BrooklynBull

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.

Disagree. Sports are played by humans not computer formulas. All 4ths and 1s are not alike. Analytics are ruining sports. They are one of top five the things that has ruined baseball, not in any particular order: Tony LaRussa and bullpen by committee. Davey Johnson and double switching in the 3rd inning. Sports Talk Radio with fans questioning every move by a manager when they lose because of Analytics The National League's adoption of the DH for the bullpen (either flat out adopt the DH or let relief pitchers hit and stop burning through your bench) Also in football on 4th and 1 if a team does not kick, the coach is genius if they make the first down and a moron if they come up short the next day on sports radio.

For years I have read here what people think different coaches should be doing in connection with different personnel in a variety of different sports. I think John Feinstein summarizes my thoughts on these posts. For those of you who do not remember Terry Holland he was head basketball coach at Virginia.

How does he have any eligibility left? Looks like he has played his four years already.

Not yet.

Better to not to contact them. Read: http://ubfan.com/bb/index.php?/topic/349-fanbooster-compliance/

The NCAA is getting this right. Winter sports basically had their entire season. Did some lose out on conference and national championship tournaments, yes. But they got to play their last season. It is not like spring sports that were stopped early in the season. There will be issues with scholarship limits next year if they give an extra year in spring sports. If a school made offers of partial scholarships to the freshmen starting school in the fall what do you do with a player who comes back for another season, who you thought would be out of eligibility? The only athletes impacted for going pro are really baseball players who were expecting to be redrafted or drafted for the first time this spring. Are their other sports to go pro in after college that are spring sports? Yes. But there is so little money and jobs the loss of the spring season was most likely a make or break for them.

In 2018 UB played in the Dollar General Bowl. In 2019 it was the Lending Tree Bowl. In 2019 they played in the Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl. In 2020 it will have a new sponsor. http://www.tribune242.com/news/2020/mar/12/sponsor-withdraws-but-bahamas-bowl-expected-to/ Attention all bowl game sponsors, if you want to end your sponsorship deal make sure that UB comes to your game this year.

There are also a number playing Australia , led by Stephanie Reid. I think Courtney Wilkens and Joanna Smith were there for a while as well. Smith was recently back in Buffalo when the team had their reunion weekend.

The NCAA has imposed an dead period through April 15, 2020. There can be no physical contact between coaches and prospective student athletes. Phone calls, emails and texts are still allowed. There can be no official or unofficial visits. No Letters of Intent can be signed in basketball until April 15, 2020 at the earliest.

https://ubbulls.com/news/2020/3/11/football-bulls-host-annual-pro-day-photo-gallery.aspx

Why?

Just a friendly reminder that you drop ESPN+ now. Probably will not need until the St. Francis game in September. You may need it earlier if you want to stream either volleyball or soccer.

This was done at 12:17 today. With all of the cancellations it is just of matter of when as opposed to if.

No.