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1 hour ago, squire17 said:

Successful college football and basketball programs are viewed by many teenagers as equaling personal success. Think what that money could do for the Bulls.

The current students are getting nickel and dimed by the school and the administration treats them poorly. Students see the football stadium as a giant "fuck you" monument on a campus that's heavily isolated.

Of course the alumni who never had to worry about money are wondering why everybody doesn't have "school spirit".

One of UB's least self-aware employees was crying about it 46 years ago.

Guess who...

50 minutes ago, yussi1870 said:

Giving random employees $30k pay cuts is not good for the local community.

 

3 hours ago, Bullsboys said:

Yeah and all of their top players transferred out and they are now back to mediocrity - Kids don't want to watch film in the showers!

NIL means more to kids yes - But facilities play a HUGE part in recruiting - NIL isn't enough when other schools also have NIL. 

Ron's job is to distract you from the fact that we'll see record crowds of 1,200 people inside UB's brand new Murchie Family Football Stadium before they ever spend another dime on basketball

5 minutes ago, Bullsboys said:

UB still has exactly the same basketball facilities as they did 10 years ago - A new Locker room is needed/ Practice facility that's not shared with intramurals/ A film Room which UB does not have - UB is behind the majority of MAC schools in these categories! 

The AD, head of the Alumni Association, and the school's top donor are all football guys. You can see how this is quickly becoming a problem.

2 hours ago, JFH47 said:

Fire the AD and  hire Turner Battle either as AD or coach.

Reggie Witherspoon as AD, Turner Battle as head coach, and let one of the Murchie kids run the Alumni Association

Would anyone object to that?

56 minutes ago, TheCommish said:

Great, showing 1 of the 4 areas of the arena.

UB has been bullshitting attendance figures for years, bud. It's not a new thing:

College Football’s Growing Problem: Empty Seats

14 minutes ago, TheCommish said:

Are you stating this with certainty, or are you simply fabricating information?

You're absolutely right, it was a standing-room only crowd.

Just look at them all!

7 minutes ago, trueblue32 said:

Idk how many there were to begin with but only losing 500 seems optimistic honestly

The lowest announced attendance at Alumni Arena this year was 1,361 for the Miami (OH) game on 1/9, and that includes tickets sold and not the turnstile count - so it's less than that

47 minutes ago, UBinMD said:

We will see what happens in the off season 

The sound of 500 more season ticket renewals hitting the bottom of the trash can

2 minutes ago, Bluebird96 said:

Man Sabol can’t buy a shot today. 

He shot better with the visor/mask on - not sure if he got contacts or something

Dropping football to FCS and putting the savings towards the basketball program was the way to go, but that ship has sailed - Alnutt's going to be a doormat for the donors and their terrible ideas for the next 20 years

Pooling money to get rid of Halcovage and letting Alnutt keep his job would be ridiculous - so of course that's what will happen

5 minutes ago, TheCommish said:

Can we get 440 people to donate $10k each?

1 hour ago, TheCommish said:

You can argue the other #11 besides Turner but not modie

Average UB home attendance by year:

Kenneth Pope

1983 (12-15) - 1,023

Dan Bazzani

1984 (14-13) - 605

1985 (5-19) - 1,051

1986 (14-11)- 1,004

1987 (15-10) - 664

1988 (14-13) - 971

1989 (15-14) - 1,000

1990 (14-13) - 1,002

1991 (13-14) - 1,025

1992 (2-26) - 927

1993 (5-22) - 1,311 (Modie's first season)

Tim Cohane

1994 (10-18) - 1,440 (Rasaun's first season)

1995 (18-10) - 2,274 (Modie's last season)

1996 (13-14) - 1,834

1997 (17-11) - 4,105

1998 (15-13) - 2,024 (Rasaun's last season)

1999 (5-24) - 1,597

2000 (5-23) - 2,100

Reggie Witherspoon

2001 (4-24) - 1,720

2002  (12-18) - 2,387 (Turner's first season)

2003 (5-23) - 1,888 (Calvin's first season)

2004 (17-12) - 3,194

2005 (23-10) - 4,417 (Turner's last season)

2006 (19-13) - 4,279 (Calvin's last season)

2007 (12-19) - 2,898

2008 (10-20) - 1,862

2009 (21-12) - 2,663 (Watt's first season)

2010 (18-12) - 1,977

2011 (20-14) - 2,039 (Javon's first season)

2012 (20-11) - 2,684 (Watt's last season)

2013 (14-20) - 3,291

Bobby Hurley

2014 (19-10) - 3,486 (Javon's last season)

2015 (23-10) - 3,639

2016 (20-15) - 3,242 (CJ's first season)

Nate Oats

2017 (17-15) - 3,791

2018 (27-9) - 3,569

2019 (32-4) - 5,290 (CJ's last season)

Jim Whitesell

2020 (20-12) - 3,613

2021 (16-9) - N/A

2022 (19-11) - 2,893

2023 (15-17) - 2,858

George Halcovage III

2024 (3-21) - 2,459

3 hours ago, BrooklynBull said:

What does a coach's salary have to do with NIL?  Schools do not pay NIL money.

Burke and Lembo are starting to cozy up to each other, and both have a history of demanding concessions/walking from jobs when they don't get their way. Lembo left Ball State when his budget wasn't what he thought it should be.

4 hours ago, enrique14150 said:

As for future players to be honored, you have to consider Watt and McCrea since they won MAC player of the year awards.  Watt in his senior year was almost unstoppable at times at both ends of the court.  CJ is a no brainer someday, probably Perkins as well. Maybe Idbihi.  The bar might be too high for Mike Martinho, Calvin Cage, Will Regan.

Alumni Arena is the house that Modie Cox built.

14 minutes ago, yussi1870 said:

Is there a basketball one?

https://nilclub.com/buffalo/mens-basketball

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2 hours ago, promotherobot said:

It's weird that the ABA league website has no standings or stats.

MyStatsOnline - American Basketball Association

With tonight's win, Buffalo just moved into first place in the division!

 

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