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1 hour ago, promotherobot said:

Who was the coach offered before JW? Could JW be replaced if MA could find an up-and-comer from a lower division, ala Lance Leupold? I would consider Mike McDonald from Daemen. He's local and has done a great job with that program.

I don't see how MM is an up and comer, no thanks

Powell is the one "strong" guy on this team. Others when going inside make me nervous due to their lean-ness. Jack is close too, but the rest seem to get bounced around. I like this team though. Just wish for 10lbs more each!

9 minutes ago, zigo230 said:

It would be terrible if canceled and there’s no makeup.   It would cost UB a possible Bowl bid.  

It wouldn't be the first time.

The Colgate game was one of the most entertaining games I've seen in a while at the AA. This one, wow, I have no words. I've never seen a team turn their opponent over 26 times and lose by 35.

BG just looks absolutely pitiful, as if they don't even want to be there.

If I see another Hail Mary go against us, I'll scream

Gutsy taking the points off the board, and then getting rewarded with the TD. 2-0 in MAC is big after the start to the non-conference season.

Ok, now that he's been gone a long time, was this guy a genius or just incredibly lucky (or a bit of both)? 

Lance - now is 3-0 at perennial bottom feeder Kansas

FLJ - now at her alma mater Syracuse after taking UB to multiple NCAA bids including a sweet 16

Bobby, Nate - the first has been in the PAC 12 and brought in the second who is a coaching star who has been at the top of the SEC

I'm not sure which of those answers I'm going with from the above question, but damn, that's one impressive list of hires in the 3 "top $" sports at UB. Those 4 hires are Win, Win, Win, Win in my eyes. Lastly, I don't think we got nearly enough of a buyout for any one of them, although he was only around for one of those 4 when they were hired away.

8 minutes ago, BasketBull said:

Credit to Lance - I was certain he wouldn’t be able to turn around what has been a black hole of a Kansas Football program but he really seems to be doing it. Kansas is now 3-0 with a recent win over Houston.

Consider me impressed! I would be lying if I thought he'd be able to be 3-0 starting off year 2 in Kansas. I'm not sure I thought anyone would be able to do that. 

On 9/16/2022 at 9:04 AM, dj_paige said:

Got it. Are you in the Buffalo area? Do you watch in person or on the internet? Have we ever met?

I've met both of you at the AA, 2 good guys and top notch UB fans!

Has anyone received their ticket renewal package yet? I still have not and a couple of my friends have not either. The website still shows 21-22 tickets for basketball. We're 6 weeks out from the start of games. Are we going to games or shut down for covid this winter once again?

1 hour ago, UBinMD said:

We had more 1st downs, no turnovers and only 3 penalties. That’s something 

The lack of penalties was definitely great to see. I'm sure the flag happy MAC refs will be sure to take care of getting the number back up to normal!

The end result was around where the lines had it, but much lower scoring than anticipated. The overhaul of the O-Line over the past couple of season (via multiple strong players transferring out) seems to have caught up to the squad today. Not sure how much we'll learn about the team next week (should be a big win in the home opener!) so if they can split the next two road games and be 2-2 heading into homecoming, they've got a reasonable shot at a bowl bid. Lots of room to improve after this one, but the MAC East is always something that should be attainable, including this season. On to week 2.

7 minutes ago, Chet said:

Offense looked brutal. Absolutely non existent. Coach Linguist looks like he has a lot of work to do. Not a great showing.

Good thing we went for that FG down 24 with 6 minutes left on the 20. Nothing like trying to get it 3 points closer and not even trying to think about winning. While the chances of winning were low, they went from low to zero with that FG. Went from down 3 TDs to down 3 TDs with the make. Yippee! I hate the "play to make it look closer" mentality. Play to win or don't bother playing at all.

By the way, it was nice to see the ball go thru the uprights however.

I'd be more than fine with some sort of recognition of this team/championship in the AA. It brought a lot of joy to the community and it's fans and is representative of the best times that the school and team has had (while they were at UB). While I don't think it should be equivalent to a MAC banner or number banner, it absolutely should have a place in the arena. I would think as a marketing thing, it would be nothing but beneficial. Someone comes to a game and sees the team photo, they will likely smile and be more apt to go to another game/donate. 

I hate that this is over for another year. Watching these 6 games was just such a joy, from the opening tip (where Perk won every single one this year) to the final dunk, I had such a big smile throughout. The fact that this squad comes away with $1mil and a championship is just incredible. Such a great group, great guys, class acts all the way, starting with Nate, to Adam/Bryan/Fox, to all of the players. Blue Collar gets it done. I hope that the new roster in Alumni sees the method that is successful, TEAM/ Defense / Hustle 1st and foremost, because this is 100% the way to go.

