BrooklynBull

12 minutes ago, UBinMD said:

That's fantastic. I graduated in 94, got my masters in 95 (on an assistantship so I paid $0 tuition and got a stipend). I lived in Ellicott for 3 years, walked out with $0 debt and a great education, had a job before I graduated. It was a great value for sure and it's shocking more people don't take advantage of it!

My tuition was $750.00 per year (not semester) when I started.  Including room and board, it was still cheaper than what my parents paid per year for 7th and 8th grade for me.

16 hours ago, clodney said:

Let me see if I have this straight.

JMU has 20,346 Undergrads and 1,878 Graduate Students and they get $2,340 out of every student for $52MM.

UB has 21,467 Undergrads and 10,865 Graduate Students and they get $480 out of only the Undergrads for $10.3MM.

If that's the case, therein lies the problem. I hope Graduate Students don't get any perks for Athletic events and are paying full price.

 

Gradate students have to pay to go to games and to use facilities on campus.

1 hour ago, capencaper said:

In 2020, the annual athletic fee for each student was $2,340,

It looks like the UB Athletic Fee is about $480.00 per year.  It is only paid by undergraduates.  I have said for years it should become a mandatory fee for all graduate students.  However, whenever it is brought up by the administration the current graduate students fight it.  It should be implemented by adding it as a discretionary fee for current graduate students, which will allow them to opt out of and make it just another fee paid by future graduate students.  They are leaving about $4,800,000.00 on the table by exempting graduate students from paying that fee.

5 hours ago, bullsbball said:

Oh, on the radio post game, UB coaching staff says they have one Commit for next year but it hasn't been made public yet. 

Why would anybody want to come to UB?

How about for a great education!

5 hours ago, rma said:

Why would this matter? Would the NLRB only want to cover college athletes if they were considered employees and could unionize across D1?

In the Northwestern case the NLRB decided to not make a finding as to whether the football players were employees.  The did not get to the merits of the claim and decided to find that making a decision on the merits would not effectuate the policies of the National Labor Relations Act.  The Board said that asserting jurisdiction over the football players "would not promote stability in labor relations due to the variety of state labor laws laws that would apply to football teams at state run institutions."

In the long run I think that the NLRB will punt the issue again under the same theory.

34 minutes ago, UB Horns Up said:

UB Bulls would have a better rivalry with Harvard at least there is history and tradition there with Boston sports plus there stadium is better than UMass. I have said this before the perfect place for UB athletics is the Ivy League because it matches up with UB the university as an institution.

Except UB is a public institution and joining the Ivy League would throw a wrench into the NLRB decision involving Dartmouth.

36 minutes ago, UB Horns Up said:

Buffalo has too much historical Canadian and Blue

I prefer Molson Golden to either of these two.

37 minutes ago, UB Horns Up said:

UB can’t join FCS because there is no history there to sell

At what level do you think the Ivy League plays football?

21 hours ago, 1975 said:

How might this affect NIL? Many companies forbid employees from accepting compensation from outside sources. 

How could this impact schools with unprofitable sports programs?

Should school administrators be allowed to fire athlete-employees without coaches making that decision?

Will the hiring of athletes have to follow the same rules as other hirings?

There actually is a very simple answer to all your questions.  They would all be in answered in a collective bargaining agreement.

In an update, the Dartmouth team voted 13-2 to join the union.  What happens next is that Dartmouth will appeal and seek a decision from the full NLRB.  The losing party would then have the right to appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  The case could eventually reach the Supreme Court.

Although a key factor in the decision so far, was the fact that the Ivy League is made up of eight private institutions.  The NLRB declined to take cover the football players at Northwestern, because Northwestern was the only private college in the Big 10.  The rest of the Big 10 is public universities (like UB), that are not covered by the National Labor Relations Act.

Because of the amount of games that Dartmouth plays against public universities, I think the NLRB will decline to take coverage of college athletics.

6 hours ago, UB77 said:

Back to back Huskies games

Just like the final two International Bowls.  Back to back Bulls v. Huskies.

