The Spectrum: Football Season Preview Volume 64 Issue 3

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Close your eyes and imagine you are wearing a black tuxedo. Now, I want you pee in that tuxedo. You are go-ing to feel a warm feeling now. This is what it means to play offensive line.

Head coach Jeff Quinn told this to his offensive line.

Being an offensive lineman is like “a warm feeling no one else sees,” said senior center Trevor Sales.

They’re the guys who set up the play. But they don’t get the yards – and often, they don’t get the glory either.

But this “warm” feeling for these somewhat unnoticed play-ers was frequent last season. Buffalo’s offense set numer-ous school records. Current San Diego Chargers’ running back Branden Oliver didn’t run for 1,535 yards without having holes to run through when he was Bull. Junior quarterback Joe Li-cata wouldn’t have the time to complete 233 passes for 2,824 yards last season if he was con-stantly feeling pressure. And wide receiver Alex Neutz cer-tainly wouldn’t have had enough time to beat the defenders and become Buffalo’s only receiver to record back-to-back double-digit touchdown seasons.

And isn’t it fitting that even in a story focused on offensive line-men, the glamorous positions – and even urination – are referred to before getting to the five men most responsible for creating playmaking opportunities.

“We don’t care about the

newspaper articles because if it wasn’t for us, they wouldn’t have those accolades, so that’s the way we see it,” said senior offensive guard Andre Davis.

Seniors Jake Silas, Sales and Davis along with juniors John Kling and Robert Blodgett make up this season’s starting line. It is one of the most experienced offensive lines Buffalo’s had in years – which could prove vital for the Bulls. The team won’t re-turn a single-player who totaled 500 yards last season. Sales, Silas and Davis started all 13 games for the Bulls last season with Kling and Blodgett combining for another 13 starts.

“With a bunch of new faces, it makes me feel very comfortable

that I’ll be protected every Sat-urday because I really think we have the best offensive line in the [Mid-American Conference],” Licata said.

Maybe the lack of notoriety is because there are no offen-sive linemen in fantasy football. They are rarely on billboards, red carpet events or magazine cov-ers. The offensive linemen are the busboys who set up your ta-ble before the waiter comes and brings over your food.

“It’s a bittersweet kind of thing,” Blodgett said. “You know you are a main piece of the of-fense, but you don’t get a lot of credit.”

It seems the only time linemen are shown on TV is when they

are fighting at training camp. The need for Johnny Manziel appar-ently squashes the allure of pan-cake blocks and zone blocking.

“It’s the 50 percent of the game that nobody ever watches,” said Quinn, a former offensive lineman himself.The personality

Senior offensive lineman Dil-lon Guy offered Sales $50 if he didn’t shave his beard from the beginning of 2013 spring prac-tice in April to the beginning of preseason camp in August. Sales gladly accepted.

“I play line, I don’t really care about how I look that much, so it was whatever,” Sales said.

Sales didn’t shave his face again until the season ended in

December. Despite his position’s potential to go unobserved, Sales found ways to stand out.

His beard was discussed by broadcasters nearly every game the Bulls had on the ESPN fami-ly of networks.

But then, something else over-took the beard. Something big-ger. Sales, who was listed at 6-foot-2, 327 pounds last sea-son, often practiced with his gut hanging out. His teammates told him if he did this in practice, he had to in the games as well.

Fortunately for his teammates, his 2XL-sized jersey agreed. It’s difficult to find a play from last season where his stomach was covered up.

“I have this big keg down here,” Sales said.

Unfortunately – or maybe for-tunately, depending on your view – Sales “trimmed the fat” down to 303 pounds and cleaned up his beard for this season.

Sales has an alter ego some on campus many may not be aware of. In 2012, Sales dropped his first 12-song mixtape Can you feel me? under the artist name Big T the MC. His “funknasty underground” genre is a mixture of funk and rap in which Sales is both the vocal artist and mix-es the beats.

It began as a hobby in eighth grade, but grew even large at col-lege. His favorite song from his mixtape is “Funknasty funk.”

“It helps me take a step from football, from school and I can actually say the things that I want to say,” Sales said.

THE BIG MEN ON CAMPUSBuffalo returns all five of its starting offensive linemen from last season

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PHOTO BY CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

ALINE KOBAYASHI, THE SPECTRUM

Left to right: John Kling, Robert Blodgett, Trevor Sales, Andre Davis and Jake Silas. Buffalo returns all five offensive linemen from its 2013 bowl season.

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He’ll sometimes perform in the locker room and has even written songs inspired by last year’s and this year’s team.

He wants to drop another mix-tape in winter 2015.

His personality and willing-ness to supply a laugh hasn’t dis-appeared with his beard and gut. When Quinn took part in the “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” this offsea-son, Sales was the first one to grab a bucket to pour on his head coach. Licata tweeted a picture on Aug. 10 of Sales waiting around a corner with a super soaker, ready to greet anybody who was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

“He draws everybody, he draws attention because he’s a funny guy and he’s not afraid to make fun of himself or act like an idiot at times,” Blodgett said.

But don’t let these antics give off the wrong impression. Sales is not someone you want to run into on the field. He’s labeled as the stron-gest offensive lineman by his team-mates and has the ability to bench press 405 pounds.

Sales won the “National Under-classman Strong Man” the summer between his junior and senior years of high school. His performance was highlighted by 31-reps of 185 pounds.

Sales hasn’t missed a game since earning the starting job as a sopho-more. A level of consistency is crit-ical at the center position, which Sales referred to as the “quarter-back of the O-line.”

“You need to know the ins and outs of every play,” Sales said. “You have to have everyone on the same page and knowing what they are doing on every play.”

Sales’ actions off the field are just as important as on the field for the Bulls’ success.

“Big T the MC, he makes it fun,” Quinn said. “He makes it fun to come out here and coach.”These kids are too big

It’s no surprise that Davis, listed at 6-foot-4 and 318 pounds, was al-ways bigger than the other kid’s his age.

