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Buffalo Bulls Football / Re: A Road Trip the Players and Fans Would Like...
« on: April 20, 2018, 12:51:25 PM »Brook, I'm thinking the equipment staff would need help with this one. I'm in.
YOu can't be any worse than Kent's crew...
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Brook, I'm thinking the equipment staff would need help with this one. I'm in.
Unfortunately you never can be 100%sure when it's going to snow in wny. Maybe they could do an early season OOC game? I bet Terry Pegula could coax Penn State to play.
I watched on TV and thought it was a better looking crowd than the alleged 4,000 (more like 400) that a late season game at UB Stadium draws.Define empty. UB drew 26,226 at that game.Were you there?
That must be the number of tickets sold/given away. Full capacity is nearly 72,000. Upper bowl was closed. Lower bowl North (sunny) side was full. Lower Bowl South (shade) side was nearly empty. Endzones were empty.
I was sitting nearly by myself on the south side because I was too lazy to move to the sunny side.
I'll take 26K in a 72K stadium over 4K in 30K stadium.
Could not read the article because it is behind a pay wall.
However, my understanding is that money is paid out per game played which is really given to the conferences and split among the schools. I also believe the further you go the more money is paid in the later rounds. That is why the PAC12 is upset this year. Only three games played. Not sure of the schools that earn the money get a higher percentage.
More money could be coming in on the wome's side with at least six games being played.
I had a mild beef with UBBullRun when they were really lagging in women's basketball coverage. I get that it's all volunteer and sometimes there aren't enough of them, but to not even have a game thread for women's games?
It's not mobile friendly in the least.
I create a lot of the posts anyways. Most of the guys at UBBullRun are annoyed with me anyways. They are more satisfied with effort/status quo and not with development and advancement of the fan base to deserve more out of their team/coaches/school.
Houston, Wichita St, Tulane, SMU, Memphis, Tulsa...Navy only Football. Buffalo doesn't fit. Maybe UB doesn't fit anywhere too well. Still think the MAC, with all its warts, is the best available match.I don't think that UB belongs in the AAC for many reasons, primarily the geographic disconnect. As long as they're committed to football, the MAC is the only realistic conference. It would be nice to fantasize about the Big 10, but that's never going to happen. The A10 is strictly basketball (with some lower level football). The Big East doesn't fit either. The MAC isn't that bad actually.
Wait the American, with Buffalo, would have
Buffalo, UConn, Navy, Temple, Cincy, USF, UCF, and East Carolina... That is not "geographic disconnect" that is a map of where our alumni base lives... It's a far better conference in those terms for football / hoops than the MAC. I imagine flying charter to Orlando is not a whole lot more expensive than flying charter to Kalamazoo or Mount Pleasant...
Now where it would kill us would be the non revenue sports. And in that it might not be worth the move from a financial standpoint.
But when you throw in NCAA units and better TV contract it could work.
But until we own the MAC in one sport and play well nationally in that sport we won't be considered.
I don't think that UB belongs in the AAC for many reasons, primarily the geographic disconnect. As long as they're committed to football, the MAC is the only realistic conference. It would be nice to fantasize about the Big 10, but that's never going to happen. The A10 is strictly basketball (with some lower level football). The Big East doesn't fit either. The MAC isn't that bad actually.
Football Attendance 16,13,16,15,12,18 -> That's not a strong positive trend, that's one decent-ish year. Further if you look at that year the Season opener against Stony Brook drew 21K, the other games were meh....
Yes, if you go outside of those three years to add more data, you will find it is cyclical. Which is my point. White rode a cycle where the program was up.
The 2014 season saw an uptick in attendance because the Bulls were coming off their second ever bowl game.
Football
2006 16,417
2007 13,568
2008 16,924
Year | White? | basketball | football | Contributions
2009 10 | Before | 1,977 | 15,960 | $308,429
2010 11 | Before | 2,039 | 12,980 | $731,269
2011 12 | Before | 3,073 | 18,020 | $384,436
2012 13 | Durring | 3,093 | 13,242 | $1,320,953
2013 14 | Durring | 3,486 | 22,736 | $384,436
2014 15 | Durring | 3,639 | 20,403 | $600,252
2015 16 | After | 3,243 | 18,457 | $1,058,460
2016 17 | After | 3,791 | 17,493 | $1,913,487
2017 18 | After | 2,256 | 13,350 | TBD
Highest attendance for each three year period marked in bold.
White did not excel at Buffalo. Buffalo excelled in a window that happened to fit in with the time White happened to be stopping by.
The attendance was already trending upward before White arrived.