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  1. I know we've had the conversation a hundred times but the current transfer system is rotten. Fans having to hope that "Hill will consider a return to BGSU as he explores his options" is a crummy spot to be in. Having to rerecruit your stars every year is a thankless one-way relationship. While I appreciate the players embracing the opportunity for "empowerment," there is a correction coming. A semi-pro sport with uninhibited free agent movement will not have longevity. Time will tell, people don't want to root for a random collection of mercenaries every year. Fans and donors make the world of college sports go 'round and fans are getting shorted right now. Without our dollars, college kids could absolutely play basketball with each other, but no one would care, pay, or watch. A fan union might be in order to remind players, coaches, ADs, etc who's really the boss.
    5 points
  2. Can we lock this thread unless it actually pertains to us? Feel free to go to their board if you want to oogle over BH. He’s not our coach. Time we move on.
    5 points
  3. I love the idea of a trophy with UMASS. We're such similar schools and we desparately need something to build student interest and elevate school pride. A rivalry can't hurt and let's face it, despite winning a ton of games in this conference not one MAC school considers us a rival.
    5 points
  4. Lani Cornfield from Lake Shore HS and member of the Seneca nation is transferring to UB from Southern Mississippi. She will be a Senior. 25.2 mpg. 8.3 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 91 assists, 54 steals. Shot 41.1% FG and 39.6% 3-Pt (best on the team). Tenacious defender. Sounds like a solid add. She is 5'6 and listed as a guard.
    4 points
  5. I hear you on PG being a weak spot, especially because Adams (still on the team as of now) handled so much point. But inside we're replacing Sy and Jo with Oboh as things stand. We already had weak rim protection and suspect rebounding. Replacing a star and a vet role player with one unknown freshman is questionable. PG: Fulcher SG: Boldin, Sabol Wing: Adams, Graham, Batchelor, Wilson, McVeigh, Jackson, Akot PF: Williamson C Oboh It's just a very strange roster balance at this point with only one spot yet to fill.
    4 points
  6. "Two Amhersts? UMass, Buffalo eyeing potential rivalry in MAC". March 19th article and the last part of the article, talking about how to make it formal. https://www.gazettenet.com/Future-MAC-rivals-UMass-and-Buffalo-want-Amherst-trophy-54382431
    4 points
  7. That was the most exciting UB athletics event I've experienced in a long time. Congrats, ladies!
    4 points
  8. Kudos to this fan at the end of the game.
    4 points
  9. GCU is the Liberty U of the desert southwest.
    3 points
  10. Patience. The portal doesn’t close until May. Relax.
    3 points
  11. Without NIL, I believe what you are hoping for is likely not attainable this year. Those guys are going to want a little action to make a move. Maybe our staff can lure someone with those qualification. for this signing i do like it and AJ having a friend on the team could help too. This years team was obviously fractured and didn’t seem to like each other much. I would prefer a team that likes each other and wants to play together. I see these upsets with Oakland, Yale even Samford, etc. are groups where the sum is greater than its parts. That’s what we need to get back on track.
    3 points
  12. I know I keep adding but I watched a lot of his highlights because Syracuse had a ton of interest in him out of HS. He was known as a dead eye three point shooter who also had quite a bit of athleticism. Can be moved around from the SF to PF position depending on matchups. I know on paper his stats don’t jump off the page but this dude can ball
    3 points
  13. Just saw this from 2/24. Funny you mention needing rogaine. While we were watching Saturday's game we decided to take a drink every time BB adjusted her hair. Shitfaced by the end of the first quarter. Gotta love Uber.
