Steven in MD

Remind me how lucky I am to have Witherspoon coaching my Alma Mater. Losing to Delaware State....are they a power house?

You and I can disagree on this...and I like TN As a lifelong professional salaried employee, I never saw a need for a union. My ex-wife is a teacher who has to join a union...all it does it makes her have to striek and lose income.... I always say, if you do not like what management does....change jobs.

I think parity is alive and well when each week it gets harder and harder to pick the winners. On any given Sunday a team can beat another team One week the Dolfags shut out the Pats and the next week get shut out by the Bills....that is parity.

I am lost here, if I am a salary employee, if I join a union, who do they argue with? Themselves? Unions allowed hourly employees to strike and make demands on management. A salary employee is management.

It depends on which side you are on...if you have a management job or are paid a salary than Unions are bad...and create more problems. If you are an hourly worker than maybe unions are good...but I cannot see how telling your boss and company that you do not trust them is a good thing.

I doubt any Bills player will be a starting Pro Bowler, though I expect to see Schoebel and Moorman in Hawaii. The others are just long shots. The way the Pro Bowl works is you are in it every year from the first year you are voted in until you retire or are hurt.

Actually, the company is scamming you! If you sign off before you finish, the time it takes you to complete that last order is not paid to you. Since you signed off, you no longer are on the clock. Having said that, the only scamming that is being done is you are giving incorrect data that is used to set the payoff limits. So you are making the company historical data look better than it really is.

I would not be surprised to see the Bills get a real LT in the draft and move Peters back to RT. What has helped this line tremendously is the max protection packages that are being used. The wrinkle is that the TE (Royal) sheds the block and gets open into the flat. Without the max protection, Peters would be overwhelmed.

Ah....but given time many of my minority thoughts come to be the majority. I was openly agains the TD hiring....GW and MM hiring and I have been for the Marv regime. I think the sentiment on the board has come around to my thinking on those. Maybe people will not believe Zach is overrated, but then again why would I care what people here think of Zach Thomas English Muffin Boy?

I am in the minority...I never respected him and never will. He is an overrated MLB who gets alot of tackles because the Phins never had an interior DL and have an overpursuing DE. Most if not all of his tackles come 5-8 yds downfield

It means the Mularkey is no offensive genius. It also means that Marv knows what he is doing, and I have to say in one year under Marv the Bills are already a better team than 5 years under TD.

1. The NFL could care less where a team moves. It is the OWNERS who care. If the Bills wanted to relocate to LA, Las Vegas or Las Cruces It would just create a headache to realign divisions (ala Cardinals move to Arizona). If the Bills wanted to move to Mohegan Sun in CT then the Giants, Jets and Patriots owners would not allow it.... There is a market for ALL professional sports teams. Groups of rich people will get together to buy a team and usually keep it in the city. But without public funding for a stadium, usually they shop their team around to cities to find the one that has the stadium money for them....enter cities like San Antonio (likely place for a franchise) since they did very well when the Saints were temporarily there. (Ultimately the Saints will move there). If you think Buffalo has economic woes...New Orleans has serious issues. It might be 20 years before that city thrives again.

Living the Bald Life

Here is a marketing opportunity for the Bills. They should market to people who are Bills fans but do not live in Buffalo. If someone like me who lives in Maryland would buy 2 season tickets (very doable considering the price) and donate them to a charity to be given to under privledged kids, they would sell out and make a kids day. It is a tax deduction to boot. I was thinking of doing this next season...

So the two options are Ralph sells the team and the new owners move the team or Ralph just moves the team. Ralph is not saying HE is poor or cannot make money owning a NFL franchise. What he is saying is he makes 7 mil a year from luxury boxes and other teams make 50 mil a year from them. Since that money does not get shared, small market teams like Buffalo start with a 43 mil dollar deficit to in cash on hand to pay free agents a signing bonus.

The coaches I mentioned were sarcastic. I honestly could not tell you names of coaches that are realistic for this program. Warde Manual would know the assistant coaches at the top programs. For example, an assistant from Memphis or Louisville. That is the kind of coach I would like to see. I was very impressed with the selection of Turner Gill in football. We need that kind of hire for basketball.

Interesting how an opinion is wrong...a fact can be wrong, but not an opinion. You may be right, I may be crazy, but it might just be a lunatic you are looking for. Remember this thread in 3 years when UB finishes 2nd in the MAC for the 3rd straight year and does not make it to the Big Dance. You might see that Reggie has taken this program as far as he can.....I give him credit for taking this team to where it is today. I just think it is time for UB to find the coach that can take this team to the next level.

Like I said, we can agree to disagree. I am NOT a fan of Witherspoon...sorry that I do not agree with the masses, but I have the right to my opinion even though it is different than yours. This thread was never a joke...sorry to disappoint you.

I guess we can agree to disagree...only time will tell.

That is funny actually...he is an Ethic Professor and got caught up in ethical recruiting issues...

Let's see how about making a play for the following coaches: 1. Albany HC 2. Stony Brook HC 3. Binghampton HC All 3 of those schools have a better chance of making it to the big dance. You make it sound like the MAC is the ACC, SEC or Big Ten. The MAC is a mid-major that puts a SINGLE team in the tournament every year.

There is no sarcasm in being up by 10 points at home and losing. Why did you EXPECT UB to lose? I expected them to win. I think with a better coach they would have won. I just love how the best people can do is call others morons because they expect better coaching. Maybe you can accept a 6-4 record as up and coming. Maybe you can live with ALMOST getting an at large bid. Just remember this....and this is what hurts the most....Albany which joined Div I after UB made it to the Big Dance while we got to dance with the ugly girls.

This team under the leadership of Marv is heading in the right direction. It will take Marv another season to clean out the Donahoe mess. Once we get the garbage out of here, this team will be a perenial winner again.

I think I might see it differently. I remember that Tim Cohane had this program going in the right direction in the Mid-Continent Conference before being removed for some recruiting violations. Bottom line, he has beaten inferior programs over the years, but has never been able to get UB to win the MAC. The MAC gets a single NCAA bid, and you have to win the conference tournament to get in. He lost to Ohio and a 2nd round departure from the NIT followed. I was hoping that UB would come to its senses and hire a real coach. I have spoken with some folks in the althetic department and Warde Manual is high on him and it looks like we are stuck with him for a while (probably another 5 years of mediocrity). I expect by then, Turner Gill will have the football program turned around and we will see some money to hire a real coach for basketball.

When has UB been competitive? Making it to the NIT? Since I left UB in 1987, they have never been competitive. Witherspoon is an expert in recruiting kids from outside the US with little to no real basketball skills. He is recruiting kids with some size and athletic skills. We need him to recruit some players. When he has had some talent, he failed to take them to the NCAA tournament. Understand, success in the NCAA tournament is the great recruiter. I spoke with the coach from George Mason after their run last year, he had 500 kids contacting them about playing at Mason. I doubt UB got that from a NIT bid.