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    Home opener vs. Fordham ESPN+ 9/9/23 6pm

    in Buffalo Bulls Football

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    Bottom 10

    3. Buffalo Bulls Not Bills (0-2)

    An opening loss to Wisconsin on the road, that's not bad. But a loss at home to FCS Fordham in which the Rams quarterback throws five touchdown passes, that's very bad. Fordham had already lost this season to the Albany Great Danes, who lost to Marshall and Hawai'i and were picked 11th in the 15-team Colonial Athletic Association's preseason poll. Heads up, Arkansas State, Stony Brook was picked 14th.

    https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38386626/college-football-bottom-10-week-2-alabama

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    Not a great look to already be at #3.  

    I thought these days were over.  Alas, they are not.

    UB looked competitive in their game against Wisconsin and jumped out to a 21-3 lead against Fordham, but then let this FCS team go up and down the field on them (obviously already thinking they had won).  Like last year.   This is (almost) all on coaching and is an indictment of the HC.  After all, this was the year we were taking the next step.  Experienced QB, some experienced line players, potential draft picks among the starters, etc.   The team was picked third in the MAC East and one MAC coach had them winning the MACC.   Losing to Fordham (when you are 23.5 point favorites) has many negative repercussions, not the least of which are the recruits that came to the game (expecting, I assume, to see a strong performance).

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    A few days after the game, this is the coach's comments:

    “Although we lost, there’s a ton of areas that we’re playing at a high level, but we’ve got to continue to raise the level of play, all across the board."

    Basically, the coach is blaming execution and knowing what you are supposed to do.

    The fumble on the punt...Cook put it on himself. 

    At any rate, I would think it is unlikely that all of these things "get fixed" in one week, especially with a few injuries and Grant out for the first half.

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    My guess is that Liberty underestimates UB a bit and, like against Coastal last year, UB is in the game for a good chunk...but eventually succombs to Liberty's offense (and makes secondary mistakes, bad penalties and/or bad decisions).  I hope I am wrong and UB dominates.

     

    I forgot that Liberty's coach makes about 6x as much in compensation as the UB coach.

     

     

    2023 Schedule

    in Buffalo Bulls Basketball

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    26 minutes ago, DooleyBull06 said:

    https://x.com/ubuffalombb/status/1699135454992380155?s=46&t=abJ5kxCYL0d_Jx1Z5-jZcA

    Non conference schedule is out. My one issue is the home date against some guy named Roberts Wesleyan. Would rather face anyone team than that dude.

    We are also playing some guy named James Madison and another named Fairleigh Dickinson.   Not sure why we are playing games against individuals, but I will leave that up to the AD.   Maybe it is cheaper that way?

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    How Many Wins for UB Football (regular season)?

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    The MAC coaches have UB predicted to finish 3rd.   With those numbers, it seems about 6 - 7 wins in that scenario, perhaps.    https://getsomemaction.com/news/2023/7/16/football-toledo-ohio-selected-as-favorites-in-head-coaches-preseason-poll.aspx

    What do you think will happen?  Or have we all forgot about the giant egg we laid at the end of the season at home...only to survive (and to win a bowl game) because we were playing Akron?   Perhaps we choose to forget!   After all, it is possible for us to go 12 - 0!   Go Bulls.

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    Season opener @Wisconsin FS1 9/2/23 3:30pm

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    4 hours ago, clodney said:

    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.

    This sounds like a reasonable projection.  I do think that UB will keep it relatively close and, maybe, lose 31 to 13 or something like that, with a long 4th quarter TD run by Wisconsin putting the game out of reach.

    Football conference proposal

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    9 hours ago, UB77 said:

    I suggested this (obvious) concept a while back that was met with little interest. I wept. 🙂

    But it seems others have a very similar idea (with better graphics).

    Who knows? These are strange times. Or maybe it just makes too much sense.

     

    There is no world where this could happen.  Too much other stuff tied together (TV rights, bowl tie ins, future schedules, etc, etc).  
     

    Relegation and promotion happened in English soccer in the 90s.

     The 1890s

    It is part of that culture.  Heck, they can’t even do it here with MLS and it won’t happen here. 
     

    But am I interested in seeing Haaland at Kenilworth Road this year!    

    Conference Merger?

    in General Discussions

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    5 hours ago, BrooklynBull said:

    It is also very expensive to leave the ACC.  The schools have a grant of rights of their media rights to the conference though 2036.  This means the ACC owns the schools broadcast rights to their home games.  So if a school were to leave to another conference, the ACC would own their TV revenue obtained from the other conference.  Which means if a school leaves their TV money goes to the ACC which will then share within the ACC.  Which means they get nothing through 2036.

