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The game is set for noon and ESPN+ on September 30, 2023.

7 hours ago, clodney said:

imagine donor money has as well.

Actually they just had one of their best years ever for donations.

4 hours ago, UB Horns Up said:

What? After two UB Bulls football games and the MAC football season hasn’t even started in conference for UB football? This is a good 2023 UB Bulls football team Maurice Linquist will fix it or we all know potentially what happens if he doesn’t get this 2023 UB Bulls football team to a MAC bowl game? Maurice Linquist potentially gets fired? You guys know me get to a MAC bowl game. I could care less about the Fordham Rams FCS there still FCS. The UB Bulls had a bad football game it happens. 2023 UB Bulls football I have more belief in then a unknown 2023-24 UB Bulls basketball team with a rookie unknown head coach and players in my opinion. UB Horns Up! Go Bulls! Let’s Go Buffalo 

Ok, who hijacked this account?

Time to move on.

Could be worse.  We could be Michigan State fans.  Not exactly what they needed after the Dr. Nasser fiasco.

5 hours ago, dj_paige said:

Buffalo plays Missouri this weekend (Friday morning, 10 am). Buffalo has only 1 win ever over a Power 5 team, that over Rutgers in 2017. And despite what the story says, we have won sets against other Power 5 teams, specifically Indiana and Northwestern. Those three opponents were perennially at the bottom of the Big Ten standings. But a win is a win. https://www.ubbullrun.com/2017/9/2/16246774/for-the-first-time-in-program-history-ub-volleyball-defeats-big-ten

Buffalo and Missouri have a common opponent, Colgate. Buffalo defeated Colgate 3-2 in an exhibition match, with UB Coach Scott Smith going deep into his bench for the last 3 sets. Missouri defeated Colgate 3-2 in a regular season match, with (I assume) their regulars playing. So, could UB knock off another P5 team? It's certainly possible. #GoBulls

The director of marketing for Missouri Athletics is former UB quarterback, Tony Daniel.

On 9/4/2023 at 12:10 AM, UB Horns Up said:

The UB President is too into academics never mind about school and academics there are more important things like winning the MAC championship never mind about academics.

If you are going to refer to yourself in the third person, please call yourself "UB Horns Up".

On 9/4/2023 at 12:10 AM, UB Horns Up said:

The UB President is too into academics never mind about school and academics there are more important things like winning the MAC championship never mind about academics.

His job is academics.

On 9/4/2023 at 12:10 AM, UB Horns Up said:

Build a horse shoe style college football stadium with the open end overlooking our Buffalo Waterfront along with boat access for UB Bulls fans for tailgating.

That will get the fans to come in November, a cold wind blowing off of Lake Erie in November.  I believe Gordon Lightfoot wrote about this better than I ever could:

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T'was the witch of November come stealin'
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind

The Athletic: December 16 Cure Bowl (Orlando) vs. Appalachian State

CBS Sports: December 23 Idaho Potato Bowl (Boise) Wyoming (The Josh Allen Bowl?)

ESPN (Bonagura) December 16 Bahamas Bowl (Bahamas) Liberty (Highly unlikely since this is a week three game)

ESPN (Schlabach) See CBS Sports

The game is not on the the Big 10 Network.  It is on FS1.

On 8/19/2023 at 11:33 PM, UB Horns Up said:

a lame duck head coach without a contract after this season which has made it nearly impossible to recruit at Canisius because of this.

For those who question why UB gives contract extensions, when people do not see a reason why, this is the reason.

The full article from the Toledo Blade is behind a paywall.  But this is the gist of the artile:

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The Toledo Blade’s David Briggs pens an appreciation piece for the MAC. “It is the port in the storm, the last island of sanity in the looniest of waters. Behold the Mid-American Conference. In an era when no TV buck has proven too quick to blow up college athletics as we know it, let us raise a glass. Remember the quaint old days when conferences featured like-minded universities concentrated in less-than-Shaq-sized footprints? The MAC is officially the last league of its kind.” Pointing out the travel distances now imposed on many schools in the future formations of the Power 5 conferences, Briggs adds: “The MAC carries on as something of a time capsule, bystanders to the madness around it. Its dozen full members have all been together since 1998 and its “Original” Six — Ohio (joined in 1946), Miami [OH] (1947), Western Michigan (1947), Toledo (1950), Kent State (1951), and Bowling Green (1952) — are well into their eighth decade of matrimony. Better yet, they all live in the same neighborhood, the league more compact than a Ford Fiesta. Consider: UT and BG are the only two schools in the 10 FBS conferences within 300 miles of every city in their league — no small luxury when you remember that, believe it or not, schools sponsor a lot of sports beyond football. All told, the MAC spans just 593 miles from DeKalb, Ill., to Buffalo. In no other conference is the longest trip less than 1,000 miles. The league makes too much sense.” Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher adds that the membership has done a “remarkable job” of being true to who they are.  Lots more. (link)

5 hours ago, UB92 said:

This conference realignment is really interesting from a business/financial perspective.

In reading some articles (especially today with the ACC not even taking a vote on Cal and Stanford and SMU), I have a real fear that the run which caused the death of the PAC 12 is going to happen in the ACC -- and it will get ugly.

The schools in the ACC have until August 15 to announce if they will leave in 2024, so that's an important date.

Clearly FSU wants out.   I think there are SEVERAL ACC schools that are seeing what happened to the PAC 12 and don't want to be like WSU, OSU, Cal and Stanford...holding the bag at the end and out in the cold.   