Davis’ father forced him to play football when he was 9.

But he wasn’t playing with other 9-years-old. He was playing in the 140-pound weight class, which con-sisted of 13-year-olds.

When he arrived at Buffalo, Da-vis went from his attacking position at defensive line to a protecting one at offensive line. The switch was far from easy.

“Offensive line is very foreign to the human body,” Davis said. “Try-ing to defend yourself as you are backpedaling, it’s kind of hard to grasp that concept.”

Davis underwent his first of three knee surgeries after tearing his ACL senior year of high school and redshirted his freshman year at Buffalo. When he recovered, he didn’t have much time to work on his craft before being thrown into the Bulls’ starting lineup. Davis was inserted into a starting spot due to another Buffalo injury and started all 12 games.

He even played parts of the past two seasons with a torn meniscus that required offseason surgery, but has never missed a start. Those knees don’t seem to be a major is-sue right now – Davis squatted 585 pounds this summer.

Blodgett, similarly to Davis, was told at 10 years old he was too big to play – the weight limit was 120 pounds. Unlike Davis, Blodgett wasn’t offered the opportunity to play with older kids. He had to wait until the seventh grade.

Instead of playing football in leagues with kids his own age, he spent time working on his farm in Lima, New York. Hauling barrels made one thing clear: He wanted to get off that farm.

“You have to work for what you want to get and I knew I didn’t want to have that life forever,” Blodgett said. “So I wanted to get out of there and football kind of helped take me there and to college.”

Blodgett is a health and human service major with a focus in com-munity mental health.

When he first arrived at Buffalo, he earned the nickname “Bobby Bi-ceps,” because “the joke was that all I did here was work on my biceps in the weight room,” Blodgett said.

Blodgett started eight of the Bulls’ final nine games last season.

Kling, who lines up next to Blodgett on the offensive line, ex-perienced a growth spurt many dream of during the summer be-tween his sophomore and junior year of high school. Kling grew five inches to his current height, 6-foot-7.

The Depew, New York na-tive grew up around Western New York football. Kling’s father was a coach and Kling always wanted to draw up plays for his father to use in games.

Kling used to attend games at UB Stadium with family and friends when he was growing up. He never thought he’d eventually be wearing the uniform.

Now, he’s one of the Bulls’ most vital players.

It’s hard to imagine Silas, Buffa-lo’s other 6-foot-7 tackle, as the lit-tle brother. But when he was 11 years old and his brother played Friday nights in Portland, Michigan, Silas felt “overwhelmed” watching high school football.

“I wanted to be like my big brother, but I became the big brother,” Silas said.

Silas’ always dreamed to play D-I football, but he didn’t want to sac-rifice his education. Silas, an engi-neering student, verbally commit-ted to D-II Michigan Tech until he received a phone call from the Bulls one week before national signing day.

A week later, he was on a plane to Buffalo. He wasn’t offered a scholarship, but he was told he could compete for a spot on the team. Buffalo’s prestigious engi-neering program along with the op-portunity to play D-1 football was too much for him to turn down.

Silas started all 13 games for Buf-falo last season after playing spar-ingly his first two years.

“That’s the key, the big fellas up front,” Quinn said. “It’s not talk. It’s more about their actions, un-derstanding they are going to play a significant role in how this season goes.”The unit

Football players usually set goals for themselves in the thousands. Running backs and receivers often strive for at least 1,000 yards. Quar-

terbacks are in the range of 2,000 to 3,000 yards. The offensive line-men are thinking smaller.

The Bulls averaged six plays for a loss per game last season. That’s a number the offensive line takes personally. Their goal is to cut this number in half, and if that’s the case, the rest of the players will be more likely to achieve their goals.

At the same time, it could put a major dent in Licata’s wallet. Licata and his starting offensive line made a deal that every game he doesn’t get sacked, Licata will buy the of-fensive line dinner for the week.

“Hopefully I don’t get sacked at all and I’m spending a lot of money on dinners,” Licata said.

And they can eat. To the surprise of little, many of their favorite hangouts include places with food. Davis said he’s seen Sales devour 50 wings in 10 minutes.

The offensive line has been to-gether nearly the entire summer, both on and off the field, working toward limiting negative plays. They worked with the running backs on footwork Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sales hosts barbeques when he can. If they watch NFL games together, they are watching the linemen while everybody else is looking for the ball carrier and their fantasy foot-ball superstars.

They believe the more time they spend off the field makes their bond stronger. And with this bond comes trust – the most important quality of a dominant offensive line.

Their average size is 6-foot-5, 316 pounds. The average size of a D-I offensive lineman is 6-foot-4, 298 pounds, according to Ath-net Sports Recruiting’s website.

They have the size; all that re-mains to be seen is the final out-come.

“It’s a very selfless position to play because you are not carrying the ball, you are not getting your name in the newspaper, but you are doing everything that you need to help your team win the game,” Quinn said. “It’s the ultimate team position.”

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Johnson showed off his explo-siveness in the scrimmage, par-ticularly on a 43-yard touchdown run right up the middle of the defense.

“I’m just going to go out there every day and try to compete and when they call my name, I’m just going to give it everything I got, 110 percent and try to pro-duce the best way I can,” John-son said.

Johnson said although the run-ning backs are competing when they step on the field, there are “enough balls to go around for anybody in our offense, not just the backfield,” adding the Bulls have “receivers, tight ends and other types of skill groups that can fill in that void.”

The Bulls are changing their method by having three running backs, as opposed to having the one workhouse they found in Oliver and current Green Bay Packer James Starks before him. That setup had been the norm in the NFL, but now, multiple run-ning backs are becoming more common.

Simon, who instructs the Bulls’ running backs, used to be a coach in the NFL. Quinn said Simon has experience the switch from one running back to three before.

“It’s not just one guy, it’s three guys,” Quinn said. “And I think all those guys are going to have a chance to step up and perform.”


