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Speaking of welding certificate. So, I was probably a HS SR when the scandal broke. I vaguely remember some GR talk about Bona but couldn't tell you anything more than they had a program altering quasi academic issue. So this week I read the wiki for the first time (cause they in my mind are kinda irrelevant and no need before this to research them) and it was one ineligible player? That was the program altering scandal? The U does that every 3 years. It's like they built a house of sticks and when the wolf blew it down, they just retconned history to say that a hurricane hit to distract from the fact that the program was already poorly positioned for the future.

To be fair, Ohio is the worst and we're awesome. If you're gonna be vulgar at least be accurate

What a range of emotions, in 72 hours from not caring too much, too red hot hate, to victory and vindication. Horns Up Bulls! Most impressed by our composure in a hostile environment where things weren't going well. Stay in your system and the game will come to us and today it did.

To me, it's just another game. It's big because we're #17 and all our games are big. If we we're 5-3 right now with losses @ WVU, SIU and vs USF and never got ranked, this would just be a game, hope you win, hope you play well but otherwise, that's it. Just a game. One half at a time, One shot at a time, business as usual.

I'll say no. I've never been to Olean, I know nothing about Bona, I don't know anyone who went to Bona and have no real aspirations to ever go to Olean. I don't want to be them, I'm not jealous of them, I literally could not care less. My major beef with Bona is the Buffalo News adopts them as their team in a way they have never done for UB. Our MAC rivalries have grown and we don't NEED a rivalry in basketball, we still lack a true football rival, although I think Temple, UMass, EMU and Ohio have potential, the administration at some point has to get involved to really make these rivalries pop.

Funny their fans were chanting we want UB. I've never chanted that I've wanted Bona, until really getting into Bull Run I thought Buff State was the 4th team in the Big 4, (I still don't know how a team 90 minutes away is considered "local").

Ho, lee, crap they are full of themselves. http://bonabandwagon.proboards.com/thread/16306/12-8?page=4

I'd say Rutgers, UConn, UMass, Temple

Once we get into the statue business, he deserves one, despite only 4 years.

The article says nothing. The best jobs are jobs where you can kinda just do nothing and that's good. I actually applaud him for having the security to not do anything out of a feeling of needing to make a big splash.

https://collegead.com/buffalo-ad-mark-alnutt/

1. You're right on this one, I forget the rules are a little different for Hawaii. The biggest work around then is to change the event every year, rather than change the teams. Toronto shootout year 1, Buffalo shootout year 2, UB shootout year 3, Casino Niagara shootout y4

1) 2 road buy games: Revenue =170k (85k x 2 games) Expense = 70k (35k x 2 games) Profit = 100k 2) 1 road buy game + 1 home game Revenue = 85k+X (85k x 1 game, X = typical AA home game revenue) Expense = 45k+Y (35k travel +10k to bring in D1 team, Y = typical cost of AA home game) Profit = 40k + X - Y 3) Home and Home Revenue = X + B (B = additional revenue for AA big game) Expense = 35k + Y + G (35k travel, G = additional cost of AA Big Game) Profit = -35k + X + B - Y - G Just making up numbers here: but if we make $20/ fan, it costs 15k fixed to play a game at AA and variable costs are $5/fan...and a typical AA game is 3k fans, with a big game being 6k fans... 1) = 100k 2) = (40k + 60k) - (45k + 30k) = 25k 3) = 120k - (35k + 75k) = 10k

Does anyone know how student tickets get treated in the equation? 1) What are the max amount of students that can go to a game 2) How are students counted in the attendance #'s

I like the idea of hosting a MTE as host, if we could get 2 games at home, and then play 2 games at Keybank or Air Canada, it might help us attract some bigger named teams, get a better home game on the schedule and help us market in the city of buffalo or regionally in Toronto. I'd love the Big 4 classic: Pre tourney round: Michigan @ UB UCF @ Cansius UConn @ Bona Va Tech @ Niagara Round 1 (all games at Alumni arena) 1) UB- Canisius 2) UCF (AAC) - UConn (Big East) 3) Bona-Niagara 4) Michigan (Big 10) - Va Tech (ACC) Round 2 (all games at Keybank Center or Air Canada Centre) 5) winner 1 vs winner 2 6) winner 3 vs winner 4 7) loser 1 vs loser 2 8 ) loser 3 vs loser 4 Round 3 (all games at Keybank Center or Air Canada Centre) 9) Championship (winner 5 vs winner 6) 10) 3rd place game (loser 5 vs loser 6) 11) 5th place game (winner 7 vs winner 8 ) 12) 7th place game (loser 7 vs loser 8 )

I think the in-season home and home won't work for most major programs, they'd only do a 2- year home and home. For a 2-year home and home... The dilemmas for the other team is: 1) Is Buffalo going to be good in the 2nd year of the home and home? If not sure, we don't want to sign up and play a team that will damage our SOS and 2) If Buffalo will be good, how will a loss affect us? Look at WVU, they lost to UB and fell 12 spots out of the rankings. If they had play a more significant power like UConn and lost, they probably stay in the 20-25 area, just public perception. The dilemma for Buffalo is we can schedule 2 games many ways: 1) 2 road buy games = 200k 2) 1 road buy game + 1 home game = 100k - cost to bring team to alumni + revenue at alumni. 3) Home and home = Revenue at Alumni Financially, do we think #3 makes us more than #1 or #2, I don't. Finally, I hear a lot about how 10-3 UB football had 3 chances to "win" Buffalo and blew it. If that's how the local community feels, why take a top 20 game at home, for all the marbles? Betting the whole season on one big game early, that's like betting the mortgage on Black in Vegas.

the only tickets for BG are in the 300's interesting. Do people still do a defacto Standing room only by just standing on the indoor track or has that been discouraged? I went 2005-07 and loved each one, but never got back cause it was the heart of the busy season for my old career and kinda a all hands on deck time for my new career. In almost every UB event I've ever gone to, we were the scrappy underdog, hoping for a chance, so I'm really excited to go to an event where we are the favorites.

I am so hype for Cleveland, I am trying to go to Senior night in Buffalo and then the tourney. I guess I should look into tickets for BG now before the tickets get too hot. Ticket info for Cleveland isn't out yet, but I'm eager to lock that down.

I put a lot of stock into which University had the foresight (or money) to claim (or buy) the domain. We lost that battle to the Tampa USF. But my Trojans are the real USC on the interwebs, take that gamecocks. Somehow we let the University of Barcelona get the drop on us for UB.edu

USF for the love of god. USFCA if you're precise. -USF employee 2013-14.

The crazy thing is we have 21,000 students we should be able to muster 3,000 students even on break.

I ran a correlation matrix on SMU attendance between 11-12 and 17-18. I looked at New Arena, Team Quality, Impact of AAC games, Opponent Quality and Competition vs Pro sports. There was a strong correlation between attendance and the New Arena (.959). The next strongest correlation was SMU's Quality, (captured by RPI at selection, -.893) AAC Conference games were slightly correlated to attendance (.501) SMU being ranked on the day of the game was slightly less correlated (.372) Other low correlations: Opponent RPI at selection: -.195 vs Stars Home game: .150 vs. Mavs Home game: -.142 Larry Brown Coaching: .116 SMU Gameday vs Dallas Pro team game (home and road): .107

Agreed, impossible for the out of towners to get good gear.

The arena is not attached to a University that has to play and attract a full slate of home games. It's an MTE, put on by ESPN for television. The gym didn't even have AC until 2005.

Gonzaga started being a major player in 1999, their current arena opened in 2004. Prior to that, their arena sat 4,000.