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Turning this game off. Can’t watch this high school team anymore. Absolute embarrassment on national tv.

The men get back at it today, hosting the Golden Flashes at 6:30 in Buffalo. The game is on CBS SN. Kent is 10 - 11, coming off two home losses to Ohio and Miami. Not your typical Kent State team, but good enough versus UB to be an 8 point road favorite. I would just like to say I can't believe UB is 2 - 18. It is hard to even write, but much worse when you look at the conference rankings. We once had this awesome car and a great driver. Then the driver left and some parts fell off the car...and we ended up getting a retread driver who already proved he was an average driver, at best, who slowly let the car fall into further disrepair. Then we hired a guy who hung around a Ferrari car shop for many years but didn't have a license...and he drove what was left of the car off a cliff.

I miss having an AD with a vision

I mean, seriously, could he be worse than the last guy? We won so huge when he left on his own. We got paid for dumping an anchor. I think he will be a solid football coach. He may not be flashy and bring in a ton of style, but will teach the game and coach the players he has. I can certainly live with that.

I actually haven’t a lot good things about him. I’m glad we passed on him imo

Coaching hires - I have come to the point that I don't get too high or low in the first place. I say, "we'll see." Because UB's best coach was a guy whose resume was 'high school coach, then assistant for a couple years at a MAC school.' They just had a dud of a football coach who was a position coach in the NFL. People here don't want re-treads, which means you're getting younger guys who don't have experience. The ceiling is higher, but as we're finding in real time right now, the bottom is lower too. People were distressed that it seemed Whitesell couldn't sell a new generation of talent on the program. So they needed someone younger and more energetic with a vision. Right now the talent looks worse and it doesn't appear to be getting better on the horizon. I've always thought your staff needs (1) an x's and o's coach, (2) someone who can recruit and sell the place to everyone, and (3) someone who's good at working with people - maintaining the morale and mindset of the group. Under Oats, we had all three - Oats seemed to know the x's and o's, Hodgson was the recruiter, Whitesell was the glue. Under Whitesell it seemed like they didn't have a recruiter. Right now...I don't know if you've got any of these.

Why build and institute green bus rapid transit when you can build preposterous light rail infrastructure into the inner ring suburbs that don't want it for 10x the cost?

Our family were divided with the hire at the time. There are so many assistant coaches on power five teams that are riding on the coat strings of good coaches who have some of the best players in college basketball. Coach H reminds us of Canisius coach Marbach who was a terrible head coach. That being said it is beyond frustration when a team does not show any improvement as the season goes on. Really do wonder what these kids and coaches are doing in practice?? Playing and watching basketball for over 50 years we have never seen such a terrible display of basketball especially at this level.Alnutt’s track record is to give Coach H another year but the majority of the fan base is gone and we would not be surprised to see the majority of players leave.

But if you believe the posters here, we didn’t get turned down by anyone.

Not sure if it’s been posted yet, but this is the company she’s keeping. A big showing tonight could possibly put her behind only Clark

At this point, the season will play out the way it will play out. But barring something unexpected, it will be fair to consider whether this should be a one-and-done for GH3. I mean, this is now a reclamation project and is he really the person we want leading it? This is with our without ADMA. What do we know about GH3? No head coaching experience. Wasn’t able to recruit what he needed. Team has not grown/improved since November. Team still looks like a group, especially on defense, that just got together for a pickup game Not explosive or fiery…team and coach has no identity. —- And he is going to be the guy to rebuild this mess? An easy pass. ——- It isn’t that I was against this hire - I thought it was good…looking from the outside. But I was wrong. Of course, I didn’t make the hire. The person that did should be held responsible.

You are likely very correct on this. NFL hires 30 year old HCs experience is no longer a requirement, you just need to be a disrupter 🤣

Cannot imagine what is really going on behind the scenes and the relationships between the players and coaches. With very little coaching experience on the staff or creditability of being a productive D1 player (besides Cage for UB), little history of Jay Wright's coaching tree being successful, a team of unathletic players that cannot shoot, play defense, or seem "blue collar", you truly need to be the most optimistic person in see a better future with current staff and players. BTW, not that last years team was "blue collar" or played defense. How could Alnut miss this hire so much?

