YoloinOhio Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 (edited) It’s a terrible job Edited December 13, 2020 by YoloinOhio 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Damn! I was not expecting this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 When names are thrown around are they based on actual contacts or just media spitballing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted December 13, 2020 Author Share Posted December 13, 2020 11 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said: When names are thrown around are they based on actual contacts or just media spitballing? Usually the latter but Thamel is extremely dialed in 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Zero chance lance leaves for illinois Zero. If you've ever spent time around the guy, you know that he's committed to building UB And his job's not done 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 27 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said: Zero chance lance leaves for illinois Zero. If you've ever spent time around the guy, you know that he's committed to building UB And his job's not done Also, why would he want to leave for Illinois? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 3 minutes ago, Mark Vader said: Also, why would he want to leave for Illinois? Exactly. It's not like Michigan's calling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 4 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said: Exactly. It's not like Michigan's calling Jocularity....Jocularity. Yeah, I just knew this was coming at me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locomark Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Please no. Not only is Lance great for UB, but my wife is a Illini fan and their program is awful. He won’t succeed there because they are the last place anyone wants to play. When an ex NFL head coach can’t recruit why would a guy from a relative no name school do better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) On 12/13/2020 at 9:36 PM, Locomark said: Please no. Not only is Lance great for UB, but my wife is a Illini fan and their program is awful. He won’t succeed there because they are the last place anyone wants to play. When an ex NFL head coach can’t recruit why would a guy from a relative no name school do better? Contrary to popular belief, recruiting isn't about getting the biggest HS names , maybe for Alabama or Ohio State It's about developing your talents. UB on paper, has had one of the worst recruiting classes in the country for the last 5 years. A good recruiting class is maybe 90th or 100th in the country for them Their roster is loaded with two star players, no star players, and a few three star guys. Nobody wanted to come to UB either for the past 20 years It's about finding diamonds in the rough and developing talent. Illinois isn't good at football because they're a basketball school for the most part. They just don't care enough about football UB has been trying for football for 20 years, and it finally pays off. But they're still at the bottom of Mac recruiting usually(except this incoming class), they just developed talent better than any other Mac School Illinois has to become better at developing their talent Edited December 15, 2020 by Buffalo716 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 23 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said: Contrary to popular belief, recruiting isn't about getting the biggest HS names , maybe for Alabama or Ohio State It's about developing your talents. UB on paper, has had one of the worst recruiting classes in the country for the last 5 years. A good recruiting class is maybe 90th or 100th in the country for them Their roster is loaded with two star players, no star players, and a few three star guys. Nobody wanted to come to UB either for the past 20 years It's about finding diamonds in the rough and developing talent. Illinois isn't good at football because they're a basketball school for the most part. They just don't care enough about football UB has been trying for football for 20 years, and it finally pays off. But they're still at the bottom of Mac recruiting, they just developed talent better than any other Mac School Illinois has to become better at developing their talent I don'[t follow college ball that closely. Is there a reason why Illinois is so bad, other than they've always been bad? I mean big school, major conference, seem to spend on coaches. I assume facilities are at par. So why always sucky? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave mcbride Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) On 12/13/2020 at 12:20 PM, YoloinOhio said: It’s a terrible job Why is it such a terrible program? I mean, they are a major state university (with a top-five engineering school and a top-five computer science school at the graduate level) that's been in a top conference forever, and the program is truly ancient, going back to the 1890s. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/illinois/. I can't quite figure it out. They're the most populous state in the midwest too, and it's a state with a great football culture (i.e., the Bears). Edited December 14, 2020 by dave mcbride Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said: I don'[t follow college ball that closely. Is there a reason why Illinois is so bad, other than they've always been bad? I mean big school, major conference, seem to spend on coaches. I assume facilities are at par. So why always sucky? Like I said it's more of a basketball school historically. Sometimes schools have to make a choice, what sport they value There's a reason why UCLA is a basketball school, when they are in a hotbed for football recruiting. They just can't compete with USC in football Illinois just can't compete with Ohio State and Michigan, and Iowa in football because they just can't recruit at that level. But they can in basketball. And they have never learned how to recruit at a lower level, while developing their talent at a higher rate like UB does or TCU or Boise State a decade ago Some schools, are phenomenal developers of talent. Khalil Mack was around 215 lbs stepping on campus. A very undersized linebacker. Tyree Jackson was 6'1 200 lbs. He left a 6'7 240 pound monster. Jarrett Patterson , undersized and underrecruited.. now he will be in the NFL because UB developed him And UB built Khalil and Tyree and all their guys from the ground up. Some schools recruit talent, some develop it Edited December 15, 2020 by Buffalo716 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dkollidas Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 My question for those who pay more attention to the NCAA is this: Can UB, with Leopoldo at the helm, but in the MAC, become a consistent top-25 to top-30 team? If that’s possible, Could it become a program that could then possibly get into the Big East or ACC or something like that. Women’s Basketball is a great program. Men’s basketball is also becoming a great program. If the football program can do the same, shouldn’t they get power 5 consideration? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 4 hours ago, Dkollidas said: My question for those who pay more attention to the NCAA is this: Can UB, with Leopoldo at the helm, but in the MAC, become a consistent top-25 to top-30 team? If that’s possible, Could it become a program that could then possibly get into the Big East or ACC or something like that. Women’s Basketball is a great program. Men’s basketball is also becoming a great program. If the football program can do the same, shouldn’t they get power 5 consideration? Right now UB lacks the budget and facilities to compete at a higher level, though they make progress. They just opened an indoor football fieldhouse this year. I know basketball has been complaining they don't have a dedicated practice facility. Another thing holding them back is the SUNY system itself. They have limits on what coaches can earn. That would have to change. But since going to D1 in all sports they have made progress. Making the NCAA tournament or the top 25 was a pipe dream 15 years ago. Now look at us. And the fan base and donor base has grown. Still not big compared to P5 schools but growing. UB is trapped between two worlds. It's a big fish in the MAC but would be small potatoes in, say, the Big Ten. For a state flagship university it's smallish (31,000 students) because SUNY has 64 campuses, so students get spread around. When the AAC had UCONN drop out, many said UB would be a natural replacement. One northeast school for another. But joining a larger conference means increased travel and expenses, though revenue should increase too. The AAC has been cool so far to replacing UCONN, and the pandemic has messed everything up. But eventually there will be another conference shuffle. And that's when UB might make a move. Right now, even being in the MAC, they have a good rep for being a program where an up-and-coming coach can succeed and move up. Sucks that coaches and AD's move on, but they have been fortunate that replacements have been solid. Let's see where we are in 2030. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 On 12/14/2020 at 4:29 PM, Buffalo716 said: Tyree Jackson was 6'1 200 lbs. He left a 6'7 240 pound monster. Gained 40 lbs. of muscle, I can see that. Grew 6"?! I thought only dungeonmasters used 'The Rack'!! 😳 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted December 19, 2020 Author Share Posted December 19, 2020 Bert!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) I wonder if last night tipped it away from Leipold? Edited December 19, 2020 by PromoTheRobot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not at the table Karlos Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 6 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said: I wonder if left night tipped it away from Leipold? I was wondering the same thing. I did not like many of his decisions. We should have won that game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted December 19, 2020 Author Share Posted December 19, 2020 1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said: I wonder if left night tipped it away from Leipold? Possibly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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