promotherobot

What about the owners of New Era? Rich Products?

They should, if only to boost UB basketball into a draw for their arena.

I live near Manchester NH but I'm not missing the UB/SU men's game. Any other day I'd be in Hanover.

WGR better be talking UB/Syracuse leading up to Tuesday. You know you can always call or tweet WGR to get the hosts to talk about the game. You have the power to drive the conversation. I just got the ball rolling. Feel free to chime in.

Get Ch.2 to show the game on local TV.

Buffalo is a Sabres town after the Bills are done. But Buffalo hasn't been a college football town ever or a basketball town since Bob Lanier and Calvin Murphy. You can't expect minds to change overnight. Trust me, even though interest level is not comparable to the Bills or Sabres yet, UB is enjoying it's highest awareness ever in WNY right now. TV ratings for UB games are good. Fans watch games in bars like 716. It's gotta build some more. I hope the school can give Nate Oats another bump in contract and get more locals to buy tickets and/or make contributions to the B&W Fund. Another idea I had was maybe playing a game in Toronto? Might be enough of a carrot to get a marquee opponent.

#16 for sure. #15 maybe.

Nope. From Ticketmaster. Is UB selling tickets?

Only a couple of single reserved seats left. Then some GA. I got mine just now. Never seen a game at Koessler.

How much are you paying us? After all the Bonnies play in the vaunted A-10. We're just a lowly MAC team.

It's hard for me to answer. Like you said, we are sort of an oddball. We have the academic stature of a major state university with a flimsy athletic tradition.

As a conference I think we fit in the American quite well.

This is actually a good sign. It means people are buying in and getting emotionally invested in UB. What stings for me is this season was the best chance we had to go undefeated. A chance to be ranked and go to a prestige bowl game. It's still a great season but it could have been magical. Even with 10 wins we underachieved.

That was probably the toughest game UB played so far, save maybe for WVU. Lucky we came out on top.

I don't get how football affects basketball. Both teams are doing pretty well, aren't they? Joining the A10 is not a solution. In fact it's even worse than UB in the MAC. UB doesn't fit with all the tiny private schools of the A10. Really, as an institution, we belong in the B1G Ten, but that ain't happening. So the AAC is the next best thing.

I would much prefer that to Boise or Mobile.

Just checked into the Doubletree. About to walk over to the Detroit Beer Co. Seen some fans around town already.

Me + 1. See you around 3:30

Is that an official gathering spot?

Unfortunately I bought tickets a few weeks ago, anticipating our being MAC East champs.

Where is Syracuse?

I'm vacationing in Nassau this week. I just missed the "Battle for Atlantis" tournament. The idea is to get fans to travel. Never been to Belfast but I'm going to assume Maui and Nassau are nicer.

I'm glad we have both.

We aren't going to be ranked even if we beat NIU, and maybe not even with a bowl victory, unless it's a ranked opponent.

Me and a buddy