On Football Bowls and UB's National Standing
Robby Johnson [11:49]
CBS sports has 6 5-7 teams making a bowl....wow
That one has us in the cactus bowl vs. Arizona
Conrad [11:54]
Anywhere but Detroit and Boise
Robby Johnson [11:55]
That one would be in Tempe
Conrad [11:56]
Which would work well for me it's close and there is a teds
David Brand [11:56]
For Buffalo fans to travel it has to be on the south east coast
Robby Johnson [11:56]
Detroit would be good for me, I could just cut right through Canada
David Brand [11:57]
that is why Toronto was great
Matt [11:57]
Don't see why we won't go Bahamas or Camellia
Matt [11:57]
CMU got bahamas at 6-6 last year
and there were only like 3000 people in the building so it's not like they care about attendance
Robby Johnson [11:57]
I've only seen one projection that had us in a MAC bowl
I'd prefer one of those
Matt [11:58]
that's strange to me, because doesn't the MAC now have 5 tie ins plus some others?
I guess we're still only 4-4, but I can see us finishing with the 5th best record in the conference
Robby Johnson [11:59]
I think it's just the 5. All the projections have us replacing the Big 12, B1G, and ACC
Matt [12:03]
I don't think there's any order other than GoDaddy now though
Robby Johnson [12:03]
Yeah, the MAC assigns how they want from there
Probably based on who they think can win against certain teams
Matt [12:05]
well given the conference's terrible bowl record, that ain't working
Robby Johnson [12:06]
I don't understand how it's like that because the Bahamas, and Camellia, and Potato should be very winnable.
Conrad [12:09]
The MAC would be delusional about who which team can beat
Robby Johnson [12:15]
I feel like the MAC would be delusional enough to make a case for Miami to make a bowl
Tim [12:16]
The MAC has a backup in the quick lane and a few others. [ed. note: St Petersburg, Foster Farms, Birmingham]
Matt [12:17]
I'm putting together a projections post now
Tim [12:17]
I might favor Detroit over the other MAC Bowls... 1 - Better opponent (I'd rather lose to VaTech than be beaten by a belt team) 2 - Close enough to get 22k to the game 3 - Direct flights from MSP to DET are pretty cheap
Actually the Bowls get picks not the conference, right? I mean I am sure there is some back and forth.
Robby Johnson [12:19]
I would love Detroit. If it's a game in the south or west, I wouldn't be able to go
Considering I might make it to the Duke game for Basketball
I think the Bowls get a say as well. They get the most say when they have to replace a spot
Conrad [12:42]
Detroit wouldn't be too bad for me I can RT to Toronto for less than 600
See home for a bit but if it's a 4 figure vacation I can think of way better places than Detroit in December
Robby Johnson [12:43]
Detroit definitely isn't the vacation destination
On Retweets
Matt [12:47]
TFW LL Cool Coach RTs our FanShot rather than UBAthletics' earlier tweet of the same news
Robby Johnson [13:04]
LL Cool Coach knows where it's at
On MAC East POW, Rankings and Nevada
Tim [13:06]
How did Licata get POW (or was that east division)
Robby Johnson [13:06]
It's East Division
We have to remember that most teams were on a bye
So there weren't too many incredible performances
Tim [13:07]
yea as I typed that I remembered the other options from the east were UMass and Akron
Robby Johnson [13:07]
yeah lol
Conrad [13:19]
nationally ranked below Akron tho that hurts
Conrad [13:19]
we beat Ohio, Ohio falls like 20 spots, UB stays put
Robby Johnson [13:22]
Yeah, I thought that was unfair
If only we had that win against Penn State
Conrad [14:28]
I think Nevada hurts
every other loss is a good loss
Close losses to Top 40 BGSU and @ Penn St
big loss to top 60 @CMU
but Nevada that lost to UNLV is sticking out
Robby Johnson [14:28]
Yeah, Nevada is an eyesore
Conrad [14:28]
as a baddd badd loss
Robby Johnson [14:29]
We were on our way to winning that game. We were gaining momentum and Joe throws an INT
Conrad [14:39]
really the Licata-JJ fumble was the killer
that's the unforced error
high pass on the deep slant with pressure in the face
bad, but excusable
Robby Johnson [14:39]
Yeah, I forgot about that
Conrad [14:39]
we don't fumble that I'm sure we waltz in the end zone in a few
really the 95 yard run was the killer
we stop them at their own 5
they punt we score
they had no other offense than those two long runs
Robby Johnson [14:40]
That too, our run defense was really crappy at that time
Conrad [14:40]
and still on a per drop back basis Licata's best game this year
On Basketball Recruiting
Matt [16:08]
it hasn't even been 19 hours since "making my college decision soon"
jeez. for a guy [Brock Bertram] who's been on the radar for three years, soon could be thanksgiving
Robby Johnson [16:09]
lol
I would rather him commit before the early signing period
Matt [16:10]
yes
Robby Johnson [16:10]
Before a top team swoops him away
That, and Oats can already get started on recruiting the next class full time
Matt [16:11]
I was reading the Miami board just now. They're already up to four in this class and are talking about roster balance. They're of course talking just to talk, but
Robby Johnson [16:11]
They do have a decent class
Matt [18:48]
WE GOT HIM
WE VOT HIM IM ON MY PHONE
John McWhinnie [18:53]
I JUST GOT THE NOTIFICATION
ON IT
That just made my day
Robby Johnson [18:54]
YESSSSSSSS
Matt [18:55]
Three top 50 players at their positions nationally
Robby Johnson [18:56]
I'm speechless. Our Basketball program is going places
Tim [19:04]
NICE! Now I still go watch a game
Drew Gaczewski [19:08]
GOOD WORK TEAM
THIS WOULDNT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT US [tongue in cheek. I feel I have to say explicitly that this was tongue in cheek]
Robby Johnson [19:09]
WHOOP WHOOP
Matt [19:22]
Twitter is not reacting like I thought it would
Robby Johnson [19:22]
I feel like if he did it earlier in the day it would be better
Matt [21:15]
The Facebook post got big quickly. I'm enjoying apple puns. Gaughan RTd our post
Robby Johnson [21:17]
I think the apple puns are perfect. #TheBigApple
Tim [21:21]
247 has UB as the 1st ranked mac team and 74th in the nation but not a lot of data on their site
Matt [21:25]
Yea 247 isn't great for midmajor hoops. It's a stunningly good class
Gotta get to the 11th
Robby Johnson [21:26]
This should definitely be the #1 MAC class this year
Matt [21:28]
We've always gotten two stars where the selling point was video rather than ratings and other offers, I don't really follow rest of the MAC as much
Robby Johnson [21:30]
The MAC is mostly 2 star recruits.
