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Thanks guys! http://www.ubbullrun.com/2013/10/26/503052...uffalo-and-hate

UB is very light on "hatred" for other teams. We are too new, and too much of an outlier in the conference. So at Bull Run we have been asking opposing fan bases why a team is "hateable". ZipsNation is one of the best voices out there for Akron Fans and nobody hates Can't like Akron.. So tell me, why should I hate them like you hate them?

http://www.ubbullrun.com/2011/11/18/257121...-got-here-akron So here we are again... A late season epic pillow fight between the only two teams not names Ohio or Miami who won the MAC East this past decade. Last season it was a week 13 trip to a winless Akron that showed us just how far UB had fallen. The Zips were in the lead throught the game and only some spectacular work by Alex Neutz (you know the guy who's out for the season with a wrist injury) kept the Bulls in the game. This year, for both teams, has went about the same. Sure UB beat the MAC East champs this year and all the zips have to hang their hat on is a win over VMI but the Bulls play, in general, is declining over the early part of the season. Akron had been showing some improvement throughout the year, coming just a missed two point conversion away from beating Central Michigan, but these past to weeks they have hit a road block. Getting stomped by Miami and losing the Wagon Wheel to Can't. With game like this, and with teams like these, you never really know what to expect. UB has been a far better team at home than on the road. Akron, despite being winless beat the Bulls last season. The only real known about this game is that the loser, if they survive the off season, will start 2012 with the shortest leash in college football. Akron Game results and Animated Drive Charts on Bull Run

Ill add my congrats to this... Two tourney's in three years... Very nice!

Only Buffalo could get just one conference win the year after changing coaches... Oh, nevermind...

What you skipped out on this to watch the Alabama/Auburn Game

But you really outplayed us, Congrats on getting off the schnide this year... Lets do this again next season with two winning records shall we?

FYI: I did a blog swap with Mike Rasor over on Bull Run.. http://www.ubbullrun.com/2010/11/24/183364...sor-on-the-zips Let's just hope this is the last pillow fight these two teams have for some years... Onto better things for both programs .. .. After we beat you..

You do realize that no team in the MAC 'Makes $' with their program. This new body would basically be the BCS big six conferences. Not only would this screw over football but also basketball. It would take the top 60 or so programs, by conference, and lock them in. At that poind the Mid Majors all become defacto FCS programs... It's a good idea for ESPN and the BCS, it screws everyone else..

Hope you guys don't mind me chiming in, I'm not here to kick you when your down as a Bills fan during the SB years I know what it's like to have Kicker Woes. I also watched the Bulls lose more than a few games over the past two years because of a FG miss. Coach I had a kicker lined up in the off season and declined to offer him a scholarship, he walked on at another MAC school where he is red shirting this season. For some reason Coaches don't like to keep two kickers on scholly, UB included, which is a mistake. When Buffalo has ahd kicking (and punting woes) in the past they have looked at Buff State (DII) and ECC (Local Community college)... Usually you can pull away their kickers with just the offer of a walk-on... Has Akron done this in the past?

Hope you don't mind the shameless self promotion... I am doing a conference rundown and reached Akron this week: http://www.ubbullrun.com/2010/06/mac-kicko...n-11-akron.html

Only place the flushes will be going bowling is Can't Lanes. It's interesting that she calls Toledo the biggest disappointment last year. No one expected them to be a contender but a few outliers. I think they were exactly as expected, worth a win here and there, but not up to winning consistently. On the other hand, I was really expecting K-ent State to win it all. Cough, cough. Hmmm the way I read her statement was that after the hot start the fizzle was disappointing...

Only place the flushes will be going bowling is Can't Lanes. My first reaction to Can't was a chuckle but when I looked at it more closely I have to agree Can't really should make a bowl game this year http://www.ubbullrun.com/2010/05/way-way-t...-mac-teams.html Graham Watson at ESPN breaks down the teams as follows Bank on it: Temple, NIU, Ohio, Can't Most Likely: Toledo Outside Shot: CMU, WMU Better Luck Next Year: Akron, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Miami, Ball State, EMU My 'Rankings' Are: Bank on it: Temple, NIU, Can't, Toledo Most Likely: Ohio Outside Shot: CMU, Buffalo (Blue Tinted Glasses?), Bowling Green Better Luck Next Year: Akron, WMU, Miami, Ball State, EMU

Isn't that what the Zips are doing this season? It is the dream come true about to become a nightmare. UofA plays an even more difficult schedule than UB does. We play a I-AA team, they play a I-AA team. We play IU and KY on the road, they play two BCS teams on the road. We play Syracuse at home, they play UCONN at home (both Big East teams). We will go 1-3 with our ooc and they will go 1-3. I can't believe some of you who think UofA should schedule up would also complain about the schedule we play and actually think UB is better scheduling than us. 2011 and 2012 are the years that UB is playing the scheudle that some people think is foolish (3 BCS teams)

What you are leaving out is that Wake is in a strong conference... They play Teams on par with UConn and Boston College (conf game for them) for the better part of their season. So where UB/Akron have eight games in a gutter conference (by your reckoning) and two, or three against good teams Wake Forrest has 5 or 6 games against teams that have a good shot at being ranked. So yes MAC teams can settle into their mediocre conference and get other teams from other mediocre conferences to play them in the hopes of (1) being no better. Or they can try to get two, or three games a year which will boost attendance, get publicity, and give the program something to shoot for. Warde Manuel is not going the Miami route of 5 home games and taking the money, these are home and home arrangements with regionally known and followed teams (hence Army is in the mix in the future). Akron who has about the best stadium in the MAC can go the same route..

