skrabukes

Glad to see UB 2.0 competing in orange next year. Mcevans, woolley, Wilson. Who's next?

Big time Talent for sure, but no Wes or CJ, at least not from what I saw.

Good for him. While I am greatly opposed to the transfer portal, he owes Ohio nothing, as he was there for 5 years, playing 4 of them. If it wasn't for the crazy freebie year, he'd be done, so if he wants to go elsewhere for one, all the best for him. He was always a thorn in our side!

Gotta start somewhere. Lots more pieces to go.

Keep dreaming on that last point. We shall see. Just like with the men, it's wait and see as to what the roster will look like before assessing. I'm always hopeful. As she said in her speech, it won't look like it did before. I enjoyed what I was watching before, however.

That's a big part of the problem. It's starting from scratch, new players, new system, new everything. Not that others aren't immune to this problem as well, but it really is brutal, as both teams will be doing this (not a new system on the men's side, but nearly all new personnel)

This is brutal. Literally starting over like a brand new program.

I'd wager that's not a fair trade.

I mean, I'd wager we all know what she'll be doing. I wonder who else was considered for the head job.

She's got a big task in front of her, starting basically from scratch. Hopefully she can keep Camp, and the rest of the crew who haven't already bolted and then build big time from it. Like the men, lots of work to do!

It's been a week and a half. I've seen zero rumors, grumblings, anywhere. Anyone seen/heard anything as to who UB might be considering for this job?

Honestly, does it matter if they improve? If they improve, and lead the team to 20 wins, they'll all be in the portal next year anyhow. If they don't, or don't play as much as they desire, they'll portal also. I honestly have no idea how to rate anyone's success anymore. Previously, I lauded keeping the roster intact, relatively no portal departures, and solid record overall (Yes, no championship, early mac exits. I am aware). Now, not only does the team graduate it's core, players (may) exit also. Same for nearly everyone in the ncaa. It seems like a fools errand to try to predict future success beyond 1 season. The portal has grown from 1050 last week to 1188 now. Practically every school is in there, but especially our tier of school. "1 - go to Cleveland" - that'd be nice. "2 - show potential of the core" - I think "core" is gone in the ncaa. Just my 2 cents.

We have no idea what this team, or any team will look like in the fall. There's only a few rosters in the country that is set for next year and sadly most teams at our level have a good number in the portal/graduated. As limited as our roster already was going to be, others have caught up to us with their big players portal bound. While I'm certainly not dancing over where we are currently with the men's roster, it's an incomplete grade for me right now. The women's team is worse off currently. Other mac teams are mostly in the same jam. It's ridiculous up and down.

"Forever a bull"

Well, we don't have a coach and players have already left. Can't re recruit people who are already gone.

Many, yes, but between graduation of the big 3 and maceo, skogman (portal), summer, fair, ade, christie, woolley, wilson. It's gotta be 90%+ of total scoring gone. That's a LOT to replace. Yes, ohio loses their big guns too, so maybe everyone is just losing 75% of scoring every year, who knows. Ours just seems to be a much higher amount, on both sides of the ball.

Let's hope. I'd wager that UB has the most depleted pair of teams in the NCAA (combined). I know there are several teams with people in the portal (LSU men's being a major one), but between the men and women, they each have what, 1 starter left combined? Camp is the last player standing as of now. Add a rehabbing McEvans as #2, a currently in the portal Skogman, and a team without a coach.

Natatorium is the pool I believe, but hopefully they'll get to compete at home soon enough. Gotta use the field named after the MAC HoF inductee!

Most of the local high schools, at least in the burbs, have recently added turf fields for baseball and softball (and many have added football as well). Tax dollars at work.

Probably needed the turf field and that school's facility is very nice.

Like it matters anyway. If they bring someone good in, they'll just leave next year anyhow. Boals seems to do better bringing them in, crazy Groce seems to get more out of those he brings in.

I mean, this guy played 28 minutes per game on a team that made the NCAA tournament. It just doesn't make sense to me as to why someone would play 4 years at a school, that they helped bring to the tournament, just to leave to go to the MVC. He played 4 years total already, so realistically he doesn't owe the school anything since he should legitimately be completed with his time (but we're in freebie 5 year Covid non-sense time), but still, it seems like just a change for sake of change. Edit - in doing more research, he's from Missouri originally, so maybe he's just going home, which in a free 5th year seems like a rational and positive move.

Trimble from Akron listed as moving on to Missouri State. Are most of these guys just transferring to transfer? That doesn't seem like a step up in any way, for someone who has received solid minutes at Akron. I'll just never understand this nonsense. Maybe it's closer to home...I don't know much about him.

We need a bunch. Let's start here and keep going.

As I figured in the past, none of these people actually truly care about UB. The players don't even wait to see who the next coach was before leaving town. Much like administrators who "bleed blue", coaches and players, it's all just a job and when something a little "better" comes along, they skip town immediately. Additionally, if a little adversity comes their way, they're gone also, at least with regard to the players.