yussi1870

This is not the coach’s or the players’ fault. This is the fans. I only saw one fan doing horns up. We’ll never win like that.

As a freshman Mballa will learn a lot from this game.

To be fair it’s hard to win an away game and the team is probably exhausted from the travel but the coach has to find a way. Maybe if they had left a day earlier for the game?

Let’s use this as a learning. What tactics and strategies can we pick up from Canisius. If we can mimic their game we may be able to win one or two in the MAC, instead of zero

Seems we would’ve been better off bringing Reggie back than going with this Whitesell loser

I think we’re just grateful to be able to play in an NCAA tournament arena in front of a home crowd. Whitesell just wants to make sure the team has fun and enjoys it. Winning isn’t important, especially when playing a team of such caliber.

This Canisius team is amazing, probably one of the better teams in the NCAA. Glad they’re letting us play them. It’s good experience for our team when we play in conference .

Spoon is looking good for his age and I think better shape than I’ve seen him the past few years. Glad he’s finding personal success, if not athletic success.

It’s crazy that Canisius is winning this series by a ratio of 2 to 1.

Where is this game?

8 hours ago, BrooklynBull said:

And this impacts UB Basketball how?

Maybe we should hire Turgeon. He’d be a step up from Sell

On 12/2/2021 at 3:50 PM, ChubbyHubby said:

You know, I thought it looked funny, so I went back to the previous post that had his name in it, and that's how it was spelled, so I used it.  I'm blaming it on yussi1870.  Sorry

It’s because I have relatives named Oates and my auto spell goes there!

What is the process to select the Non d1 school? Seems like it should just be Buf St every year?

1 hour ago, trueblue32 said:

That poll is literally worthless lol. They don’t consider CUSA a mid major despite their last multi-bid year being 2012 when only 5 of their current teams were in the conference.

Mid-major coaches are not spending their free time watching other mid-major games 

Is there a better ranking?

59 minutes ago, trueblue32 said:

It’s wild to me that anyone thinks that 2 non-D1 games was a choice that Whitesell wanted to make. Prior to this year he’s scheduled 11 non-D1 games in 9 seasons. We were literally the last D1 team to announce our full schedule and Point Park was the last game announced. Let’s use our brains.

What do you mean?

Will be there unless the snow is bad

40 minutes ago, DooleyBull06 said:

Not a MAC score but ASU lost 51-29 tonight against Washington State. Yikes! Noah Williams led all scorers with 14. Dare I say the seat in ASU is getting warm.

Hurley’s always been more of an East Coast guy

1 minute ago, UBinMD said:

I think we call all agree that Hurley brought name recognition and a feeling that being a winner was possible but I think Oats was a big driver to the success even before he was in the big chair. No interest from me to have Hurley back. Unless maybe his brother wants to change jobs.

Who hired Oates to begin with?

13 minutes ago, dutchcountry7 said:

The absolute minimum is one game in Albany every three years in my opinion.   Which would mean playing Siena and Albany once every six years in a staggered schedule.

I also think it is reasonable to include UMass as a Albany area team even though they are a ways outside of Albany.  It’s a big enough game that it should attract some traveling alums.  
 

You won’t get teams to agree to games every year but one game in Albany once every three years would be big for alumni, students, and recruits. 

And maybe one game for Long Island per year but rotated between St. John’s, st Francis, and liu Brooklyn?

1 hour ago, dutchcountry7 said:

There is a big difference between doing things strategically for one season and doing things strategically to better the program long term.  
 

The athletic department needs to be focused on the long term and doing the things that benefit the program long term. 
 

Making games financial transactions is a short term perspective.  Selling expected losses and buying expected wins is not how you engage fans.  
 

It’s also not how you get to the point where you can get at large bids.  
 

It is hard to get MAC at large bids but we know it isn’t impossible.  
 

I am sure you’re just cracking a joke about the previous discussions and how it makes this discussion moot but I think your comments warrant some consideration.  
 

The reason we (in the MAC) are in the position we are in is because the conference schools have accepted their plight in college sports hierarchy and are content with it.  Decisions are very short sighted in part because the programs are simply trying to survive but also in part because they believe that when the going is good it will be short lived.  
 

We know that it has been a stepping sting conference.  But you can build a winning program in a stepping stone conference that rises above it.  
 

We have to continue to lay the groundwork and think strategically about our relationships, rivalries, and how we cultivate fan interest so it remains for years to come no matter if the team is winning or losing. 

If we played only NYS D1 schools out of conference would that help the program, or hurt it?

2 hours ago, dutchcountry7 said:

He absolutely can coach.  Which is why he is still around.  
 

It is also why I can’t stand him.  I am so jealous for all of the coaches with great character who put in all the work and simply don’t have the talent Pitino has.  
 

I like coaches of character even if they aren’t as good. 

Coach ‘Spoon?

3 hours ago, Big 4 Hoops Blogger said:

St. Bonaventure ranked 25th in Coaches Poll.

Coaches poll is more superficial 

8 minutes ago, Tee4three said:

Seeing the number of replies to this game thread now has me worried about point park winning

Would be interesting if there’s a correlation

Hodgson: ethics issues

Pitino:  morals issues

Are either of these categories of issues worse than the other? If you ask Alabama or Iona the question itself is irrelevant.

On 12/11/2018 at 1:27 PM, RochBull said:

I would consider Bonna a "local" rival. We're all part of the Buffalo Big 4. However who wins and loses between UB, Niagara, Conesius, and Bonna doesn't really matter. It's fun to chitchat about with alumni from other schools and one up each other, but in the end because they're in different conferences, it doesn't matter that much. I definitely pull for the other big 4 schools to do well, when they aren't playing UB. There's not so much hate to the other big 4 schools than that they're all UB's little brothers.

I would think UB's main rivals are Ohio, Kent State & Akron. They seem to be the other MAC schools that are also regularly good in basketball over the last 20 years. The games between UB and especially Ohio & Kent State tend to be pretty intense and tend to get a good crowd. In football, UB has been so inconsistent that there really isn't one, unless you count possibly Temple or UConn. 

Canisius and Niagara are the same conference but if they have a rivalry they don’t really show it. Bona  and UB are the only good local D1  teams for many years so naturally it’s more fun to watch them play each other than the other local teams. Sometimes I forget the other schools even have teams.