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There was a plan to build an on campus baseball facility during the Danny White years. Meanwhile the football stadium has not had any significant upgrades to the average spectator in decades.

Burke gets her first Big 4 sweep. As Rana Elhusseini dribbled out the clock at the end, with less than a second to go there was a Bona player who tried to steal the ball. Looks like we should run up the score next time.

Sounds like the system is broken. It's getting (kinda) fixed soon though. Ivy League doesn't send their teams to the FCS playoffs, why do they play football? It's a marketing arm for the school, kids want to go to a school that have things to do other than just school. Encourages alumni involvement, etc.

Ladies up 7 with under 5 to play. Huge game from Watson so far.

Just because I saw it repeated there, the old TBN narrative of "drop UB football [entirely/to FCS], become a national power in basketball" does not work and never will work. Canisius dropped football (and 5 other sports) in 2002. Since then Canisius has made 0 men's basketball NCAA tournament appearances, 0 NIT appearances, 1 NCAA women's basketball appearance, 0 WNIT appearances, 2 NCAA men's hockey tournament appearances. Okay but Canisius was FCS, let's look at FBS: Last program to drop from FBS to FCS was Idaho in 2017. The decision to drop to FCS was prompted in part by the football team being conferenceless, but putting that aside. Idaho has made 0 men's basketball NCAA tournament appearances, 0 NIT appearances, 0 NCAA women's basketball appearances, 0 WNIT appearances since the drop to FCS. Worth noting their longtime men's basketball coach was fired around the transition to FCS for NCAA violations. Even so, their men's basketball team last made the NCAA/NIT in 1990. Next drop from FBS to FCS was FAMU in 2004. Much different school profile (HBCU vs Flagship) but since the drop to FCS they made the men's NCAA one time (lost to Niagara in a play in), 0 NIT appearances. Women's basketball has not made it to the NCAA tournament or WNIT either. The next most recent team to drop from FBS was University of the Pacific after the 1995 season. Different profile as well (private vs Flagship). Their basketball team has gone to the NCAA tournament 5 times in the 27 possible seasons since the announcement, making it past the first round twice. They also made the NIT once. Their women's basketball team has made the WNIT a few times recently but hasn't made the big dance (ever). Prior to that, Cal State Fullerton dropped football entirely in 1992. 3 men's tournament appearances, 1 NIT. 0 women's NCAA appearances, 0 WNIT. Worth noting Cal State Fullerton has a widely successful baseball team that had success prior to and after the discontinuation of football. Next up, Long Beach State dropped football entirely in 1991. Similar situation. 4 men's NCAA appearances, 6 NIT one-and-dones. 2 women's basketball tournament appearances, 4 WNIT appearances. Coincidentally, football was dropped immediately after a stretch of women's basketball that included 2 final 4's. Long Beach also has a successful baseball team similar to Fullerton, with 2 CWS appearances in the 90's and a bunch of NCAA tournament appearances after 1991. The best example that I can find of even a remote chance the "drop football become gud at basketball" argument works is Wichita State. After the 1986 season, the football program was discontinued because of financials. Since then 11 men's tournament appearances, 7 R32, 3 S16, 1 F4. Won the NIT in 2011. Women have 3 NCAA appearances, 4 WNIT. However Wichita State did not become a powerhouse basketball program until Gregg Marshall got to campus, which was a full 20 years after football was dropped. Between football being dropped and Marshall being hired there were 3 NCAA tournament appearances and 1 S16. There was a stretch of 7 years without a winning season. Dropping football (to FCS) does not make an athletics program magically turn things around. It is the investment of the school that determines this. James Madison University had a stadium that looked like this 20 years ago. This is their stadium now: We had a stadium that looked like theirs 20 years ago. And we still do. It's the level of commitment from the university that is going to determine where resources go. When that photo was taken JMU had two conference championships: 1975 and 1999. Since then, they've added 8 conference and 2 national championships. JMU has an endowment of $155 million and a budget of $628 million. We have an endowment of $1 billion and a budget of $850 million. Axing football isn't going to magically give those millions to basketball.

You were around last year when the team lost to Holy Cross, but weren’t around for the bowl win against a decent Georgia Southern team (that beat Nebraska). Or the come from behind win against Toledo. Join us in the good times too, not just the bad times 🤘

Ready for Burke's first Big 4 sweep and to go 5 for 6 against them

Did that with women’s basketball Turns out nobody wants to play for her or work for her. Our best football/basketball coaches have been: High school head coach turned UB assistant D3 head coach P5 head coach P5 position coach/NFL front office A10 assistant No secret recipe for success

The only coaches left are Senderoff (Kent), Groce (Akron), and Kowalczyk (UT). But unfortunately those are the teams that can beat this team by that amount.

Was Nate Oats also not an affordability issue? What was the plan to pay Leipold close to $3 million per year at UB?

