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Did Coach Mo date your sister or something? Steal your lunch money as a kid?

UCONN up to 9-0 and #5 in the latest AP poll. Great that we scheduled such a strong OOC opponent and our level of fight against them should continue to portend good things for us. Anyone know the scheduling details, was this a one-time only thing?

Flights booked. In and out of Atlanta. After hearing how short the drive is, it is easier to drive from Atlanta, especially to get a flight home on Wednesday morning to go to work.

Best local tv ratings in the MAC, no P5 that owns WNY, and the largest MAC fanbase based on many studies. At one time, nobody could have imagined Rutgers to the Big10 or Cincy to the Big 12.

CUSA is not going to be something special next season when they lose their best teams/markets. No MAC team was going to accept joining that dumpster fire Judy has brought into existence. Liberty was not wanted by any other league. They can pay a coach $4mm due to their online diploma-mill budget, and wanting to be the Evangelical version of ND/BYU/Baylor. They will own the depleted CUSA, with some resistance from La Tech and WKU. SBC did very well with who they brought in, dumping Little Rock/TX-Arlington, and it was humble pie for Southern Miss. fans who thought for the past decade they were bound for the AAC. MAC is steady as they only want WKU and MTSU. JMU and ODU were going with Marshall, and no way MAC/Herd #3. If MTSU was not gun-shy about losing out on all that yummy exit fee revenue they would have jumped to the MAC with WKU. And, in time, they still might. The MAC wont expand just to expand, or else a blunder like adding EKU or YSU would occur. Delaware has brought up FBS again but would be an outlier. Stony Brook has budget tightening and seems destined to just settle in a CAA mid-regional core with Delaware, Hofstra, Drexel and Towson. Even if the MAC takes on 2 more the big MAC issue is, only UB is increasing its enrollment/budget/endowment. Best case for us is 1) Big10 takes no other PAC12 schools 2) The ACC GOR opens up early legally or waiting it out 3) Big10 and SEC want to go MEGA and take the best properties from the ACC (Clemson, FSU, UVA, UNC, Miami, ND, NCST, GT) and 4) WVU, Cincy, UCF are just happy in the Big12, which has a nice media deal even with losing TX and OK. Then we have a shot at the ACC academic snobbish leftovers really needing 6-10 football schools. AAC just wants to be another southern-markets G5 league above the other 2, to the chagrin of Temple and Navy.

For many years, the MAC has rejected turnover in the major sports (basketball and football). Sure, a team here or there has moved in and out over the past 20+ years (Marshall left in 2005...for the second time, then there were the brief stays by Temple, UMass and UCF). In fact, Since UB joined in 1998, the same 12 teams have been there as full members through thick and thin. And...things are getting thin. I remember when the powers that be made the formal split between "P5" and "G5". Where was the MAC? Was it 6? Was it 7? Danny White pushed the AAC towards "P6" status...t The MAC, slow and steady, kept its 12 teams. Nose to the grindstone. Within the past few years we have seen the rise of the Sun Belt (no more "Fun Belt"). The MAC, plodding away...looking around in curiosity as other conferences raid C-USA. What is the MAC strategy? Slow and steady. Oh...and collect that bag during the OOC football season. Now...the MAC is irrelevant, much closer to MVC than the Sun Belt, in my opinion. And things are getting worse. Even though C-USA looks like a sinking ship, it is still going faster than the MAC. Liberty, which joins C-USA next year, just paid the Coastal Carolina coach $4M to bolt from the Sun Belt to C-USA. And while Liberty has a lot of money to give, it is indicative of where the MAC is. After nearly 25 years in the MAC, UB has settled into that comfortable slot of being a team in the MAC, with no vision beyond. It contrasts starkly with the investment the university has made in other area. I always thought the MAC would be a stepping stone for UB in its "run to division 1". After all, many schools have made a similar run and used conferences as stepping stones (looking at you, UCF, who joins the Big 12 at the beginning of the next fiscal year). UB has been dragged down by the MAC. It is this very high research university in a large city and is a (co) state flagship institution...yet competes at the bottom of "major" football. https://www.si.com/college/2022/09/26/ranking-college-football-conferences-sec-big-ten We just spent Friday in a death struggle against Akron to get to six wins to go to the Gasparilla Mowers Bowl against <state> + <direction> university. "MACTION" is a fun word, but they are making fun of the MAC teams and the conference with those words. They are laughing at us. The Run to Division 1 has stalled in a muddy field somewhere in Ohio, with little hope of getting out. I hope, once Tripathi retires (he turns 72 in January), we can get a President with a better vision about the value of college sports to a region and a flagship institution like UB. I ain't getting any younger, either. Go Bulls.