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As thousands of students poured through the Spine and milled about the Student Union on the first day of classes, phones and computers all over campus buzzed and beeped, announcing an incoming email that would set one of their classmates apart.

When SUNY recommended to UB students be contacted direct-ly about the presence of a Level 2 sex offender on campus, it sin-glehandedly brought an end to the short-lived possibility that Daniel Lampke could experience a nor-mal school year.

Students, instructors and even alumni still using their “buffalo.edu” email addresses received the UB Alert, which included a link to Lampke’s profile on the statewide Registry of Sex Offenders. The page included Lampke’s name, description, address and pho-to, ensuring that heads will turn and stares will follow everywhere Lampke goes.

To be clear, UB simply followed the legal advice offered by SUNY’s Office of General Counsel. Their actions and SUNY’s recommenda-tion were not in violation of any law, but instead reflect an extreme interpretation of an amendment to Megan’s Law, which requires that information about registered sex offenders be made available to the campus community.

That the information about Lampke’s status be made available is certainly not problematic, even though University Police do not consider Lampke to be a threat.

Members of this campus com-munity who have concerns about sex offenders – parent of children, for example – have every right to find out if there is a potential predator in the area. But Lampke’s crime does not deny him of his own rights and the direct na-ture of the UB Alert impinges on them.

So even though legally, they’re

in the clear, ethically, the issue be-comes far murkier.

It’s all too easy to hear “sex of-fender” and fly into full-fledged vig-ilante justice mode, to put on blind-ers and think only of the victims: The vulnerable children, the vic-timized men and women, the in-nocence lost and the pain suffered. Sexual offenses of any sort are not just criminal, but deeply taboo. As a result, the welfare and rights of sex-ual offenders are all too easy, and even satisfying, to ignore.

To be honest, had this student committed a sexual crime that had involved force or violence, the moral high ground on which this argument is posed would quickly crumble.

But Lampke was convicted of attempting to possess materi-als of a sexual performance by a child under the age of 16. He was charged with a misdemeanor and will serve six years of probation.

And now, thanks to the campus-

wide email, he will serve time here at UB as well. He’s been named and branded, stigmatized as an outcast and a deviant and denied the opportunity to develop an identity beyond the crime he tried to commit.

Without a doubt, Lampke com-mitted a crime and deserves to be penalized and pay his debt to soci-ety. It’s a necessary practicality he be monitored in case he strays into illegal behavior again.

But an effective system of crim-inal justice works to create an en-vironment in which offenders don’t repeat their offense, not just out of fear of retribution but due to legitimate rehabilitation.

How can Lampke learn to func-tion as a normal member of soci-ety when society has labeled him for all to see as not just abnormal, but amoral as well?


Liberty and justice for all – and yes, that includes sex offendersSUNY’s decision to disseminate student’s information destroys opportunity for normalcy, rehabilitation

In December 2012, correc-tions officers at Rikers Island brutalized two inmates until blood stained the walls of an iso-lated exam room. Two officers had strapped the inmates down and beat them as they screamed.

As the inmates and medical staffers present begged the offi-cers to stop, Captain Rod Mar-cel, who was overseeing the beat-ing alongside fellow captain Bud-narine Behari, responded only by yelling “Stop resisting,” to the bleeding, handcuffed prisoners.

This month, the Bronx dis-trict attorney declined to prose-cute the officers involved. The decision is incredibly disturbing – and completely expected.

In the last year, of the 129 cases in which inmates were severely in-jured at the hands of guards, not a single officer was prosecuted.

The Correction Department reports use of physical force by guards has increased by 90 per-cent and often involves the most vulnerable inmates, including teenagers and the mentally ill.

Violence in Rikers runs virtu-ally unchecked, as do the efforts of the prison’s staff to falsify re-ports and disguise its violent, ille-gal behavior.

Taking advantage of the un-reliability of inmates’ testimo-ny and relying on intimidation to ensure the silence of other guards and officials, corrections officers are free to terrorize in-mates as they please.

Attempts to weed out corrupt and violent guards have floun-dered in the face of resistance and threats. Norman Seabrook, head of the correction officers’

union, appears satisfied with a culture of violence that ne-gates the possibility of rehabilita-tion and ensures that the prison maintains its deplorable recidi-vism rate – 69 percent of prison-ers are rearrested within a year of their release.

Although it’s not realistic to expect a prison to be free of vi-olence – many inmates are guilty of violent crimes and when offi-cers are endangered they certain-ly have the right to protect them-selves with force – it’s equally ri-diculous to attempt to deny that inmates, no matter their past, de-serve basic human rights. And yet, by allowing brutality and as-saults that fall just short of tor-ture, the U.S. prison system is re-ducing its inmates to subhuman status.

It’s beyond naïve to believe that inmates can return to society as law-abiding citizens when they’ve spent their time behind bars as witnesses to sheer brutality and as victims of violence and malice, at the hands of those who are sup-posed to protect them.

But protection isn’t a priori-ty for officers like Marcel, who has been involved in close to 100 serious incidents in the last 15 years, and Behari, who is still on the jo even as he awaits the ver-dict of another assault case from April 2012, in which an inmate suffered a broken nose and frac-tured vertebrae.

Watching guards break the law and get away with it – and main-tain their jobs – teaches nothing but disdain for this country’s le-gal system. The inmates who are students in this abhorrent lesson

are the very people who need to learn to respect the law.

Despite his transgressions, Be-hari has retained not just his em-ployment but also his authority as a captain.

So, to the prosecutors who don’t seem to think that an in-mate’s life is worth anything: Brush up on your ethics. You have power and influence, and now it’s time to find some mor-al fiber.

To the employees of Rikers, who stay silent even after watch-

ing unprovoked assaults play out before their eyes: find the re-maining shreds of your humani-ty and protest. Deny the bystand-er effect, deny the guards who think they can get away with (ev-erything but) murder and prove to the inmates at Rikers that their welfare actually matters.

