May Day 10

i look at it as the Sabres will have the best chances of any team. If the Islanders and/or the Blues dont make the playoffs, the odds go up (boy, imagine if they won the lottery and we get #1 and #2?) Also, who knows if they will/can/want to get another 1st in trading Stewart, Stafford, or Myers.

It just feels like we are getting this guy. I don't know, almost like it is supposed to happen... and I feel the NHL is/would also be on board with Buffalo landing McDavid. The whole hockey world already has this guy penciled in on the Sabres. Even if they land at #2, I could see them trading the Eichel plus another 1st and 2nd or something to move up for McDavid. That's part of the benefit of having the sheer volume of picks and prospects. I saw his first OHL game up in St Catharines two seasons ago. A busload of Erie boosters were there (which we were like ??? because they were bad for a long time) with McDavid t-shirts. We were wondering who that was. He was just a little guy. He looked pretty impressive, but nothing that wonderful to the untrained eye... Looked him up on the way home and learned he was a 15 year old granted an exemption to be drafted #1 by Erie. The way he played (against good 20 year olds and 21 year olds, and guys like Dougie Hamilton) made him much more impressive. Saw him a few times last season. While he looked very good, he was still not that big and he wasnt all that dominant.... Seeing him yesterday he grew a ton and he is on a completely different level out there. He is 17 and he could play in the NHL right now. Behind the net he looks like Gretzky. He was also at the Bills/NE game, wore a Bills jersey and claims to be a Bills fan. http://video.buffalonews.com/Interview-with-Connor-McDavid--The-Bucky--Sully-Show-27857114?vcid=27857114&freewheel=90161&sitesection=dash#.VEko4_l4pNO Pegulas are wining and dining.... fans are blowing up his twitter.... Its all too perfect, like, Im not even worried about it because its inevitable.

I was there. The lower bowl and the 200s were probably 90-95% full. 300s werent sold. It was a solid crowd. Im glad so many were exposed to the OHL. Such a great league. Too bad Erie is a machine and the game was never really in doubt. McDavid is really, really good. This guy will bring a golden age of hockey here that we have never seen.

of course lemieux is going to admit that after the fact

how much is a "willion"?

His mo with the sabres is to play good soldier for the nhl for payoff down the line (which we are seeing). I think he votes yes. There will also be an understanding that st louis will have the opportunity for an expansion team if they get that stadium built before toronto, oakland/san jose, San Diego... or whoever else bails to la...

When I was a mid-teen, my sister was like 18-20 ish. She made friends kind of with this... weirdo, kinda. Just an oddball dude. He never was over or anything, and I think her and her friends just kind of used him to laugh at. He was way into a lot of occult stuff, and stuff with his mind/telepathic stuff. We had a bonfire one night, got to talking about all this kind of ****, and my sister got the bright idea of calling this guy. He was telling us about this "trick" where you could travel and see things where people are. So we decided to do that. He had us do an exercise where we hold hands and meditate/concentrate, fly to where he was, pick him up and bring him to where we were... Then he proceeded to describe my house, moving from the back door to the back of the house (small ranch house). Mind you, this was back in the early-mid 90s with no cell phones, cameras, etc. There were a couple things he described that were particularly mind blowing. First, he went in my parents room and said there was a large lump on the bed/it wasnt made... my dad had to work early and was sleeping in there. Also, I was an asthmatic. An hour or so earlier, I couldnt find my inhaler. I tore apart my already messy room, and moved the bed a little off the wall as I discovered it fell behind the bed, so the bed was pulled out at an angle with the foot against the wall, and the head pulled out. The dude described how all that looked in real time and also how much of a mess the room was. It was pretty crazy. Believe me, there was no trick/joke. The guy also went on to say he has had all sorts of encounters with demons and **** that I really cant totally discount.

when and if the Bills get good enough to warrant a "bandwagon", then we will get a lot of "phony fans", but let's be honest... our teams need them. I have little doubt that when/if the Bills become a playoff team, they will need to cap STH and have a waiting list. We are going to see a lot of the "thing to do" crowd. The new indoor stadium will do the rest in killing the atmosphere. Yesterday's crowd was poor, but that game was deflating.

i read it again and it makes zero sense... so a friend brought some "kid" who argued with you about Spiller and he took a few "selfies"... that means that everybody who was 17 in 2007 when the Sabres won the Presidents Trophy (who would be 24 years old now?) have infiltrated Ralph Wilson Stadium because Terry Pegula bought the team and managed to destroy the gameday atmosphere in one week's time? Sorry, it sounds crazy to me and I cant make the same connection.