    3 points
  14. https://www.instagram.com/stories/samuel.akot/3325854081921612575?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=cjh1NWduOTIzY3R0
    3 points
  15. named to this 2024 all Canadian basketball game Supposedly the top 24 boys and girls are named to this team that either play in Canada or are from Canada
    3 points
  16. So... who is making an unplanned trip to Cleveland tomorrow?
    3 points
  17. Surprise surprise, toledo chokes again. Let the perpetual “next year” commence.
    3 points
  18. Nice pickup. Presutti and GH3 get the shoutout on his IG announcement. Plus all our freshmen are all over his post with positive stuff, so it looks like they're still invested here after a bad season. Also Gavin Doty liked Oboh's post. I think we're in good shape with him. If I had to guess our freshman class will be Jackson, Oboh, and Doty, with the other 3-4 spots filled by transfers/JUCOs.
    3 points
  19. The kind of addition that GH III needed.
    3 points
  20. He's just a painfully unintelligent man. I read his quotes like people watch car crashes, unable to look away. Like, what??? “Any time you reach an aspiration of running your own program and all the work that you put in, all the years of work that goes into getting to that point that you’re an FBS head coach, I will tell you it was an extremely difficult decision to leave that,” Linguist told the Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. “I wouldn’t have left it for anything.”
    3 points
  21. I am watching this game solely because it will be what, 8 months until UB Ball is back in action(?) and I know I'll miss it, regardless of how this season has gone. There's a quote from the movie Garden State where Zach Braff's character talks about not feeling at home when he's home, but still being homesick for it and he says "it's like being homesick for a place that doesn't exist anymore." If I had to pick a way to summarize the way I feel about UB Ball right now it would have to be that. I yearn for the Hurley days. The Oats days. Players absolutely jacked up to win the hard hat. That was UB Ball. That was home. That is gone. Or maybe I just miss being in my 20s... the world may never know 😅 GH3 you've got a lot to prove this off-season. 40 more minutes. Go Bulls 🤘
    3 points
  22. Except UB is a public institution and joining the Ivy League would throw a wrench into the NLRB decision involving Dartmouth. I prefer Molson Golden to either of these two. At what level do you think the Ivy League plays football?
    3 points
  23. Having a second PG especially one that had previous d1 experience would have made a major impact Not a coincidence that once fulcher really settled in that UB started to look more organized and like an actual D1 team ha
    3 points
  24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_horn Bull horn, used by minutemen. It makes too much sense. From 11.5 years ago: https://www.ubbullrun.com/2012/9/11/3317930/should-there-trophy-game-with-umass-what-should-it-be-for
    3 points
  25. Another Boom for BB! She says Bulls fans are going to LOVE this one! Can’t wait!
    2 points
  26. My argument is that from the time he stepped foot on the court this season, he was out to put up whatever numbers he could regardless of what that meant to the team or the win column. I think he was a turnover machine. I think that once AJ and Sabol started having some growth in their game he intentionally did not pass them the ball. I believe his defense was non-existent. If a player will not buy in to a coaches philosophy, the coach can either suck up a lost season or bench them completely. In hindsight, I wouldn't be surprised if GH3 chose the benching. However, he has hours of video to show his future teams as to how NOT to play team basketball. As to your total minutes item, he averaged 33 mpg this year and 29.7 mpg last year. He missed several games due to injury, so he would likely have surpassed that. I only mention that as you seem to be implying that GH3 failed to not play him enough this year. 22.8% on 3-Pointers with 149 attempts is deplorable for a Senior.
    2 points
  27. For the 2020 Mr. Basketball from a state as elite as Florida to not figure out how to star in the MAC as a junior or senior under two different coaches is absolutely a failure on Adams part, but that's not the main point of this conversation. Re: expectations for next year, I don't think he'll match the contributions of a younger Curtis Jones on a team anywhere near as good as Iowa State. Adams is a fine player, but he hardly has any killer instinct or alpha traits.
    2 points
  28. New coach at Utah State and not a single retuning player! There are no excuses for what happened this year with UB MBB. This example also suggests that the expectations for next year should be very high. Utah State and Buffalo’s athletic budgets are very similar. Based on what I’ve been able to read, there is a small collective, but nothing significant.
