@ UB

[danefan]

Never too early.....

 

http://www.ubfan.com/board/index.php/topic,15884.0.html

 

I have no clue yet what we'll look like, but man would I love to smack around UB. I do think Liepold will get them turned around, so this may be our best shot for a while even if we are down a bit.

[Eli]

This might be my first UAlbany FB road game. I have friends who are UB fans/alum so I'll likely go with them...would love to rub a win in their faces lol.

[sarge965]

We will be there cooking wings and beef on weck

[UAalum72]

All-time series: Albany 7, Buffalo 4

 

Last two meetings:

1987 - Albany 22, Buffalo 21

1988 - Albany 28, Buffalo 20

 

Sagarin final 2014 predictor - Buffalo -7 1/2 including the home field. Buffalo ranked #141, Albany #160

[Michigan_Dane]

The UB board makes me laugh. Someone alluded to the possibility of UB losing and he was pummeled. Now they are saying they should win by 28 to 50 points. The unadulterated gal and nonsensical comments are amazing.

 

Isn't Albany part of the CAA? Isn't the CAA the conference that sent 2 teams to the NCAA quarter finals? Hasn't CAA teams beaten not only MAC teams in the past but at least on one occasion a Big 10 team? Didn't Stony Brook play Buffalo hard in their last meeting? Didn't Albany beat Stony Brook in our last meeting?

 

The point is show some humility. Show some restraint.

 

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By the way this is exactly why Albany, Stony Brook and Buffalo should be playing each other. Rivalry! A poster on their UB board was talking about donating money to the athletics program based on sheer passion of this game. Because they are playing Albany. Does Ball State bring out the same passion? I'm prepared to cut my own check! This is why the SEC is so strong. Rivalries and short distances between schools. The SUNY D1 football schools need to be playing each other to build a passionate hatred and drive the money race.

Edited January 16, 2015 by SoCal_Dane

[bob87]

I will be going to the football game as well, hoping that it starts early in the day so I can see minor league baseball that evening.

 

Also I wouldn't mind seeing basketball play U Buffalo.

To me it has the potential to be a better rivarly than LCC . If we should beat them at home or on the road in basketball it would do a lot more for Albany's RPI in almost any year than defeating LCC does

Edited January 16, 2015 by bob87

[Underpar]

Albany, Buffalo and Stony Brook have a lot in common. Should be the basis of great rivalries. Binghamton is the odd man out for some reason.

[jalidanefan]

Albany, Buffalo and Stony Brook have a lot in common. Should be the basis of great rivalries. Binghamton is the odd man out for some reason.

Bing = No Football

[Underpar]

Apparently no basketball either. I didn't think about this until recently but 4 America East teams have hockey programs. I suspect hockey is more important than basketball at Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and UMass Lowell.

[Eli]

I'd love me some UAlbany hockey...been slowly getting into that sport. I know it'll probably never happen, but I'd buy those season tickets lol.

[Underpar]

Funding a big time hockey program would be expensive. A lot more than basketball. Besides RPI and Union have two feat D-1 programs. Probably no room for another in this area.

[UAalum72]

Apparently no basketball either. I didn't think about this until recently but 4 America East teams have hockey programs. I suspect hockey is more important than basketball at Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and UMass Lowell.

This was discussed once on the AE forum, that the problem with America East is that its primary sport (basketball) is not the primary sport at half its schools, though at the time it was Boston U and not Lowell. This along with what AE could've been if it had decided to admninister both of what became Hockey East and A-10 (now CAA) football. Edited January 19, 2015 by UAalum72

[Eli]

Funding a big time hockey program would be expensive. A lot more than basketball. Besides RPI and Union have two feat D-1 programs. Probably no room for another in this area.

 

Yeah, that's why I said it'd like never happen. I could be a Union/RPI fan...but it's just not same as rooting for your own school lol. Wishful thinking, is all.

[Underpar]

We all have our own opinions. I think hockey players are the best atheletes on the planet.

[danefan]

We all have our own opinions. I think hockey players are the best atheletes on the planet.

 

Decathlete's....but yes Hockey players are good athletes.