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1 hour ago, squire17 said:

I don’t know exactly what Oats has said about money. I am saying that he would be a fool to walk away from what was offered. And so I must deduce that not only is he a great coach - he’s no fool either.

Fair enough and I agree with you. And I’d respect him more if he said that. Instead he said, for the record,

“I was a high school math teacher six years ago, so it’s not about the money for us.  Obviously the money doesn’t hurt. But I’d like to play for national championships. We can get to the Final Four here.”

1 hour ago, squire17 said:

Sweet! Repeating myself here: Only a fool or a saint would walk away from that!

nate oats said in his press conference down there that it wasn't about the money... the money was nice, but he was a math teacher 6 years ago - and that he decided to come here bc he thought he could compete for a national title.

can't have it both ways - he can't publically say the money wasn't the motivating factor and then also explain the move as "how possibly could he turn down the money"

One thing about oats is that since high school he was stuyding to be a coach. He talked on a podcast about how he would buy coaching VHS tapes to watch as a teen. His whole life was focused in coaching. Bobby has much less experience- from his time in the NBA and then horse racing/private industry after he got into coaching much later. I think bobbys a good coach, but I think oats is better, probably because he’s been studying it longer

1 hour ago, MillenniumBull said:

Victor could see out of the back of his head?  All those times I gave him bunny ears and thought I was so slick... seriously though, I don’t remember our mascot ever in full buffalo horn ramming position which I can only assume that would be for.

That’s just for ventilation I think 

Campus dining and shops runs concessions. Based on the contract, Athletics has limited input to what they do and how they do. Athletics gets a set percentage of the revenue, which under the current contract is a shockingly low percentage.  Right now concessions are not a major a revenue stream for the department, but that could change w a new agreement in future.  Beer sales should give them better leverage on getting a higher percentage 

good stuff as always!!  

24 minutes ago, promotherobot said:

Couple things. One, Bona isn't ranked. We are. Two, I don't know why Bona plays in Rochester. Maybe it's a recruiting thing? But They have no connection to the city. Buffalo wears the city's name on their jersey. (Oh how we fought over that!)

I'm not saying move every game to KBC. But how about all the games during school breaks, plus a few marquee opponents?

Watching the crowd on TV my guess is most of the non-student fans look like older alums who are getting their school spirit rekindled. And that's great. But we also need area kids to get invested. They are your future fans.

Mom and dad can't afford $300+ to take the family to a Sabres game, but they can do a UB game for under $80.

Also, we need to get Bulls swag into the Wegman's stores and Walmarts.

All the games during break and some marquee non break games this year would have been like more then half the schedule  

Btw, segu’s work effort is tremendous. There is an Instagram post of him taking shots at alumni at 1am after they got back

6k without students is great - since most of those tickets are revenue tickets instead of free student seats.  It could have been the largest financial gate ever for the atheltics dept

I'd think you'd have to nearly sell the place out to make up for the cost of renting the arena compared to using the free one on campus.  Also, i'm not sure what the atmosphere would be like w/ 10k people.  while a lot of ppl, it could feel dead bc the building is so much bigger

Also, I do wonder how much the pegulas would embrace it.  They are very supportive of UB athletics, but there is a limit to that support - at the end of the day we are competition for them. 

26 minutes ago, John said:

I think we can give both Segu and Williams some time. They do seem to have the right work ethic. We seen them both after the SIU game shooting. Some players take a little longer to get acclimated to D1 play. Go Bulls!!!!

They have an unbelievable work ethic. Both were practing shooting at alumni at 3am after the team got back