    2 points
  29. That was borderline in that time and situation you just don’t make that call. But what a ride excited for next year. Would like to see an experienced post and more bench depth that can up scoring options. I’m confident the staff will be working with all the freshmen to further there development because this team is not sneaking up on anyone in the MAC next year. 🤘
    2 points
  30. UB commit Brayden Jackson is playing/announced to the all Canadian team. I'm not familiar with it or it's history but it's something If you're bored check out the names also announced to this team while Jackson doesn't have any stars where I find him listed on recruiting sites the guys on this all Canadian team are all power conference recruits with 3/4/5 stars Gotta mean something good
    2 points
  31. Texas A&M hasn't figured it out yet. They have been paying people (legally and illegally) and haven't won shit.
    2 points
  32. From Lyons Rochester I see (victims of mine on the way to states in '03🫡) He'd fit our collection of misfit 6'5-6'8 toys. Can he run a little point?
    2 points
  33. They can snag our coach
    2 points
  34. Tough game too much size from Kent. There is nothing to be disappointed about this season at all. Runner up year 2 with an experienced roster to build off UB women’s basketball is going to be a problem for a while. I hope the get a WNIT or WBIT invite.
    2 points
  35. Unbelievable game! What a HUGE win for the Bulls!!! So proud of this team 🤘🤘
    2 points
  36. The team got a great sendoff from the hotel by the pep band, cheerleaders and dazzlers. I'm glad the ladies are being treated the way they deserve! They are the one bright light for this year. Wrestling and Volleyball have also done well.
    2 points
  37. I need a Kent State-Akron final in hopes that the full diss track finally gets leaked.
    2 points
  38. Would I rather get the #1 seed with everyone on the roster having at least one more year of eligibility or the worst MAC team in two decades that will lose its 3 best players?
    2 points
  39. I have some bad news for you if this is what you want...
    2 points
  40. Wow, that was a painful season. I've been quiet on this board the past several month, so I apologize for the long post. I'm still so confused on the coaching. This includes both recruiting and play calling. I was concerned back in the off season with the lack of experienced players being picked up from the transfer portal. We lost 8 and only picked up one. Bowling Green had 7 transfer in while most other MAC schools had 1-3. UB needs to do a better job recruiting JUCO players which add experience quickly. That has been our success the past 5-7 years. We were all told the GH3 was looking for the best players that fit into his style of play. And then, he only gets Graham from the portal (and he had eligibility issues). I wasn’t really impressed with Graham in his limited play. Did we leave scholarships on the table? Fulcher was also a transfer? Good driving to the basket when he did. And then he picks up 5 Freshmen. Diovion Famakinde went AWOL before the season even started. At the start of the season GH3 didn’t appear to want to play his Freshman until he realized he didn’t have enough players. Sabol had the most minutes of the Freshman but his 3-point shooting was off most of the season (until the last game). Wilson was good on defense. Boldin and McVeigh were so so. What happened to Kanye Jones? He went AWOL midway through the season. This team just lacked experience. Smith just seemed uncommitted to playing. Never really went after any lose balls. He wore his emotions on his sleave and often got into foul trouble. Fulcher had some nice drives to the basket. Williamson showed glimmers of hope with the inside game. Will they return next year or think the grass is greener elsewhere? Adams and Chatman were only talents on the team. Now, on to coaching. How could GH3 expect to have Adams to play point-forward the entire season as started out the season? Rarely did I see this team do “organized plays”. The women every single possession looked at the coach to see the play. Nothing like that on this team. Always seemed like a “pickup game” plays. Similarly, I never understood UB’s side-line in-bound plays on offense. UB always seemed to move away from the in-bound player. People complained the past several years that we had so many fast break points. Sure didn’t seem like we had so many this year. This year was a lot of “in-bound the ball, go down the court, try to break the defense”. This team needs to be faster in order to get the “easy” (and more exciting) baskets. Sure would have liked to have seen more ball movement and better ball screen. Less turnovers as well but that probably comes with being a less experienced team. In short, I just got the impression that this team wasn’t coached well.
