TheCommish

That’s not the mantra of UB. “Give us your money, money will fix everything and we will spend it how we want,” NIL will fix it but people are worried about their jobs and rightfully so. By the way, Ub foundation has over $1 billion in assets. Not all that money is attached to projects by the way. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/160865182

Plenty of them on campus. We can argue need and want all day. I noticed you won’t take the L on NIL donations being tax deductible. You skipped right over that…

Brooklyn is just worried people will start donating towards the NIL instead of vanity projects. Ohio State's NIL is non-profit - https://www.thefoundationohio.com/faq/ says on the web site. "your membership is tax-deductible" Ohio Bobcats NIL "Your donation will be tax deductible through our partnership with the BPS Foundation, a national 501c3" https://1804sportcollective.com/ “ name things after yourself or another leaves a legacy for the future. NIL is fleeting at best,” is that from a phablet or response sheet? I bet a lot of donors would be happy knowing they funded a winning basketball program. How many donors are happy with the current state of fb and mbb?

And the AG offices of VA and TN are suing and going to hand the ncaa another L

"NIL "donations" are not donations," - false. NIL payments are donated to plenty of non-profit orgs. "NIL collectives are tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations," https://www.alston.com/en/insights/publications/2023/10/the-irss-latest-play-on-nil-collectives "They are payments for which an athlete is supposed to do something," So let's say hypothetically a high level donor wants their relative to get a job and they're one of the least qualified candidates, fast forward, years later, the results proved they were unqualified IMO. Did that ever happen at UB? 😃 "You will get an apology as soon as you make a donation to athletics or a payment into a NIL fund. Until then I stand by my statements," I'm trying to start NIL fund with people on this board. Will you donate? Start at $150

What will happen will be the school's will be paying for NIL. I think you're being hung up on $9m, there is so much waste on that campus, it's unbelievable. $1.4 million would change UB basketball in a positive way, $4.4 million would change UB basketball in the best way possible. You need better CBAs, also how many adjunct professors are full-time professors but they're on sabbaticals? Apparently, it's okay to avoid paying adjunct professors benefits, etc but if they're making $90k that is okay. "There not choosing were to spend the money out of one pot," - yes, they're. The president could simply allocate more money to athletics rather than the countless waste. You really don't think there is $20 million dollars of waste on that campus?

It’s called NIL. Explain to everyone why donating to name a building is more valuable than getting a starting 5 that can win a national championship. Please explain. whether we get more money from playing Missouri or a home game is irrelevant. What Kent st is doing is irrelevant. Danny white made a point when he went to ucf, no more body bag games. He agreed to only home and home, why don’t we have the same approach? “That’s how we’re funded,” we spent $9m on adjunct professors. The money is there on the campus, they're choosing to spend the money on things they want to fund. if people truly care about ub athletics, we would start funding an NIL. By the way, I graduated from ub. I’ll take the apology any minute.

I’m disappointed that is how you treat alumni. When you speak to donors and they say I’m cutting back or pulling my money, is your rebuttal “you’re part of the problem,”? by the way, ub is not funding athletics properly if we must rely on body bags game to fund our athletic department. Do we ask professors to sell books to have a class? Do we ask the dance program to sell candy bars to have a performance? Actually, I think I’m a sound investor that doesn’t throw money at a bad thing. Ub needs to fund athletics, play more home game, less body bag games. Is the president is not asking why we need a check from Missouri to function. He's a very smart man and he is not asking the questions? If we rely on another school supporting us because that is how things have always work then we have the wrong leadership and simply can’t afford d1 athletics. I can’t believe the president wants to be associated with directional schools rather Penn st, Rutgers, or even Tulane.

Thats fine, I hope we can launch the NIL fund soon, redirect money that would normally go towards a project or naming rights. There is more value in 1.4 million starting 5 than naming rights of a brick.

That will win a lot of games, naming rights for a door knob.

It was one example. UB paid 9,229,427 in 2022 in adjunct salaries, guess how many were replacing someone on sabbatical? You don't think we could use half of that towards athletics?

You can't win without NIL, this is not 2020. I want to start NIL, redirect the donors away from you, form a real powerhouse.

And that’s why ub is the way it is. It’s called investment, I could easily find a million dollars of waste on that campus that should be redirected towards athletics. Do you want me to start listing all of them? How many employees are in different classifications and should be reclassified but won’t because they would take a $30k pay cut?

Schools will eventual need to be paying for NIL. We could also earmark the money for charter flights and buy games or we don’t donate it. I’ve never donated to ub athletics and I know of others that won’t as well but we could get them on board with a plan. I know it’s your job to fundraise but we have to win. Doing it, the old fashion way, won’t work.

We should be #1 in the MAC, there’s no reason we’re not dominating every sport. I can’t figure out why we’re not in aac. We’re a big city. Yes, we should be in the mix for better players, wild to me, Dayton has a better basketball team than us.

I don’t disagree. The donors need to go all in on NIL. Doesn’t matter who the coach is. I don’t think Hurley and oats would be able to keep their players without nil. The game has changed so much in 12 months. Sure, you can say, people would have stepped up, etc if oats was here but they should have kept him until one of the Michigan jobs opens up. Bama doesn’t make a lot of sense. I firmly believe he will be coaching in Ann Arbor in two months. we have zero shot at being competitive in football beyond one year yo-yos due to nil. I personally know of a running back that transferred to a power 5 that is offered 250k for next year. Thats life changing money imo.

Even an Canisius grad would figure it out. id prefer to figure out to block him then engage with him.

Hire modie cox too. Tim Winn and anyone connected to LaSalle and Niagara Falls. What’s old staff at medaille doing?

Because he didn’t have “energy” and bench had less “energy”

fdu made the elite 8 and they watched film in a shower. these kids would dress in a custodian closet if they got more nil money.

Northeast conference? oh, my. Why not the maac?

Great, showing 1 of the 4 areas of the arena. I noticed you skipped over the comments on the coaching record, I'm I wrong? asking for a friend

Are you stating this with certainty, or are you simply fabricating information? Perhaps your time would be better spent enhancing your Wikipedia page? As per my last review, your career win percentage stood at 41%, and it appears you haven't coached beyond the low level of Division 3, is that accurate?

Are you always so negative?

Let's make it go for one year.