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12/22 shooting, 9/16 from 3, 14 rebounds, 43 points. I mean, that is just crazy. 

Al lot of those shots with people in his face was James Harden like.

Hate to say this every year but thank goodness for Shannon Evans going to ASU. Without that event, Massinburg is not at UB. 

CJ might end up being the greatest UB basketball player in history. I can’t think of another more worthy of being declared that. 

Wow, what a comeback.  What a game by Massinburg. 

Nice. With Bowling Green on our schedule, I think we can book the trip to Detroit. 

Having said that, I think we need to win the remaining games including the MAC championship and am the bowl game against a quality opponent if we want to finish the season in the top 25. That would be quite an accomplishment. 

What a dominating win.  We needed an easy win.  

We're 9 - 1.  That is impressive.  

Man, wish we had that Army game back.

Read the article.

Crowdfunding sounds like a good way to enlarge the base.

I also agree that they should pick things like buying tickets for students.

I think we're getting a little spoiled.  Myself included.

I thought we would handle them but Miami really came out thinking they can take this game.  Fought hard till the end.  They are a tough team.  Going to be tough for years.  Looks like they are on the way up.

Amazing game by Johnson.  And Jackson running the ball makes us even more dangerous.  

Impressive. How many eyeballs does 7.8 in buffalo translate to?

1 hour ago, rma said:

Do you really want to do that to yourself though?

Ha. Yeah I would. My wife, never. So ...

According to Wikipedia, dollar general has the highest payout at $750k. 

Boca pays $400k but I don’t think MAC is the first choice. It’s between AAC and CUSA. 

Bahamas pays $400k, the rest of the bowls are below $200k with one of them at $100k. 

On 10/18/2018 at 3:10 AM, MillenniumBull said:

Didn’t want to start a new thread for this but ot, has anyone seen NIU’s schedule? Three games in 11 days? With travel across the country to play in a high altitude game to boot.  If UB did that shit to its students, I’d probably cancel my donation.  Wtf.

That’s brutal. 

I just checked flights.  Flights to Fort Lauderdale is really cheap.  $100 for roundtrip on Spirit Air.

Flights to Mobile is $500 roundtrip from NYC.  Multiply by 5 for family of 5, we're looking at a huge difference.  $500 as opposed to $2500 for flights.

Toledo got crushed by App State last year in Mobile.
Akron got crushed by FAU in Boca.

So I would guess Toledo doesn't get Mobile in 2018 which might mean UB in Mobile if it's between UB and Toledo.

For the West, it looks like it'll come down to either Western or NIU.

It looks like we will miss the big bowl because of our Army loss. What a bummer. 

According to espn, we are slotted to either Boca Raton bowl in Florida or dollar general in mobile alabama. 

Are those the two top bowls with MAC affiliation? Does anyone know which is for the MAC’s winner?

Any chance another bigger bowl opens up and we fill it? Is it our choice?

Boca Raton I think is a better destination but the date is 17th a Tuesday night before Christmas break.

Mobile, I’ve never been to but it’s a Saturday game which might be better for fans.

What a fantastic win. We came back at Toledo and beat perhaps the best team in the West. With that win, it’s official, we are the team to beat. 

Great game. Kids showed heart. We are 7-1. That is impressive. 

Athletic department states we had slightly less than 20k. 

Nice win. Can’t believe how good these freshmen RBs are. Imagine with 2+ years of college strength level training? Guys are already strong. 

Defense has been good since Army. I think we just don’t handle the triple option well. 

Hope they can get at least 20,000.

After beating Northwestern, a team that beat Mich State and gave Michigan all they could handle, they lost big to Miami O.

Not sure which Akron team will show.  I would guess the good one.

Tyree after starting the season red hot has been a little down the last 2 weeks.  Let's hope he can bounce back and AJ is good to go.

Kevin Marks has really emerged.  If we have a balanced attack with Marks on the ground, we're going to be just fine in the MAC.  Patterson, another surprise has been a great change of pace.  These two guys are freshmen.  We're set for 4 years on the ground. That is exciting.

So, we probably won't break the attendance record set when Syracuse visited.

That's too bad.  

If we keep Army to less than 280 yards rushing, we win.  If they get between 280-310, it's a toss up.  If they get over 310, then they win.

Prediction: UB 26 - Army 17 
Can't have any turnovers in this game.  That's true for all games, but especially true against Army because the offense can't get on the field when they have the ball for 10 minute drives and the defense gets totally gassed.

I hate to do this, but Tyree is getting some attention as a possible 2019 draftee.

ESPN+ has a article and it currently has him as a sleeper at #4 ranked QB.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/24770371/picking-quarterback-risers-sleepers-2019-nfl-draft-mel-kiper-jr-todd-mcshay

Here's the blurb.
You need to watch Jackson and the Bulls, who are 4-0 and just walloped Rutgers. Jackson, a fourth-year junior, is huge -- 6-foot-7, 245 pounds. He has a big arm and can move, though he's not a runner. He takes care of the football, too. Jackson has 27 touchdown passes and only six interceptions over his last two seasons. I have him ranked as my No. 4 underclassman signal-caller for this class, and he could rise even further. -- Kiper

I was thinking about this and how we can try to get him to return for his senior year.  He's currently not in any Heisman discussions, but perhaps we can try to get a Heisman campaign so he could return to try to win the Heisman.  

Anyone have any ideas?  Maybe the only thing that will have him return is the potential to improve his draft stock next year.  He probably still needs to improve his reads and progression for the next level.  Ahh, the joys of success.

Alright.  On to Army!

Was curious to know how he's doing.

https://goracers.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7654

• Glad to see he won the starting job.
• Just looking at stats, looks like he's doing ok.  Not great and not horrible.
• Murray State is not winning.
• They lost to a top 25 team in Kentucky so far.

Hope he can do well as the year goes on.  Will be rooting for him and perhaps get a shot at the next level somewhere even if it's CFL.

Added the ADs who setup the game based on the year the announcements were made.

Impressed with Alnutt.  Looks like he's been busy.  Nice job.  So correction on my initial post.  It wasn't White, it was a combination of ADs.  Surprisingly mostly Alnutt.

19 hours ago, rma said:

Received 2 votes in the coaches poll

http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/football/polls/coaches-poll/ 

I would guess those votes are by two MAC coaches. I’m guessing Leipold can’t vote for himself. I also see Turner Gill there. Maybe he will vote for us after this week. 

I suspect that we will get some votes this week. Maybe ranked around 30. 

Wow Oklahoma pulls it out in OT. 

This Army team must be better than the team we faced last year. 

I am curious about fan turnout this week. We are 4-0 facing a high profile team in Army with good fan base. 

If we don’t break attendance records and sell out I would be very disappointed in the fans. 

Wow Army is tied with Oklahoma. 14-14.

Army game is going to be tough. In one sense it’s good in that it’ll be a legit win. 

Buffaloes 42 - Rutgers 13

im trying to think back and I think this is our first win against Big Ten. It might also be the first against P5 since it was organized. 

Prediction?  I predict a close fought game similar to how it went down at Temple.  Rutgers is a mess right now, but I think their talent keeps them in this one.  I hope they stick with their true freshman QB Sitkowski who's really struggled the last two weeks.  I would think that gives us a better shot than their senior QB with less talent.

I'll go with 38-34 Buffalo. 

If we win a blowout, Chris Ash firing talk will only grow.

I'm interested in seeing what we do at around the 20 yard mark and 4th down.  Leipold has really been hesitant to kick a FG.  We need to convert them to points in these potential tight games. Let's hope Mitcheson gets going.