I believe once you have entered the portal, you are no longer technically on scholarship. I guess it would be a team decision, but why would you take a player that say "Peace Out" before their last game? What would be the motivation? Why would the player risk injury? I just think the timing sucks ass, but I'm old and don't agree with these new fangled processes. When I was playing sports, this would be considered quitting on my team, but these are much different times and everyone must look out for themselves.

I was on the road this weekend, so all I could do was monitor the score. What a delightful win! When I saw the final, I laughed like Sideshow Bob when he was elected mayor. I still think this team has a lot of work to do. They're capable of good performances like this, and still capable of some duds. Still a work in progress - but clearly, progress is being made. Curtis said in the Buffalo News that he's been just trying to be more consistent and let the confidence flow. I feel like they're getting better at the defensive end and that's going to bode well when it's time for MAC games. Jonnivius Smith said in the News that he worked a lot on his defense lately, that with his stature, he needs to bring the intensity. I agree with the posters who've said that Powell is a wild card - but he hits his foul shots. I think Caesar at this point, as a true freshman, is a spark off the bench but he has a lot to work on defensively. And that's okay, because he's 9 games into his first season, I'm not expecting the finished article yet.

I don't disagree with this. But the President of UB has to be willing to act if something like this were to occur. Even if all of those dominos fall in the way you mention, what we have learned about this President is: He made athletic budget cuts to soccer (M), swimming & diving (M), baseball, rowing (W) You can read between the lines on why we hired Whitesell (he was cheap) Here is UB's Boldly Buffalo campaign for UB athletics: https://www.buffalo.edu/campaign/priorities-and-goals/UB-athletics.html ($30M) I did a random Google search on an athletics campaign or a university. The first one is UNC. https://ramsclub.com/campaign-for-carolina/ ($500M) It is very easy to find other schools raising $100s of millions for athletics. $30M is UB's target...and they have 85% of their goal. Cincy? Going to B12? Raising $100 M https://foundation.uc.edu/news/athletics-day-one-ready-campaign-launch I LOVE this quote from their AD: "We didn’t wait for this moment, we worked for it. And now that it’s here, we’re not getting complacent—we’re coming for the head seat at the table." Now I expect the typical response to this information to be "UB doesn't have those donors", "Buffalo is a professional shorts town", etc., etc. Same old, same old excuses. We need better leadership in this area, plain and simple, and it starts with the President and the AD. We are going to have to wait out this President.

Yep, I really think the best chance of an upgrade is ACC falls apart and Navy and Temple want out of AAC. I don't see that happening soon unfortunately. That would make a conference of UMass, Army, Navy, Temple, Boston College, Syracuse, Buffalo, Pitt. Lots of appeal playing those schools both for locals and students. This is a huge issue. Besides the academic gap between Buffalo/Miami and everybody else, there's huge enrollment issues at a ton of MAC schools. I looked it up at some point, but I think UB, MU, and OU were the only schools that have really increased enrollment.

Division 1 Conference Championship winning teams 1991-2003 [Bill Greiner]- 10 (All ECC and Mid-Con titles, none MAC) 2003-2010 [Simpson] - 2 MAC 2011-Present [Tripathi] - 17 MAC (and 1 Individual NCAA T&F champion)

The Bennett High school coach (whose team won the State championship today) said that he heard the rumor of Mo going to Cincinnati and said he should take UB recruit Jayden Lewis with him. That would be crushing to lose that kid. Lewis had 12 rush for 169yds, 3 receptions for 60 yards, three long TD’s.

It was on the mothership, ESPN.

I'm still not a Leipold believer. 19pt 4th Q collapse in the MACC still hurts. No coach worth a damn has multiple blown games. Leipold had 2 big ones. Linguist has 4 in this season alone. This would make Alnutt look smart for extending Mo and increasing his buyout.

What a great win. These local rivalry games are always really fun. Bona was mostly bad, but a lot of that was due to the defensive effort by the Bulls. Bona couldn't hit free throws. Great defensive effort. Obviously a great game by Jones and Powell had a great 2nd half while perfect from the FT line. Curtis Jones reminds me of Jason Preston (former Ohio guard now playing with the Clippers). Powell is the wildcard for this team. He plays with a lot of emotion. I'm not certain if that helps or hurts him more. Some of his body language in the 1st half after getting subbed out was noticeable and not in a good way. He also appeared to be withdrawn during a timeout at about the same time. Conversely, the energy that Powell brought in the 2nd half was tremendous. I noticed him encouraging Jones to get his arms and hands spread out while the Bulls were in a zone in the 1st half. Immediately after that exchange Jones stole the ball and converted it for a layup. Powell was clutch down the stretch. Powell was 12-12 from the line. That was the stat of the game IMO. Adams rebounded well and had a nice first half. I don't believe he scored in the 2nd half. Would be tremendous to get more consistency. Bulls rebounded well too. The team's 3 point shooting outside of Jones was really poor again. That will have to improve if we don't want teams just packing it in on us.