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9 hours ago, Gxtrex said:

If we don't want the American then what's the next step? We aren't getting a Big 10 invite directly from the MAC

Honestly don’t understand the obsession with the conference thing. Ideally would we love to compete for national championships with Ohio State and Alabama one day? Of course. But that isn’t the vision SUNY has for us. The MAC is by far the best fit. We’ve raised our stock tremendously over the last 7-10 years competitively in conference play. A lot of work still to do but let’s focus on what we need to do to improve ourselves where we are. Honestly nobody knows what college sports will look like in 50 years. We just need to put ourselves in a position to be considered if there are more massive changes. But unless you are one of 3-5 programs in the country your outlook really is the same. You’re gonna get out spent for coaches and everything else when one of the blue bloods wants something. Vanderbilt is in the SEC…kind of. But still widely considered one of the worst CFB programs in the country. 

Those are horrible additions. An invitation for us does us no better, just farther travel. We good. 

11 minutes ago, UBminicre said:

Yeah, I think the overwhelming negativity is purely attributed to the expectation. Clearly that was unwarranted, and now that we can reassess where we truly are… we should move on knowing that we still have wins left in us but mo will need actual time to do his job. However I still do have a concern on play calling- particularly the 50 yd fg attempts. We aren’t in the nfl so he better re wire his brain on that. Also, hate the team discipline / penalties. He gotta get that in order sooner rather then later.

Totally a fair take. The rest of the season will determine where we are and hopefully we can finish strong into some good offseason momentum. 

3 hours ago, mikescherrer8 said:

Just gotta remind ourselves that we are one of the worst teams in the MAC. Embrace it, and hope for a brighter future.

This is a comically uniformed post 😂

2 hours ago, promotherobot said:

So they see the MAC as one rung above High School?

The realignment is based on regionalization. These are all schools in the south/south east. The MWC isn’t included either. So many victims here. 

I think the fact remains we have a rookie head coach who started super late and a roster that was pillaged late in the game. To be blunt, LL never recruited very well at all, but he was excellent at player development in his system. But we’re obviously not running his system. We’ve been competitive in every game this year, although maddeningly inconsistent. Which comes with the territory considering all the surrounding factors. We all just need to embrace this transition year for what it is and stick with these boys. We’re still light years ahead of where we were as a program not too long ago. It’s just going to take some time. Go Bulls!

New weight room being added on west side of the Fieldhouse. University is building a wellness center near the Union/bookstore area and Alumni Arena will then become all athletics with some desperately needed upgrades in there. Gonna be a few years for that. Hoping a new football video board is on its way sooner than later. 

15 hours ago, promotherobot said:

It's not like Temple has room for a stadium on campus. Sure, if UB had a 60K+ season ticket base, building a their own stadium would make sense. But until that day comes, sharing an NFL stadium beats the concrete mausoleum we have now.

Disagree. If you think attendance is a challenge now, imagine a smaller crowd in a venue twice as big located off campus somewhere so zero student turn out for energy. You’re doing exactly the opposite of what programs being successful are doing now. Forget that. 

1 hour ago, DooleyBull06 said:

That question is out of my league. I leave that to others here who know more about the political and monetary aspects of all this. 

There are plans to do a lot with the current stadium but it’s a longer plan based on the university’s master plan. There is no interest in using a Bills stadium unless it were to replace the physical location of UB Stadium. Ask any college how they’ve liked being a tenant at their own home field with way too many seats. It sucks. It’s the reason Tulane, Georgia State, Houston, etc did their own thing. 

6 hours ago, promotherobot said:

You must have missed the $10 flash sale for all games a couple weeks ago.

 

The same mandate exists for Bills games. I doubt it's affected ticket sales for them. Will that mandate be enforced there is another story. We are in the final days of a functioning civil society anyway so who cares. I've given up arguing with people.

The mandate is a SUNY mandate. All large gatherings over 100 outdoors require them. Some will stay away but there’s nothing the university can do. 

