MKBullsfan

I bet we start next season with Myers and end up with Cole. 

Good for him. I think if he was on a better team with a better offensive line, he’d have more tds. He can definitely play at this level. Wish the Bills would pick him up next year but only if they fix their offensive line too.

It’s sad to say but this game could be the beginning of our basketball program’s decline and it could get a lot worse the next few years. We had a good run. 

Start the coaching search now...

Fire the refs. That last call on Williams was suspect. First the griffs player flopped like they've done the whole game then the ref makes the call boastfully like he's a cheerleader for the Griffs...come on.

Anybody else muting the Canisius broadcast of this game online? The announcers have a good blend of annoyance and homerism that is completely unbearable.

First off, great pass by the guy. Second, Barstool should be held accountable for ripping off other media’s production. F Barstool if they did this without giving credit where credit is due. I would not let this go if I were UB athletics.

5 minutes ago, yussi1870 said:

Where is this game?

At St. John Fisher’s high school gym, where else do you think it will be….?

Does UB get a share of profit from any of the bowls? Is it spread out among all the MAC teams? How does that work again?

Since we are talking about coaches on the hot seat, what about former coach Witherspoon now at Canisius. This guy hasn’t done anything and somehow year after year has a job. I thought he was average at best at UB and he continues to underachieve but no mention of hot seat for him. I guess our expectations at UB have risen and we demand more since we’ve won recently. Canisius on the other hand is stuck in mediocrity.

It’s all about the future and with Hurley and Oats at least we new what the future rosters would bring. This is the first time where we have no idea who will lead next year which should be a sign if we have the right coach. Also, the one big difference between Whitesell and Hurley/Oats is both Hurley/Oats had the potential to leave to bigger jobs, I’d don’t think Whitesell is that type of coach. He’s probably content with staying until retirement.

Hate to be pessimistic but we are staring at a big rebuild after this year. I’d be surprised if we won 10 games next year with the less experienced roster we have. Anyways let’s focus and enjoy this season but concern about the future roster is an understatement. 

If I were Oats, I’d stay in Alabama for 10-15 years then make a jump to either Duke, Michigan State or Kentucky. 

So what’s the deal with this game being on tv anywhere maybe direct tv? Is it only online at nbcsports.com? 

3 hours ago, Buffalobonnie said:

Hi guys.  Glad to see the program you don't care about has three threads on your board.  I guess the Point Park and St. John Fisher games aren't moving the needle?  I expect a good game on Saturday.  This series is good for both schools.  If you guys would ever ditch football I think you would be a good addition to the Atlantic 10.  From an outsider perspective I think that would be a good move for you, but that is for you to decide.  See some of you maybe on Saturday

Didn’t you lose at home to Northern Iowa Community Tech College? Also, A10 is for private schools. UB is a public state school which can afford Football and other sports at the same time. Also, bummer you dropped out of the top 25 after waiting 50 years to be ranked but it’s a long season. All the best to you and the folks in little Olean.

18 hours ago, DaBulls99 said:

I just don’t understand the obsession to hire a guy who hasn’t done any actual coaching. Jim has recruited well and our team has improved each year. BH can recruit better but can’t coach a lick. Think about it. In all of his years with Nate, he hasn’t even run a practice. If you can’t win, recruiting will then suffer as well. 

You don’t understand the idea of hiring a guy who hasn’t done any coaching? I assume your talking about head coaching right? By that logic, our football coach shouldn’t have been hired…but people were talking about how great of a recruiter he was. Wonder why he got the job and Bryan didn’t.

Just start Hardnett going forward. I don’t care how tall the other player on the other team is. Brock can’t jump anyway. 

Those refs easily gave North Texas another 10-15 points. It was just obvious how biased they were. Buffalo should have won easily. 

What is the status of Hardnett anyway?

Also, this game reminded me of the West Virginia game where we ended up pulling the upset. We chipped away at the lead. This time though we stopped feeding the best player who was Williams. He was having a CJ Massinburg game. But poor shot selection and the officiating was suspect at times with all these double techs killing our momentum and flow of the game. We’ll be good the rest of the way but I thought this one was winnable honestly. 

I got a feeling we’ll need 7 wins to go Bowling this year…gotta win out.

10 hours ago, clodney said:

Vantrease is a Tyrod Taylor type of QB - smart, protects the ball, but isn't going to do anything flashy or carry the team to victories on his own. Perhaps Matt Myers will add an element that would help us move the ball but I put very little blame on Vantrease for our current offensive woes. The problem is our run game.

I'm no expert but wasn't the success of our run game last year based on a lot of zone blocking and stretch plays? Everyone was in motion on every snap, yet now we seem to be playing a more basic handoff up the middle type of game and our linemen are struggling to open gaps, let alone reach the second level. Why not switch up the playcalling to something this team is a bit more familiar with? This feels a bit like Jeff Quinn's first year as a HC where he committed to his strategy without considering the personnel he inherited. I'm not sure what the answer is but it feels to me that it's more important that we fix our run game to open things up for our strong-armed QB instead of switching to our running QB to supplement our lack of a rushing attack.

And we lost our 2 best starting linemen to transfer Gall to Baylor and Novitsky to Kansas. That didn’t help. 

Back to the stadium discussion, hear me out on this one… why not follow the Bills path and build new but instead knock down current UB stadium and build new on the same exact site. While the new stadium is being built, play at the new Bills stadium and test it out to see if you can play 1 or 2 big games a year there with Notre Dame or Michigan. Forget lowering the track, go big and build new to get it right. The rest of UB stadium sucks anyway. Just rebuild on site and aim for 30,000k seats.

Riggins and Ruiz are two key players that did not play. Hope both are back for conference play. 

Something to think about…Coastal basically returned all their starters on both sides. Imagine if Buffalo returned Patterson, Novitsky, Gall and Lefebrve…plus the same coaches from before would the score be us losing by 3 at home still? Doubt it. We would be ranked too. 

I gotta say McDuffie has been more impressive so far to me then Marks. Honest opinion. Also, Johnson has been the best wr even over the transfer from Eastern Michigan. We should give them more plays because they are producing so far.