James Starks News

When Dan Hawkins twisted in the wind last month, I told my boss that if Hawkins is fired, I know the first person I'm calling.

Multiple sources are reporting that UB Head Coach Turner Gill will be named the next head football coach at Kansas.

Not much changed for me over Championship Weekend among the seniors. I moved Toby Gerhart , who was inactive, to No.

James Starks told us Tuesday that he's almost completely recovered from August shoulder surgery.

For all of the struggles the University at Buffalo football team endured, the season essentially was decided by a few plays.

University at Buffalo football fans may have mixed emotions about the timing of Turner Gill's "State of the Bulls" press conference on Tuesday.

Friday's game marked the end for 15 University at Buffalo seniors. Two of them - Western New York natives Naaman Roosevelt and James Starks - go down as arguably the best ever to play their positions at UB.

The significant objectives are off the table for the University at Buffalo and the Bulls won't be going bowling, as practically everyone predicted before the start of the season.

It was a gloomy end to a glorious era. With his voice wavering and almost no expression on his face, Naaman Roosevelt eulogized his University at Buffalo career on Tuesday, after coach Turner Gill announced that his star receiver will miss the final game of his senior year because of a meniscus tear in his right knee that will require surgery.

Richie Smith needed only several seconds to rank his proudest accomplishments as an athlete.

The University at Buffalo has experienced just about everything that can go wrong in one football season, and all in the plural: injuries, turnovers, bad breaks and upsets.

Naaman Roosevelt played his final home game for the University at Buffalo Tuesday night and thankfully, fittingly, his grandest days were reprised.

The University at Buffalo more than likely had to win its remaining four games of the season to have a chance at a bowl game but even if the Bulls had finished with a 7-5 record there were no guarantees.

WMU's Bill Cubit , 66-42-1, 10 seasons; 32-24 at WMU, fifth season. Buffalo's Turner Gill , 17-26, four seasons, all at Buffalo.

Even without the flu virus that's running through football teams across the country, Western Michigan and Buffalo aren't playing with full casts.

For most of his career, Mario Henry has had to overcome a frustrating pattern of getting injured just when it seems as if he will turn the corner toward becoming an outstanding player.

WMU's Bill Cubit , 66-31-1, 10 seasons; 32-23 at WMU, fifth season. Central Michigan's Butch Jones , 21-12, three seasons as a head coach, all at CMU.

Coach J.D. Brookhart is optimistic that a three-game road venture will not be as daunting as it seems for his struggling University of Akron football team.

For three seasons Ike Nduka sat and waited for an opportunity and playing time. Over and over he was told to have faith and believe in the University at Buffalo's system.

The University at Buffalo's injury list continued to grow on Tuesday when coach Turner Gill announced that freshman linebacker Darius Willis and junior linebacker-defensive end Tom Drewes would miss the remainder of the season with injuries.