This author seems to think that this will play out like the PAC 12...UCLA and USC left a year earlier...and then the chaos happened the next year.   Or, in other words, FSU and Clemson will leave by August 15...and then a decision will be made by the rest of the teams the following year.  I disagree with this since all of the schools in the ACC are already aware of FSU's grumblings (and others), so several are likely making their own deals (or with groups of schools) for certain conferences.  Accordingly, I think there will be even more upheaval on/by August 15.

It is also very expensive to leave the ACC.  The schools have a grant of rights of their media rights to the conference though 2036.  This means the ACC owns the schools broadcast rights to their home games.  So if a school were to leave to another conference, the ACC would own their TV revenue obtained from the other conference.  Which means if a school leaves their TV money goes to the ACC which will then share within the ACC.  Which means they get nothing through 2036.

6 hours ago, UB Horns Up said:

Why can’t UB build a wall around it or raise the ceiling like Buffalo Memorial Auditorium adding Orange Seating Bowl? I don’t understand why that couldn’t be done?

Basically you are saying to tear down the facility and make it wider and longer.  That is why it cannot be done. Watch the video and you will how little space there is on the sidelines and the end zones to expand it for seating.

6 hours ago, UB Horns Up said:

Washington Huskies Stadium in Seattle look at YouTube for Huskies Stadium in Seattle that is what is needed for UB Bulls football with UB Bulls land stadium store and development around the new UB Waterfront Stadium

Husky Stadium is on campus.  UB has enough problems getting students to go to games now.  Why make it harder for them by moving the games downtown.  Taking a boat to games?  How many people go out on boats after October 1 on Lake Erie?  Not many, so even if all games were at noon on Saturdays there would not be many coming on boats.

42 minutes ago, UB77 said:

All the talk now is rightfully about the conference version of Hunger Games, but I ultimately see this as an NCAA issue.

With football revenue driving the decisions, at some point someone will say "Why split it with the NCAA?" I could easily see a separate football body of four 16 - team conferences and the NCAA left with basketball, baseball and the Olympic sports. And the lesser football schools. With a much smaller pot of money.

If I'm the NCAA, I'd be very nervous about all of the Fox/ESPN/conference back room meetings.

1 minute ago, Gxtrex said:

If schools leave the NCAA for football, would the NCAA let them participate in NCAA basketball/March Madness? That could be their negotiating power.

The NCAA does not run FBS football.  They receive no money from it.  They have not had a say in FBS football for nearly 40 years since Oklahoma beat them in an anti-trust lawsuit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_v._Board_of_Regents_of_the_University_of_Oklahoma

Full Supreme Court decision: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/468/85/

On a side note former Colorado All-American Byron White dissented in hte case.

Some talk now of Cal - Stanford to the ACC, which I  guess would be renamed the ACBAC, Atlantic Coast Bay Area Conference.  If that happens Washington State and Oregon State will look to go to the Mountain West.  Also Big XII is not looking for any more teams.

All info from the D1 Ticker.

22 hours ago, rma said:

So was a third of CUSA 5 years ago

And those schools also had community support at FCS.  Stony Brook is not even a blip on the college sports scene in the New York City area.

2 hours ago, MuchMany said:

ACC is going to get shredded next I imagine, but probably not this year.

Would be cool to see a "public powerhouse" conference of all the remaining high-end academic and athletic schools that aren't SEC, B1G, or Big 12.

Pitt, VT, Virginia, UNC, NC State, Georgia Tech. 

Grab UMass, William and Mary, UConn, Delaware, UIC, Temple.

Mayyybe Stony Brook and Binghamton.

Very difficult to shread the ACC.  With the grant of rights though 2036 it is almost impossible to break it up. Florida State is looking into outside capital to support it in general. Could thatoney be used to pay off the grant of rights debt, maybe. 

2 hours ago, MuchMany said:

ACC is going to get shredded next I imagine, but probably not this year.

Would be cool to see a "public powerhouse" conference of all the remaining high-end academic and athletic schools that aren't SEC, B1G, or Big 12.

Pitt, VT, Virginia, UNC, NC State, Georgia Tech. 

Grab UMass, William and Mary, UConn, Delaware, UIC, Temple.

Mayyybe Stony Brook and Binghamton.

FBS football is driving everything.  Stony Brook is FCS and Binghamton does not have football. No conference that is going to play FBS wants them.

14 hours ago, promotherobot said:

 

Maybe Buffalo could organize a SUNY conference with Albany and Stony Brook, and see if anyone else wants to join? UMASS? UCONN? Temple? URI? UNH?

NO!

In other conference news, Arizona is basically on its way to the Big XII.  Arizona State and Utah are a little bit behind.

Washington and Oregon are rumored to the Big 10.  Cal and Stanford are also alleged to be on their way after Washington and Oregon.  https://footballscoop.com/news/oregon-and-washington-to-join-the-big-ten

It opened today.

11 hours ago, UB Horns Up said:

I would build a ring around Murchie Field House with as many seats as possible that UB can put in and split the UB Bulls football season between both facilities. UB Stadium for the afternoon day games than Murchie Field House for the ESPN MAC Action night games

The number of seats that could be put inside the Murchie Fieldhouse: 0

For what it is worth:

According to sources who were not authorized to speak on the record the women's conference schedule has been set and will be released shortly.  There is no confirmation on this part, but I would assume the men's schedule should be announced within a similar time frame.

1 hour ago, Dabulls said:

I’m unfamiliar with the NBL but he put up really strong numbers there. Seemed like he was also playing against men a lot older than him. We still have one more open scholarship to fill the PG spot, Hal has said he’d like to play positionless so maybe one of the other freshman can develop there as well

The NBL is a weird league in Australia.  It runs professional teams and amateur teams with some mixing allowed.  It is how Stephanie Reid found Georgia Wooley for Coach Jack.