    I believe the guy in the article I linked to is a lawyer in that area of law and spoke about how he would approach that.  

    Conference Merger?

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    This conference realignment is really interesting from a business/financial perspective.

    In reading some articles (especially today with the ACC not even taking a vote on Cal and Stanford and SMU), I have a real fear that the run which caused the death of the PAC 12 is going to happen in the ACC -- and it will get ugly.

    The schools in the ACC have until August 15 to announce if they will leave in 2024, so that's an important date.

    Clearly FSU wants out.   I think there are SEVERAL ACC schools that are seeing what happened to the PAC 12 and don't want to be like WSU, OSU, Cal and Stanford...holding the bag at the end and out in the cold.   

    This author seems to think that this will play out like the PAC 12...UCLA and USC left a year earlier...and then the chaos happened the next year.   Or, in other words, FSU and Clemson will leave by August 15...and then a decision will be made by the rest of the teams the following year.  I disagree with this since all of the schools in the ACC are already aware of FSU's grumblings (and others), so several are likely making their own deals (or with groups of schools) for certain conferences.  Accordingly, I think there will be even more upheaval on/by August 15.

    Conference Merger?

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    4 hours ago, BrooklynBull said:

    Some talk now of Cal - Stanford to the ACC, which I  guess would be renamed the ACBAC, Atlantic Coast Bay Area Conference.  If that happens Washington State and Oregon State will look to go to the Mountain West.  Also Big XII is not looking for any more teams.

    All info from the D1 Ticker.

    I wonder who retains, if anyone, the name "PAC 10 or PAC 12".  There is some value in that name.  If WSU and OSU join up with those MWC schools (and/or others), I think they should just try to keep the PAC 10 name.

    This is an interesting story.  The WSU President (who was leading the PAC 12 presidential group) really thought he had kept the conference together with the Apple TV streaming deal and the promise to renegotiate in a few years, but the other schools were negotiating all this time with other places (and paid him lip service).   And now the WSU fanbase is outraged about this.   He really should have had a plan b to jump to once everyone was jumping ship.  But he went down with the ship (and, I guess, took OSU with them).

    This sort of thing was inevitable.  It makes sense that two, non-descript PAC 12 schools are going to be casualties of this.  I mean, if you had to select schools that could be left out of this game of P5 conference musical chairs, WSU and OSU would be on a list.

    The ACC for Stanford and UC-Berkeley are not done deals.  There is still acrimony in the ACC about their monetary deals...and both those schools don't add much to the conference from a monetary standpoint (other than increasing travel costs).    They look great on paper since they are two of the nation's most prestigious academic institutions, but that doesn't win you football games or increase TV revenues.

    Interesting times.

    Conference Merger?

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    2 hours ago, SGBull said:

    In my ideal (unrealistic) world. A few southeastern schools leave the ACC and with Syracuse, BC, and Pitt staying they decide to add some more northeastern schools in UB, UConn, and UMass. Will never happen but it would be awesome if it did. 

    Interesting.  Maybe that's how it can happen.  But I don't think the geographical issues seem to be problematic for anyone at this point (or not initially).  

    If Syracuse, BC, and Pitt come calling to UB, etc., something has gone horribly wrong for the ACC.   And it could happen that FSU is the tip of the arrow for the ACC.

    https://www.si.com/college/fsu/football/new-report-reveals-seven-schools-actively-exploring-departure-from-acc

    If those schools leave for elsewhere (assumedly of Big10 or Big12 or SEC), it would leave:  BC, Duke, Ga Tech, Louisville, Notre Dame (maybe), Pitt, Syracuse and Wake Forest.

    You'd have to wonder if those eight schools that are left would band together and try to make a "super conference" out of the leftovers from the PAC10, try to squeeze into one of the other conferences or something else.

    As much as it is fun to dream about, UB has made minimal moves to make themselves attractive towards potential conference expansion.  

    I don't have a crystal ball, but I see the future as "superconferences" who will play each other...and the rest (AAC, MAC, Sun Belt, etc.) will sort of form an official "second-tier".  I know they do right now (with the Group-of-Five), but I think it will become more of what the FBS is to the FCS.   These teams won't be ranked, etc.   I can see scenarios where the superconferences suck up all of the bowls (a 3 win Minnesota team is likely to draw a higher attendance and a higher TV rating than a 10 win MAC team, for example) in the future.

