clodney

Sorry but I can’t possibly ignore someone who calls us a “terrible fanbase” based on a bunch of Bull$hit.

It's a fair question. We wouldn't have felt the burn of our biggest failure in years. To me it's all about expectations. We never won a MAC Championship in football with Lance Leipold but I don't think any of us would claim he was a failure. However, not getting a MAC Championship in any of the years we had Jeenathan, Segu, Mballa, and Skogman? That was unacceptable given where we were prior to Whitesell.

What success did we have exactly? We had won the MAC 4 out of 5 years, had perhaps our greatest recruiting class in the history of the school which included an NBA-level talent (as you mentioned), and we were filling our arena nightly with an energized fanbase. The future was bright and the program was poised to maintain its position as a national midmajor power, until we switched coaches and proceeded to: - Year 1: Lose by double digits to the 12-seed in the first round of the MAC tourney - Year 2: Lose by double digits to the 5-seed in the MAC Championship, followed by a first round loss in the NIT - Year 3: Lose to the 4-seed in the first round of the MAC tourney - Year 4: Lose by 24pts to the 4-seed in the first round of the MAC tourney - after a sub .500 season You cannot fault our fanbase for being completely pissed off at that downward spiral. He'll always be remembered as the guy who tanked our program.

THIS. I feel like I've been shouting this from the rooftops for years. My experience at UB, which occurred in the days with HUGE student crowds, was that those who lived off-campus didn't go to games at all. This included commuters and the partiers down in the heights. If you wanted to get the students involved you simply had to go around to the dorms to drum up excitement and hand out a few free pizzas. Eddie Asbie proved this concept works. IMO There's no point in trying to win over local students. They'll never consider UB a true sporting event since it will always be in the shadow of Bills/Sabres games. As for the game yesterday, I was pretty encouraged by our performance. I was a bit worried about our incoming talent but they looked like they fit the part. Now we have to see if they actually develop and play as a team - both things missing from Whitesell's era.

lol

lol. Skip the basketball home opener and first ever game for Halcovage for a friggin practice for a bull$hit Tuesday night, meaningless football game.

Are they on vacation or something? This is a sad crowd all around.

I HATE that 4th down play. Worst call of the season. You have a brand new QB in the game that you can pin deep and you go gif it??

There are phenomenal analysts who can assess problems and find solutions, and then there are phenomenal coaches who can motivate and game manage. The fact that our Defensive Coordinator has no experience beyond senior level analyst might explain why our defense is giving up 120+ypg more than a year ago and now sits at 3rd from last in all of FBS. He may not have the coaching qualities necessary to lead - even though he's a great analytical mind.

Some of that is likely due to message boards becoming outdated but it's true nonetheless. Ubfan is dead compared to when I was at UB.

ADMA doesn't have a great history with premature contract extensions...

That is shocking. Was it for athletics? Or do you mean UB in general? And what drove it?

Over the past few years there have been people calling for Mark Alnutt's head (myself included) for focusing too much attention on football and letting the basketball program fall off a cliff. What are we thinking of Alnutt now that the football is also failing? IMO Alnutt is the one who needs to go and it's long overdue. He inherited a department that had Lance Leipold, Felisha Legette-Jack, and Nate Oats, and he replaced them with Maurice Linguist, Becky Burke, and Jim Whitesell. The jury is still out on Becky but the other 2 struggled mightily trying to maintain relevance. Fan support has dropped off and I'd imagine donor money has as well. We're back on par with the lowest teams in the MAC, we're losing to FCS schools, and overall it feels like 2003 again. Am I wrong here? Do others still have hope that ADMA can actually right this thing?

Either fire people or drop all funding to fcs-levels and put all of your money into basketball. We don’t have the funding for both and the football world is impossible to compete in. I’m the biggest college football guy in the land but this $hit will never work.

Turning it off.

Running to the edge to start the half was the stupidest play call I had ever seen, up until we decided to run it to the edge a second time immediately after.

Finally, a pulse on this team.

Wisconsin lost to Wazzu by double digits last week and are currently tied with GA Southern. I don’t think theyre very good.

This team sucks. We’ve regressed.

... to basketball season.

You mean they aren't the Albany of last year since they were god awful.

Sounds like Wisconsin will be trying a new offensive system that strays from their typical ground and pound running. This could bode well for us in the first half given our defensive experience but I'd expect them to go back to their basics later in the game and start to run us over. I'm hopeful that we can keep it interesting for a bit.

If it weren't for student subsidies the vast majority of athletic departments in this country would be horribly unprofitable, so you could argue these players wouldn't be worth anything.

...and I know just the Dick to do it!

Why wouldn't they give us Ark State? Imagine how awesome the fanbase would've been for that game! I might've flown in just to see it.