Seawolves Fans

UB's been beating the other SUNY's to the punch at every turn. Just this week we've gone ahead and done this: http://www.buffalobulls.com/sports/mbkb/2012-13/releases/20130529ea162n



It's not a rebrand, though. We're not changing our athletic identity to 'New York' as we've been UB for far too long to change. It's just as our AD says, just a way to connect more broadly with others state-wide.

We usually have the guts to do these things because we maintain that private-school order to doing things our way we had in our 115 years as the University of Buffalo: first SUNY to become a major college/D1 program in 1962, the school that fought to overturn the SUNY athletic scholarship ban which forced us to drop down to D-3 between 1977-1986, first to gain an AAU invite, first to FBS, most of the reform ideas for SUNYNY2020 came from UB2020, etc.

But you guys should do something similar. If we can, nothing is stopping you, and you know Fiore would love to maintain a step ahead of Albany heading into the CAA.

UB and SBU have the best relations between any of the Centers and can both forge ahead. I found this great link of how schools reported their lists of peer universities, and you'll see UB and SBU share many. Michigan, Pitt, Rutgers, Virginia, Missouri, Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa St ....ALL list UB and Stony Brook as peers! Go ahead and bait AE fans on your board with it

http://chronicle.com/article/Peers-Interactive-Data/134262/