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2 minutes ago, TheCommish said:

So almost every good collective has paid positions. Almost all. We're expecting 4 volunteers with online store to fundraise

$200k for MBB

$100k for WBB

$500k for FB

By the way, these are all bottom line numbers for MAC championship. To compete vs MWC, Sun Belt. We need to be $2 million for FB and $1 million for MBB, $200k for WBB. The goal at minimum should be $800k but really needs to be near $3.2m annually. 

I don't know what would be involved. Is just promoting the NIL enough to raise funds? Do you see a "sales guy or gal" calling on business?

15 hours ago, UBinMD said:

I already gave to every sport and am HOF as well, my point was the NIL isn’t just basketball, it is everything, so if you don’t like the MBB coach to not give at all doesn’t make a lot of sense. Bitching about not having a collective then bitching about the collective 2 days later seems to me that some people just like to bitch. I’m not a Bills fan, but a lot of Bills fans are happier being miserable so that is the local fan base. Even when Oats was here it wasn’t like people were lining the streets in Bulls gear, they are still Bills and Sabers fans first and foremost. It’s only after Oats left people lament the glory days. I’m a Bulls fan, win lose or draw and will support them. If others only want to support in the good times, so be it!

You nailed it. 😅  It's the worst part about Buffalo. The commitment to negativity.

On 4/26/2024 at 8:50 AM, TheCommish said:

Does anyone think the people working for the collective are working for free? No one has said either way and it’s not on the faq. 

Depends how much work is involved.  I could see a few hours a week or month being donated if that's all it takes.

I will be signing up as well.

Toronto area kid. Played at Western U in London, ON last season. 6-3 guard.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/nfl-works-with-college-presidents-to-form-super-league

I'm not sure if this is good or bad for schools like UB. At least this proposed league holds 10 spots to regulate schools in and out.

I could be wrong but it's my opinion. When you play in a lower level conference, the talent level between teams is relatively the same. What decides whether you are a good team or a bad team is coaching. Game plan and execution wins games.

19 hours ago, Bluebird96 said:

12 seed Grand Canyon coached by sharp shooting Bryce Drew of Valparaiso fame, giving the big boys of Bama all they can handle.   

GCU is the Liberty U of the desert southwest.

Another day-late, dollar-short performance. Can't knock the team for finishing the MAC season strong, but this was a winnable game they let slip. Oh well. Take more steps next year. It will be hard replacing El Husseini.

They will need to find some size next year. 

FFS make a layup.

7 minutes ago, capencaper said:

Just read that Monmouth had a school-record 12 game road winning streak. Not really a team you want to host. Hope we didn't pay for it.

We did, but it costs money to travel so it's likely a wash.

A great 1st followed by a dreadful 2nd, outscored 26-7. Are we going to just let our season end like this?

On 3/19/2024 at 4:59 PM, UBinMD said:

I'll be in Buffalo the 28th and 30th. Can the public watch?

3 hours ago, UBinMD said:

I believe he thought she had exhausted her eligibility, but she still has a year. The bond between her and BB seems strong, so I'm hopeful she returns to UB next year. He may have been concerned about her portalling out. Not sure if that would be in her best interest. She will not get the PT if she was thinking Baylor, UConn, LSU levels, take a couple steps back to ACC schools maybe it would workout similar to Fair, but Fair's success is because FLJ knew what she had in her. Anything lower than that, she may as well stay.

The way that post was written made it sound like she wasn't available today. That's all.

