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CJ still cannot accurately throw the ball more than 10+ yards with consistency. A number of his incompletions were poorly thrown when the WR was 20+ yards out. If we're going by passing skill I think Gray is the better QB. But if coaches think we can just run the option as our offense the entire time then CJ's the better QB for that.

Any idea how much Akron, Kent State, and Miami raised for their collectives? Miami really intrigues me since they had the Lou Groza Award winner on their team. They must have been pushing a million plus to get their MAC Championship!

Zach Filzen (D3 HC), Sean Smiley (D3 HC), Ikenna Smart (NBA Video Coordinator), Brock Bertram (HS Assistant)

OSU and WSU will be competing in the WCC in 12 sports the next two years.

https://ubbulls.com/news/2024/4/21/donnie-vinson-named-head-wrestling-coach.aspx

I believe her response was “We fight on”

Alyssa Latham (Syracuse) transfers to Tennessee. How does this relate to UB? Well: Danny White is hired at UB, he hires Felisha Legette-Jack. Danny White leaves UB, (goes to UCF,) and is hired at Tennessee. Felisha Legette-Jack is hired at Syracuse and portals half our team to Syracuse over a year or so. Mark Alnutt hires Becky Burke, who had a brief stop at D2 Charleston where they played Glenville State, coached by Kim Caldwell. Burke grabs two Glenville State players (Stone and Winfield) as transfers in her first season at UB. With Burke leaving USC Upstate, one of her players (Harness) transfers to Marshall. The following year Caldwell is hired at Marshall. Now we’re in this off-season and Danny White fires the Tennessee coach and hires Caldwell. Burke signs her old player (Harness), who just played for Caldwell at Marshall, from the portal. And now Caldwell signs FLJ’s star freshman (Latham) to Tennessee. The Circle has been completed. Everybody has taken somebody and has had somebody taken from them.

The baseball "stadium" doesn't exist anymore and the MAC doesn't sponsor men's soccer anymore. I would love if we sponsored those sports but it isn't simple. Anywho, rumor has it that Donnie Vinson has been hired. https://cornellbigred.com/sports/wrestling/roster/coaches/donnie-vinson/10150

Canadian

https://umeshawksports.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/ariana-seawell/5605 Final roster spot

Harness is a senior based on her Twitter post saying 1 year of eligibility left. Wonder where the other scholarships will go. I'm still hoping for more size, hopefully a center or another forward.

I was correct!

Per TBN, Ella Take, Jessica Wangolo, and Hattie Ogden entered the portal today.

6’5” would play well in the SEC too, which is where her coach just got hired 😉

My guess is a school with interlocking letters in blue and white.

D1 limits are 15 for women’s basketball. If all of the roster and coaching movement is done, this is a massive win for Burke and she absolutely proved me wrong. Portal is still open for about a month, but so much happens early on. Retaining the MAC FOTY and the conference’s top scorer (who I have to think has a degree by now, meaning transfer without sitting out is a possibility) is also huge.

Was hoping the same thing but it doesn’t look like she’s in the portal. And I don’t think we have her major, unless she has her degree already.

Buyout or given money to leave I view as the same thing. I don’t think he just voluntarily decided to leave without any monetary compensation. Remember Quentin Hillsman “resigned” too. He got a nice payday to resign, even though it’s possible he could have been fired for cause.

She had a HUGE crowd cheering for her in the SBC-MAC game at alumni arena this year. Usually when we play a team that has a local they’ll bring a handful of family members. She brought a whole section. Joins Josh Mballa as a player to play us one season then join us for the next.

The big question is are UB donors putting up money for Alnutt to be bought out? It doesn't matter how much we complain on twitter or this board, if the money isn't being put up he isn't getting fired/"resigning". Given Tripathi's age is it really worth buying out an AD when the president is likely to retire at any time? Alnutt has 2 years left on his contract. If it was going to be extended it would have been by now. There's a new football coach, a decent WBB coach, and possibly the worst D1 MBB coach we've ever had though he's only a year in. Short of Burke taking a new job this year (unlikely) or next year (possibly), Alnutt shouldn't have to make a major hire again. Obviously Bona's exclusively MBB donors care about the NIT enough to pony up money to buy him out. It's really unfortunate for Manhertz, apparently the Olean faithful did not tell him enough stories about the NIT Championship and/or the championship banner is not big enough for him to notice it.

Mark Alnutt is local to WNY and has experience leading a WNY D1 athletics program. An A10 program, part of the most prestigious athletics conference in all of college sports, could easily add Mark to their program and would even be able to outbid a SEC team.

We have our first BOOM of the season Losing: Point Guard: Rana Elhusseini Guard: Briyanna Baron Guard: Katie Burton Forward: Kiara Johnson Center: Chanteese Craig (per WBBBlog) Gaining: Forward: Brianna Barr-Buday (Nichols, Buffalo, NY) Offers from Manhattan, Marist, Saint Joseph’s, La Salle, Canisius, Niagara. Originally recruited by FLJ Point Guard: Mallory Daly (Pittsburgh, PA) seemingly no D1 offers despite scoring nearly 2k points in high school Point Guard: Aniya Rowe (Rochester, NY) Offers from Manhattan, Canisius, Binghamton Forward: Samairah Thompson (Columbus, OH) don't see anything for D1 offers Possibly Losing (Have Not Seen At Games, Still on Roster): Guard/Forward: Chryssi Gouzelou

Oh look Bowling Green in our little pod.

WNIT has history but WBIT gets first pick of teams. If we make a run it’s nice that we still have the WNIT reputation before most of the general public finds out it’s the #3 tournament.

WNIT, opponent TBD