Recruiting in Buffalo has always been a challenge. While as a university it is one of the best in the MAC it's athletic department has been facing the same obstacles since they joined the football Bowl Subdivision in 1999.
- Buffalo is somewhere among the top three most rigorous academic schools in the MAC. Depending on what "ranking system" you look at UB, along with Ohio and Miami, have more selective admission requirements and harder day to day academic standards.
- Buffalo's football tradition was destroyed when the program went dark in 1970's. While the Bulls have started to add new names to it's lore it's a slow process.