RecoveringHillbilly

Per the Buffalo News.

Leipold said yesterday that yes, Vantrease has redshirted last season, now a R-Soph.

Leipold was interviewed on WGR this afternoon. He mentioned KJ's grad transfer and the attrition of one more. He talked of Nunn but didnt mention another WR. I hope the attrition isnt Charlie Jones or Rodney Scott.

Awesome commit! We inpressed him ober some high major offers. Another 2019 HS verbal tonight per Scott Wilson. Jijel McGriff, 6'3" 260 DL out of Florida. His HS won the state title in the largest state classification. But we were his only D1 offer.

Scott Wilson retweeted a post for a commit tonight, Mark Davis, Braden River HS (FL), Class of 2019. 6'2 170 CB/ATH

Hurts picks Oklahoma.

Never thought I'd ever cheer so hard for 'cuse like I did tonight.

Reports are that Hurts has visied The U, Oklahoma, Maryland, and USF. Wimbush is mostly likely going to Penn St, also visited UCF. Vegas betting odds have us at 20/1 to grab him. Looking at our returners: Vantrease 5 GP/1 Start 29-66 375 yds 2TD/2Int. ~150 offensive plays. Sacked 6 times last year, better in 2018. Not a runner. Led scoring drives in all games but NIU last season. His best passes were: 11 yd TD to Mabry (Mabry's 1st career TD) 8 yd TD to A.J. 47 yd to A.J. 43 yd to Nunn 37 yd to Holsey Johnson played 4 games. 1-2, 1 Int. Under 25 offensive plays. Myers played less than 10 plays. Had his awesome read option TD run called back.

We have a committment from an ECC transfer player, Ahmad Holloway. 6'4" 300 lb DT from Clarence HS.

Paul Peck's thoughts on Tyree and the next man up here. Peck mentions grad transfer as an option, but unless it is a Jalen Hurts or Brandon Wimbush from ND, meh, I say stick with our players. 2019 will look stable compared to other questionable QB years. Licata and Tyree had to play above their heads as R-Fr. Licata had to play under 4 different offensive coordinators. Willy was thrown to the wolves as a true Fr. Vantrease will be in his 3rd sping practice, a true Jr, with the same offense. I think it's his job to lose unless Myers just wows moving the offense.

Still here. Yes I enjoyed our debates years ago! Reggie fan but I was there at Alumni clapping Hurley's introdution as head coach by Danny White..and I had deep hate for Hurley (Duke-hater since I can remember). I was wrong to think he deserved more time after 2012. The time was right, he got us as far as he could. I see he runs that same weave-hand off offense..meh.

If it's the media's "Big 4 rivalry" label, then, sure. I choose 'in time' because it's not any further than that. If both schools clearly set themselves apart from the MAAC Big 4's and play huge matchups yearly, then sure. It's not like it is an Albany-Siena, Cincy-Xavier, Seton Hall-Rutgers type of close proximity game. The Little 3 schools have each played themselves hundreds of times. We have played NU the most, and Bona the least. Any history is newly developing. Canisius is the top local rival for us with the Main street proximity and some tough, chippy games.

UB's stated academic peers are Rutgers, Iowa, and UC Irvine. So The State University of New Jersey should be it. Maybe one day. Miami is our closest in the MAC, but they have their rivalry with Bobcats and Bearcats. Stony Brook would be it if they were FBS or MAC. If we got into the ACC with UMass, UConn, and Temple, UConn would cry but we'd have some untra fun divisional rivalries.

WIVB Championship Special

Pre-game show says they aren't overly concerned on CJ's knee, most likely will miss tonight and Marist.

Highlights

Top 25 win and payback for the Tourny loss, Go Bulls!

Looking good now up 9!

From the Spectrum In my opinion, good.

Per the Buffalo News it had a 2.3 rating locally. Lower than the 6.3 vs Miami which went up against the Sabres. But fewer people have ESPNU, plus Election Night coverage had a combined 23.1 locally. I was just happy to see our depth guys play and getting our stars out without injury.

Ratings per Alan Pergament on the Buffalo news: Sabres 8.2 on MSG "strong for this time of the year and indicative of increased fan interest as the team has gotten off to a decent start." UB 6.3 on ESPN2 "That’s a very strong rating, especially considering the first half competed with the Sabres game."

Verbal commit this week from Lockport HS, 6' 3" with decent speed. Broke Neutz's single season mark for receiving yards. 13 TD on 47 grabs. Good to see another recruit with size to go with Foster and Cuff.

The story posted by UB today cites 75,000 households as the max number. By comparison, 'Red vs Blue' had a 5.1 locally, and for ESPN2 on an Election Tuesday night that was great. 640k watched nationwide and hard to believe that was our first national broadcast from UB Stadium.

Linky Another site projecting our 1st place finish.

'Secret' home scrimmage vs Albany on October 20th, as well.