40 minutes ago, mikescherrer8 said:

Tonights game is making me a little nervous. Team heart fire runs a very tall squad. Their starters are:

Gary Mcghee 6’11” 250

Raphiael Putney 6’10” 185

Tevin Mack 6’6” 227

Deandre Liggins 6’6” 210

Eric Washington 6’0” 180

I wonder how tough it’s gonna be to get important rebounds today. I think this is going to be a close game the whole way through.

 

The opponent includes former UB nemesis Homer Drew as the GM. I'll never forget those games against Valpo in the Mid-Con days. Hopefully this UB squad can finally get one over on Homer.

The Blue Collar squad just needs to play their game, move the ball until the open shot arrives, giving up the good shot for the better shot. Also, Defense to Offense is their game. Team ball will get it done!

8 minutes ago, MKBullsfan said:

I hope they play at alumni next year. It would be great advertisement for the school and the Bulls basketball brand. Had no idea there was no AC in the place.
The key question is if Boehiem will allow his TBT team to actually play in Alumni or will he demand Syracuse to keep a regional. Needs to pump up his TBT win totals I’m sure.  

I would love to see it at Alumni, but like BB said, it is crazy hot in there in the summer with only a handful of people on the floor. I couldn't imagine how hot it would be with a couple of thousand people in there. I don't think they'd let the "Big Ass Fans" run like they normally do during the summer within the course of a game. Alumni would surely be popping though if they played there. I'd camp out for that one!

2 hours ago, SGBull said:

Rumors are that USC and UCLA are headed to the Big 10 and this is just the tip of the iceberg. College sports as we knew it might be dead.

Maybe UB will join the Pac 12, or 10, or 11? The Big 10 will become what, the Big 16?

44 minutes ago, Dabulls said:

Unless he averages 25+ he won’t get drafted, he’s known to be a locker room cancer. However it’s great to see talent like that in the MAC

He'd fit right in at EMU then, considering how they've been in recent history. Quite a talent though. We shall see

1 hour ago, DocCas86 said:

Maybe I am in denial, but I am hoping that replacing majority of the roster does not become a yearly event.  

I hope similarly, but it's only gotten worse over the last couple of years, nationwide. Only time will tell.

1 hour ago, clodney said:

I'm gonna call it now. We end up #150-200 and a whole bunch of people claim it was a successful season.

I'm not even sure how to quantify success at this point. In the past, one could look at a roster and say "they were young, but wow they'll be good next year or the year after". Now, it's all 1 year positions when it comes to the eye test, because for all we know everyone will leave after this year. They could be good and "go bigger" or not play as much as desired and just go elsewhere. It's totally just wait and see. My goal would be 20+ wins and top 4 in MAC (and a win+ in Cleveland). Is that doable? I honestly wouldn't have the first guess.

Unlike many here, I do believe in this staff and believe that they are good teachers. So all I'll do is hope that I get proven correct for many reasons, one being I don't want to have to read a constant barrage of "JW sucks" or "XYZ player sucks". If I'm incorrect,  well it will just be one really un-enjoyable winter of games. I'm hoping for the former, as I would hope all others on here are too.

1 hour ago, clodney said:

Wow, I haven't looked at those rankings in a long time but it's so sad to see where we are right now. 

Wyoming (#44)

Drake (#58)

Boston College (#78)

George Mason (#110)

Belmont (#178)

Tarleton State (#188)

Buffalo (#246)

Howard (#266)

If this holds true this will be one of the most depressing seasons of Buffalo basketball I've ever witnessed.

Does anyone really know how good we, or anyone, will be? They're basically all new teams top to bottom. Your statement is accurate though, if that ranking holds true. It's truly a crapshoot to try to predict anyone beyond the top dogs at this point, at least in my eyes. We shall see what happens.  Gotta just hope it comes together as there's talent in the fold. It has to come together with buy in from each player, both ends of the floor and their role(s).

7 hours ago, SGBull said:

I honestly didn't know that you could go to JUCO after 2 years in D1.

Great path. Went from signing with MAC powerhouse (at the time), to MAC doormat, to Juco.

3 hours ago, DocCas86 said:

Ok add Sy Chatman to this roster, there is one scholarship left, but I think most of minutes for next season are already on the roster.  Trying to figure expectations for upcoming season is difficult.  My view we are 4-6 seed, 9-9 or 10-8 in MAC, composite rank of 135-175, but there is definitely a lot of unknowns.  Given that I will be looking for development of young core over the year building hope of better things in 2023-24. Curious what others think.  I expect the range of expectations to be large.

"lot of unknowns" sounds about right. We have no idea how these guys actually play or if they will buy into their given roles (or what roles each will be given). Same goes for the women's team. Whichever team/program can actually get players to buy into roles, and get some sort of team play, will be the most successful, since practically every team in this league is starting from scratch. Surely, everyone has relatively similar overall talent, and the most inter-connected team will come out on top. Hopefully that's us, but only time will tell.