And to the correction officers’ union that is inexplicably unwill-ing to alter the status quo: Stop resisting.


Violence begets violenceUnchecked assaults of inmates by corrections officers reveal corruption

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OWEN O’BRIENMANAGING EDITOR

If the Bulls are to compete for a bowl game this season, Licata needs to pull out his inner Tom Brady. And he may be closer to Brady than you’d think.

Licata, a die-hard Bills fan but also Brady admirer (yes it’s pos-sible to be both), spent hours watching film of the New Eng-land signal caller this offseason. Any quarterback, regardless of fanhood, should admire the way Brady handles himself on and off the field.

“He plays with a certain mox-ie and the word’s overused, but swagger,” Licata said. “He plays with extreme passion and cer-

tainty that he can get the job done and I really respect that.”

The two are pure winners. Brady went 20-5 at Michigan. Licata is 11-6 at Buffalo. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say Licata’s 11 wins at Buffalo are even more impressive than Brady’s 20 at Michigan. After all, Michigan has over 900 career victories. Buffalo sits at 364.

During Brady’s first full-year as a starter, he set Michigan records for pass attempts and comple-tions in a season. Licata was No. 3 in school history for comple-tions for a season in 2013. And hey, Licata has Brady beat in rushing yards (-64 to -105).

Brady’s greatest skill is the abil-ity to bring the best out of his

teammates, regardless of the sit-uation. When he has amazing tal-ent around him, he puts up vid-eo game numbers. But thriv-ing around talent doesn’t define greatness.

When you throw for more than 4,000 yards with Julian Edelman as your only receiver over 700 yards, you are a machine.

Tom Brady is a machine.For the Bulls to return to a

bowl, Licata needs to be a ma-chine.

Licata will be forced to spread the ball around. Alex Neutz, Li-cata’s favorite target throughout his first 17-career games, is gone. Fred Lee – who would be far and away the Bulls’ biggest offensive threat if this were his senior sea-

son – is gone.We are left with players we

don’t know. As is Brady. When Brady was surrounded with elite talent and defense, he went to Super Bowls. When Licata had Neutz and Khalil Mack, they went to the Famous Idaho Pota-to Bowl – which may as well be the Super Bowl for Buffalo.

Since, Brady has made super-stars. Julian Edelman just record-ed over 1,000 yards. Randy Moss was on the fast track out of the league before signing with the Patriots. He caught an NFL-re-cord 23 touchdown passes his first year with Brady. Deion Branch is a Super Bowl M.V.P. for crying out loud.

The Licata way

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The defense will still be firing on all cylinders de-spite the key losses. If Licata finds his form early, it should be an easy Bulls win.

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Continued from Page 3, LicataLicata needs to make his superstar. I don’t

know who that player will be. I can’t get ac-cess to the locker room – believe me, I’ve tried – and see how they interact behind closed doors.

Whoever emerges will be the player that does things Licata’s way – the winning way. Even in high school, Licata went 16-3 over his final two seasons at Williamsville South – a school not generally known as a football powerhouse.

The Buffalo News Deputy Sports Editor Keith McShea, who often covered Licata in high school, said he knew he was watching a “rare thing” in the quarterback.

Was the “Patriots’ Way” a thing before Brady? No. Bill Belichick is a great coach, but without Tom Brady, there’s no “Patriot way.”

Without Tom Brady, the Bills would have made the playoffs at least once in the 21st century.

Do you think the “Jets way” would be a thing if Belichick had stayed in New York for more than a day? Me neither.

To me, Licata just seems to have “it.” That unexplainable trait that allows teams to ac-complish more than it should. The NFL is

filled with tremendous quarterbacks who can’t get their team to win – insert Tony Romo joke here – but Licata’s resume proves different.

Without Licata, this team could feasi-ble lose one of its two games against FCS schools. With him, I think they play Army close to the end and could even win.

This is a 2-6 MAC team without him at the helm. Licata surrounded by a veteran offen-sive line guarantees you at least four confer-ence games for as long as you have him.

Unfortunately for UB, there are no con-tract extensions. You have four years. He won three of four games MAC games in 2012 and six of eight in 2013.

There’s no “Patriot way,” just like there’s no “Next Bull in.” If the Bulls’ quarterback were to suffer an injury, well, at least there’s still the concert series.

Unless you hate country music. Then I hope you drafted a good fantasy football team.

You would never count out Brady. Don’t count out Joe.


TORI ROSEMANASST. ARTS EDITOR

You bring the burgers, hotdogs

and beer – UB’s got the enter-tainment.

In an effort to attract more people to football games both in-side and outside the UB commu-nity, the Athletics Department is continuing its Tailgate Concert Series. The series started last sea-son, which was also the year the Bulls led the Mid-American Con-ference in game attendance.

Each concert will be in in the Stadium parking lot’s “Stam-pede Square” before home games. Artists, like this Satur-day’s Easton Corbin, are set to start playing two hours before the 3:30 p.m. kickoff.

“It’s a way to really build upon the vibrant tailgating atmosphere prior to football games,” said Todd Garzarelli, the senior asso-ciate athletic director for external affairs. “We want a more diverse crowd, and for people to be en-tertained in the moment.”

This Saturday, before the sea-son opener against Duquesne, the Tailgate Concert Series will feature Corbin on the main stage. DJ Anthony from local radio sta-

tion KISS 98.5 will play three hours before kickoff on the oth-er side of stadium.

Athletics began the series in 2013 to draw more than just football fans to games and it ap-pears to be working.

“Even though I’m not a huge sports fan, I’d consider going to the game after going to the con-cert,” said Ian Carson, a sopho-more civil engineering major.

Corbin is an American coun-try artist, who is best known for his songs “A Little More Coun-try Than That” and “Roll With It.” He has released two albums, a self-titled one in 2010 and All Over the Road in 2013. His style is similar to George Strait, Greg Bates and Keith Whitley.