    2 points
  41. I hope not but then again you never know. Hoping to see some good signs at the spring game.
    2 points
  42. https://x.com/NoahImgLikeness/status/1734642077655334923?s=20
    2 points
  43. Who's fault is it that there is no talent here? The main talent (and scoring 52% of the points on the season) that is on this current team was left from the previous regime. Why does this staff get a complete pass about not bringing in any players if this team is so "talent-less"? Last year's team lost pretty much all of their scoring coming into the season, yet somehow brought in enough "talent" to be a .500 team and make it to the MAC tournament (including leaving behind their most talented piece that didn't even get to play last year). The "the coach got started late" doesn't work, sorry. This isn't 2000 where you only can bring in freshmen and then have to develop them over the course of years. They didn't bring in a guy like Armoni - veteran PG to help the new guys, or a guy like Zid, who at least made games enjoyable to watch, as frustrating as he was a times to watch, or Adams, or Jo, or a major talent like Sy who had to sit out. There's no reason for UB to ever have 2 MAC wins and 3 wins overall at this point in the season, NIL, no NIL, whatever. Again, this roster is far more "talented" than those 2/3 wins anyhow, but this whole talk is ridiculous at this point. The MAC is far leaner than year's past, only 4 teams in the top 200 in the NCAA and 3 teams 300+! The pre-season schedule didn't have a ton of the "big name" opponents as they have in year's past. Yet somehow we're relegated to "this team has improved", versus having wins. There's many more multiples of double digit losses than wins, including the time of the somehow recently "improved" team. While I still go to the games and always support the teams and programs, I just can't understand how anyone can possibly see silver linings based upon what they've seen over the last several months of this team, and then possibly think that it's going to get drastically better once their (by far) best player is gone next year. At least when the Sabres suck, they at least pour on wins once their out of it (like they have been recently), and give people something to cheer over. We're still sitting on 3 wins (sorry, a 28 turnover "win" versus Roberts Wesleyan is not counted in my eyes) with only 2 games left to play. Maybe we can pull off a win on senior night and at least have something to smile about on Friday (versus the crowd leaving the games with their collective heads hanging like they have had to do most night's this year).
    2 points
  44. Bryson Wilson is a reason to be excited for next season. His skill is catching up with his athleticism.
    2 points
  45. SUNY rules about athletic scholarships pre 1986 ruined decades of history UB could of had. We have been playing catch up and at times there still seems to be some deeply embedded mindset that students are their for an education the school doesn't need athletics. Previous Presidents and ADs who want to change this perception were basically ran out the door or offered little support to see their visions through (Simpson and UB2020, White and to some degree Manuel and Green). The culture of leadership needs to change for anything to be effective. Schools have had years to work on it. If Albany and Stony Brook can get things set up what is taking UB so long? UB actively working on setting up a collective isn't a goal, plan or excuse anymore. Its a failure in leadership and process to not have it already done and running for almost 2 years now.
    2 points
  46. Honestly shocked the staff couldn’t find a single player to transfer down with all their connections.
    2 points
  47. BGSU, Western Michigan, Miami, and UMASS... only 2 more and we can make our own hockey conference!
    2 points
  48. The UB basketball team from say February 1st until today would beat the November team by 30+ And that's saying something considering UB was handled pretty easily last night against a very average Kent st team the last month or so was the first time I saw actual improvement, the improvement is there the question is in my opinion is it where it should be
    2 points
  49. UB is actively working to setup a Collective and is soliciting money for the startup fees for a 3rd party administrator. Once setup it would be a not-for-profit collective that would focus on Men's Basketball and Football. If anyone is interested in helping with setup fees (NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE for this effort), let me know.
    2 points
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