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  1. I'm not going to pretend that I know how to run an athletic department, but we're only a handful of years removed from the top 25 MBB and football teams and they may as well have never happened. All ties to those teams have been severed and all the fan momentum is gone. The students who were on campus for the good teams are gone. We're exactly where we were 10 years ago (well, 10 years ago we won 19 MBB games). We didn't find our way into a better conference as things have continued to shift (which I think is the true floor raiser for an athletic department). We're behind on the NIL front. I just don't know what Mark Alnutt has done to improve the department and staying stagnant is the same as falling behind as far as I'm concerned. I don't really have a good answer on how things should have gone differently, that's above my pay grade, but there have been ADs that found ways to advance UB's athletic programs.
  2. AD has to go first imo. He got handed MAC powerhouses in all 3 revenue sports and the nicest thing you can say about his hires since is that WBB hasn't completely fallen off a cliff
  3. Yeah I admit that my tone is sarcastic but I'm tired of the ragging on kids who committed to a different coach and got stuck in a shit situation. Not to mention the gaslighting of "you just don't know ball like I do", and insinuation that calling it what it is makes me a bad fan. We posted a .129 winning percentage this year, the last season that some of our contemporaries posted a winning percentage that bad. Big 4: Canisius: 1976-77 Niagara: NEVER St. Bonaventure: 2004-05 SUNYs: Albany: NEVER Binghamton: 2012-13 Stony Brook: NEVER MAC: Akron: 1995-96 Ball State: NEVER Bowling Green: NEVER Buffalo: 1991-92 CMU: 1994-95 EMU: 2000-01 Kent State: 1961-62 Miami (OH): 1907-08 NIU: NEVER Ohio: 1916-17 Toledo: 2010-11 WMU: 1958-59 This was a historically bad season and people are in denial about it. It feels like people want to believe that the issues will leave with Chatman/Adams/Jones/Smith, when we haven't really seen anything that suggests that they will.
  4. Again if you're so sure, put your money where your mouth is 🙂 I'll be waiting. Don't worry I'll throw the winnings into the Halcovage buyout fund, because believe it or not I am "routing" for UB
  5. Two guys who created their accounts after the top 25 season (we can see that) telling me how to be a UB fan. Kindly piss off. This coach stinks and this roster stinks, they won 3 games, get a grip. You can make a fan fiction site if that's what you want to read. It's well within my right as an alum, a donor, and a season ticket holder to say that the product sucks when it sucks.
  6. Okay sounds good, talk to you next year and think about an o/u on the win total for the season. I'll blindly accept a bet on whatever you choose, I'm guessing it'll be 8 wins too high
  7. Thanks MaineBull I just found out that players can improve. Interesting, how does that help Sy Chatman and Isaiah Adams score points two months ago?
  8. A new, more objective game for this board's posters. IUPUI, Stonehill, Cal Poly, and DePaul were the other teams with exactly 3 D1 wins. On each of those teams who were their D1 caliber players? On each of those teams who were their MAC championship contributor caliber players? On each of those teams which players would you be excited if they announced they were transferring to UB tomorrow?
  9. Last year yes. I would listen to an argument on Zaakir Williamson, but I'd still lean no. Jo Smith and Zaakir were the only players on the roster that posted above D1 average ORtgs. Are we going to pretend that it's outrageous that a team with 3 D1 wins has 3.5 D1 players?
  10. I said that Adams shouldn't have had to be a star because he wasn't one and apparently that is love for Isaiah Adams. My point is that there were no other D1 players on the roster and your refusal to point out a single other one leads me to believe that you agree. I'm not alone in my opinion, all the others have just stopped caring, you may have noticed as the crowd surrounding you at games thinned. I hope Halcovage gives you a kiss on the forehead when he tucks you in tonight. The people arguing with me in this thread were talking themselves into an NAIA prospect in the recruiting thread, so they will be blindly supportive for eternity and I respect that, but it doesn't mean that you are correct lmao
  11. So o'masterful ball knower. If Adams and Chatman weren't so damn greedy who would've done the scoring on this team. Lloyd McVeigh, the worst scholarship basketball player I have seen at UB? Ryan Sabol who took more 3PA than dribbles inside the 3 point line? Shawn Fulcher, analytically one of the worst players in all of the D1 land? Anquan Boldin, the IMG C-teamer who posted a turnover rate that more than doubled his assist rate? Bryson Wilson, who could only find mop up duty minutes despite being on one of the worst teams in the country? James Graham, our other experienced D1 baller who actually managed to post shooting numbers significantly worse than Isaiah Adams, despite only having to do a fraction of the play making?
  12. So your hypothesis is that the freshmen who were already below average offensively on microscopic usage, and additionally posted pitiful assist rates had a lot of offensive potential that Adams was simply choosing not to tap into. Even though in 3 years of D1 experience that was not descriptor of Adams at any point? No that wasn't what I was implying. I was implying that he played major minutes on multiple D1 basketball teams that didn't contend for bottom 15 in the country. If you want to argue that Adams actually got worse as a basketball player this year my question would be what did Halcovage break because he was doing fine prior. He posted 1.4 win shares last year vs. -0.1 this year
  13. Adams played more minutes on last year's 15 win team than he did on this year's 4 win team. Saying that the program is better with all 3 D1 players we had no longer on the roster is the most needlessly contrarian bullshit I've ever seen. When there's no fans at the games next year enjoy yelling that at an empty seat
  14. Based on your expectations that you made up? Did you watch his sophomore season at UCF? Or even bother to look at his stats? The only offensive statistic he didn't improve (significantly) in year one at UB was assist rate?
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