Matt [21:34]
I know Zeke Marshall was a 4. Daddy's princess was a high three and so was Xavier Silas
Toledo's seniors last year and this year were considered strong classes
Robby Johnson [21:40]
Yeah, Toledo's was strong. If you take a look at CMU, all of their seniors are two stars and that is a pretty good class. Having a majority 3 star class is going to do wonders for us
Matt [22:07]
part of me wants to nickname the whole class
jay, q, jayjay, and the big apple
but I feel like that's too much. nicknames are fragile
Robby Johnson [22:08]
I think jay and jayjay are pushing it
Q is good though
Drew Gaczewski [23:23]
earthquate
thats bad, but idc
Tim [23:24]
I'd not use that as a nick name but I would have a meme ready to go..
Matt [23:25]
yea what Tim said
and like I said, they're fragile
Robby Johnson [23:25]
I agree as well lol
Drew Gaczewski [23:26]
the Equate-or
lets see how many awful ones i can conjure up
already used, but Quater Oats
On Basketball Scheduling
Robby Johnson [14:57]
Duke and Iowa State are 5 and 7 in the polls. ODU got 3 votes and CMU had a vote
Keno Davis says he thinks the MAC is getting multiple bids this year
And I disagree with that
Tim [15:13]
The question would be "What team will be worthy of an at large which would then lose the MACC?"
Robby Johnson [15:15]
I could see CMU getting an at-large, they're definitely the favorites. They return their top 9 scorers. They have a weak non-con schedule though.
Besides them, I don't think any other team is capable
3 of their non conference games are against non-Division One opponents
Matt [15:18]
same formulas as last year. they need to go 15-3 in conference to have a chance at at large with their noncon
Conrad [15:21]
think we would have gotten votes had we kept the band together?
Matt [15:21]
yes
Robby Johnson [15:21]
I'd rather have half easy games, half hard games. That's really what our schedule is like.
Matt [15:21]
if cmu got one
Robby Johnson [15:21]
And we would've had votes
We were returning a team that could possibly upset Iowa State
Robby Johnson [15:25]
Toledo and CMU have the worst schedules. They're definitely going for that 28 win mindset
It backfired on Murray State
Matt [15:26]
murray state would have been screwed either way
what do they do differently?
schedule one good team hope to win? if they lose they're in the same boat
schedule 3? if they don't win at least one they're in a worse boat
Robby Johnson [15:28]
They played Valpo and Xavier. Lost to both of them
CMU only has BYU
Toldeo's best game is Youngstown state
On Olympic Sports
John McWhinnie [16:13]
SO MUCH WINNING TODAY
Tim [17:51]
Wow great weekend for UB as a whole... vball loses but gets the help they needed and Soccer / Wrestling get it done.
Am I reading that right... Ball State lost?
John McWhinnie [17:54]
They did
Tim [17:56]
wow... So we went from what 1/5 to 1/3 you think?
Matt [17:56]
WMU has to be the favorite now that they're hosting
I'd say winner of WMU/UB has to be 65% favorite
if it's WMU 70%
Thing is, Akron could upset Miami with the exact same formula
because Miami is Ball State lite
I can't give us greater than 25% odds right now with WMU in the fold, because they're the favorite
I think before today I'd've put Ball State at 20%, UB and WMU at 35% between them, and then Kent and Miami taking 25 between them. 20 for the other three
now I'd say WMU 40, Buffalo 35, Miami 20+, Akron 5-
so yea 1/3 but WMU-Buffalo is kind of the championship match
Tim [18:03]
if we do win it all do you think Burke is gone?
Matt [18:03]
no
I think Burke is here for Dougall's career at a minimum
plus this is his area. He's not a traveling coach.
I've talked to him in person a few times. He really is someone who wants to build something great. And I want to see him pass Jean-A. Tassy's marks
Robby Johnson [18:14]
I like loyal coaches
It's good to see that there are people who want to build powerhouses
Matt [18:15]
He was an assistant here for long enough under [Michael] Thomas that I think of he were going to leave it'd be him at Green Bay this year and not his former assistant
On Fatheads
Robby Johnson [19:56]
In the process of ordering a fat head of this
It's only $35. It will be worth it
I can't believe I didn't think of this