Hot. Don't think he's getting fired but don't think his contract will be renewed. 2.5 years left of his contract.

Stonehill threw up garbage shots all game and amazingly made some (though very few) of those shots. Air balls and shots that weren’t even close to the basket if they could even get a shot up during the lengthy shot clock were plentiful. UB should have won this game by 50, and Burke seemed to feel the same way. Shortly after the start of the second half she yelled something to the players on the court along the lines of “You have to play better, it’s embarrassing.” Normally a good lead at the half isn’t embarrassing but 23 points isn’t going to work in MAC play.

For some reason even in the not great years we play them close. That being said I’m expecting to get blown out by them this year. Good thing there’s no rivalry though, I’d hate to lose to a rival.

EMU is reportedly getting rid of their track, the second to last one left in FBS. Looking forward to ours being removed as well. And it appears that we still have the same video board. Maybe, someday, that will get fixed.

During the Oats years tickets were well below what they should have been. You aren't getting into a top 25 program anywhere in the country for $10 (M&T zone, cheapest ticket) a ticket. Even in rebuilding years I think we're the best value in town. Maybe you could make an argument for Bandits but you either have to pay to park or walk. Looking at MAC schools we're right in the middle for cheapest seasons. For Big 4 we're above CC and NU (can't find Bona), and we're on the cheap side of SUNY Ohio $100 ($60+$40) Niagara $115 ($105+$10) NIU $115 ($80+$35) Akron $115 ($60+$55 or more?) Miami $120 ($50+$70) Canisius $130 Kent $140 ($85+$55) CMU $145 ($95+$50) EMU $150 Albany $175 ($100+$75) Buffalo $175 Toledo $175 ($80+$95) Binghamton $200 (or $165 MBB only) Stony Brook $215 ($150+$65) WMU $220 ($180+$40) Ball State $223 ($169+$54, though WBB might be included with mens?) BG $235 ($150+$85) The cheapest Sabres season tickets are $1,100 12 Bisons tickets are $153, can't find a season ticket cost. Bandits cheapest season are $230 That all being said I do have gripes about the ticketing. The cost for reserved seating in 101-105 (seats opposite the benches) is too high. Going off last year's prices of $425, the breakeven is 12 men's games (those seats go for $35 for single games). If you aren't going to women's games, you're likely better off just buying single game tickets unless you can make all of the home games. Sometime in the past few years a $50 "donation" was added for the season tickets behind the benches. Those are the seats you want people in because they show up on TV. Flexible tickets are the way to go and to get families to games. We had an option a few years ago that seems to have disappeared. UB is a family friendly atmosphere that isn't going to break the bank (free parking), but we need to get people in the door. Flexible tickets make it easier to get families in. Agreed. It seems to go in and out. Once I can connect to wifi it works but at times it's a struggle to do that.

From looking through past standings, both Buffalo and Ohio (both with 12-5 records) will be MAC East Champions with a win. At least in volleyball, possibly all sports, the conference does not tie-break division champions so the same result for both teams on Wednesday will result in a co-division championship. This is unless something changed since the 2019 volleyball season where CMU and Ball State were both recognized as division champions.

Hopefully Reggie's crew didn't say anything to hurt JB's feelings today. Either Canisius is turning it around or Syracuse is not good.

Been there, done that. Awful decision.

Good point. I forgot she's a freshman because she might have been the best player on the court vs Canisius. Paula Lopez (also a freshman) looked good defensively vs Daemen but didn't play much against Canisius.

Hopefully a teachable moment for our coaching staff as to what not to do. Just have to think “what if” for the next four years.

Completely agree. Schools like WVU and Bona have a huge home advantage because the students are right on the court. The Bona student section that isn’t behind the baskets is only a few hundred students. WVU has the entire sideline opposite the benches designated for students, a bit more than Bona. Instead we have a okay/decent number of students show up, but because they’re all over the GA zones (each baseline is ~1,000 “seats”) it looks like nothing and they aren’t able to provide a huge home court advantage because they aren’t all in one area cheering together. Can’t move them behind the team benches because I don’t think that’s allowed anymore. I think the best way to fix it is kill the current 100’s on the side opposite the benches (currently donor seating) and turn that into student section seating. It’s probably enough to fit around 1k students with bleacher seats. ETA: Pissing off donors is not the goal (I am sure this would ruffle feathers) but getting the student section more involved and providing a better atmosphere pays huge dividends. WVU’s student section seating isn’t even benches. It’s kind of just standing room and chair back seats can be attached to them (concerts, graduation, etc). This would make it work with the non-basketball events that happen at AA where you need actual seats.

9 years ago the school wouldn’t allow students to camp out for the Baylor game. Doubt the policy has changed since then

Band has practice for tomorrow’s football game. They have practice or games every day this week except Thursday and this past Sunday.

There’s about a full baselines worth of students here but they’re spread out in both of the general admission sections. No band either

NCAA denied the waiver.