That Aud Smell

Having the college honour the scholarship would not address one of her most pressing concerns: Her need to be eligible for cross country. It sounds like that team is her principal support network. I won't pretend to know the machinations of NCAA enforcement. I know enough to know that their rules and regs are cumbersome and Byzantine, and those who enforce them often come at issues in the same spirit. There's a creative solution to be had there. I hope they find it.

Between being a Domer and spurning the Sabres, sure -- fook that guy.

I heard about that story a little while ago -- I actually gave to her Go Fund Me before it was shut down (by which time it'd raised over $25,000). The NCAA stuff is so discouraging, but not really that surprising given how ... complicated NCAA regulations are and how tone deaf the enforcement people can be. It's the stuff with the young lady's parents that just kills me. I think that's probably the issue. I wonder if there's some way in which the money could be transferred and re-papered such that it could be in compliance and non-precedential.

Bylsma sighting. Huh.

The going gets no easier, but I think that's just how this team likes it. Maybe. ... We'll see! Let's go, Buffalo!

He was a very incomplete player, but, as far as I recall, he always played like a runaway freight train.

Good stuff here:

We oughta cross post this in the PSE Creative thread. Solid content. Find the good personalities. Come up with a goofy idea. Let it rip.

Merely an honourary one, I hope.

Hmm. Really? Careful there. Let us not tempt the hockey gods.

Well, I'm definitely unsure of what you're saying, then. My point is as stated above: Peterman's demonstrated himself to be spectacularly incapable of playing QB in the NFL. (And there is no shame in that.) The fact that McDermott and his coaches on the O-side of the ball have failed in putting together a modern NFL offence doesn't, to me, suggest that Peterman's lost out on an opportunity to become an NFL QB (because he was drafted by and played for McDermott). On the contrary, the fact that McDermott selected and then believed in Peterman as an NFL QB is symptomatic of the incompetence that McDermott has exhibited with regards to offence in the NFL.

The idea that Peterman would have performed about the same in that game is laughable. I understand and even agree with people having some sympathy for the guy -- Sal Capaccio at WGR spoke well to the issue -- but I'm perplexed by the emerging narrative that Peterman could have been, might still be a good NFL quarterback, and, to this point in time, has had that opportunity dashed by McDermott & Co. Also: The Jets D is dispirited from what I can tell, but they have some decent personnel on that side of the ball.

They have 4 of them listed on the teams' directory pages. Maybe it's been the Sabres' improvement, but I haven't noticed much that's irked or disappointed me in a while on this front. And I vaguely recall thinking they'd done some good stuff, too.

Whoa. Was it AKA the Rolston Centipede?

I'm getting those excited feels. Last time the Sabres made a run, they were drawing, in part, on the experience of a group of guys who had sucked diesel fumes together in the A and had great success.

Peak Connolly is among my top-10 favourite Sabres of all-time. So much fun.

McDermott’s bad with the O. But, Holy Moses Jesus in a Christmas basket, he’s not Peterman-might-actually-be-good bad with the O. A washed up journeyman off the street came in and did stuff with the same plays and personnel on a week’s notice.

Potshots at N. Peterman from J. Peterman are weak sauce, but hardly bullying. Words matter. Their meanings matter. Peterman is not being bullied there. He’s being mocked in a mean spirited, and fairly unfunny, way.

STH price?

I remember that guy.

Yeah - I sorta got this tangent started on the wrong foot. SDS's remarking that the Bills FO and coaches may have information, experience with Pryor that we don't have, which info/experience were negative, is a very reasonable supposition to make.

And, frankly, thank goodness for that. And by that I mean both that (1) it's encouraging that this market would still support such a bedraggled club to that extent and (2) it's encouraging at this market would not continue to sell out that arena given the team's recent performance.

Those would presumably be grounds for termination. But @SDS was intimating that there are non-public/unknown reasons that would excuse Benjamin's performance, or otherwise contextualize his continued presence on the roster. My bad. I read that wrong. SDS is pretty clearly talking about Pryor. Which - pfffffff. Whatever. The guy's pretty obviously a problem child.