May Day 10

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.

You have to remember, the plan isnt going to just parachute McDavid into this team and expect them to do well. We have a glut of prospects, most of which arent even playing right now... those that are are firmly in the getting their beaks wet phase and are developing. Reinhart is 18. Look at Grigorenko. He is looking like a top shelf guy now. At 18 he was lost. Lots of those guys will be up next year, some will probably be traded for Vets as we will have a ton of cap space. Not to mention 2 other 1sts this season. You also have to expect the whole team to be better when you dont have Mazeros (sp) and Benoit screwing up everywhere. We also need one of the 6 goalie prospects to emerge in the coming years. Likely next season will be bad, but much better (like 9th-12th in the Conference)... then after that is the "window". McDavid so far this season is having a Gretzky-like year. Not saying he is anywhere close, but he lost his linemates and is lighting it up more than ever.

Yeah, its a cool sports bar IMO. (regular size) TVs, bubble hockey, some other arcadey type games... IMO great wings.

Duffs in OP is a sports bar. never been there on a gameday though

It just takes the right guy with a couple seasons of sustained success. These guys who were here last season were a product of Turner Gill's last season. did you know Branden Oliver is Roscoe's cousin? Anyways, you just need the right guy here and try to make him want to stay, and if he leaves, dont replace him with a clown-coach

would they automatically be a good FCS team?

they nearly won the conference last season, and the Basketball team won their division and probably should have won the MAC. Didnt they also get like $1 Million (and exposure) for playing at the Horseshoe? They lost a big and well attended game at RWS (they were terribly outcoached by Dave Clawson). There was the start of a buzz about the team. Some hype for the "Idaho Potato Bowl". The right hire here, who isnt a clown, and players like, can be huge. A few sustained seasons could do wonders. This Quinn was like a characture of a coach. if you heard him on the radio, it was like he was playing a character. It would drive me nuts as a recruit and a player... From a athletic dept employee I heard his 1st practice there he was so hard on the guys there was a players meeting and many wanted to transfer out of there... (they thought it was a great thing to be a hard-line coach... but I dunno it seemed over the top). I have an acquaintance with one top echelon, well-known former Bull and he was ready to quit due to this staff.

what's the motivation for dropping down again?

just ignore him

That stadium is a noose around the program. I love college football. I like the MAC. I would love to go. That stadium is the worst venue I have ever been witness to for any sport... and that includes the St Petes dome for hockey. You literally feel like you are a mile from the game, even in the "best" seats. Its just not enjoyable. I would go often if the venue was not awful.

Whenever I heard Quinn on the radio I would get db chills. He spoke like macho man randy savage and would severely overstate the program. I get you gotta sell people on it but he just seems over the top and cartoon like. If I was a recruit, my bs meter would instantly be pegged with this guy and his schtick

I guess we should wait until if/when we see more data. It just seems like a pattern here and LaCanfora's report for an outside man being brought in is very, very welcome news to me.