Nix/Gailey, the Big 10, and the Pac 10

[Scraps]

Now that Maybin has finally been cut, it's becoming abundantly clear that the brains running the Bills have it in for the Big 10 and Pac 10 (save for one school - more on that later). Since Nix and Gailey took over, they have dumped the following high profile (relatively speaking) Bills players:

 

Lynch (Pac 10)

Edwards (Pac 10)

Whitner (Big 10)

Evans (Big 10)

Poz (Big 10)

Maybin (Big 10)

 

 

Whitner was offered a contract and Nix tried to keep Poz. Outside of that, Edwards was shell shocked and never recovered, Maybin was a bust. Lynch was caught in a numbers game. Trading Evans was a mistake in my opinion.

[Buffalo Barbarian]

Now that Maybin has finally been cut, it's becoming abundantly clear that the brains running the Bills have it in for the Big 10 and Pac 10 (save for one school - more on that later). Since Nix and Gailey took over, they have dumped the following high profile (relatively speaking) Bills players:

 

Lynch (Pac 10)

Edwards (Pac 10)

Whitner (Big 10)

Evans (Big 10)

Poz (Big 10)

Maybin (Big 10)

 

In their place, they have substituted a vast sea of players from the SEC, the ACC, other southern schools, and no-name northeastern schools. The only remaining significant Pac 10 player not from Oregon State left (excluding kickers) is Byrd (Oregon); the only significant Big 10 player is Bryan Scott (and who knows whether he makes it through camp). I'm not convinced that Urbik (Wisconsin) will make it through camp; we'll see.

 

The significant players on defense this year are as follows:

 

secondary:

 

G. Wilson - SEC (Arkansas)

Searcy - ACC (UNC)

McKelvin - deep south school (Troy)

McGee - deep south school (NE Louisiana)

Florence - deep south school (Tuskegee)

Aaron Williams - Big 12/the south (Texas)

Corner - no name NE school (Akron)

Bryan Scott (Big 10)

 

LBs:

 

Nick Barnett - Pac 10 (Oregon State)

Andra Davis -SEC (Florida)

Merriman - ACC (Maryland)

Moats - small southern school (James Madison)

Torbor - SEC (Auburn)

Sheppard - SEC (LSU)

Chris White - SEC (Miss. St.)

 

D-Line:

 

Kyle Williams - SEC

Dareus - SEC

Troup - deep south school (UCF)

Kelsay - Big 12 (Nebraska)

Spencer Johnson - SEC (Auburn)

Carrington - deep south school (Arkansas State)

Dwan Edwards - Pac 10 (Oregon State)

 

OFFENSE:

 

QBs:

 

Fitz - weak NE school (Harvard)

Brad Smith - Big 12 (Missouri)

Thigpen - deep south school (Coastal Carolina)

Levi Brown - deep south school (Troy)

 

RBs:

F. Jackson - no name northern school (Coe)

Spiller - ACC/deep south school (Clemson)

Johnny White - ACC/southern school (UNC)

 

WRs:

 

Steve Johnson - SEC (Kentucky)

Parrish - ACC (Miami)

Donald Jones - no name NE school (Youngstown state)

Marcus Easley - borderline no name NE school (UConn)

Buster Davis - SEC (LSU)

N. Roosevelt - no name NE school (UB)

 

O-Line:

 

Levitre - Oregon State

Wood - border state school in state that leans southern (Louisville)

Bell - deep south school (Northwestern State; it's in Louisiana)

Wang - ACC/southern school (Va Tech)

Wrotto - ACC/southern school (Georgia Tech)

Urbik - a lone big 10 player (Wisconsin)

Chris Hairston - ACC/southern school (Clemson)

Hangartner - southern school/Big 12 (Texas A & M)

Cordaro Howard - ACC/southern school (Georgia Tech)

 

As for Oregon State: the coach at Oregon State is none other than Mike Reilly, who was the head coach of San Diego during Nix's first year there (2001). Reilly didn't last longer than the 2001 season, but by the accounts I read he got along well with the brass. It was his third year there, and it just didn't work out. Most telling is that Butler/Smith/Nix didn't bring in a new guy right away, which would have been easy to do. They claimed that they liked Reilly. Presumably, Nix and Reilly still get along and have a decent professional relationship. Looking at the surfeit of Beavers on the roster, it would make sense.

 

Anyway, their personnel biases seems pretty obvious to me: opt for southern players and avoid both the Big 10 and Pac 10.

They better draft some big 10 and pac 12 O-linemen if we want to get better.