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Let's get this thread back on the subject. Chellia scored 21 points against EMU bringing her season average down a bit to 24.9 ppg

They all left on their own.

That will really help get the students come to games, moving them downtown. Why not just reinstall the six or seven rows roll up bleachers in Clark Hall and play there again. It would make it easier for the public to go to games, as there are many people who live walking distance from the Main Street Campus.

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.

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?

I disagree. Halcovage was a complete unknown, it’s extremely risky to just hire a young guy off a high major staff when you have no visibility into what role he actually played in their success. Bucknell interviewed Halcovage, for whatever reason he didn’t get the job, and even they have 9 D1 wins now. This is really not excusable for Alnutt. He fired Whitesell too early implying that he had some plan that he clearly didn’t and cost UB extra money. He then very publicly got dunked on by like 10 candidates that turned us down. Then hired the Bucknell rejectee and has since watched our program spiral to uncharted depths. I was willing to be optimistic because high major assistants are unknown and maybe he works out. He very clearly has not. It literally almost cannot get any worse. People seem to be taking the stance that there is no performance that is fireable in year 1. There’s nothing to suggest that this will get any better after the few D1 caliber players from Whitesell disappear off the roster. We’re going to run this program into the ground for another season just for the prayer that he somehow magically puts it together in year 2? We’re painted into a corner here financially but I’d truly pay a top Buffalo high school coach whatever to be the coach. We know Halcovage isn’t the future so let’s start playing the lottery, even if it’s the $1 scratch offs until he and Whitesell off the books

I waited a day to see if the adjectives I would use to describe this would get better. They didn't. Thanks for putting our humiliating state of affairs on national TV last night. That's not even a powerhouse opponent - Kent was a .500 team that looked like world-beaters. I knew going in that the MAC schedule was going to be tough because UB's squad can't match the physicality and size inside that a lot of teams had. Not just that, Kent's quick ball movement opened up shots that UB couldn't deal with. Kent got sloppy at times in the second half (as teams tend to when they're up that much, despite Senderoff trying to keep them focused) otherwise it would've been even worse. I can stomach a rebuilding project, like last year, where the team actually got better over time (their ceiling wasn't that high though). What distresses me most today is that this team doesn't look any better at anything than it did in November. There are guys who were here last year that are worse out there now than a year ago (which means they were good but regressed, or they weren't good and Whitesell and company coached them well). Except for a couple games like at Toledo, sometimes they inexplicably hang in there. How does one describe the interior defense last night? Ineffective...soft...nonexistent...pathetic? In our text chain (the rest of our season ticket group didn't show up last night) during the game, one of them asked if it might be worse next year. Barring a significant influx of talent, it's hard to see it being better. I can deal with short term losing if there's hope for the future but after last night, it was hard to see hope. Show of hands who ACTUALLY thought this was a bad hire last summer. People wanted a young, ambitious coach. The buck stops at the top - but Halcovage looked great on paper and exactly the kind of guy who you want to take the next step at this level. The AD is ultimately responsible for how things are going, but based on what we all read at the time, I would've hired this guy too. Chatman - I'm convinced he's one of those guys who will put up points for you but you'll never win a thing with him. One of the worst "good" players I've ever seen here. I treat college kids differently, I'm not going to boo them, but there was one play second half where he half-heartedly reacted to the play and the Kent guy buried a three in the corner, I yelled towards the court "you going to play some defense?!". Smith - he's a nice player who tries hard but isn't going to be winning many battles against quality players at this level. There are reasons he wasn't getting minutes at the Big East level and you can see them. Sabol and Boldin - learning on the go. The best thing I can say is they've improved just by playing a lot, and they don't lack in confidence. But they play a lot because this team lacks experienced guards, not because they earned all that time. Adams - his ppg are slightly better than last year (at least before the past week) but he looks like he's regressed. I found myself yelling at him and Chatman several times after bad shots, "you're a senior!! You should be better than this!" Wilson - glad to see him get a couple minutes and hit a shot. Zakir - you have two choices. You're undersized underneath the basket in the MAC. You either start playing like an animal under there, bigger than you are (Rasaun Young played bigger than he was), or you drop the pounds and get quicker. They're not good, and most of them aren't going to get any better. We're a game or two away from me chanting "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!" Seriously, at this point, rotate Sabol, Fulcher, Boldin, and Wilson and play a press. You're terrible at half court defense and regularly losing by 20+ points so what do you have to lose. Defining what we're watching right now as "basketball" seems overly generous doesn't it? Kent - when they wanted to go inside, they did. When they wanted to shoot from outside, Sullinger and Santiago did. It was men against boys out there. Crowd - it was great to have the band back, they're large and loud, and they have fun. I still cheer on defense not because it's going to make any difference but because I'm at a basketball game and it's more fun when I do. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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.

I miss having an AD with a vision

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?

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.

GHIII is not a good basketball coach. This stat tells you all you need to know. He is in WAY over his head. Anyone want to debate, I’m up for it.

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.

I want video evidence that this team practices between games. I would actually like to see the entire practice on tape. I saw better game plans and teamwork when I used to play intramural basketball in the Triple Gym!!

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