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I think it is fair based on the factors given. But if all the current head coaches headed to different teams this season, I bet Ub would be a top 3 choice for all of the prospective new hires.

Anyone know of any cool UB Bulls decorations? I am looking to get some new stuff for my cubicle at work, could be a desktop decoration or something that can be thumbtacked to the wall.

Could be a great get for Oats. I was hoping we could follow up last year's highly touted recruiting class with another few 3 or 4 star recruits. I trust Oats to develop whoever plays here, but I thought with our continued success and raised profile we would be in serious contention for some better known players.

While I think he could benefit from staying for another year, I can't blame him for making the move. If he has a chance to go in the 2nd-3rd round he has to take it. There is a very strong QB class coming out next year and there is always the potential for injury if he stays another year, both of which add to the risk of staying. He is also the type of prospect that will shoot up draft boards because of his measurables.

I wish Oats would put in some of the younger guys at this point, I think they need to start getting more experience.

McRae is playing awesome. The announcers are very complimentary of UB, almost too nice...

I hope to see him do well and end up in the NFL. Who is the next man up for us?

I think basketball has taken most of the attention from the fans. Also, I think losing the conference championship took a lot of wind out of the sails. Obviously still an awesome season though and I know I will be watching this weekend.

The crazy thing is that we didn’t even play well for the first 3/4 of the game, but we still won by double digits. Imagine if we were hot the whole game?

https://13wham.com/sports/local-sports/former-section-v-stars-feel-at-home-with-14-buffalo Found this to be pretty interesting. Focuses on Dontay and Jeenathan, but previews Cuse a little bit. https://www.nunesmagician.com/2018/12/18/18145531/bullish-on-ub-nate-oats-sustained-buffalo-basketball-success-bobby-hurley-syracuse-basketball Just found this on the Syracuse blog page.

No surprise in not moving up. Really going to be interested next week depending on how this plays out. 2-0: would probably put us Top 10 1-1 beating Marquette: would keep us around 14 1-1 beating Cuse: would probably drop us 5-10 spots 0-2: would knock us out of the Top 25 (These are all my gut feelings with little to no research behind them)

^ This. While I am not a Cuse fan. I grew up a Miami Hurricanes fan and I still keep up with them. As for people in NYS, a lot of people in my age range were young when Melo and Cuse won the championship. This generates a lot of publicity, fan interest, and pride. The only reason I had heard of UB when I was younger was because of the College Hoops 2k games where I happened to become the coach. In that game it was a stepping stone from the small schools to the major schools.

No worries! I know I appreciate all the effort you have been putting into covering the Bulls.

I agree with everything you said. Pretty exciting game!

They are the worst, also I don't know if it i just my stream, but when they were down by over 20 they stopped showing the score. They keep calling us U at B.

I consider them a rival strictly because they are in the Big 4. During my time at UB we always traveled to Olean to see the games and their fans always traveled to UB. Do I think it is a bitter rivalry? No. But any game against one of the Big 4 seems to have a different feeling than other OOC games.

Sheesh, you would think that a bunch of Catholics would be more friendly.

I feel the same way about Williams. Pretty disappointing start with for our highest rated (I think) recruit ever. I am sure he will figure it out eventually after learning from Oats and this great senior class. Luckily we don't have to rely on him too much this year, next year we might.

We knew that not being able to make a PAT was going to come back to haunt us eventually. Unfortunately it was the biggest game of the year. It sucks.

I can't unfortunately. Will be watching from Albany though.

Yes I know, but it is not like they typically show up in December or January. Hopefully they buck the trend and show some support today.

I agree, but for some reason the local UB students (which there are plenty of) don't seem to support the sports teams when school is not in session. When I was a student, it seemed that most of the biggest student fans were not from the Buffalo originally.

I just saw these and thought they were pretty cool. Looks like the freshman are pretty good athletes/competitors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_high_school_gyms_in_the_United_States Not really relevant to UB, but thought it was pretty interesting that almost all of the largest high school gyms in the country are in Indiana.

Maybe high school gym wasn't the right term. As I said, I think Alumni is perfectly fine. I just strongly prefer "bowl" gyms that surround the court completely.