DJ Anthony is the week-day evening host of KISS 98.5, whose favorite artists include Mi-chael Jackson, Jay-Z and Biggie Smalls, according to the station’s website.

“I think it’s a cool, different way to get everyone pumped up for the game,” said Olivia Miller, a freshman accounting major.

Garzarelli said the DJ is there to give those who don’t like country another option.

Artists for the concert series were

not picked randomly, but through a process to ensure a greater level of satisfaction and genre diversity, ac-cording Garzarelli.

“To pick artists, we looked to external folks on campus, sea-son ticket holders, UB students and alumni,” Garzarelli said. “We also looked into who seemed to be selling, who is going to be around this area and what is hot

in music right now.”Other artists set to play in Sep-

tember include country artist Joe Nichols, the alternative band Spin Doctors and rock band Three Dog Night. October will bring The Zac Brown Tribute Band, and set to perform in No-vember is country artist Frankie Ballard, and Strictly Hip. Strictly Hip is a Buffalo based band that

covers the music of Tragically Hip, a rock band from Ontario, Canada.

DJ Anthony’s set will begin at 12:30 and Corbin will take the stage in Stampede Square at 1:30 pm and kickoff begins at 3:30 pm.


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Sokoli, who weighs 300 pounds, returns at defensive line and recorded 29 tackles and 2.5 sacks last season. He ran a 40-yard dash in 4.7 seconds. Quinn said he will be a vital part of the team’s rush defense.

The team’s defensive philoso-phy is to play as one unit. There is no standout player this year for opposing offenses to target, so the Bulls plan to use that to their advantage.

“When people ask me if I’m going to replace Khalil, I say ‘I’m not, our defense is,’” Franklin said. “Everyone is going to pur-

sue the ball, everyone is going to make an interception and every-one is going to celebrate the big play.”

Junior quarterback Joe Licata will be under center for the sec-ond straight year. Licata under-went surgery on Jan. 7 to repair a torn hip labrum and a bone im-pingement, but feels confident going into this season.

The job of replacing Oliver, Buffalo’s all-time leading rush-er, won’t likely fall on one play-er, but three. Junior running back Anthone Taylor is the expect-ed starter with sophomore Jor-

dan Johnson and junior Devin Campbell rounding out the trio.

“[Oliver] was one of the best backs to ever come out of UB,” Johnson said. “I believe the core we have put together will all bring something to the table that can make up for what he did.”

The right side of the offen-sive line consists of juniors Rob-ert Blodgett and John Kling, who combined to start 13 games last season. The blind side returns three senior starters in Jake Silas, Andre Davis and Trevor Sales.

Sophomore Boise Ross and se-nior Devon Hughes are two of

the receivers to replace the duo of graduated seniors Alex Neutz and Fred Lee.

“We have some big shoes to fill and I feel honored to fill that role,” Hughes said. “I want to surpass the level of [Neutz and Lee]. I want my everyday effort to be the first thing people no-tice.”

Quinn has been impressed with his players’ commitment throughout the summer and said “105 checked into fall camp this summer, and we have 105 still on our roster.”

“No one ran for the midnight

train,” Quinn said. “It’s a mutu-al understanding between the coaches and players. It’s an ev-eryday commitment that every player will compete at his high-est level.”

The players are often on cam-pus together or playing video-games in the dorm rooms when they aren’t on the field.

“We were close last year, but you can see the difference in the way the seniors act towards the younger players on the team,” Ross said. “We’re all in together.”


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The athletics department is bringing back its popular Tailgate Concert Series, which starts two hours before each home football game. Last year, it featured artists like Randy Houser (pictured to the far right). UB lead the Mid-American Conference in overall season attendance for the 2013 season.

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Mason Schrek - 85Sophomore tight end Mason Schrek is ready to step up and be what the team has had in many years: a receiving threat at the position.

Schrek appeared in all 13 games last year and led all tight ends with 17 catches and two touchdowns. His impressive play has made him one of the best pass catching tight ends UB has in its arsenal.

“I know we have a lot of talent in our room,” Schrek said. “Coach Jones has really helped us out a lot. This season we just hope to contin-ue to keep working hard and have a success-ful season.”

Boise Ross - 87Not many players are as humble as sopho-more whiteout Boise Ross. The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania native is willing to accept his role this season, even if it means he won’t be starting.

This summer the team has been working on routes, timing matchups. Ross, a likely start-er, doesn’t care if he’s one of the first 11 on the field. “But as of right now, I just want to facilitate and give the team as much lift as I can,” Ross said.

Ross finished last season with 13 catches for 156 yards, appearing in nine games and one start.

Devon Hughes - 13Senior wide receiver Devon Hughes is ready to make his mark on UB Football. After pro-viding depth for the Bulls last season, earn-ing two touchdowns including a 30-yarder against Kent State, the Tyrone, Georgia na-tive believes he has what it takes to be Licata’s go-to offensive weapon.

His explosiveness downfield will make him a deep threat this year.

“This season is the most confident I’ve ever been,” Hughes said. “I want to come here and work hard every day. I want to be the first thing people notice. I want to be the best receiver and teammate I can be.”

Joe Licata - 16In his second full season as the team’s starting quarterback, Licata will try to prove he can lead the team without the players that directed him as an underclassman. He threw for 2,824 yards to go along with 24 touchdowns last season. Licata may need similar numbers this season in order to repeat the team’s success.

It is very possible those numbers can even go up. Licata played the entire season with a hip injury - which led to an offseason sur-gery to repair a torn labrum - but he is com-pletely recovered for the 2014 season. “My job is to get the ball into the playmak-er’s hands and that’s what I have to do.”

A Williamsville product, the junior looks to build on a successful 2013 campaign by guiding the team to another winning season and, with any luck, a spot in the MAC cham-pionship game.

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Jake Stockman - 9Senior inside linebacker Jake Stockman said no one will replace former fifth round draft pick Khalil Mack.

