University at Buffalo head football coach Jeff Quinn has announced his initial signees for the 2011 recruiting class on the first day of the National Signing period.
Entering his second season, Quinn added 20 players, including every position, from 10 different states and two provinces in Canada. The class is heavy on line of scrimmage players with a total of eight linemen, five on the offensive side and three on the defensive side. The class also features three defensive backs and a pair of quarterbacks and running backs. Three recruits – Gabriel Barbe, Dillon Guy and Wyatt Cahill – enrolled at UB in January and are on campus now.
“It gives me great pride and excitement to announce this class because of the quality that I belive they will bring to UB both on and off the football field,” said Quinn. “We inked a student athlete at every position so we can balance out our recruiting. Last year we played six true freshmen and I would anticipate members of this class to contribute this fall. I want to give a tremendous amount of credit to our coaches, players, faculty and staff for their time and effort in helping us bring these talented young men to the University at Buffalo.”
The initial 2011 Buffalo football signees:
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Former Buffalo Bills great wide receiver Andre Reed joined “Coach” Sal Capaccio on his weekly Internet program “Buffalo Bills Now!” just four days before the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2011 is announced.
Reed is once again a finalist for the Hall, the 5th time he has reached this stage of the process. After surviving the first cut from 15 to 10 for the first time last year, many believe Reed will finally get his call for enshrinement Saturday night.
In this exclusive 30-minute interview, Andre discusses his chances for enshrinement, what it would mean to him, his love for the city of Buffalo and Bills fans, and then talks with Sal about the Super Bowl era Bills twenty years later, and the state of the organization right now.
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University at Buffalo head football coach Jeff Quinn has announced two new additions to his coaching staff, both with Division I head coaching experience, and both boasting resumes that have seen success at the highest levels of college football.
Quinn has hired Alex Wood as offensive coordinator and wide receiver coach as well as Don Patterson as quarterbacks coach. Both coaches have a connection to Iowa, where Wood is a 1979 graduate and Patterson spent over 20 years on Hayden Fry’s Hawkeye staff.
“It is a pleasure to welcome both Alex Wood and Don Patterson as the newest members of the UB coaching staff,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “Both had many opportunities and chose to be a part of this great University and football program at Buffalo.
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This past Saturday, January 29, 2011 brought me and many others to Lackawanna for the 4th Annual Frank Privitere Rabbit Hunting Derby. This affair is held every year by the New Empire Beagle Club in honor of Frank Privitere, an avid beagler and rabbit hunter for over 50 years.
The WNY area welcomed teams from Rochester, Syracuse, Pennsylvania and even Canada. Although the powdery snow made for a laborious day on the hounds 29 hunters checked 123 wasqually wabbits for the weigh-in. Many of those who participated reported short runs by the dogs and an unexpectedly meager amount of bunnies despite the sunny and windless morning. I myself did not harvest a single snowshoe hare to be weighed but I was still able to spend a whole day in the woods followed by a great time with my fellow hunters and houndsmen.
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With the sale of the Buffalo Sabres to Pennsylvania billionaire Terry Pegula now official, fans exited for regime change saw their hopes hit a snag Monday night, as the Buffalo News reported that General Manager Darcy Regier signed a two year extension this past fall, which would take him through the 2012/2013 season. The deal is more of the same from the old boys club of Sabres’ upper management which has made a habit of sweeping its collective failures under the rug while rewarding painful mediocrity.
Over the summer, I chronicled why Regier deserved to be shown the door after the embarrassing Boston Bruins playoff series, and after a sub-par offseason that has the team once again sitting outside the playoffs window, it’s clear he deserves an extension even less than he did last spring.
Even more absurd is that the deal was reported to have been reached this past fall, meaning that if the extension was reached during the season, the team was in worse shape in the standings. That probably has something to do with the fact that none of Golisano, Quinn nor Regier himself were in any hurry to actually announce the signing.
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Due to the impending storm set to hit Western New York on Wednesday, the University at Buffalo is closed all day and therefore the Bulls’ planned athletic events have also been rescheduled.
The men’s basketball game versus Toledo scheduled for 7 pm Wednesday has been rescheduled for Thursday, Feb. 3 at 2 pm in Alumni Arena. Reserved parking for the rescheduled date will not be in effect due to classes. The game will be broadcast live on Time-Warner Cable Sportsnet as well as WECK-AM (1230).
The Bulls’ Football National Signing Day Event planned for Wednesday has been rescheduled for Thursday at 5:30 pm at the Center for the Arts Drama Theatre. Head coach Jeff Quinn will announce and show video clips of his 2011 class. Fans that cannot attend can view the event online at buffalobulls.com.
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