Homecoming is October 19th against Western Michigan.  Out of towners book your rooms now.  Also the Alumni Achievement awards dinner will be the Thursday night before ht game, if you can come in for a longer weekend.

16 hours ago, verandaman said:

Any updated scoop?  Not sure why the MAC would be the last conference to announce their scheduling.  Heck, even most of the FCS is announced.

Likely by noon today.

9 hours ago, MuchMany said:

Was it just last year that he was here for the Spring Game or do I have my schedule mixed up? 

Correct.  While there he signed a number of items that Athletics has used in fundraising.

There were changes in the 2017 tax bill that had some impact on donations to college athletics.  Most notably making none of the payment for better seating to games deductible.  Previously you could deduct 85% of those payments.  There may have been other changes that impacted donations for endowments.

18 hours ago, verandaman said:

The only other Love Field I know is from the Southwest Airlines business case.....think Houston, Love Stamps, Go-Go Boots, and the birth of a new airline! 

The other Love Field is in Dallas.

His induction was announced in December 2023.  He was in Indonesia on vacation.  If he is like most people a vacation like that is planned well in advance.  Was he supposed to cancel?

4 hours ago, verandaman said:

Love's Field will be the largest on campus softball facility in the NCAA, seating 4200 and expandable.

I had seen the facility named Love Field someplace else the other day.  Hopefully, you have the right name.  The other place holds a dark place in American history.

3 hours ago, everlast2504 said:

White and to some degree Manuel and Green

None of these three were run out of UB.  All three took positions that were steps up from UB, UCF, UConn and Auburn, respectively.  White and Manuel both moved up from where they went left for and are now in the SEC and Big 10.  Greene is now at Tennessee working for Danny White again.

2 hours ago, clodney said:

BGSU, Western Michigan, Miami, and UMASS... only 2 more and we can make our own hockey conference!

We could make the ACC happy and take Notre Dame out of the Big 10 and then find one other school.

Based on the announcement of the scheduling for the next three seasons (before they have to go back to the drawing board with the addition of UMass) the schedule should be release any day.

Travel Tip for Out of Towners:  If you are going back to Buffalo for a game or games, book your hotels rooms before the Bills schedule comes out.  Once that schedule comes out Saturday night rates will go through the roof.

12 hours ago, UBinMD said:

Marcus Camby is currently 49 years old,

Julius Erving just turned 74.  His last two choices for college were UB and UMass.  He went to UMass because they hired his high school coach as an assistant.  This per former UB man's and women's basketball coach and former AD, Ed Muto.

Sprry for the triple post.  It did not look like the first attempt was posted.

11 hours ago, UBinMD said:

Marcus Camby is currently 49 years old,

Julius Erving just turned 74.  His last two choices for college were UB and UMass.  He went to UMass because they hired his high school coach as an assistant.  This per former UB man's and women's basketball coach and former AD, Ed Muto.

11 hours ago, UBinMD said:

Marcus Camby is currently 49 years old,

Julius Erving just turned 74.  His last two choices for college were UB and UMass.  He went to UMass because they hired his high school coach as an assistant.  This per former UB man's and women's basketball coach and former AD, Ed Muto.

5 minutes ago, rma said:

We could still play them OOC

How?

12 minutes ago, DaBulls99 said:

What I KNOW is the players wanted JW and only JW. I know that from talking to them about the process. The rest is only rumors but from what I’ve heard BH was less about how he left and more about his maturity while a coach here. I've never posted any details bc I don’t know if any of it is true. 

Until today.

3 minutes ago, DooleyBull06 said:

UMASS is joining the MAC in all sports

 

Separate thread:

The Athletics' Nicole Auerbach beat Thamel by three minutes.

1 minute ago, promotherobot said:

UCONN football easy. UCONN basketball not so much.  How about Albany, Stony Brook, UNH or URI making the move to FBS?

The MAC has its fair share of football only schools.  It does not work.  Neither does football independence for schools other than Notre Dame and possibly Army and Navy.  At some point UConn will have to bite the bullet and join.