You do realize they were only an FBS starting in 2000 right? so your points wan an FCS team that moved up was a doormat from 2000-2006? 2007 5-3 conference 2008 5-3 conference 2009 3-5 conference Now UB may fall back to six years of doormat status but I really doubt it... And if they do it will have nothing to do with the fact our non-conf is hard.. It is hard to argue with numbers. I thought I was the only one having trouble understanding that. The non-conf schedule has nothing to do with MAC record. It may or it may not. Football is a game of momentum. Extremely difficult ooc schedules make it difficult for a team to gain early season momentum. Other things that impact are the number of back to back road games teams play. The Zips play back to back road games three times this coming season. That's no good. 5-3 is actually an average to below average MAC record. The league is terrible and if you have a pulse you should be able to win five games. Lastly, 5-3 is one thing, but if you go 1-3 ooc, the final record is 6-6. Nobody gets excited about a 6-6 team that gets their ass kick by BCS teams three times a year. 1) 5-3 is below average? 4-4 is the *average* MAC record in any given season (and it always will be) last year only 5 teams finished better than 4-4 with NIU being the lowest? was NIU a below average team last season? (in terms of the MAC conference). You have to go back to 2006 to find the last time the conference finished with more than five teams that did better than 4-4. 2) do you think people get excited about a seven win team that goes 5-3 in the MAC and beats Morgan State and Bugtussle U out of conference? Really?

You do realize they were only an FBS starting in 2000 right? so your point was that an FCS team that moved up was a doormat from 2000-2006? 2007 5-3 conference 2008 5-3 conference 2009 3-5 conference Now UB may fall back to six years of doormat status but I really doubt it... And if they do it will have nothing to do with the fact our non-conf is hard..

Well Pitt and UConn will be games where UB sells 20K+ seats. That kind of attendance is nice and this is where Manual has been trying to drive the program (Back in the day we used to have only five home games and that was because UB had to trade 3-1's to get anyone to come to Amherst (Rutgers/Syracuse) The only thing that UB football is lacking at this point is community interest, if they can drive that up then the program can continue to move up and you generate that by playing regionally big names. Would you rather go 2-2 in OOC games against scrubs and one good opponent or 1-3 against good teams and one scrub while driving the fans mad with boredom... If you cant win five MAC games odds are you should not be bowling (especially once the big conferences abolish the seven before six rule...

StonyBrook is a big south so I assume they ae a scholarship program..

Add to that a 4 game extension on our series with Army. Five more games from 2014-2020 three there and two at UB. Will get us more time on CBS's extended football channels for the games at Army and a nice home attendance figure for the home games... http://www.ubbullrun.com/2010/05/new-york-...ampionship.html

Most amazing thing from the article: The team lead for sacks last year was THREE. Somebody better double that this year! Nice photoshop Bull. Late night server patching, bored IT Guy and a copy of Gimp... Ive come up with a few other text that he sent that day... I HOPE TEH FANS DONT KNOW W3 R GONG 2 KEP DA 3 3 5 -- Accidentally sent to Zip's Nation C JAQ OF CMPUS YET I HAET HAVNG 2 LOK MAH DOR?!!?! OMG WTF -- Accidentally sent to the Akron Police Department O NO JUST HIT A DOG WIT MAH CAR HOPE PETA DO3S NOT FIND OUT -- Accidentally sent to Citizens for Humane Animal Practices (CHAP, Akron)

I'm a buffalo fan and the 'co-champion' title taste like Ash when it lands you in the CBI and not the NCAA. Don't get me wrong I hope that the one scenario that gets Buffalo the #1 seed actually transpires but I would have traded seasons with Akron in a New York Second last season. All the regular season is for is seeding and a lock in for the NIT. Whoever walks out of Cleveland a winner walks out with the hardware and with tickets to the dance.All that being said.... Let's Go Bulls!

I was going to stick with the sea life theme

Would that be the game that Ryan Miller of the Buffalo Sabres shut down Canada? So who from the Akron NHL club was there? I wouldn't try to talk about "akron" sports man...we got a guy named lebron, that's just an argument you can't match hahalol Well there are some people in Buffalo Named Lebron, but I suppose you mean you have a famous athlete from Akron... I guess all we have to fall back on is Orel Hershiser...Well you can always turn to Mr. Exclusive Buffalo's own Bruce Almighty?...and of course Chris and Brett's brother....Brian McKnightWhich is always some good music if you want to get ur girl "in the mood" hahahaLOL, I love it when we end up playing you guys, if for no other reason than the excuse to pop over here... G'night all..