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Why is this game not sold out already?

Juniors draftees rarely achieve success in the NFL. It would behoove TJ3 to play his senior year. He could be a #1 overall pick in 2020.

7 hours ago, dutchcountry7 said:

Why do you think small?

 

Schools with an on campus stadium do better of building a culture that brings students, alumni, and the community together.  Student attendance is low for off campus stadiums.   UB needs to play games on campus.

Sure, if money were no object. Build a friggin' Taj Mahal on campus. But we all know that funds are tight and the locals who got their panties in a wad over #NYBI are not buying tickets now that the school went back to "BUFFALO."

The reason I suggest UB play at least one game a year at NEF is because that's the venue WNY football fans are used to going to, not UB Stadium. UB's last game at what was then Ralph Wilson Stadium drew 26K, which is the Bulls third largest home crowd. (FYI, the largest crowd at UB stadium, 29K, was for a Syracuse game and the place was 90% Orange fans.)

Play at NEF on weekends when school is out anyway, like Thanksgiving. Get the Bills to offer an inexpensive ticket add-on to Bills season ticket holders. I'll bet you'd get 40K or more. This season is raising awareness each week. It's a real shame they couldn't play BGSU at home at NEF at the end of the year.

8 hours ago, dutchcountry7 said:

Lesson Learned...

 

 

Orlando Sentienel: UCF eager to be embraced as Orlando’s hometown team

" UCF athletics director Danny White is planting the Knights’ flag firmly throughout the Orlando metro area.

The Knights unveiled a new initiative Tuesday with a familiar theme, touting UCF as Orlando’s hometown team.

“We believe that we very much should be known as Orlando’s hometown team,” White said.

 

 

The difference between UCF and UB is in Florida there are two massive, popular, well-entrenched public universities with huge followings statewide for their teams. There it makes more sense to look inward to Orlando. In New York state, there are ZERO such institutions. Did you not realize this or were you just ignoring the fact since it weakens your argument?

On 9/20/2018 at 4:37 PM, bull_trojan said:

Quick looks since 2006 (based on today's conference affiliation).

American 13 (6 home)
ACC 7 (2 home)
B1G 7 (0 home)
Army 5 (3 home)
Big XII 4 (2 home)
SEC 4 (all away)

Gotta fix that stadium before we start inviting real teams to play...

...or play them at New Era.

On 9/21/2018 at 11:29 AM, dutchcountry7 said:

I have no problem with people moving on.  

It is just annoying when they keep brining up the past and citing one person as if they were our savior.  I don't believe it.

 

And for that we are thankful.

The NYBI was horrible.  Not only was it a bust but calling it by it's internal marketing memo name in tweets made no sense.  #NYBI was literally telling people that the marketing department is pushing an initiative to try to get people to start calling the Bulls New York's team.

It was horrible and a failure.  

The failure of #NYBI was the parochial attitude of some local people, led by Bob DiCesare and Bucky Gleason at the Buffalo News. White wanted to grow UB's brand statewide. But the local pity committee was too busy looking for insult. Think small, be small.

We all want the U@Buffalo to grow and be successful. But we fight every attempt at growth because it involves looking outside our fear bubble.

The same locals who bemoaned #NYBI are the same people ignoring the school in it's success. Not buying tickets. Not donating. 

It's pretty narrow thinking to believe that coaches and administrators come here to stay here. UB, as well as about 80-90 other schools, are stepping stones. Hiring good people means they will leave in a few years.

The trick is to play the game to your benefit: Getting fat buyouts, keeping the pipeline filled with strong candidates.

I don't blame White one bit for leaving. It had to be frustrating dealing with the local mentality. But you can't deny that White set the athletic department in it's upward trajectory.

7 hours ago, SGBull said:

What is the best way to get tickets for this game? I am considering making the trip down but won't know until Thursday/Friday. Hoping to be in the UB section if I do make the trip down. 

Rutgers never sells out. In fact you'll probably find people willing to give you a freebie, or at least heavily discounted ticket in the parking lot.

I am pumping this game over at Two Bills Drive. Anyone coming to town for the Bills opener should make this game too. There's real interest in the Bills there. They may well be the best football team in WNY.

On 9/5/2018 at 10:32 AM, mh55 said:

Pretty quiet here. Why do I get the feeling UB fans have the same quesy feeling as our troops when they boarded ships for Operation Overlord ? Did you know the Allies brought some 30,000 stretchers to Normandy with them ? How many will be on hand for Bull players ???

 

Ha, I was going to say the same about you. You don't seem to be the type to run and hide after talking smack and getting slapped down. Or maybe I figured you wrong?  We all talk. That's half the fun. But someone with integrity would own up after the game. #TempleFluff

Hope so. He cost us a bowl bid last year.

mh55: crickets.  So much for his predictions. I guess we won't hear from him for a year now.

On 9/4/2018 at 12:45 PM, mh55 said:

I do not troll, I educate. The uneducated are closed minded, won’t listen to reason and likely remain in the rust belt, sometimes for generations. Information to them, is trolling.

Temple will drub Buffalo.

...says the troll.

10 hours ago, mh55 said:

Pretty quiet here. Why do I get the feeling UB fans have the same quesy feeling as our troops when they boarded ships for Operation Overlord ? Did you know the Allies brought some 30,000 stretchers to Normandy with them ? How many will be on hand for Bull players ???

 

Beat Villanova first, then talk smack. 

While the Del.St. offense was pitiful, their defense wasn't that bad. 

48-10 win against a feeble FCS opponent. That's fine. You play who your play and you're supposed to dominate, and we did. We're on to Temple.

2 hours ago, bull_trojan said:

Looks like a Temple win won't do much for our SOS.

Ok the plus side, mh55 won't be trolling us. He probably under a Schuylkill overpass in the fetal position sucking his thumb.