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Yeah, this is one of my biggest gripes with the posters who complain about Whitesell. He managed to keep our entire team intact, and keep recruiting momentum rolling.

Yeah, I’m all for this change.

https://buffalonews.com/2020/04/21/ub-buffalo-mens-basketball-ncaa-violations-assistant-coach-forgery-jim-whitesell-mark-alnutt/

Thankfully we self-reported the incident. Also thanks to Chris Beard for calling Whitesell and telling him about the issue. The Buffalo News article is pretty in depth I’d recommend checking it out if you have the time.

Except you’re framing it like Whitesell is a guilty party or at least doesn’t have control over his program. Everyone knows you have an agenda against him

That is absolutely crazy. Who forges a letter of recommendation thinking that’s a good idea??

Any names floating around or just know specifically not him?

Segu just retweeted Hawkins tweet about transferring so obviously they’re still on good terms

Yikes. Curious what the motive is behind that. Wonder if they promised he’d start or something

I like the idea of playing every team in our conference twice, right now it feels wrong to have a few random teams you only play once and it wreaks havoc on tiebreakers and standings. Just end the West and East divisions. I also don’t care if we don’t play Niagara or Canisius every year, though I will be upset if we can’t play Bona every year because beating them has become one of my favorite traditions

Hoping if it were Cal you’d be too bummed to come here and post teasers 😉

UCF not on the list is nice

Wait I’m confused. I thought the program gets shut down if people show him love

He’s no Markus Howard but I think he’d do great at Marquette

You’re right, it’s absolutely a detriment. I can’t even imagine all the duties the coaches have to juggle on a daily basis let alone adding recruiting to the mix. I’d argue that in the current climate however it’s not as big of a deal. With the entire country having ground to a halt, you have to believe Whitesell and his staff have more time to network, look at tape, contact recruits about interest, and pitch the school to interested players. It’s a whole different world at the moment, and while having a set recruiter would be great it’s not like the others don’t have time for it now.

Andre Allen entering transfer portal. I’d love to get him here after all

The grass isn’t always greener on the other side. I will say Turner is likely an exception to this.

3 years of eligibility is nice

Pretty sure Harris is back in the US

If you fire every first year coach after a 20 win season there won’t be any coaches left for you to hire.

Freeman leaving would not be a shocking development or the end of the world for UB. If Robinson leaves and players enter the transfer protocol then it will be time to take a step back and re-evaluate the program and staff

Not to make light of the situation but this does keep us as defending champs

Wouldn’t have mattered, Oats was leaving. He basically said as much, I remember the quote being something like him telling Alnutt “someone is going to offer me stupid money” and of course they did. There’s a wide gap between a million dollars and 2.5 million, and there’s no chance we’d be able to bridge that

That’s right. Then 1 of the 2 would have to be a big. It’s doing no good to Hardnett making him play center

I’d have to think with our last scholarship we’ll be looking to the transfer portal for a big, especially if Brock does in fact end up transferring