     

    There was an opportunity ... 10+ years ago...for UB to position themselves for today (or the next several years) for conference expansion.  The decision makers decided "no".   Financially it was (and is) likely the right call.  But the sports fan and die hard alumnus is sad about it.

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    UB Roster Flow Project (1999-2024)

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    2 hours ago, MuchMany said:

    Buffalo MBB Roster Flow Project (1999-2024) (view on desktop)

    I got inspired by Blue Collar U (and summer boredom) to start this project I've been thinking about for a bit. I wanted to be able to see how UB's roster turns over through the years, who played with who, how coaching changes affected things, which recruiting classes contributed and which came up empty, etc. With all the roster fluctuation in modern CBB, it's even more interesting to see compared to 5-10 years ago.

    So I created a spreadsheet that tracks rosters and minutes played, from the team GH3 is assembling back to 1999, 'Spoon's first year (from Lloyd McVeigh back to Maliso Libomi lol). This is just a couple days of playing around, but I like the product so far. I have some more features in mind, but I'd love to get people's general feedback, and also any suggestions for future versions or corrections to the data. The early 'Spoon years don't have any stats online that I can find, so if anyone can fill in the blanks, alert me to false/missing players, missed redshirt arrivals, etc I'd appreciate it. Feel free to reply here, message me here, or leave comments on the Google Sheet.

    Imo this is the kind of thing that an intern in the AD's office should have created a long time ago. It's good for program history/continuity and alumni relations (aka "maintaining a program" over time). Maybe someday this could be linked from the official website - when it's a little more polished, I hope to get it to the people who do this stuff for a living.

    Go Bulls

    A few comments...

    1.   You did do a lot of work on this!
    2.   I'd have thought that there is some freeware or template that could do this (maybe some Gantt charts), but sometimes you just need to bend a spreadsheet to your will.
    3.   The redshirt color is just a lighter blue.  Maybe make the redshirt color...red.  And make the dismissal something else (yellow?)
    4.    The column with the total minutes has shading that is a function of the value, but it isn't mentioned anywhere.
    5.    What about the overall and conference records along the top as well?  It helps contextualize the year.
    6.    I am not sure it is worth it (or would make it too busy), but maybe incorporating something about positions as well.
    7.    I sometimes see something like this for bands that have been around a long time and have had many, many members.  Here's an example (see the bottom of the page):  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lynyrd_Skynyrd_members

     

     

    George Halcovage III the next UB Men's Basketball Coach

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    23 hours ago, 121Merrimac said:

    You must be joking, because it may not be possible to misinterpret my comment by a wider margin.

    "show me results" means the same thing as "wait for the games to start".

    Every new coach always says what they want to do... how great things will be once the season begins.  It is all hot air, until they actually do something.  I certainly wasn't asking for anyone to be fired.  But, I also don't think he should be crowned the greatest Bulls coach ever just yet either.

    Logical fallacy.   I think straw man, but I don’t have them exactly memorized.  
     

    Who said he was “the greatest Bulls coach”?????   No one.  They were just commenting on the positive vibes and different feel than the previous staff.

    Truth be told, I was mostly joking.  But reading your response, I am now only half joking!

     

    Terrance Shelton Jr

    in Football Recruiting

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    5 hours ago, UBinMD said:

    Got a commit from a 3 star RB from Wisconsin. Has offers from BC, Nebraska, a couple Ivy. 11 total. Looks like some other Big10 internet. We will see if this one holds up over the season, but getting commitments early is a nice sign.

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    It is great he is committed so early.

    Imagine if he was 1000% committed...  

     

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    Jalen Rougier-roane

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    3 hours ago, ChubbyHubby said:

    And pretty much all of them using "of Buffalo" instead of "at Buffalo"

    I don’t care if they write “University in Buffalo”.   They will have, hopefully, many years to learn where the “at” goes if they come to UB.  Plus, they get easy access to Duffs. 
     

     

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    Around the MAC

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    On 5/21/2023 at 1:33 PM, Jeseph said:

     

    I don’t know if this has been mentioned before, but WMU got a boat load of money from a very generous donor, with a nice chunk of it going to athletics.  Perhaps some of that is for NIL.  It can be a game changer for them. 

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    ‘23-‘24 Roster

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    I know there is no other place to put this info, but why are stories of where are portaled players are visiting in the ‘23-‘’24 roster thread?   
     

    If they sign somewhere else, fine.  If they return back to UB, fine.   But I am not really interested in how Jones’ visit to ISU went, to be blunt.  Let’s focus on the guys that have committed and the guys who are here, rather than desperately following the portal guys.  It’s a bad look. 

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