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The FDU coach wasn't there for a full year. Oats was here for a bit longer

Limited data since he didn't have a lot of people transfer out but Ryan Hawkins transferred to Creighton for his final year of eligibility and was their leading scorer for a R32 team. Trevor Hudgins is in the G League. So he likely has some talent already on his roster.

I will accept somebody who has a .28 National Championship / Season ratio

No please no

We do have one. https://ubbulls.com/news/2022/8/25/general-ub-launches-built-in-buffalo-nil-education-program.aspx

Looks like WBB set the program record for points in one of those games. The all time series page does not list St Francis (NY)

Looks like our only athletics history with them was a 3-0 volleyball win this past season. Unless the administration doesn't get it together this is the University of Akron in a decade. They lost over 50% of their enrollment in 8 years. Surprised Rothstein didn't end the tweet with "This is ****** March"

I saw Coach Q updated his profile to say former UB coach. I think Tom Fox is the highest ranking person still with a job. I could be wrong.

I don't think they have the budget for anybody better. They've accepted his poor results. I love beating up on L3 teams but the better the B4 teams are the better it is for college hoops in WNY. Don't ask me about that when we beat L3 teams by double digits though, I'll say let them suck.

He wanted Hodgson last time around

Hire one UM assistant get another free?

Are you forgetting some other players that came to us from Michigan?

Washington could reopen the Nate Oats pipeline back into Michigan.

The last few hires have been air tight from a public perspective. I remember Hurley was leaked and Leipold was unintentionally leaked (fun story if you remember).

Those 10 days felt like 10 years. Wow.

Of the MAC teams that made the tournament in the last 15 years that are not Buffalo (Akron, Ohio, Kent, WMU but they don't count), I find Kent the easiest to root for. Sure the games we play against them turn into a boxing match at times but I don't have the same hatred of them that I do with Akron and Ohio. Given that there's a financial incentive for UB I wouldn't mind if they won a game or two. When Ohio wins games I view it as it sucks but okay at least we get a little bit more money to compensate.

Portal doesn’t mean you’re gone. You can still return.

Not worth it’s own topic. Bring back memories of the good ol days too https://www.syracuse.com/orangesports/2023/03/radio-station-fires-brent-axe-for-negative-syracuse-sports-talk.html

Bring him home

Our best women’s basketball coach and arguably best basketball coach was on the way down when we got her. Not saying that always works out though. Bona is able to save money by not paying credit card merchant fees by only accepting cash at concession stands.

Half want Hodgson to get it because if he does well we're back to running the MAC. If he doesn't then I don't have to hear about how he would have been the better hire. 425

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He overlapped with Alnutt at Memphis too

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1BRJjZWweqaJw?s=20 This podcast broke the news yesterday right around the 1:24:00 mark. Some interesting comments about Hodgson on there too. They had the news, or at least broke it, before Rothstein did so it's interesting what their comments are. I'd be surprised if Hodgson would be interested but these guys know something we didn't. I stopped actively rooting for coaches to lose their job a while ago. I wish him the best wherever he goes but I'm glad we're moving on. Hopefully this renews some excitement in the MBB program.

I'd say he's overseen a relatively successful football program and kept an extremely successful WBB coach at UB until her alma mater came calling. Remember when PSU offered Jack and she stayed here? He also got UB some extra money by re-signing Oats before the Bama Bagman came to Grand Island. That's just on field success by the top 3 programs. I'm critical of his extension of Whitesell (in hindsight) and lack of vision for the fans of the football program. No public plan released for improving the experience at UB Stadium.