Mr. Irrelevant 2003

[That's No Moon]

1 hour ago, Sierra Foothills said:

 

I couldn't agree more that networking in any industry is indeed important BUT... it's still funny to me that a 20-something athlete would go down to the bar to make a good impression... seeing as alcohol isn't a performance enhancing drug and all the other possible negative connotations... 

 

 

Gotta go where the people are. Going to a hotel bar isn't the same as getting raving drunk at a hotel bar. The ability for a 20 something to go out in a social setting where alcohol is present and act appropriately demonstrates maturity that many can't.

[BillsShredder83]

On 5/3/2025 at 6:39 AM, SoTier said:

If you think about it, getting drafted by an NFL team is a really awesome accomplishment.  Approximately 77,000 college students play football in 774 4-year colleges and 123 junior colleges annually.  If you assume that about 1/4 of those are eligible for the NFL draft, that's about 19,000 football players.  The NFL selects about 250 of those, or about 1.4%.

Hell making a D1 roster, and especially starting on a D1 roster is seriously impressive.

 

I'd imagine the average human who doesn't work in sports knows 0 people who've ever done that

[billsfan89]

3 hours ago, Prospector said:

I have nothing to contribute to this thread, other than that those years were rough.

 

The drafting in the drought years made you want to bang your head against a wall. Either making "luxury" picks at RB with Spiller and McGahee or just drafting the wrong prospects that everyone thought were wrong at the time like Whitner or Ngata or Maybin over Orakpo. That 06 draft where the team could have set up it's trenches through the decade and into the 2010's by selecting Mangold over McCargo and Ngata over Whitner only thing that semi-salvaged that draft was finding Kyle Williams in round 5 but the Bills drafted two DT's anyway so they could have had Kyle Williams and Ngata in the same draft while also getting Mangold at center. 

[Prospector]

25 minutes ago, billsfan89 said:

 

The drafting in the drought years made you want to bang your head against a wall. Either making "luxury" picks at RB with Spiller and McGahee or just drafting the wrong prospects that everyone thought were wrong at the time like Whitner or Ngata or Maybin over Orakpo. That 06 draft where the team could have set up it's trenches through the decade and into the 2010's by selecting Mangold over McCargo and Ngata over Whitner only thing that semi-salvaged that draft was finding Kyle Williams in round 5 but the Bills drafted two DT's anyway so they could have had Kyle Williams and Ngata in the same draft while also getting Mangold at center. 

or Terrell Troup over Gronkowski in round 3

[billsfan89]

53 minutes ago, Prospector said:

or Terrell Troup over Gronkowski in round 3

 

It was round 2 but Troup was viewed as a third round talent the Bills reached on when they had a super high end TE prospect (and a bad need for a TE) that was from Buffalo right there. The worst moves a team you are a fan of can make are the ones that seem bad at the time. 

[Buffalo716]

2 hours ago, BillsShredder83 said:

Hell making a D1 roster, and especially starting on a D1 roster is seriously impressive.

 

I'd imagine the average human who doesn't work in sports knows 0 people who've ever done that

If you went to a big enough high School I would assume you probably know some division 1 athletes in some sports

 

If you went to a school with 60 people I understand probably not 

 

But yes being a division 1 scholarship athlete is extremely impressive whether you're at an FCS School University at Buffalo Syracuse or Alabama

 

 

 

[Prospector]

3 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

If you went to a big enough high School I would assume you probably know some division 1 athletes in some sports

 

If you went to a school with 60 people I understand probably not 

 

But yes being a division 1 scholarship athlete is extremely impressive whether you're at an FCS School University at Buffalo Syracuse or Alabama

 

 

 

Me, my brother and 3 of my Samoan teammates in HS played 8-man football... it was a SUPER small school in a small town in Nevada. We all earned full-athletic scholarships for D-1 football. I had to walk on, but earned a scholarship after my red-shirt year. My graduating class in Highschool had 32 people in it.