Tee4three

One of the overall stranger college basketball games I've watched

20 minutes ago, Tee4three said:

Is it weird I still think this is a winnable game at the moment? 

I regret this post 

Is it weird I still think this is a winnable game at the moment? 

The usual turnovers, other team hot from three, and when it's not a turnover UB taking a bad shot 

Western isn't helping when Zakir gets the ball in the paint.....just feed him the ball until they do 

Zakir continues to impress 

Game of runs so far 

Let's get another W

1 minute ago, MKBullsfan said:

Those were the days when we could get a UConn or UNC to come to Alumni. Makes you think, will we ever get a big time program to come to Alumni again? 

We weren't a very good team or seemingly posed a threat but after nearly pulling off an upset of a top 5 team, I think teams got scared

Plus I believe those were the times when Niagara falls was sending guys to top power conference teams yearly and that brought teams like uconn to the area 

1 minute ago, BrooklynBull said:

Ditto the UConn game (from the reports I heard) the night before the Ball State MAC Championship Game in Detroit.

The UConn game is still one of if not the loudest buildings I've been apart of

Remember UConn trying to inbound a ball with seconds remaining and thinking alumni was about to collapse 

35 minutes ago, MuchMany said:

On ESPNU right now Arkansas State is having a party beating top of conference Troy with the Barstool jesters in attendance. It's not quite the atmosphere we had in the best Oats years, but click it on if you want to see what a mid-major school having fun looks like. Oh and they sell the devil's brew too.

Not gonna lie, I'm jealous and so are the UB STHs I'm texting with.

If hodgson is there more than 2 seasons I'll be jealous

Think he bolts for any power conference job as soon as this off season

I'm glad to see him doing well though

I always root for Western New York guys 

An 8-0 run!

Seen a guy make an actual cut (McVeigh) twice, I think I've only seen sy Chatman make an actual cut all season 

NIL fund idea:

Ubfan message board hosts weekly meat raffles in the buffalo area, all proceeds go towards NIL! 

(Initially said this in jest but now I'm thinking about it and it might actually make bank depending how it's set up and marketed)

I'll say this about the game yesterday and the previous couple

Up until yesterday I had little belief that the team next would even be as good as this years team but starting to see actual flashes of player improvement

Started with fulcher a while ago but now seeing it in Zakir and Wilson as well

Also have seen more organized and structured play comparatively (I think the short bench kind of forced this to happen though)

Long ways to go but it's a start

2 minutes ago, Big 4 Hoops Blogger said:

I'm assuming he would've left for SMU either way. Big time pay raise and competition increase from the MAC/Sun Belt to the American and soon to be ACC. Lanier was UB's top choice entering their search at the time according to people I spoke with back then.

Agree if SMU came calling he would have left for reasons stated

But he never did a ton at Georgia st on paper, so I wonder if he went looking rather than SMU coming to him. But who knows that 

Let's dox everyone!!!!!!!!!!! No more being known by silly little screen names lol 

Off topic kind of but watching Memphis vs SMU

Rob Lanier is coaching SMU now and looks to have his team going

When ub originally hired Whitesell, it was rumored they were close to hiring Lanier but he ended up going to Georgia st instead

I wonder if Lanier would have left UB for SMU or if he would have stuck around

That might have been the big miss in hiring by alnutt in hindsight 

JW was the modern day Reggie 

You would compete year in year out but never actually win anything meaningful

Two things can be true, Jim getting too much heat from this board and it being the right time to move on from him 

Second time today coach looked angry

Not sure what it means but it's different 

I don't think I've watched a team that is so consistent when one thing goes wrong, everyone throws everything out and it snowballs so quick

6 minutes ago, eyjee said:

Halcovage yelling at Fulcher after hitting that three was weird... Maybe he didn't like him turning and looking at the Akron bench?

Couldn't tell if he was fired up or angry

The rest of the team was congratulating him though 

Just now, eyjee said:

Electric half. Zaakir's game has been great last few games.

He has always shown flashes on offense, just needs his defense awareness to pick up

Liked how they were running the offense through him though the last couple minutes 

Verbal commits must have updated their website he is a 3.25 star recruit for those interested 

Would you rather pay transfers or eventually pay for your own developed freshman?

I'm a fan of Frank, Rico on the other hand is a clown