talent is there, now they just need to put it together as a group. Other than the stinker vs JMU and a bit of being a little overmatched vs UConn, they've gone 2-2 against teams that are basically toss up games. For the early season, it's just good to see some growth after today's win, especially considering they could've won each of the first two games in paradise, before letting them slip away. It'll be nice to see how they do against Canisius, as they should beat them handily (although likely won't, but hopefully will at least pull out a nice W).

Kenpom - 115 / Barttorvik 139 / Massey 167

I agree on Alnutt being caught off guard with Oats leaving. Ironically it seemed like he was better equipped for the Mo hire than replacing Oats when Leipold leaving was in the offseason. Alnutt had all the time in the world for WBB, and I think he made a decent hire based on her resume. TBD if Burke works out here. It would be anybody's guess as to what would have happened if Lanier came here, but GSU hired him at roughly double the salary we're paying JW and now he's making $2 million a year at SMU. And yes, we should be competing for MAC Championships every year. My last points were not saying that we shouldn't be, but that we've had an unusual period of success that most other MAC schools do not see. I would love to build on that success but demanding MAC titles every year is going to turn us into Nebraska football and not Boise State football. There's calls to fire Mo when we're on the cusp of bowl eligibility for the 7th time in D1 history (and only 3rd time not under Lance Leipold).

You know…..I have always let you say your piece, and have at times stuck up for you when others make your posts the brunt of their jokes. You have your opinions and you’re entitled to them, and God knows UB needs as many passionate fans as it can get…….: BUT……take this with all the respect it can muster……this take is way off base. I’m 99% sure that UB had absolutely no say in whether this game was going to be played this week. I can guarantee you the writing was on the wall when Akron Equipment truck was within a half hour of here and was told to turn around, on Thursday. and that didn’t stop people at UB from trying to keep the game on by keeping the field cleaned off and continuing to prepare for the game as if it was still going to be played. And I can also guarantee you that people would have been out there today, clearing snow to have the field ready for today. IMHO, the last entity to take any blame in this is UB.

In my opinion the Akron Zips were literally not even in the state so UB Bulls football would have only been able to play itself Cole Snyder vs Matt Myers with bum coach Mo coaching both teams then getting fired from losing team horns up let’s go Buffalo

Nice to not see the "Fire the Coach" comments in this thread. It's only a few games into the season. This is a young (and new) team. Good win today. Hopefully it will bring back some confidence.

Actually I put a small wager on GMU to jinx them. Now I just have to do that for every game.

Good win. 2-4 obviously isn't great but not concerned about the record really. Some things to like about this group. Interested to see how to look come MAC schedule with the toughish ooc

I guess we figured it out - not Whitesell - I just have to refrain from starting threads!

Picked to finish 5th in the A-10

I was 0-2 in threads that I started - so thought maybe a change would help. 🙂

Love watching Boals coach.

C. Jones tied for the team lead in ppg and rpg and leading in apg. Also a decent assist to turnover ratio at 3.3 to 1.7. Very early, but Curtis is one of our better shooters from 3 at 30%. Team shooting just 25% (15/60), need to raise that into the low 30’s at least to be somewhat competitive. Work in progress!