Buff Bites - 3/12/09 - The Ralphie Report

Buff Bites - 3/12/09

by Jon Woods on Mar 12, 2009 11:18 AM MDT in Daily Buff Links Comment 6 comments

As we wrote yesterday, the 2009 Buffalo basketball season came to a quick and merciful ending on Wednesday as the Buffs fell to the Texas Longhorns 67-56 in Oklahoma City. This offseason will be an important one for Coach Bzdelik, in the same vein that this summer is for Coach Hawkins, as the program MUST show discernible progress next year or serious questions will have to be asked.

The Buffs may be done, but if you are any kind of college basketball fan you should continue to stay follow this years Big 12 Tournament as it promises to bring plenty more thrilling finishes and great performances (as we saw last night from Tech). The Big 12 Twitter feed is doing a great job of following the action live and is it great way to keep you busy at work these next two days.

As I type this it looks like another CU sport will have it's season end today as the women are down to Kansas State 36-17 at the half. Here is BuffZone's game preview if you feel like going back in time and holding on to some optimism.

The Wiz of Odds takes a look at the mysterious situation surrounding the 2009 game at Miami of Ohio. This mess is getting old really quickly and I wish Miami would get their heads out of their asses so that we could move on. Has the Mac REALLY not released their conference schedule yet? What are they waiting on?

As NebraksaSux mentioned yesterday, Austin Hinder was named to the inaugural 2010 Rivals 100 list, making the cut at #76. Expect a lot of movement with this list as the year progresses and more and more film and games can be analyzed. There is a ton of interest in Hinder and you can expect Coach Hawkins to have an uphill battle if he hopes to continue his streak of landing the state's best talent.

Yesterday's ski team action was cancelled due to bad weather conditions at Sunday River. You can read a good preview of the action from Doug here.

Irish and I are going to make sure that we make the Buff Bites a daily occurance Monday through Friday but we need some input from you. Check out the poll below and let us know how we can best bring you the best CU info the web has to offer.

For your time here's a great jam to get you through the day.

Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

Poll

When would you like your daily Buff links delivered?

Around 9AM (Realizing that most of the links will be from the day before)

24 votes

Around 2PM (Waiting awhile so that we can give you some of the stories that have come up from the current day)

38 votes

I usually don't read the Buff Bites

0 votes

62 votes | Poll has closed

0 recs | Comment 6 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Miami (OH)

At this point I would almost rather scrap the game and the Buffs pick up a home game with a team that ESPN will still agree to broadcast. Off the top of my head, I have to think a team in Texas or Cali has a open spot. Maybe someone can swap their games to get a home and home with the Buffs…..

I dont see what benefit playing a MAC team has for us….. Except obvious pay from ESPN….

A game a against a WAC or Mountain West opponent could also help recruiting. Arizona and Utah have been really strong states in recent years for kids coming out.

There are so many schools that would jump to play us, I wish Bohn would just announce that we will entertain all offers for Sept. 12th. I am sure ESPN would honor the telecast as long as it was a good matchup

by DABUFFS50 on Mar 12, 2009 1:03 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

as nice as that would be (home game, ESPN, Texas or Cali team)

that is WAY easier said than done. Hasn’t Bohn said that it’s about 99% sure that we will either play Miami OH or (much more likely) another MAC team on the road. No good, interesting teams that ESPN would even consider televising are going to come to Boulder and he doesn’t want to schedule another FCS team (I think he said no home games period, because season ticket sales have been on sale forever and that would screw everything up). Don’t underestimate the importance of the pay and exposure of an ESPN broadcast. We would rather play a road game against a sketchy MAC team on ESPN then a home game with no TV.

Oh, and I don’t THINK that was me with the Hinder news. It’s a honor to be mentioned, but I don’t want to take credit for something I didn’t say :-)

by nebraskasux on Mar 12, 2009 2:25 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs