Posts Tagged ‘Turner Gill’

Not sure what Brent Musgerger’s track record is on this sort of thing, but The Sporting News is reporting that Musberger said Turner Gill is the leading candidate for the Kansas job during yesterday’s Big 12 football championship game.
Although some guy in Lawrence isn’t paying much attention to this and the UB Fan community is [...]

The University of Buffalo’s 2009 football season officially ended today with a 9-6 win over Kent State that really encapsulated this Bulls season. As has been the Bulls custom the past two seasons, today’s win came in a game decided by a touchdown or less; the eighth such game Buffalo played this season (they [...]

It’s really simple: Buffalo needs to run the table to finish the season with a 7-5 record, which should be enough to get them a second straight invite to the International Bowl in Toronto. With Temple running away with the MAC East, and Central Michigan doing the same in the MAC West, [...]

I like to think that I’m not big on hyperbole, exaggeration, and the false sense of urgency that a lot of sportwriters at major — and not-so major — dailies and mags traffic in. That’s why when I say that today’s homecoming scrap with Gardner-Webb is a must-win for Turner Gill’s University of Buffalo [...]

We don’t believe in moral victories at Notes From A Basketball Junkie, but only the most hard-ass and pessimistic of UB Bulls fans wouldn’t find some things to like in Saturday’s 20-13 loss to Central Michigan (4-1, 2-0) at UB Stadium. While the defeat leaves Turner Gill’s 1-4 (0-2) squad in the challenging and [...]

It’s not a must-win for UB (1-3, 0-1) today; not by a long shot. And that’s a good thing since Central Michigan (3-1, 1-0) and record-setting quarterback Dan LeFevour seem to be the class of the MAC this season. Even if the Bulls weren’t coming into this game with a three-game losing streak, [...]

Saturday’s 37-13 loss at Temple should make any Buffalo fan start to worry that this season is quickly looking like it could finish more like 4-8, 5-7 than 8-6 with a MAC title and trip to a bowl.
It isn’t quite 1997 through 2005 — aka B.T.G. — yet, but there are enough worrisome trends four [...]

James Starks busts off a 93-yard touchdown run against Miami (OH) in 2007
There’s really not too much more I can say other than that this really sucks.
While, as a proud Buffalo alum who has been reveling in the Bulls ascent to the (relative) upper reaches of big-time college football, I’m concerned about what [...]

From the get-go, I was pretty sure he wouldn’t get the Auburn gig. There was no way I ever thought those boosters, and the chickenshit administration at the deep south school for that matter, were going to accept a black football coach. Particularly when his wife happens to be white. However, and to their credit, fans, students, and the media didn’t share those views, as Gill was their choice to be the Tigers next coach. By now we know those voices weren’t heard, as Auburn hired a guy who’s Iowa State squad went 2-10 and lost 10 games in a row when he was given the keys to a program that was 13-0 a four seasons ago. With University presidents, athletic directors, and boosters again showing their unwillingness to hire a black football coach, Turner Gill re-upped with UB through 2013, effectively ensuring that he’ll back coaching the Bulls next season.

While I really would like to see Turner get the opportunity to coach some big-time ball — I think the Bills should hire him as their coach and I’m not fucking kidding — and I find the message his getting interviews but not jobs says about our society to be troubling, I’m glad he’ll be back next season. It gives me the chance to fantasize about winning back-to-back MAC championships; bowl game road trips; and, possibly, depending on how the rest of the UB basketball season goes, the possibility of the Turner Gill-coached Bulls going 12-0, wining the MAC title, and being the non-BCS school that gets invited one of the big money bowl games.

I can, but I know that UB head coach Turner Gill can’t solely because he was too overwhelmed with what his magnificently-coached squad accomplished on the pitch in Detroit tonight to provide much of a response to the questions ESPN2’s Rob Stone was throwing his way. Yet, he didn’t have to say anything at [...]

This may be primarily a basketball blog, and Pick of the Day may be a category of posts in which I routinely expose myself as knowing shit about college basketball, but that’s about to change today. Why? Because today’s Pick of the Day is all about college football.
Tonight’s MAC championship finds [...]