It doesn’t matter what one UB donor and his or her money wants. That NFTA Metro Rail expansion is happening. I Joe Namath guarantee it take it to the bank. The politicians and developers of the Boulevard Mall site in Amherst want it. Plus most sane people realize that if your house is on a Metro Rail line it will be worth more money. Because the property will bring more bidders because you don’t necessarily need a car to work downtown. Cars are getting more and more expensive. Plus not all young people want to own a car today. You also have Buffalo Waterfront development that wants this for easier access where you don’t have to drive and park downtown in expensive parking spots. Trust me some 65 year old plus UB rich person isn’t stopping Metro Rail expansion times have changed from the 1980’s. I am old Buffalo guy and I am telling people it’s a done deal no UB donor is stopping anything. Western New York is sick of this area sucking economically. I am just one of many that are tired of nimby’s today like the UB donor. If they don’t want a Metro Rail move somewhere else they have plenty of money to live wherever they want that is far away from Metro Rail in my opinion. UB Horns Up! Go Bulls! Let’s Go Buffalo

No UB Bulls basketball wouldn’t. UB Bulls basketball could offer Big Ten Conference money it would make no difference. As long as George Halcovage is the UB Bulls head coach this program has no chance. Offer NBA money it wouldn’t matter because you can’t have a clueless head coach. I watched St Bonaventure Bonnies at number 21 Dayton Flyers tonight at least the Bonnies are coached well and don’t quit. UB Bulls athletics administration is out of touch with reality. You’re playing on television using your national television spot against Bonnies at number 21 Dayton Flyers that is a definition of insanity. UB athletics doesn’t get it and neither does national television. UB Bulls could have started that game at 9 PM so more Buffalo fans would watch the national television game. The MAC conference doesn’t understand the Western New York television market don’t take on Bonnies A-10 Conference at the same time with a 17 year head coach in Mark Schmidt. They needed to flip UB to ESPN 2 after the Bonnies game at 9 PM. Out of sight out of mind it’s UB athletics loss. This needs to change regardless of the coach or athletic director with UB in the future. It’s not even debatable. You don’t play at the same time as the traditional Little Three basketball Bonnies. It’s like the New York Jets playing at the same time as the more traditional New York Giants insanity few are watching the loser Jets that are the Buffalo Sabres of the NFL if we are telling it like it is. Which I realize is hard for some on this UB Bulls board. You’re cutting off half the Western New York television market like I said insanity in my opinion. UB Horns Up! Go Bulls! Go Bonnies! Let’s Go Buffalo

Down to 348 on Kenpom and 349 on Torvik. Here are the teams that UB is better than: LIU-Brooklyn, Lindenwood, Alabama A&M, VMI, Siena (not sure what's happened to them), Stonehill, St. Francis PA, IUPUI, Southeast Missouri State, Detroit Mercy, UMES, Coppin State, and Mississippi Valley State. These are our peers now, fellas. What a complete and unmitigated disaster.

Tough game to sit through.

Well, at least watching the game at their place is watchable now that they have a new floor. Could you imagine watching those 2 teams play on that ridiculously unwatchable floor combined with the quality of play? I've never turned a UB game off, but that might have gotten me there.

The only pro I can see for not firing Halcovage after year 1 is that it would mean we don’t have to watch Alnutt flub another hire. Alnutt has to go before MBB opens again. Don’t know where all that money comes from though

These teams now see Buffalo on their schedule and know it will be like a Globetrotter game and we are the Generals. Their eyes light up and the confidence is thru the roof. The sad thing is our football coaching staff is attending this. You know they want to leave but probably won’t to not embarrass GH3 any further.

At least he calls timeouts to try to stymie the runs 🤷🏻‍♂️

Down 24 points and not even to halftime. This team is 100% lost, no recovery in sight.

Where’s the flatline guy this year? He’d be having a really good time watching this team 🤣

lol those teams would put up 120 points on this team and win by 60. No one on this team is even an average defender.

They just said on the broadcast…we shoot the most 3s per game in the conference yet we are dead last in 3pt FG% in the conference. And 5th worst in the country. Literal definition of insanity. Combine that with poor defense and we get blown out every game

I hope they do nothing. The government should stay out of operations of the public universities unless there is a need to control a major scandal. Chris Christie got involved in the athletic department at Rutgers and messed it up by putting political flunkies in high positions.

Trying to be patient with this team and coach. But i can’t do it. Turning it off due to extreme embarrassment of a once proud program.