Huh? I dont get this equivalency between "teeny bopper fans", Pegula, the Presidents Trophy, and yesterday's crowd. The game yesterday was an awful game. It was boring. The Bills stunk. Minnesota stunk. Average Viking drive start was like on the Bills' 40. Not too mention the Vikings are probably the most uninteresting opponent I could think of and most (me included) expected the Bills to win by multiple touchdowns.... My section sat more than I ever seen in 10 years as a STH (I sat a lot too). I still have a voice today for the first Monday after a home game all season.

It seems this one buffalo campaign/parent organization is Kim Pegula's baby. I think that whole thing is a great idea, is unprecedented, and has loads of potential

If they fire him. Count me all in on hoping he ends up here. Outmanned jets team and the guy keeps belichick on his heels almost every game no matter what. You can see how personal it is and how much disdain he has losing to the pats in his scowl walking across the field at the end of that game. He looked like he would rather be dead. I am sure he would also take beating the jets very personally if they fired him. The loudmouth attention craving personality seems to have grown up.

All the more reason that failure is not an option that encourages anyone to support "continuity"

Im just all-in on the outside eyes (other than Holmgren). If they tell me all is well with this continuity, I will buy it. All due respect to Brandon, I dont think he knows what a successful football program looks like from the inside.

I would say certainly kind of a sliding scale/gray area with Success => Continuity much more favored. Would the Gregg Williams' regime or Jauron-ball, or Marv as GM resulted in any success... or success as efficient if we had Accorsi/Coughlin in place? Then Coughlin's success has earned him some survival during lean years. Then you get teams that make changes like Harbough and Carroll and had relatively quick turnarounds. Would San Fran be this good if they had "continuity" with Mike Singletary? Anyways, I find these comments by Brandon very interesting.

because of A, I think I would welcome Gill with open arms. Not so sure he would be eager to fly the coop this time so quickly for the 1st program that knocks.

The issue is... If you find a Turner gill or Dave clawson.... Once you find a window of success, they are going to leave to the Kansases and wake forests of the world The big 3... neutz, oliver, and mack were gill guys. Quinn was a bum and did nothing to compliment those guys really outside of maybe licata. Quinn set the program back... and not only that, wasted a real opportunity for a special season in 2013. Wait. There's more. I know at certain points last year they had the lowest ranked recruiting class in fbs.

I just dont trust anything that comes out of OBD, namely Brandon. SOP for years is to blame the guy out the door. I dont think I believe that Nix leaving was so unexpected. I suspect he lingered just to keep the accountability if things didnt work out with EJ. The funny thing is the rest of that draft was so good...

unless it is the direction the Pegulas have decided to go in and this is Russ starting to plant seeds and spread the word I agree with continuity... but if you are going to be true to that, you better make darn sure it is the right management.... which I'm not too confident we have. If Accorsi or Wolf say all is well and we need continuity, Ill believe them.

continuity is the problem. Continuity of bad management. How many of those coaches, GMs and coordinators have amounted to anything?

you are just affirming how terrible Quinn was running the program. They are hoping to find someone better. Its called improving. I dont get why people dont like having "too many teams" in FBS? Are they bothering people? Personally, I really like that aspect.

So now we want to lop off the MAC? So I guess by that logic, we should eliminate Conference USA, the Sun Belt, Mountain West, maybe the American and Army and Navy? There is a place for that. The day College football walls itself off into the 4 conferences is the day I lose a lot of interest. While we are at it, we should also eliminate Iowa State, Vanderbilt, Purdue, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, and Indiana. Its college football. There are good programs and bad programs, just like "sports". It is always possible to build a program.

Big ones I remember for hype are lindros... then maybe kovalchuk. Ovechkin and crosby. Tavares was there but kind of faded as his draft year went on.

Im talking about specifically Oliver, Neutz, and Mack.