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In my 20+ years on this site, BrooklynBull has never shown any negative or positive bias towards active UB personel so from my perspective your claims are completely unwarranted. The only thing he is guilty of is telling bad jokes about how the secret to winning is scoring more points than the other team.

I am not too active on here... I tend to go weeks at a time without visiting and then spend a day engaging a lot before dropping off again. As a result, I don't know a lot of the drama from the board. But the things I quickly picked up is that I have disagreed with @MuchMany a fair amount but he has always made his arguments in good faith and we ultimately want the same thing--the success of the programs... and @RapidsFan does not make good faith arguments and often tries to paint people as a bigots out of left field. @RapidsFan is new here as far as I know... so I am not sure if they are a troll or just some nieve young kid just getting exposed to the world and trying to champion social justice in every instance possible even when it isn't an issue... But this is one of many such examples... claiming someone is ageist because they don't think someone displays enough energy? ha ha Talk about a strawman... needing to paint the messenger as a bigot so you can try to undermine their arguments without addressing the issues and don't have to engage with them. And for the record, I don't think a coach needs to display high energy on the sideline to be successful. Some do and are successful and some don't and are successful. There are some very successful coaches that many would label low energy out there in many different sports. It's also true that coaches, like all people, slow down with age so if one of your strengths as a coach was being high energy to motivate your players then that strength will diminish over time. It just happens that most coaches also develop many other skills over time that make the need to be high energy on the side line less significant.

Confirmed that the UB offer is for 2024. Confirmed the other week that NKU had not offered; perhaps that has changed since then, but at the time of his tweet, an offer had not been extended, hence why NKU is not listed on his profile in our database.

Putting this troll on ignore. Anyone who cares about the discourse here is welcome to follow suit.

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I guess we saw that differently. JW was certainly exasperated at times, but he, Thorpe, Foley, etc were mostly bumps on a log. His last two teams, once the Oats DNA was gone, were as sleepy and passive as they come. I know we have the minimum NIL infrastructure, I don't think that's enough. Whatever JW did was not enough compared to what we hear from Ohio, etc. And this is the first I've heard of any of our meager NIL backers defecting with JW. I see no scenario where Curtis Jones and Issac Jack don't leave for Iowa State and Dayton, respectively. Those options were there for them if JW stayed or not. Whatever small NIL bag UB has was not going to keep them here. Especially not after a poor year, "winning almost half their games."

That look... "What do you mean I can't call my third timeout of the first quarter?" "Mo, you're the co-co assistant DC, you don't get any timeouts."

Do agree. I know we have had our opinions and perspectives over the years about coaches and now the basketball culture of today. Coaches all over the country have different coaching philosophies and of course personalities. The key is to have a winning culture and a competitiveness that will breed more success and of course be able to recruit the best players. Also a coach has to have some luck that the players improve and want to stay in the program. Again it is all subjective and we all can have our different opinions and there is no right or wrong answer. The beauty of college sports has been diminished for some of us because of so many factors. All of us in some form have to try and find our enjoyment in sports in our own way. Our family will always continue to find our joy in life.

Imagine the energy she would have shown if she was 20 years old and in that situation! ha ha Yes, I agree with you. Not everyone slows down and has a more mellow demeanor with age. There are some pretty intense 70 year olds I know still running companies and demanding the VPs try to keep up.

I feel like UB fans have a skewed perception of what type of energy a coach should have. Nate Oats and Bobby Hurley (and his brother) are some of the most caustic coaches in all of college basketball. Run down the list of top teams this year and tell me how many others behave like them on the sidelines (not Kelvin Sampson, not Matt Painter, not Rick Barnes, not Scott Drew, and on and on). I think energy is just an easy thing for average fans to critique because it is obvious to everyone. I don't think it's a requisite attribute of a good coach

Actually most of you posters are new compared to me, 2004 JW is almost 20 years older than BH or NO. Talk to me in 5 or 10 years. We all slow down with age. Energy? I don’t find bill self and his bench coaches as energy coaches. The bench has a few towel wavers at the end.

Plus that is something people can get behind and understand it's need. Then they can use the $5k they have for it on some other improvements, better meals/hotels during travel, etc. I am good with it.

Walk-ons, what are those?! 🙃 We're his only offer per VC.

In light of suiting up 8 players tonight it would be nice to have a full roster next season and even some walk ons.

Boldin will be good, assuming he can play again this season and he stays

Rough one. Eight available players with only two injuries is kind of embarrassing. It's a disservice to the guys who played tonight, who I thought battled pretty hard. Sabol is one of the better freshmen shooters in the modern era at UB. Fulcher has tools to be a useful player once the game slows down for him. That's all I got.

I beat you by 2 weeks on that front! Welcome to the fresh air on this side.

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They might. Seemed like a dedicated strategy to have quicker guys moving in and out of the middle of the zone causing chaos while one of their best deep shooters camped out high.

Eh, we can be frustrated without making horseshit, baseless assumptions about each other's well thought out, paragraphs-long posts. At least in my opinion, maybe @RapidsFan disagrees.

How we're not holding for last shot at the end of the half is just mind-bogglingly stupid.

This is embarrassingly bad basketball on both sides. Really hard to watch as a fan of good basketball

I thought Whitesell and Co had good energy out there, not on the level of Oats and Hurley but that was their style and not his, I felt that Whitesell had a presence on the sidelines and I still felt that his teams played with a blue collar mentality. As far as NIL, under Whitesell the players had NIL infrastructure that was there for the team. When JW was let go so did the NIL Money. If JW had of stayed we would have been an upper team in the MAC this season maybe even competing with Akron if they had brought the right transfer PG in to replace Foster. JW had a full rebuild last season, developed players like Curtis Jones, Isaac Jack, Isaiah Adams etc, they played one of the top non-conference schedules in the nation according to Kenpom and brought in a lot of money for the University through the Buy Games - Made it to Cleveland and won almost half of their games in a full rebuild season! Now we are in a full rebuild situation again - We have a win against a NON-D1 school and a directional Michigan school. ADMA in my mind is the one who should be held responsible with his mishandling of the JW Firing and this poor hire in GH.

Yes great clarification. It can come from the coach but he doesn't need to be the only one to show it, and he certainly doesn't need to show it to instill it in the culture. I think Oats -> Whitesell -> GH3 is like a Pokemon who is devolving. Oats was a major hype guy, it went from top to bottom in the org, and it's no surprise that Hodgson coaches the same way. Whitesell was more reserved, but I think his teams still had some buzz. Could easily be trickle down from the Oats days but I think of a guy like Hardnett who always had that swag and energy on the court and Quill never played for Oats. GH3 is... a lemon 😅 Basically what I'm saying is I'm afraid that the "energy" we're seeing from the Bulls these days is the GH3 culture. More reserved.

Nate is one of the most high-energy coaches in the country. As is Hurley. Where else would the program culture and resulting energy trickle down from if not the HC and the qualities that he values?

That should be the last staff member. I believe the OC is also the QB coach, so I think we are fully staffed.

If we are putting out opinions out for hindsight - my pick would have been someone like Ben McCollum. I think rather than hiring an assistant coach, I would prefer a head coach who has had a track record of success that is looking to move to next level.

"Dave and I have a relationship that goes back to the 1990s," Lembo said. He is a highly experienced coach and well-respected play caller. He connects well with his players and knows how to manage an offensive staff. He will do an excellent job evaluating and best utilizing our personnel."