Instead, the Bulls defense this season will rely on be-ing a sound 11-man defensive core – much like the no-name defense of the ’72 Dolphins. Stockman be-lieves by doing so, the team will be able to fill the void Mack left.

“We don’t really have a single weak spot,” Stockman said. “We have 11 experienced guys – what you’re go-ing to see is 11 guys working together. The line-back-ing core in general is all about the fundamentals and doing everything exactly right.”

Kristjan Sokoli - 90Sokoli is the only mainstay on the defensive line af-ter the graduations of Colby Way and Beau Bachtelle. The senior from New Jersey started all 13 games last season. While he only accounted for 29 tackles last season, he was a pivotal to the defense’s production.

“I need to be as close to 100 percent as possible,” So-koli said. “By that, I need to be at my gap and do what I have to do to make sure they can’t run the ball on us.”

At 6-foot-6, Sokoli looks like the prototypical defen-sive lineman, however, he runs better than most his size. His 4.7-second 40-yard dash makes him an op-tion to use at different parts of the field and one that the Bulls’ coaching staff will love to use.

Adam Redden - 29The Bulls are returning their most versatile player from last year in Adam Redden. If he’s not defending a pass as a free safety, he’s up in the box ready to ex-ploit the offense as an outside linebacker. He knows his role and the types of things he can do on the field.“Aggressive, dominant and [a] team play-er,” Redden said about the type of player he is. “I try to take control of the defense and the team.”

The hard-hitting defender finished third on the team in tackles (65), third in fumble recoveries (three) and second in sacks (4.5). If he didn’t sprain his knee in the beginning of the Kent St. game on Oct. 26, we could have looked at two of the best defensive players in the MAC playing next to each other.

A former standout wide receiver from Amherst, New York, Redden possesses a rare balance of excellent ball handling and physical dominance that works perfectly in defensive coordinator Lou Tep-per’s scheme.

Cortney Lester - 4If the team thought it were going to have a problem finding a shutdown cornerback after the departure of Najja Johnson, it were wrong. Cortney Lester has been groomed by some of the best defensive players in school history since he was a redshirt freshman to become a star of the defensive backfield. This season, it looks like he will get his opportunity.

One of two four-year starters on the defense, Lester has developed into a dual threat by excelling in pass cover-age and tackling. He’s a physical presence that doubles as a football intellectual and presents the team with a dan-gerous cornerback. And he seems to accept that role.

“As expected, I feel like I am the top corner on the team, in the MAC and throughout the division,” Lester said. The senior from Miramar, Florida finished last season with 32 tackles and tied for the lead in interceptions with three.

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When Lee Skinner’s future teammates joined the Bulls on na-tional signing day in 2010, the now senior linebacker had no idea he’d be donning blue and white come the start of his college career.

He wasn’t even sure his cleats would ever hit a D-I field.

He was a high school senior without a single football scholar-ship offer before a chance meet-ing with Bulls head coach Jeff Quinn at a wrestling tournament.

Once Quinn discovered him, Skinner didn’t have a spot on team until a last-minute scholarship opened up just months before what be his first season.

Skinner didn’t become a start-er until his mentor, an incumbent starter, left the Bulls after repeated concussions.

He feels lucky to be on the team – much of his journey has been coincidental. It’s almost kismet.

The senior linebacker has start-ed every single game for the Bulls for the past three seasons, and he looks to do the same again this year as the anchor of the Buffa-lo defense.

“There was a time I thought I might not play football in col-lege,” Skinner said. “But that’s just kind of how life goes. Sometimes you’re fortunate and sometimes you’re not.”

***Skinner attended football camps

throughout his junior and season seasons of high school believing he had done well, only to not hear back from any coaches, according to his mother, Mary.

He considered staying home in Dayton, Ohio and attending near-by Wright State. He would have at-tended for free – not because of football, but because his father is physics professor for the university.

Skinner did have one coach who was interested in him: Quinn. But it was back when Quinn was offensive coordinator at Cincin-nati. The two met on several oc-

casions when Skinner was in high school and Quinn told him could walk-on for the Bearcats.

After former Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly left for Norte Dame, Quinn was unsure where he would be coaching for the 2010 season. He and Skinner lost touch.

When Quinn was hired as head coach of Buffalo in December 2009, Mary told her son he should call Quinn about possibly going to UB. Skinner hesitated. He was nervous to reach out.

When Skinner did finally call Quinn, the coach didn’t answer. Quinn’s voicemail was so full the high school senior couldn’t even leave a message.

He thought it was a sign. “I figured it’s not meant to be,”

Skinner said.In February of 2010 – shortly

after national signing day – Skin-ner was competing in a statewide wrestling tournament in Dayton, Ohio. Quinn’s son, who is the same age as Skinner, was also in the tournament.

Skinner, who stands at 6-foot-2, was tough, tenacious and compet-itive. He was exactly what Quinn was looking for.

“Wrestling’s a tough sport; it’s tough minded and that’s what we want,” Quinn said. “It’s a physi-cal, competitive sport, as football is. You can find out a lot about a kid when you watch him in anoth-er sport. Does he have the true passion and competitive fire that you’re looking for? Does he have heart?”

Quinn saw that fire in Skinner. A few days after the tournament, he asked Skinner to consider be-coming a Bull.

Skinner still had his mind on a scholarship. Quinn’s offer couldn’t come with one. And even though the future Bull was excited about joining the team, he’d have to wait until the coming fall season ended.

Skinner’s contact with Quinn came after the Bulls had already given out all that season’s scholar-ships so his college football career

would have to start later than he wanted. Skinner had to grayshirt, meaning he wouldn’t be able to join the team until that winter. He was told he’d most likely play of-fensive or defensive line.

After at least five months of thinking his entry into UB Stadi-um would be delayed, Skinner got a call.