27 minutes ago, UBinMD said:

It’s hard for some analysts to forget about the “name” of a school. Nebraska still has it, Coastal doesn’t. UCF ran into the same problem. The new good teams have to prove themselves every week, the former good teams get overrated annually (see Nebraska, Michigan, Texas, etc)

If I’m not mistaken Coastal runs some form of the Triple Option with more passing mixed in, which has traditionally given us fits. Maybe I’m wrong

At the event tonight downtown Jim mentioned playing Canisius and St Bonaventure, not specifically where each would be played, though. 

45 minutes ago, DooleyBull06 said:

I agree. And I do take pride in us being a place where a coach can come win and move on. But our window as a university doesn’t come often also. Administration has to realize that. Heck even if we just upgrade facilities and become the most dominant program in the MAC. That’s cool. But now isn’t the time to rest on what we’ve accomplished over the last 5-10 years.

All it takes is money 😉

On 8/2/2021 at 11:08 PM, DooleyBull06 said:

I understand this is the nature of the beast but to leave her players and the university this late shows no loyalty. I get it’s the nature of the beast. And it’s her alma mater and bla bla bla but the timing sucks. I’m just venting frustration at UB once again being a launching pad rather than a destination. 

In the next round of conference realignment, we need to move up. We need upgraded facilities. I’m tired of it. Our athletics has come too far to revert back to what it was.  

Move up to what? Unless you’re one of 4-5 programs in the country, your coach gets taken. UCF coach left to Tennessee, Texas Tech basketball coach left for Texas. It’s college athletics unfortunately. Moving up to the AAC wouldn’t change a thing. 

Disagree with the above. To those closest to the program, BH was not ready from a maturity standpoint to be a HC. Excellent recruiter but hadn’t even run a practice before in his life. College basketball is littered with failed coaches who could recruit but nothing more. He wasn’t the right person to lead the team at the time. Hopefully Oats grooms him more at Bama, but the notion we’d be competing for championships, like we are now, if BH was the coach makes me chuckle. 

Not sure who the lead recruiter is here but Joe Cauthen is tight with the top Kansas JUCO programs like Hutch. Have to guess many of these guys are his handiwork. Having him on staff seems to be paying off right away to plug holes. 

Pumped for the year ahead! Honestly I don’t see the freshmen getting much PT at all and maybe even redshirts. BUT, imagine if the big 3 can take us all the way back to the NCAA, and we can somehow get JW and RS back for one more? We’ll still have a lot of pieces to replace so the next recruiting class could really set the tone coming off a successful year.  Summer is the time to dream, right?

That is one awful graphic. So much wrong

Quinn still takes the full record for 2014 and since we started FBS we were widely considered one of it not the worst program in FBS. We had a blip here and there but Lance elevated our overall program. Now, that doesn’t mean Kansas isn’t awful. That said, under Miles they played a ton of very young guys. Who knows what’s ahead for them (and I don’t care really). 

9 hours ago, UBinMD said:

Hopefully their gigs after Kansas will pay as well or they squirrel a little away.

It’s fascinating that people here talk so poorly about the Kansas job when the UWW fans could have said the exact same things about us prior to Lance’s arrival in Buffalo (I.e. career suicide). The guy has done a hell of a job turning around our program. It won’t be easy but he’s got the chance to try it again on a higher level. He’s earned it. 

52 minutes ago, Tee4three said:

The movement points to him eventually leaving, when who knows

To me it means he is helping coach mo transition into the role of head coach (at least its what I have experienced in the working world a couple times)

Actually I’d think the opposite. Why change his position unless he’s staying? A lot of news about a potential new OC who was previously receivers coach at his last gig, so that may be why. Would be big if Ianello stays. 

Hoping for some news one way or another. 

Bump

Know we’re about 48 hrs in. Any word on assistants?

58 minutes ago, UBinMD said:

Looks like Eddie Wilson got an offer from Marshall. Hopefully he stays with us. He was really a difference maker in the middle.

Along with Western Kentucky and UTSA. Agreed it’d be huge (literally) if we can keep him.