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Jenkins has severe sanctions against him personally. The decision is here: https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/infractions/decisions/Apr2020INF_UniversityBuffaloSUNYPUBLICNRAgreement.pdf

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/college/uw/2020/04/19/former-uw-whitewater-coach-lance-leipold-has-elevated-buffalos-program/5136737002/

The MAC along with The American Athletic Conference, the Mountain West, Sun Belt and Conference USA have petitioned the NCAA for flexibility in sport, sponsorship football attendance and football scheduling for four years because of financial distress as a result of COVID19 pandemic. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/sports/conferences-petition-ncaa-seeking-to-cut-sports.html

If all of the conferences expand the conference schedules the NCAA should adopt a rule that was being talked about on early March. You are not eligible for the tournament if you are under .500 in conference play. That would open it up to more mid-majors. Getting schools that go 10-2 in non-conference and 7-11 and win two game in the conference tournament to have 20 wins and go to the dance will end. If the conferences want their games to mean more, they will this way.

An embargo. People who violate embargoes are not given information in advance. To see one at work put on CNBC tomorrow morning just before 8:30 AM. When they announce the new claims for unemployment, they have the numbers, but sit and wait until exactly 8:30 before announcing them.

Some guy named Naaman Roosevelt, not sure if you remember him.

Sources across the internet indicate that the decision will be announced in about 25 minutes.

22 would make sense, You get rid of the divisions and everybody plays everybody twice. Balanced schedule. No team is punished or benefits from playing the strong schools in the other division twice or the weakers ones twice.

I hope it is possible.

Done.

Branden Oliver signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. https://ticats.ca/article/tiger-cats-add-three-americans-including-former-nfl-running-back-oliver

I had no clue talking to a player is a violation, it’s not like we are bribing or forcing them to commit to our school. Telling them that we’d love to have them on our team should be allowed Nobody other than designated people within the Athletic Department are allowed to recruit a potential student athlete to UB. Can you talk to someone, yes. Can you tell them why they should pick UB? No. If you have any questions if you can do something check here: https://ubbulls.com/sports/2019/6/17/compliance-index.aspx Still have questions, contact Compliance directly. I have attended college fairs for UB for nearly 20 years. At some point during every fair someone one asks about athletics and whether they could play for UB. I would give them all the same answer. Yes, we have that sport. For more information contact the coach directly, which you can do through the website. I have no idea why anyone would want to talk with a high school junior/senior or a JUCO looking to transfer. Trolling, no. Educating people, yes. Protecting UB, yes. Prior history of violations comes into play the next time a violation comes up. Why you would want to cause a violation and sanctions against UB is beyond me and probably every other person on this board.

As not only a person but probably the only person who reports things to Compliance, I am doing what is right for UB. If UB Compliance can stop something quickly before it becomes a major violation, good. There have been violations on this Board, which were reported and remedied. Reports to compliance on violations have been reported by former UB athletes who committed violations as well as employees of UB who have inadvertently violated NCAA rules. Are you aware that UB already has been found to have had three violations, two of which were major violations in men's basketball? https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/search/miCaseView/report?id=102173 and https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/search/miCaseView/report?id=101825. and https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/search/miCaseView/report?id=101864 People may be talking about their thoughts about UB Athletics, but in doing so they may be admitting to violations. When they are seen, they will be reported. Do I care what anybody on this board thinks of me for doing this, NO! I have reported violations that I have seen on this Board, violations committed by former UB athletes and violations by employees of UB Athletics. All of the reports have been appreciated. You cannot be a fan of UB Athletics and not care about violations. They have to be stopped when they are minor. How would you feel if you got a phone call from the NCAA Committee on infractions and be told that you have been committing violations of the NCAA rules and if we prove it UB will be banned from bowl games and post season tournaments? If you do not have a problem getting that phone call, then are you really a fan of UB or are just out to do what can for yourself with no cares about how it impacts UB, UB Athletics and their reputations. Think what you want of me, I will continue to report what I believe are violations so that can be stopped, while they are small and hopefully will not lead to sanctions against UB.

For those interested in a photographic history of UB Football you should follow @shollander2 on Twitter (https://twitter.com/shollander2). He is posting many great photos. They are also commented upon identifying players by those who know the players either by site or number.

The point, they need to fill space and have their sports writers do something. The idea of a year of practice and then starting tom play is rare now and non-existent in the 1970s. As I said above when the revival of football was announced I-AA did NOT exist. It was created between the first and second seasons of the revived program. Also to have played I-AA you would have need scholarships and that were not permissible at that time in the SUNY System. Even without scholarships you could not run a I-AA program on $25,000.00

What left too few alumni engaged was dropping football after the 1970 season. The budget for the entire season for at least the first three years was $25,000.00 (slightly over $105,000.00 today). The revival of football was announced in March 1977. The NCAA did not split football into I-A and I-AA until January 1978, so I-AA was not even an option for UB when football was revived. Even if it was you could not run a I-AA program on $25,000.00.

An article about the revival of UB football in 1977 and the what if they came back as Division I team. https://buffalonews.com/2020/04/07/ub-buffalo-football-division-iii-division-i-bill-dando-charlie-donnor-marty-barrett-karl-fischer-bob-deming/

Lunardi always does this, usually the morning after the championship game. The least he could have done was until after when he game should have ended.

You’re right, it’s absolutely a detriment. I can’t even imagine all the duties the coaches have to juggle on a daily basis let alone adding recruiting to the mix. I’d argue that in the current climate however it’s not as big of a deal. With the entire country having ground to a halt, you have to believe Whitesell and his staff have more time to network, look at tape, contact recruits about interest, and pitch the school to interested players. It’s a whole different world at the moment, and while having a set recruiter would be great it’s not like the others don’t have time for it now. @UB05 is correct, right now this is not a major issue. The team is not going through conditioning every day right now. They are not game planing. Would it be better if the full complement of people who can recruit were available yes. With as little going on now, besides the allowable contacts during a dead period being down one person is as big as problem if this were normal times. If it was normal times the extra assistant coach would probably have already been replaced. Also once the season ends the most important thing the entire coaching staff does is recruit, as was seen last year after Oats left.

Explain how the lack of an assistant in charge of recruiting prevents the rest of the current staff from recruiting? Is there some new rule that only allows a recruiting assistant to text/ Facetime, especially since you say other teams have multiple people doing that now?

Or he was playing what he felt was a better lineup against different opponents strengths.

Northern Illinois played South Florida the following year for another Bulls - Huskies matchup.

No, it is part of a potential overhaul of transfer rules for Division I athletes. They would be allowed one transfer and not have to sit out a year. It would be like the Division III rule in the 1970s, when the only transfers who did not have to sit were those going from on Division III to another. This was only valid once. If you moved to a third school you had to sit. All other combinations had to sit a year.

The link is to an article in The New York Times that discusses the impact of the new CBA on former NFL players. It features former UB Defensive Coordinator Ed O'Neill and his son. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/sports/football/nfl-retired-players-benefits.html

When I told my son that El-Amin's kid was at Northern it made him feel old. When El-Amin was a freshman at UConn my son was throwing a football with some guy in the basement of Gampel Pavilion before a UB - UConn football game. Later that year he was watching a UConn basketball game and called me over and said look that is the guy I was throwing the football with at UConn.