A linebacker spot was open and Quinn wanted Skinner. Skinner – who already naturally has a wide smile – was ecstatic. And relieved. He’d be returning to his football roots. He’d been a middle line-backer his whole high school ca-reer. He’d play his natural position on the field.

And he’d get his scholarship. He’d have to redshirt, but he’d be on the team.

“That was really a dream come true,” Skinner said. “It would have been a dream to play [any posi-tion] at the college level so what-ever it was I was going to play it.”

***After redshirting his true fresh-

man season in 2010, Skinner was still not going see the field as a starter. He would be a backup for his friend and mentor, former Bulls linebacker John Syty.

Syty was impressed with Skin-ner’s work ethic and willingness to listen. Syty took it upon himself to mentor Skinner, teaching him the playbook and giving him his own handwritten notes from team meetings.

“He was kind of just my wing-man through it all,” Syty said.

In the summer heading into the 2011 season, Syty would often tell Skinner the then backup lineback-er was going get playing time.

“I had never really taken him seriously because we liked to joke around,” said Skinner.

Skinner would get his chance, however, after Syty left the game due to “numerous concussions” sustained throughout his career.

Syty felt confident Skinner could take his place and told his friend not to be nervous.

“I remember telling him that

there wasn’t another guy on that team that I wanted to fill that void with because he had put in the work,” Skinner said.

The reason for Syty’s departure did not scare Skinner away from playing the game, despite the posi-tion’s potential for collisions.

“I think there’s a lot of things that can happen in football,” Skin-ner said. “If you see a guy with a knee injury you don’t automat-ically think you’re going to have a knee injury. It’s really unfortu-nate what happened to Syty and I know if he could play he would have.”

Although he missed playing with Syty, Skinner made the most of his opportunities. He finished second on the team with 89, and he was named to the Phil Steele’s National All-Freshman second team.

***For the last three seasons, Skin-

ner has taken his starting position alongside Khalil Mack. But now, Skinner will have to be a leader on the defense.

“It’s going to be different,” laughed Skinner. “It’s definitely going to be different.”

You can consistently find Skin-ner’s name next to Mack in the team’s defensive statistics from the past few seasons. The 22-year-

old describes himself as a “hustle” player, and he seems to be in on every single tackle.

Now in his fourth year as a starter, Skinner believes it’s his to chance to be a leader to the younger players on the team. He wants to mentor the underclass-men, just like Syty and Mack once mentored him.

“It’s my time to pay it forward,” Skinner said. “I’ve received so much from those people it’s my time to step up and help guys out when they’re feeling down.”

Skinner’s mother said her son likes to hangout with everyone and “not just the jocks.” His fam-ily and teammates describe him as a humble and friendly.

On the field is a different story.“Some guys have the unique

ability to be the nicest guy in the world off the field, where you can call them anytime of the night and they’re going to be there for you,” Syty said. “Then they step on that field and they’re able to flip the switch.”

It’s not much of a wonder how Skinner keeps that switch on. Whenever he walks onto that field, he’s still motivated by all times it seemed like he would be kept off it.


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CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

Lee Skinner is the anchor of the Bulls’ defense. Four years ago he was a high school senior without a single scholarship offer. That was until he had a chance meeting with Bulls head coach jeff Quinn at a wrestling tournament.


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TOM DINKISENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

The football team handed the

ball off to its running backs 468 times last season. But 310 of those went to the all-time lead-ing rusher Branden Oliver, who is currently in a San Diego Char-gers uniform.

Don’t expect one ball carrier to have two-thirds of the carries this season.

The Bulls have three running backs – juniors Anthone Tay-lor and Devin Campbell, as well as sophomore Jordan Johnson – who will all see time out of the backfield this season.

“All three are unique and they do provide our system with an added advantage,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “With An-thone, Devin and Jordan, each of them has a place in our of-fense. We have plays in situa-tions for them, designed to fea-ture those guys. You’re going to see them coming in and out.”

Although the Bulls will like-ly use a committee of running backs, Quinn said Taylor has emerged as the front-runner.

“The thing I like about An-thone right now is [that] the best cut for a running back is no cut,”

Quinn said at the Bulls’ Aug. 12 media day. “He’s staying on his tracks. He understands his cours-es. He’s staying disciplined. He’s not jumping around and getting fidgety and anxious. And then when he gets that little crack in that seem, boom, he’s putting his foot in the ground and he’s going north and south.”

Quinn said Taylor took a long run in for a touchdown during a scrimmage, whereas a younger, less experienced player might not have had the patience to let the play develop.

Taylor said the running backs have been focusing on finish-

ing out plays. Running backs coach Matt Simon stresses play-ers should run through “small cracks” in the defense, according to Taylor.

“We want to be able to run through the trash and traffic in the game and be able to get as much [yards after contact] as we can because we know nothing is going to be given to us,” Tay-lor said. “Sometimes we might have big holes, but at the end of the day, we got to be able to run through cracks.”

Taylor, who has been watching Oliver’s film, hopes to model his game after the former Bull.

“When he was on the field, he made those defensive guys fear him, fear him being able to cut, being able to just put his pad on and just be aggressive,” Tay-lor said. “I just want to have that same kind of influence on the defense as a running back.”

Quinn said Taylor’s patience, strong running and ball protec-tion are “why right now he’s go-ing to get that first snap.”

Despite his experience last sea-son and Quinn’s endorsement, Taylor does not believe he has secured his spot as the featured back.

“Every day I come out and work like the next guy could be the starter,” Taylor said. “I just come out there and I work hard and I try to establish that pres-ence … These young guys push me to work as hard as I do on the field.”

Taylor served as Oliver’s pri-mary backup last season, rushing for 399 yards and three touch-downs on 82 carries with an im-pressive 4.9 YPC (yards per car-ry).