On 3/19/2024 at 4:48 AM, UB Horns Up said:

Ivy League is FCS but Ivy League matches up with the politics of New York State which controls SUNY which controls UB spending and support money wise. Any school in the SUNY system will never be a Power athletics school because New York State doesn’t want it. UB chance of that ever happening died when UB joined SUNY and Syracuse wisely did not in 1963 and when UB dropped football in 1971 read the two major newspapers at the time in Buffalo. They ripped New York State and SUNY apart for that decision saying that New York State really didn’t believe in Buffalo to come up with a couple hundred thousand dollars in a 90 million dollar budget or whatever it was. That is when we had real journalism now it’s just a bunch of nonsense our only newspaper today is published in Cleveland. So journalism is gone with the exception of a few old social media posters like myself that are old, critical and don’t go by the wolf pack mentality and tell it like it is. It’s never happening and UB alums/fans can fight it all they want and make up fake new names for UB like New York Bulls but the New York State political one party rule is stronger than it has ever been in my 56 years plus living in Buffalo. Ivy League politics matches New York State politics and hence SUNY core values and mission. I am not knocking it I am just speaking what people are thinking but because of wolf pack mentality cancel culture anyone that speaks up independently today.

I am saying give up and let New York State run the UB Bulls football program into the ground. Like you are seeing at California-Berkeley Golden Bears football there Power Conference world in sports is over. They can thank the politics of Berkeley for some of that. Too many protesting a tree being removed for the football stadium renovation crazy stuff like that over the years while USC and UCLA were planning there exit strategy from the PAC 12 Conference for the Big Ten Conference. Look the nonsense radical crappola is the end of anything power conferences anything. Protesting is just going to land you broke and with a prison record while the rest of us are looking to make a dollar working. While these idiots are protesting a tree business is being conducted to grow their business same way with individuals. UB is more crazy Cal than USC unfortunately. Again I am not knocking it knock yourself out going to jail while the real world is working earning a living. UB is never going to be a power school. When you have UB alums fighting selling beer at games for years it shows UB institutionally isn’t a power school to grow business in. Enjoy the Ivy League because reality that is where Berkeley, the whole SUNY four centers belong athletically. Or that Division III conference that NYU, Chicago and John Hopkins are in. UB can pat themselves on the back they stopped beer sales at UB Stadium and saved the lite bright video board along with the track at the UB Donors event. Where they can sit in their own bubble patting themselves on the back because they think they are the smartest people in the room. While rest of the real world and major college sports world has moved on. If UB alums/fans can’t see it’s over I don’t know what they are watching.

Mark Schmidt at St Bonaventure Bonnies according to on report I saw is making $1.8 million dollars a year. No wonder he stays. Plus the Bonnies pay NIL. When this is some kind of debate at UB donors meetings with NIL and not paying head coaches for their success to maintain them at UB. It says it all it’s over power conference wise for UB join the Ivy Conference or the NYU conference and call it a day. Frankly it’s what the UB President and the people with the real power in SUNY really want anyway. Why fight it good luck in the Ivy League UB, SUNY and New York State’s true desires. If UB got invited to the Ivy League New York State and SUNY officials would be patting themselves on the back. There would be a huge party at UB with the Governor at the time saying this is wonderful, wonderful what college athletics is all about no beer would be served of course we can’t have that at our UB what about the liability? I am telling it like it really is for UB athletics future we aren’t even competitive in men’s basketball anymore in the MAC politics did that UB did that enjoy George Halcovage III who turned UB men’s basketball into a laughing stock in my opinion. UB Horns Up! Go Bulls! Let’s Go Buffalo 

The Ivy League doesn't add anyone. You either we're always part of it or never will be.

On 3/19/2024 at 12:31 AM, DooleyBull06 said:

Damn. Well the community can and should come out. Unless of course the old excuse that the sabres are playing.

They are on the road and don't start till 9pm. No excuses.

On 3/19/2024 at 5:48 PM, Chet said:

The women finished the year at 185 in the NET. They are solidly in the middle of the pack. They batted in the tournament, but losing Watson will be really really tough to overcome.

Did I miss something?

22 hours ago, rma said:

WNIT, opponent TBD

22 hours ago, BrooklynBull said:

Schedule to be release on Monday.  First round to be played Wednesday through Friday.

https://womensnit.com/news/2024/3/17/general-2024-postseason-wnit-field-announced.aspx

If the people who set up the UB- Arizona State game in 2019 in Tulsa are in charge, UB will play South Carolina - Upstate.

UB hosts Monmouth 3/21 6pm. A HOME GAME!!!

Beat Monmouth and Duquesne awaits.