Taylor showed a glimpse of his potential as the primary back when he filled in for an injured Oliver against Stony Brook last season. He finished with 118 yards and two touchdowns in a

26-23 five-overtime victory.Campbell also has experience

filling in for Oliver. As a fresh-man in 2012, Campbell ran for 502 yards and two touchdowns – including a 160-yard effort against Ohio – as Oliver missed five games, due to injury.

With Oliver healthy last sea-son, Campbell was often used as a receiver. Campbell caught 19 passes for 200 yards – best for third on the team – compared to carrying the ball only 11 times.

Campbell expects to be in-volved in the passing game, but also to see increased carries out of the backfield.

“[My role as a receiver is] not going to change,” Campbell said. “That was my role last year. I just have another aspect added to it. The coaches trust me more.”

Johnson can have a major im-pact for the offense despite nev-er playing a down for the team.

The former Sweet Home High School quarterback redshirt-ed in 2012 and missed last sea-son due to an elbow injury. John-son proved he was fully healthy in the Bulls’ annual Blue-White spring game, totaling 114 yards and two touchdowns.

The running of the BullsTaylor, Johnson and Campbell look to have an impact in Buffalo’s backfield

ANDY KONIUCHSPORTS EDITOR

The last time the football team faced off against a Foot-ball Championship Subdivision (FCS) team, it narrowly escaped an upset with a five-overtime win against Stony Brook, 26-23.

The Bulls won’t be overlook-ing their season opening FCS op-ponent, Duquesne,

“We’re excited about the chal-lenge,” Quinn said. “We’re not taking anybody lightly. Believe me. I’ve seen it happen, teams come into that first game and somebody gets upset. That’s not happening [Saturday], we don’t have that mindset. We respect our opponents and we respect [Duquesne].”

The Bulls host the Dukes at UB Stadium Saturday for their first game of the season. Buffa-lo’s defense will face sophomore

quarterback Dillon Buechel, who totaled 2,569 yards last season.

The Dukes’ core of wide re-ceivers includes junior Dave Thomas, who caught 49 passes for 592 yards and a touchdown last season and junior Chris King, who had 26 receptions for

311 yards in only eight games.“They have a very solid group

of receivers and quarterback,” Quinn said. “I think it will chal-lenge our coverage skills and the way we structure our defense.”

But Buffalo has offensive weapons of its own. Junior quar-

terback Joe Licata, entering his second full season as the start-er, looks to build off his strong 2013 season.

Licata threw for 2,824 yards and 24 touchdowns – one touch-down shy of tying UB’s single season record – last year. Lica-ta will be throwing to a crowd of wide receivers, including senior Devon Hughes and sophomore Boise Ross, with junior Ron Wil-loughby, senior John Dunmore and junior Markus McGill pro-viding depth to the lineup.

The Bulls will be going up against a Dukes secondary that allowed only 14 passing touch-downs last season.

“Certainly we have a good feel for what they want to do,” Quinn said. “We know they’re going to challenge us in coverage. But it’s still the first game. We know our kids are locked in on what we want to accomplish in this

matchup.”Saturday’s matchup is the

Bulls’ first opportunity.And after battling each other

for the past three weeks in prac-tice, the Bulls are ready to hit someone not wearing blue and white.

“We want to put the best 11 out there every single snap,” Quinn said. “To talk about last year’s games, that hasn’t been any part of my discussion with these guys. It’s about the present, the now, and how we move this pro-gram forward. When I pop that film in on Sunday, I want to see a four-quarter effort.”

The Bulls kick off Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at UB Stadium. Easton Corbin will be performing a free concert in the parking lot two hours before kickoff.


The Dukes of hazard Buffalo hopes to learn from last season’s scare in home opener against FCS opponent

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUMDevin Campbell is one of three runnings backs the Bulls will go to this season. Campbell ran for 502 yards and two touchdowns as a fresh-man in 2012 before seeing most of his work as a receiver last season.

JORDAN GROSSMANASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Something changed for the

UB football team last year – after five-straight losing seasons, the Bulls made a comeback.

A core of young talent and a multitude of seniors contribut-ed to an 8-5 record, including a seven-game winning streak. The season culminated with an ap-pearance on national television, playing against San Diego State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on Dec. 21.

Many of those key players – including offensive weapons Branden Oliver and Alex Neutz, as well as the No. 5 pick in May’s

NFL draft Khalil Mack – gradu-ated. Now it’s up a new core of players to sustain last season’s success.

“It’s a no-name team,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “We don’t have the Khalil’s or the Bo’s, but we are not looking back. We are only looking for-ward and I see that progress ev-eryday.”

The offseason has been full of questions, but none bigger than who would fill the void of Mack.

Enter sophomore Jarrett Franklin.

Franklin, listed at six foot, 220 pounds, transitioned from defen-sive end to linebacker last sea-son. He is physically smaller than

Mack, but plays with the same aggressive mentality and over-whelming football knowledge that made Mack a household name.

“A lot of people are doubt-ing us this year,” Franklin said. “Yeah, we lost a lot of talent, but that’s what is going to drive us the most. We want to prove peo-ple wrong and we are going to be those young guys that step up.”

Senior linebackers Lee Skin-ner and Jake Stockman as well as senior defensive tackle Krist-jan Sokoli will anchor the de-fense. Skinner was second on the team with 79 tackles and Stock-man started all 13 games and fin-ished with 43 tackles last season.

Saved by the bull: the next generationBulls have their sights set on success despite the loss of their star-studded seniors

COURTESY OF DAVE DENOMASophomore quarterback Dillon Buechel threw for 2,569 yards and 14 touchdowns for the Dukes last season as a freshman. The Bulls and Duquesne face off Saturday at 3:30 p.m

COURTESY OF DAVE DENOMASophomore quarterback Dillon Buechel threw for 2,569 yards and 14 touchdowns for the Dukes last season as a freshman. The Bulls and Duquesne face off Saturday at 3:30 p.m

SEE SAVED, PAGE 5

SEE BULLS, PAGE 2

Documents

The Spectrum: Football Season Preview Volume 64 Issue 3